Issues in mental health: Topic One Flashcards

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What is topic one?

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The historical context of mental health

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What are the 3 historical views of mental illness?

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Animism, humourism and animalism

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What is the general belief of animism?

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That everyone and everything has a soul and mental illness was as a result of evil spirits taking possession of an individual and controlling their behaviour

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Some skulls of Paleolithic cave dwellers have been found with what?

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Characteristic holes (trephines/trepanes) which were chipped out by stone instruments

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What was the purpose of trepanning?

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To provide an exit for the evil spirit

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Who came up with the theory of humourism?

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Hippocrates

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What did Hippocrates identify mental illness as?

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A scientific phenomenon

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What did Hippocrates believe in terms of mental illness?

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That ‘madness’ resulted from an imbalance of the four humours and could therefore be balanced to cure the person

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What were the 4 humours?

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Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile

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What did Hippocrates believe that depression (melancholia) was a result of?

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Too much black bile

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What were some treatments used to rebalance the four humours?

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Bloodletting, blistering and laxatives

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What was the main principle of animalism?

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The idea to treat the mentally ill like animals

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What was the main reasoning for treating the ‘insane’ like animals?

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Because they believed that madness caused a lack of capacity of ‘reason’ which they felt distinguished humans from beasts

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As a result of disordered and wild behaviour, what was the first part of treatment? (animalism)

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To restore reason by keeping patients locked up, chained and possibly whipped

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Why were the mentally ill treated via bleeding, blistering and vomiting? (animalism)

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As it was believed patients didn’t have sensitivities, like animals

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Who suggested the 4 ways of defining abnormality?

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Rosenhan and Seligman

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What are the 4 ways to define abnormality?

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Statistical infrequency, failure to function adequately, deviation from social norms and deviation from ideal mental health

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What is the general idea of statistical infrequency?

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The idea that if something is outside the statistical ‘norm’ then it would be termed abnormal

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Give an example of statistical infrequency

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Schizophrenia - only affects 3.5% of the population and is therefore statistically rare/abnormal

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What is failure to function adequately?

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Whereby someone is unable to meet typical obligations and cannot live a ‘normal’ life they are seen as not functioning adequately

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Give some examples of things that would be considered a failure to function adequately

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Not going to work, not maintaining relationships or not looking after one’s health

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What are social norms and therefore what can be abnormal behaviour be seen as?

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Social norms are expected or approved ways of behaving so abnormal behaviour may be seen as that which deviates from social norms

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What is ‘ideal mental health’?

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Being positive about yourself
Able to cope independently
Accurate perception of reality and being able to cope with demands
Positive social interactions

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What is deviation from ideal mental health?

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When a person does multiple ‘abnormal’ things in terms of mental health

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Give some examples of behaviour which would show deviation from ideal mental health

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Suffering, maladaptiveness, unconventional behaviour, irrationality, unpredictability and violation of moral standards

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26
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How do we categorise mental disorders?

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Using the DSM-5

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Who produces the DSM?

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The American Psychiatric association

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What does DSM stand for?

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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

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Where else are mental disorders categorised other than the DSM?

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The international classification of disease (ICD-10)

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How many categories of mental disorder are in DSM-5 and give some examples

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22 categories including, depressive, anxiety, feeding and eating, sleep-wake disorders and sexual dysfunction disorder

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How does the DSM cluster disorders?

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Into internalising disorders and externalising disorders

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Give an example of an internalising disorder

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Depression

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Give an example of an externalising disorder

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Impulsive disorder

34
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What other things does the DSM include information on?

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Gender and culture related diagnostic issues, comorbidity (when disorders occur together), prevalence (frequency of issue within age groups) and diagnostic criteria

35
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What is the key research for topic 1?

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Rosenhan - on being sane in insane places

36
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What was study 1 of Rosenhan’s research?

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Can psychiatric hospitals detect sanity?

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How many sane people phoned up for an appointment at how many different mental hospitals?

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8 people called 12 different hospitals

38
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When the pseudopatients arrived at admissions what did they all report?

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The same symptoms of hearing an unfamiliar voice of the same sex saying ‘empty’, ‘hollow’, ‘thud’

39
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Once the pseudopatients were admitted what did they stop doing?

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They stopped simulating any symptoms and took part in regular ward activities

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What diagnoses were the pseudopatients given?

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11 were given a diagnosis of schizophrenia and 1 manic-depressive psychosis

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How long, on average did the pseudopatients remain in hospital?

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19 days

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Upon discharge, what diagnosis were the pseudopatients given?

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Schizophrenia ‘in remission’

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How many patients at the hospital had suspicions about the pseudopatients?

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35 out of 118

44
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Give some qualitative data from the patients about the pseudopatients?

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‘You’re not crazy’, ‘You’re a journalist or professor’, ‘You’re checking up on the hospital’

45
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Outline which normal behaviours were seen as a symptom of their disorder

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Note-taking and queuing up for lunch was described as displaying oral acquisitive behaviour that might be expected of someone with schizophrenia

46
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Who had access to patients records?

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Anyone

47
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What was the total time a patient spent with psychologists, psychiatrists etc in a day?

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6.8 minutes

48
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Describe the experiment in study 1

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The pseudopatients would approach a member of staff with a simple polite request asking when they would be presented at the staff meeting

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What did pseudopatients record from the experiment in study 1?

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They recorded how staff responded to the request (i.e. if they moved on with head averted, made eye contact, paused and chatted or stopped and talked)

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At how many of the hospitals did the pseudopatients conduct the experiment?

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4

51
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What was Rosenhan’s second study?

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Can psychiatric hospitals detect insanity?

52
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What were the psychiatric hospital told in the second study?

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They were informed that during the next three months, one or more pseudopatients would attempt to be admitted to the hospital

53
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In reality, how many pseudopatients did Rosenhan send to the hospital?

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0

54
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How many patients were confidently judged as pseudopatients by one psychiatrist and one other staff member?

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19 out of 193

55
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Summarise Rosenhan’s conclusions

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Mental hospitals made inaccurate and unreliable diagnoses in the 1970s and treated patients with profound language/disrespect

56
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What is an affective disorder?

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A disorder that affects mood

57
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Give an example of an affective disorder

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Depression

58
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What does the DSM-5 say about the diagnosis of depression?

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That 5 or more symptoms must be present during the same 2 week period including either symptom 1 or 2 for a diagnosis of depression to be given

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What is symptom 1 of depression?

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Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day

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What is symptom 2 of depression?

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Diminished interest or pleasure in all or most activities most of the day, nearly every day

61
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Give 3 other symptoms of depression

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Insomnia or excessive sleep (hypersonic) nearly every day, Fatigue or loss of energy, Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide

62
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What is a psychotic disorder?

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A disorder which causes someone to lose touch with reality (e.g. through hallucinations or delusions)

63
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Give an example of a psychotic disorder

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Schizophrenia

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What are symptoms of psychotic disorders said to be?

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Either positive or negative

65
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What does a diagnosis of schizophrenia require?

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Major symptoms need to be persistent with at least 2 positive symptoms for at least one month

66
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Give some examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Hallucinations (perceptual disturbances e.g. voices), Delusions (false beliefs)/Paranoid delusions/delusions of grandeur (believing you’re famous) or disordered thinking (unable to concentrate and sort thoughts)

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Give some examples of negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Affective problems (reduction in range and intensity of emotion e.g. laughing at an inappropriate time), Poverty of speech (reduction in speech fluency) and reduced motivation

68
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Give an example of an anxiety disorder

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Phobias

69
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What is a phobia?

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An extreme or excessive fear or something with a physiological response

70
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What are the 3 types of phobia?

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Agoraphobia, specific phobia or social phobia

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Describe agoraphobia

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Fear of open spaces - typically the fear of not being able to escape. In extreme cases, agoraphobics become ‘prisoners’ in their own homes

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Describe social phobia

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Intense and excessive fear of being in a situation in which one is exposed to possible scrutiny by others. Also, a fear of embarrassing oneself

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Describe specific phobia

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A fear of a specific thing or situation (e.g. spiders)

74
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What are the strengths of the process of diagnosis?

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DSM has a comprehensive list of symptoms and disorders, so can easily diagnose with the help of this

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What is a weakness of the process of diagnosis?

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Reliant on a patient being honest about their issues and they could therefore exaggerate as they rely on self report