Psychological Disorders (PSYC 1200) || Questions and 100% Accurate Answers.
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Asylums correct answers Residential facilities for the mentally ill
Philippe Pinel & Dorothea Dix correct answers Early pioneers who worked for the humane treatment of the mentally ill
Moral treatment correct answers The approach to mental illness calling for decency, kindness, and respect fo...
Psychological Disorders (PSYC 1200) || Questions and 100%
Accurate Answers.
Asylums correct answers Residential facilities for the mentally ill
Philippe Pinel & Dorothea Dix correct answers Early pioneers who worked for the humane
treatment of the mentally ill
Moral treatment correct answers The approach to mental illness calling for decency, kindness,
and respect for those with mental illness
66 000 people were in psychiatric hospitals in Canada correct answers By the 1950s, how many
people were in Canadian psychiatric hospitals?
Chlorpromazine (Thorazine) correct answers What drug was introduced in 1955, curing people
with schizophrenia and other disorders?
Deinstitutionalization correct answers The movement of large numbers of psychiatric in-patients
from their care facilities back into regular society
It dropped by over 80% over the next three decades correct answers What was the percentage
drop that occurred after chlorpromazine (thorazine) was introduced?
Medical model correct answers It sees psychological conditions through the same lens as
Western medicine tends to see physical conditions - as sets of symptoms, causes, and outcomes
with treatments aimed at changing physiological processes in order to alleviate symptoms
Biopsychosocial model correct answers A model of health that integrates the effects of
biological, behavioral, and social factors on health and illness
Maladaptive correct answers They cause distress to oneself or others, impairs day-to-day
functioning, or increases the risk of injury/harm to oneself or others
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) correct answers A standardized
manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders. It described the symptoms of 106 mental disorders
(and now has 350+ disorders!)
It described the symptoms of 106 mental disorders correct answers How many mental disorders
were described in the DSM-1?
The purpose for developing the DSM was to provide mental health workers with a reliable
method for diagnosing mental illness and to ensure consistency across different institutions and
hospitals correct answers What was the purpose of the DSM?
, In DSM-1, mental disorders represented an individual's specific reactions to psychological,
social, and biological processes. In DSM-5, other emphases changed over the years, from an
initial focus on psychodynamic views to a later focus on cognitive and biological perspectives
correct answers What is the difference in focus between DSM-1 & DSM-5?
By the mid-1990s, the DSM had gone through several revisions and was expanded to include
over 350 different disorders correct answers How many mental disorders were described in the
DSM-5?
Some would argue that improvements in clinical science have enabled us to better diagnose
people, and the new disorders are entirely valid categorizations of symptoms. Another more
disturbing possibility is that the creation of ever-more categories of disorders has been
engineered in part by pharmaceutical companies as a way of increasing the number of disorders
people will need to be treated for correct answers Why was there an increase in the number of
disorders between DSM-1 & DSM-5?
A set of symptoms and the number of symptoms that must be met in order to have the disorder;
the etiology of symptoms; and a prognosis/prediction of how these symptoms will persist or
change over time correct answers Describe the three important pieces of information for each
disorder in the DSM-5
Etiology correct answers Cause of disease
Subjectivity of normalcy, some disorders share common symptoms - different diagnoses, very
strict guidelines, objectively defined disorders - stigma, biases/norms are expressed at a
particular time, over-diagnosis correct answers What are the problems of the DSM? (6)
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) correct answers Commonly applied to children
who have problems adjusting to elementary school (especially boys, who are at least three times
more likely to be diagnosed than girls)
Develop more objective, biological indicators such as genetic markers, indicators of
neurotransmitter dysfunction, or brain abnormalities, that are involved in the symptoms and
functional deficits experienced by the individual correct answers What is one solution for
improving the diagnostic accuracy of the DSM?
Sub-clinical correct answers Symptoms don't quite meet the criteria for diagnosis
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) correct answers A common psychological illness
involving recurring thoughts, images, and nightmares associated with a traumatic event; it
induces symptoms of tension and anxiety and can seriously interfere with many aspects of a
person's life
Almost 10% of the Canadian population at some point in their lives correct answers What is the
percentage of the Canadian population that gets affected by PTSD?
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