Historical Context
Assessment/Diagnosis
Personality
Cognitive Disorders
Mental Health Services
100
Belief that deviant behavior results from a battle between evil and good
What is the supernatural tradition?
100
In this type of assessment, standardized measures are used to assess a person's abilities in skills such as memory, attention, language, perception. From the test information, inferences are made about brain dysfunction.
What is neuropsychological assessment?
100
Often a precursor to anti-social personality disorder; occurs as behavior problems and lack of remorse in children younger than 18 years of age.
What is conduct disorder?
100
Inability to recognize even familiar faces
What is facial agnosia?
100
Process by which people with mental illness have either 1) been accused of a crime and are being treated in a mental health facility or 2) have been found not guilty by reason of insanity.
What is criminal commitment?
200
In early biological explanations of psychological disorders, these items were believed to influence behavior/personality. The main ones were blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
What are bodily humors?
200
In the Mental Status Exam, a person's awareness of their surroundings - who they are, where they are, what day it is.
What is sensorium?
200
A person with this personality disorder likes to be the center of attention, may appear inappropriately seductive, and portrays a dramatic manner
What is histrionic personality disorder?
200
Type of cognitive disorder related to blocked blood vessels and stroke.
What is vascular dementia?
200
Can occur if a person has 1) mental illness and needs treatment, 2) is dangerous to self or others, OR 3) is unable to care for him/herself - "grave disability." This type of commitment is often initiated by a family member.
What is civil commitment?
300
This person believed mental illness should ALWAYS be treated as a physical illness.
Who is John Grey?
300
A diagnostic approach distinct from the categorical and dimensional methods of classification. Essential characteristics are defined and non-essential variants.
What is the prototypical approach?
300
Cluster C personality disorders are classified as this...
What is anxious or fearful?
300
Confusion, difficulty with attention, disorientation, memory and language problems. Onset occurs within a few hours or days.
What is delirium?
300
Moving people with severe mental illness from large psychiatric hospitals to smaller group residences, nursing homes, or jails.
What is transinstitutionalization?
400
A psychiatrist from South Africa who applied behavior treatment procedures to patients with phobias.
Who is Joseph Wolpe?
400
A classification strategy for studying psychopathology that focuses on unique characteristics of an individual's personality or circumstances. Opposite of nomothetic.
What is ideographic strategy?
400
A person with this personality disorder has an exaggerated sense of their abilities and status. Often this comes through as arrogance or self-importance.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
400
Increased agitation, anxiety, or combativeness late in the day. Common in individuals with Alzheimer's dementia.
What is Sundowner syndrome?
400
An early law (1843) recognizing that in some cases people are not held responsible for their behavior if they do not know what they are doing OR don't realize what they are doing is wrong.
What is the M'Naghten rule
500
Theory that purported institutionalized patients should be treated as normally as possible and allowed to build appropriate social and interpersonal contact.
What is the moral therapy approach?
500
This terms means an assessment results are related to the construct the assessment was designed to measure. For example, a score on a specific depression scale relates to severity of depression, but NOT to another diagnosis, e.g. ADHD.
What is validity?
500
A person with this type of personality disorder does not desire close relationships and prefers solitary activities. They do NOTshow references to magic or perceptual distortions.
What is schizoid personality disorder?
500
Motor function is intact, but the individual cannot carry out the motor activity when asked. Considered a problem of motor planning.
What is apraxia?
500
In contrast to NGBRI, a person with this specific plea may receive treatment and punishment simultaneously.
What is Guilty, but mentally ill (GBMI).
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