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1.

What does the ICD stand for?

Answer: International Classification of diseases.

2.

Criteria for abnormal?

Answer: Unusual Nonconformist Impairment Distressing for self and others

3.

What is a differential diagnosis?

Answer: List of possible diagnoses to be considered in decreasing order of likelihood.

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Compare signs and symptoms.

Answer: Signs: Clinician\'s objective findings and observation. Symptoms: Subjective experience described by patient.

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What does MSE stand for?

Answer: Mental Status Examination

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What is the Triple Vulnerability Theory?

Answer: Generalized biological vulnerability: Might be inherited. Generalized psychological vulnerability: Believe world is dangerous. Specific psychological vulnerability: Taught world is dangerous.

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What is the Depressive Cognitive Triad?

Answer: Negative cognitions in depressed people focused on themselves, the world and the future.

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Who is the father of cognitive therapy?

Answer: Aaron T. Beck

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Name 2 negative cognitive errors in thinking.

Answer: Overgeneralisiation: Negatives apply to all situations. Arbitrary inference: Overemphasize negative rather than positive aspects in a situation.

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What does SSRI\'s stand for?

Answer: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors

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Introduction
Chapter 1-3
Note to the reader:
I had already begun to edit chapter 1-3 before the lecturer informed me that ONLY the
slides had to be studied for the introduction. I left in the extra material, but you’re
welcome to skip to page 5 where the prescribed work begins.

Psychopathology
 Psychological disorder: A psychological dysfunction associated with distress
or impairment in functioning that is not a typical or culturally expected
response.
 Phobia: Psychological disorder characterised by marked and persistent fear of
an object or situation.
 Abnormal behaviour: A psychological dysfunction within an individual that
is associated with distress or impairment in funtioning and a response that is not
typical or culturally expected.
 Psyche: Mind or soul
 Pathology: Sickness/illness.
 Aetiology: Study of origination or causation.

Criteria defining a psychological disorder

1. Psychological dysfunction

 Thwasa: Hearing voices is known to traditional healers as a state of thwasa.
This is supposed to be a calling by the ancestors to become a traditional healer.
 Ukuthwasa: Only a minority of the above will eventually become qualified
healers. They are then known as ukuthwasa survivors.
 Ukuphambana: If initiate does not graduate and recover from thwasa, they are
re-diagnosed as suffering from madness.
 Madness as described above, is a psychological dysfunction characterised by a
breakdown in cognitive, emotional or behavioural functioning.

2. Culture-bound Personal Distress or Impairment

 Defining psychological disorder by distress alone does not work. In some
cultures, Thwasa is seen as normal, even though distressing. Culture plays an
important role.
 Even if considered normal by the sufferer, fainting spells (often connected to
Thwasa) can be considered a hindrance and lead to impairment in social
functioning.
 Most psychological disorders are simply extreme expressions of otherwise
normal emotions, behaviours and cognitive processes, and are guided by world
views.




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3. Atypical or Not Culturally expected

 Robert Sapolsky is a neuroscientist who worked closely with the Masai.
 After a woman (who heard voices) in the village killed a goat with her hands,
Sapolsky asked the Masai why they thought she was crazy. Killing goats
was normal and so was hearing voices if you were in trance.
 He was told that only men killed goats and that “she heard voices at the
wrong times.”
 Normal and abnormal is subjective in different cultures. Jerome Wakefield
used the shorthand definition of ‘harmful dysfunction’ instead.
 It is also useful to determine whether behaviour is out of the person’s
control.
 The most widely accepted definition in DSM-5 describes behavioural.
psychological or biological dysfunctions that are unexpected in their
cultural context and associated with present distress and impairment in
functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain or impairment.
 Prototype: How disease or disorder matches ‘typical’ profile of a disorder,
when most or all symptoms of the latter are present.
 DSM-5 and DSM-IV-TR are prototypes. The difference between these is
the addition of dimensional estimates of severity of specific disorders in
DSM-5.

Psychological disorders in South Africa

Moral therapy1
 First half of 19th century
 Strong psychosocial approach
 Moral refers to emotional or psychological factors, NOT code of conduct
 Treating institutionalised patients as normally as possible in a setting that
encouraged and reinforced normal social interaction
 Relationships were carefully nurtured
 Restraint and seclusion eliminated

History
 Principles date back to Plato and beyond
 Greek Asclepiad (6th Century BCE) temples housed chronically ill (including
psychological disorders) Patients well cared for, massaged, given soothing
music
 Muslim countries in Middle East had similar practices
 MT as a system originated with French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel & associate
Jean-Baptiste Pussin who was superintendent of Parisian hospital La Bicêtre
 Pussin instituted reforms by removing all chains used to restrain patients and
using humane and psychological interventions.


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Psychosocial approach in nineteenth century that involved treating patients as normally as possible in
normal environments.


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 Pinel arrived in 1791 and was persuaded by Pussin to go along with changes.
He did, first at La Bicêtre, then at woman’s hospital Salpêtrière, where Pussin
was invited to join him
 William Tuke (1732-1822) followed Pinel’s lead in England.
 Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) considered as founder of US psychiatry.
Introduced MT at Pennsylvania Hospital. MT became treatment of choice in
leading hospitals.
 Asylums appeared (16th century) and were like prisons. MT in Europe and USA
made asylums habitable and therapeutic.
 Horace Mann (1833) chairperson of board of trustees of Worcester State
Hospital, reported on patients who had been given up as incurable, some
viciously assaultive and others torn off new clothes given to them. After MT,
majority were cured and released to their families.

Humanistic theory

 Jung and Adler’s philosophies inspired HT.
 Self-actualising: People strive to achieve their highest potential in all areas of
functioning against difficult life experiences.
 Abraham Maslow created hierarchy of needs. Most basic physical need is food
and sex, in between is social and ranging upwards is self-actualisation, love and
self-esteem. He believed we could not progress upwards if lower levels not
satisfied.
 Carl Rogers, most influential humanist. Created client-centred therapy, now
known as person-centred therapy2. Therapist takes passive role, making as few
interpretations as possible. Client is not bothered by threat to the self.
 Unconditional positive regard: Complete acceptance of most of the client’s
feelings and actions without judgement or condemnation.
 Empathy: Sympathetic understanding of individual’s view of the world.
 Hoped for result is that client will be straightforward and honest with
themselves and access their innate tendencies for growth.
 Believed relationships were most positive influence in facilitating human
growth.
 Maslow noted that humanism found better application among people without
psychological disorders.

Behavioural model

 Explanation of human behaviour, including dysfunction, based on principles of
learning and adaptation derived from experimental psychology.
 Ivan Pavlov (physiologist) invented study of classical conditioning3. (Dogs
salivating before presentation of food).



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Therapy method in which client, rather than counsellor, primarily directs the course of discussion,
seeking self-discovery and self-responsibility.
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An event that automatically elicits a response is paired with another stimulus event that does not.
After repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus that by itself can elicit the
desired response.


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 Stimulus generalisation: Strength of response to similar object or people is
usually a function of how similar these objects or people are. Response therefore
generalises to similar stimuli.
 Unconditioned stimulus: Food
 Unconditioned response: Salivation
 Conditioned stimulus: Bell/footsteps
 Conditioned response: Salivation without presence of food
 Extinction: Presentation of conditioned stimulus without unconditioned
stimulus for long enough period will eventually eliminate conditioned response.
 Edward Titchener emphasised study of introspection4.

Aetiology
 Provides a framework for understanding symptoms and making decisions
regarding diagnosis and treatment.
 Due to the complex and dynamic nature of disorders, aetiology does not provide
direct answers about causes.
 No aetiological model is better than others.


Biomedical perspectives
 The biomedical model claims that all mental illnesses have a biological cause.
 Factors like social pressures, type of parenting, or other environmental factors
seen as secondary in the precipitation of mental disorders.
 Biological abnormalities are understood to occur in four different areas:
1. Genetic predisposition
2. Abnormal functioning of neurotransmitters
3. Endocrine dysregulation
4. Structural abnormalities in the brain

Psychological perspectives
 Psychodynamic approaches, derived from Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.
 Behavior is largely influenced by internal forces that exist outside
consciousness.
 Psychological disorders emerge from conflict between the id, the ego, and the
superego & deficiencies in the ego.
 Defence mechanisms are used to ward off excessive psychological pain.
 Contemporary approaches include the work of:
• Melanie Klein – object relations
• John Bowlby – attachment theory
• Heinz Kohut –self psychology
• Donald Winnicott – the independents
• Intersubjective psychoanalysis and relational psychoanalysis

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Early, non-scientific approach to the study of psychology involving systematic attempts to report
thoughts and feelings that specific stimuli evoked.


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