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According to WHO, how many people suffer from psychological disorders?
450 million people
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Which psychological disorder exists in all cultures of the world?
Schizophrenia
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Presistently harmful thoughts, feelings and actions define what?
psychological disorders
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When behavior is deviant, distressful and dysfunctional, psychiatrists & psychologists lable it as what?
disordered
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What is trephination?
An ancient treatment used for psychological disorders in which holes were bored into the head to remove evil spirits.
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What are some other ancient forms for treating psychological disorders?
exorcisim, animal blood transfusion, beaten, burned, castrated, mutilated
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Who was the first to say that madness was not due to demon possesion but an ailment of the mind?
Philippe Pinel from France.
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What 4 things make up the medical model for looking at physical causes for disorders?
- 1. Etiology
- 2. Diagnosis
- 3. Treatment
- 4. Prognosis
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Medical Model: Define Etiology
Causation and development of the disorder
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Medical Model: Define Diagnosis
Identifying (symptoms) and distingushing one disease from another.
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Medical Model: Define Treatment
Treating a disorder in a psychiatric hospital
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Medical Model: Define Prognosis
Forcast about the disorder
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The perspective that assumes that biological, social-cultural and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders is called what?
The Biopsychosocial Perspective
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What is the DSM?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Rendered by the American Psychological Association to describe or classify psychological disorders.
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What is the most recent edition of the DSM being used today?
DSM-IV-TR (Text Revision 2000) Classifies 400 psychological disorders.
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What are the 5 Multiaxial Classifications in the DSM and what do they ask?
- Axis I- Is a clinical syndrome present?
- Axis II- Is a personality disorder or mental retardation present?
- Axis III- Is a general medical condition present?
- Axis IV- Are psychosocial or environmental problems present?
- Axis V- What is the global assessment of the person's functioning?
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What psychological disorder has the largest percentage of Americans experienced?
Phobias
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