PSYC30014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Motivation, Frontal Lobe, Prefrontal Cortex
18 Jun 2018
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Lecture 11
- Distress is one of those experiences that is intuitive in some ways
- We know when we’re experiencing distress, usually can see distress in other people
- Distress is difficult to measure - because varies from person to person, and context
to context
- Distress has developed different definitions in: personal contexts [what it’s like for
everyone in everyday context; interested in narrative of distress, how distress
manifests and unfolds over time]; clinical contexts [tend to think with mental illness in
mind, develop scale → higher score → higher distress]; medical contexts [what it
means when patients are distressed; interested in impact of distress in that moment
(interest won’t be longer than a week)]
- Distress can be defined as: uni-dimensional - “distress”; multi-dimensional - “stress,
anxiety, depression”
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- Clinical scales developed for non-clinical population - when score highly on scales →
recommended to seek professional help; not indication of mental illness [not a
diagnostic tool]
- Distress is very personal, can’t be measured with scale or checkbox, articulate with
words and experiences they have
- Masse’s scale didn’t align with clinical scales
- Communication of discomfort - body language, posture, facial expression, verbally
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- Kessler - ask about feelings, 30 days
- DAS - ask about feelings and actions, 7 days
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- Developmental implications
- Difficulty - e.g. someone preventing you from doing something
- Challenge - difficult but might have positive outcome, can be exciting and engaging,
most people thrive on it
- Threat - cause harm in future
- Threat and harm - distressful situations, unavoidable
- If decide can’t do anything → state of distress
- What you do changes difficulty and outcome
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- Without challenges and threats → no motivation to improve skills
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Document Summary
Distress is one of those experiences that is intuitive in some ways. We know when we"re experiencing distress, usually can see distress in other people. Distress is difficult to measure - because varies from person to person, and context to context. Distress can be defined as: uni-dimensional - distress ; multi-dimensional - stress, anxiety, depression . Clinical scales developed for non-clinical population - when score highly on scales recommended to seek professional help; not indication of mental illness [not a diagnostic tool] Distress is very personal, can"t be measured with scale or checkbox, articulate with words and experiences they have. Masse"s scale didn"t align with clinical scales. Communication of discomfort - body language, posture, facial expression, verbally. Kessler - ask about feelings, 30 days. Das - ask about feelings and actions, 7 days. Difficulty - e. g. someone preventing you from doing something. Challenge - difficult but might have positive outcome, can be exciting and engaging, most people thrive on it.
