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EPPP Abnormal Psychology Study Guide 2024/2025
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EPPP Abnormal Psychology Study Guide 2024/2025
DSM-5 Categorical Approach/Polythetic Criteria Set - ✔️✔️The DSM-5 divides disorders
into types, each defined by a set of criteria. Most disorders require a client to present
with only a subset of characteristics from a larger list, so 2 clients can have the same
disorder but different diagnoses.
DSM-5 Nonaxial Assessment System - ✔️✔️Primary diagnosis listed first, with all related
diagnoses listed together. At the end are:
- psychosocial, contextual factors indicated using International Classification of
Diseases (ICD) codes
- disability assessed by World Health Organization (WHO) Disability Assessment
Schedule.
DSM-5 Diagnostic Uncertainty - other specified, unspecified, provisional - ✔️✔️"other
specified disorder" - used when clinician wants to indicate why client's symptoms don't
meet criteria for a specific diagnosis.
"unspecified disorder" - used when clinician doesn't want to indicate reason why client's
symptoms don't meet criteria for a specific diagnosis
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"provisional" - used when clinician doesn't have enough information currently but
believes full criteria will eventually be met
DSM-5 Outline for Cultural Formulation assesses 4 factors: - ✔️✔️- cultural identity
- cultural conceptualization of distress
- psychosocial stressors and cultural factors that impact risk or protective factors
- cultural factors relevant to relationship with therapist
DSM-5 Cultural Formulation Interview 4 domains: - ✔️✔️- cultural definition of problem
(What's the problem?)
- cultural perceptions of cause, context, and support (What caused the problem?)
- cultural factors affecting coping, past help-seeking (How should you cope with this?)
- cultural factors affecting current help-seeking (When should you seek help? What kind
of help?)
DSM-5 defines cultural concepts of distress as... - ✔️✔️...ways that cultural groups
EXPERIENCE
UNDERSTAND and
COMMUNICATE
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suffering, behavior problems, or troubling thoughts and emotions
3 cultural concepts of distress - ✔️✔️- cultural syndromes - SYMPTOMS recognized by
the culture as coherent patterns of experience
- cultural idioms of distress - used by members of cultures to COMMUNICATE distress,
concerns
- cultural explanations - models that members of a culture used to EXPLAIN meaning
and causes of illness
Intellectual disability - diagnostic criteria (3) - ✔️✔️- deficit in intellectual functioning
- deficit in adaptive functioning
- onset during developmental period
(Degrees of severity: mild, moderate, severe, profound. Someone can grow out of this
diagnosis w/ approp intervxn)
Intellectual disability - etiology - ✔️✔️30% of cases from unknown factors. Heredity
accounts for 5%. Otherwise, mostly from environmental factors, like:
- chromosomal changes, exposure to toxins (30%)
- pregnancy, perinatal problems, like fetal malnutrition, anoxia, trauma (10%)
- environmental factors like severe deprivation (15-20%)
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- acquired medical conditions during infancy or childhood, like lead poisoning,
malnutrition (5%)
Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder - diagnostic criteria - ✔️✔️aka stuttering
- repetition of sounds, syllables
- sound prolongations
- broken words
- word substitutions (to avoid troublesome words) and/or
- monosyllabic whole-word repetitions
Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder - prognosis - ✔️✔️Begins between 2-7 yrs old.
Severity at age 8 is a good predictor of prognosis.
65-85% of children recover.
Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder - treatment - ✔️✔️HABIT REVERSAL TRAINING-
awareness, relaxation, motivation, competing response (of deep breathing),
generalization
Autism Spectrum Disorder - diagnostic criteria - ✔️✔️- Persistent deficits in SOCIAL
COMMUNICATION & INTERACTION - eg no reciprocity, nonverbals, relationships
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