PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: American Psychiatric Association, Schizophrenia, Reduced Affect Display
15 May 2018
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April 25, 2018
ABNORMAL
I. DEFINING ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
A. Syndromes characterized by dysfunctional or maladaptive behavior
1. Causes trouble in daily life or for others
B. Define by using mix of standards:
1. Statistical average
a) Statistically rare
2. Social Expectations
a) Not socially acceptable
3. Absolute standard of psychological health
a) Freedom of emotional distress
C. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
1. Working reference manual that helps professional to determine truly
maladaptive behavior
2. Detailed list of major mental disorders and their characteristic
symptoms based on judgements of American Psychiatric Association
D. Rosenhan Study
1. How long would it take professionals in mental hospitals to
determine that normal people are normal
a) 8 normal people admitted to psychiatric hospital all
reported a fake symptom, then once admitted stopped faking it.
7/8 were judged to be schizophrenic and released 1 -7 weeks later
with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in remission.
2. Once label of schizophrenic was applied to pseudo patients the
hospital staff overlooked or misinterpreted their normal behaviors
E. Rate of Psychological Disorders
1. Not rare, 1 in 4 adult Americans suffer from psychological disorder
in a given year
2. Poverty increase the vulnerability to psychological disorders
3. Psychological disorders tend to strike by early adulthood (age 24)
II. ANXIETY DISORDERS
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Relatively mild, anxiety related, no loss of touch with reality
A. Generalized Anxiety
1. Diffuse and persistence apprehension for at least 6 months
2. Nothing specific to pin anxiety on
3. free- floating
B. Panic Disorders
1. Brief intense episodes of anxiety
2. Sometimes include anticipatory anxiety
a) When will next panic attack happen
3. Shortness of breath and feelings of unreality, disembodied, or out of
body experience
C. Phobic Disorders
1. Irrational fear of objects or situations that make life difficult
a) Being so afraid of people that you can’t take the bus to
work
2. 8- 10% of population effected
3. Origin is thought to be classical conditioning
a) Objects, things, people, etc become associated with
traumatic events
4. Treatments for Phobias
a) Systematic desensitization
(1) Train person to relax in presence of the stimulus
b) Implosion Therapy
(1) Confront the fear head on, but person is safe in
presence of phobic object so conditioned fear response
extinguishes
D. Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder
1. Anxiety, depression for at least 4 weeks after a traumatic response
III. SOMATOFORM DISORDERS
Anxiety focused on the body, physical ailment that leads to extreme anxiety or may
have extreme anxiety which causes them to have actual physical ailments
A. Hypochondriasis
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Document Summary
Causes trouble in daily life or for others. Working reference manual that helps professional to determine truly maladaptive behavior. Detailed list of major mental disorders and their characteristic symptoms based on judgements of american psychiatric association. How long would it take professionals in mental hospitals to determine that normal people are normal. 8 normal people admitted to psychiatric hospital all reported a fake symptom, then once admitted stopped faking it. 7/8 were judged to be schizophrenic and released 1 -7 weeks later with a diagnosis of schizophrenia in remission. Once label of schizophrenic was applied to pseudo patients the hospital staff overlooked or misinterpreted their normal behaviors. Not rare, 1 in 4 adult americans suffer from psychological disorder in a given year. Psychological disorders tend to strike by early adulthood (age 24) Relatively mild, anxiety related, no loss of touch with reality. Diffuse and persistence apprehension for at least 6 months. Nothing specific to pin anxiety on (cid:498)free- floating(cid:499)
