KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Behaviour Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1020
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

Mental health is difficult to describe and is grey and subjective. Mental health problems are defined by dsm v (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders) and have diff criteria to meet diff diagnoses. Having standard diagnoses creates a common language for clinicians. D m are (cid:272)ulturall(cid:455) spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272); e(cid:454), japa(cid:374)ese ha(cid:448)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)ed (cid:272)alled (cid:862)koro(cid:863) (cid:894)fear of shri(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g ge(cid:374)itals(cid:895) Most people have experiences mental illness along some continuum (ex, anxiety, depression, etc) 20-33% of canadians have mental health problem once in their lives. 1/6 will seek treatment, 1/8 will spend time in mental health institution. Symptoms can be constant or oscillate bw relapse and remission and divided by positive and negative. Positive (addition of something): hearing, delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech. Some causes; viral infection, dopamine imbalance, environmental triggers and/or familial influences: schizophrenia. Symptoms: hearing voices (auditory receptors in brain are firing constantly), delusion, hallucination, disorganized speech. Mania: grandiose feeling of untouchability and high self-esteem. Onset: late teens and early twenties: depression.