CPRP Exam Study Guide | Questions
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The Medical Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔-Focused on treating the mental
health condition (the symptoms of the psychiatric illness).
-Use language such as mental impairment, psychiatric disorder, emotional disturbance, or
diagnosis.
-Follows the DSM- to be a disorder:
-symptoms must be noticeable (clinically significant)
-must be/or at risk of causing difficulty in role functioning
-must have abnormal/not "culturally-sanctioned"
reactions/behaviors to events
-a faulty way of perceiving or reacting to the world
The Disability Perspective - ✔-psych disabilities occur when a mental health condition
interferes with a person's function in living, learning, working, and/or social environments
and roles.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition for Disability - ✔-a physical or
mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such
individual
Social Security Act (SSA) definition for Disability - ✔-"the inability to engage in any
substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected
to last for a continuous period of no less than 12 months."
PRA's definition for Disability - ✔-the concept is seen as more relevant to rehabilitation than
is the concept of illness and implies the hope of reacquiring abilities and valued roles.
, The Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective - ✔-the health condition is seen as interacting with
environmental and personal factors to affect an individual's functioning at the level of body
functions and structures, in performance of daily activities, and in participation in values
roles and life domains.
Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective Functions related to Symptoms of the Body - ✔ABC
-Affective functions: experience, expression, regulation of affect.
-Behavioral functions: energy and drive, sleep and appetites, and psychomotor functions
-Cognitive functions: experience of self and time, attention/concentration, memory, and
executive functions
Positive Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) - ✔-additions
to typical behaviors (present)
Ex. delusion, hallucinations, bizzare behaviors, etc.
Negative Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) - ✔-showing a
lack of something (absent)
Ex. social withdrawl, difficulty producing thoughts or speech, blunted of flat affect, etc.
The Social Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔-sees the disability as a product of the
social and interpersonal factors.
-"there is no such thing as a mental illness"
-believes that psychiatric symptoms can be a healthy response to a dysfunctional world.
-"what looks like illness often represents a method of surviving difficult times or coping with
trauma
-Believes that because the environment helps to define 'disability', disability is a
socially constructed concept.
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The Medical Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔-Focused on treating the mental
health condition (the symptoms of the psychiatric illness).
-Use language such as mental impairment, psychiatric disorder, emotional disturbance, or
diagnosis.
-Follows the DSM- to be a disorder:
-symptoms must be noticeable (clinically significant)
-must be/or at risk of causing difficulty in role functioning
-must have abnormal/not "culturally-sanctioned"
reactions/behaviors to events
-a faulty way of perceiving or reacting to the world
The Disability Perspective - ✔-psych disabilities occur when a mental health condition
interferes with a person's function in living, learning, working, and/or social environments
and roles.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) definition for Disability - ✔-a physical or
mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities of such
individual
Social Security Act (SSA) definition for Disability - ✔-"the inability to engage in any
substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental
impairment which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected
to last for a continuous period of no less than 12 months."
PRA's definition for Disability - ✔-the concept is seen as more relevant to rehabilitation than
is the concept of illness and implies the hope of reacquiring abilities and valued roles.
, The Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective - ✔-the health condition is seen as interacting with
environmental and personal factors to affect an individual's functioning at the level of body
functions and structures, in performance of daily activities, and in participation in values
roles and life domains.
Bio-Psycho-Social Perspective Functions related to Symptoms of the Body - ✔ABC
-Affective functions: experience, expression, regulation of affect.
-Behavioral functions: energy and drive, sleep and appetites, and psychomotor functions
-Cognitive functions: experience of self and time, attention/concentration, memory, and
executive functions
Positive Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) - ✔-additions
to typical behaviors (present)
Ex. delusion, hallucinations, bizzare behaviors, etc.
Negative Symptoms (in regards to Medical Perspective of Psychiatric Disbility) - ✔-showing a
lack of something (absent)
Ex. social withdrawl, difficulty producing thoughts or speech, blunted of flat affect, etc.
The Social Perspective on Psychiatric Disability - ✔-sees the disability as a product of the
social and interpersonal factors.
-"there is no such thing as a mental illness"
-believes that psychiatric symptoms can be a healthy response to a dysfunctional world.
-"what looks like illness often represents a method of surviving difficult times or coping with
trauma
-Believes that because the environment helps to define 'disability', disability is a
socially constructed concept.
