PSYC 4270- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 58 pages long!)
5 Oct 2017
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Coping / positive psychology / hope vs. catastrophizing. Family / law / insurance / friends support. Change activation in arousal (biofeedback, imagine arm getting warmer). Limits on randomized controls in human subjects. Readiness for change, be half- or quarter step ahead. Psychological injury: ptsd, pain disorder, traumatic brain injury that brings on depression, anger or anxiety; polytrauma. Comprehensive interview, psychological tests, records or accident report / medical clinical diagnosis, prognosis, and recommendations. legal report. Cognitive behavior therapy helps deal with physiological arousal and catastrophizing. Application of valid psychological assessment with disabilities, optimizing outcomes. Chronic persists more than three to six months. Physical and cognitive impairments, might be long term chronic or acute pain. Interventions are quality of life, reducing catastrophic thinking, Functional state and past experience to establish baseline. Beatrice wright; social participation, inclusion, negative consequences of treating people with. Symptoms and history, ability to function, coping, family history etc. Have people differentiate between past and present trauma.
