PSY343H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cognitive Model, Antipsychotic, Factor Analysis
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First case study in the ct of psychosis: man with 7-year persecution delusion. Key role of appraisals in paranoia (beck, 1952: childhood experience, self-conscious in group, cheating by father & self devaluating family & broader communities, core beliefs, if conspicuous, will be put down, since we cheated, we"re vulnerable. Precipitation: demeaned & isolated, delusional misinterpretations, fbi observing & following him. The generic cognitive model: general cbtp strategies defined (p. 12 purple, form working relationship. 1: provide structure, guided discovery, collaborative empiricism, improve reality testing, case formulation, normalize rationale, activate questioning mode. Stress related increases in cortisol levels exacerbate the abnormality in da neurotransmission that underlies vulnerability to schizophrenia, resulting in the onset of the illness: content specificity hypothesis of the cbt model, disorder vs systematic bias, each emotional disorder has its own typical cognitive content, automatic thoughts and subjectively perceived emotional states should be positively related.
