Mental Illness (Introduction)

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Mind Map on Mental Illness (Introduction), created by lucinda_m16 on 04/11/2013.
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Mental Illness (Introduction)
  1. Abnormal

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    • Determined by social norms
    1. Deviance

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      • Unusual?
      1. Personal distress
        1. Maladaptive behaviour

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          • Does it interfere with everyday adaptive functioning?
          1. Continuum

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            • Psych- not as readily definable.
            1. Socio-cultural considerations

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              • Environment (urban/rural- diff access to info, industrialised/non, religiosity) Gender (roles/norms etc) Minority status
            2. Models:
              1. Supernatural

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                • Cause: stars/moon, past lives, spirits
                • Cure: exorcism, prayer
                1. Medical/biological

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                  • Cause: biological dysfunction
                  • Treatment: exercise, rest, medication, bleeding, diet, celibacy
                  1. Biomedical
                    1. Seen as an illlness

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                      • Curable Assumes it can be diagnosed similiarly
                      1. Dominant model
                        1. Neurochemical imbalance, structural brain abnormalities

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                          • abberant somatic processes.  psych/social processes are independent. 
                          1. Meds, surgery, ECT
                            1. Issues

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                              • Reductionistic. Single factor model (only looks at biological malfunction.) Assumes mind-body dualism- clear boundary. Emphasises illness- not about prevention. 
                          2. Psychological

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                            • Cause: beliefs
                            1. Biopsychosocial

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                              • Interplay of factors
                              1. Therapeutic alliance

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                                • 65% of change
                                1. Macro + micro level processes interact

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                                  • more holistic. multiple factors and effects.
                                  1. Mind + body can't be distinguished
                                    1. Emphasises both health and illness
                                      1. Incorporates systems theory
                                        1. Benefits
                                      2. Classification systems
                                        1. DSM

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                                          • Diagnostic and Statistical Manual. First in 1952.
                                          • DSM 3 and beyond: Stopped unproven assumptions about causation. Development of inter-rater reliability. Empirical description of symptoms.
                                          1. DSM 5

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                                            • 2013. More dimensional aspects. Clinical symptoms, personality disorders/mental retardation, medical conditions, environmental factors, global assessment of functioning (GAF)
                                          2. ICD

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                                            • IN Classification of Diseases + Health Related Problems
                                            • Primarily for physical illness
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