Chapter 1
This is what draws someone to therapy. Not necessarily a diagnosis
Presenting problem
What is the difference between a phenotype and genotype
Phenotype: Physically observable
Genotype: Internal trait, not always visible but may manifest later
This is the purpose of a clinical assessment
Understand individual diagnosis
Predict behavior
Plan treatment
Evaluate treatment outcome
Apprehension about future dnager or misfortune
Anxiety
Dopamine
Where a disorder stems from in a persons life. Can be biological, psychological or social
Etiology
The role of dendrites
The value of an assessment depends on what three factors?
Reliability
Validity
Standardization
Abrupt experience of pain/discomfort such as breathlessness, chest pain, sweating, etc.
Panic attack
Released from the adrenal gland into the bloodstream, these fit into nearly every cell's receptor in the body
This person hypnotized people through the power of suggestion
Anton Mesmer
This regulates sleep stages and can be found in the Hindbrain
Pons
The three main methods in assessment
#1: Clinical interview
#2: Mental Status Exam
#3: Psychological Testing
General Anxiety Disorder is thought to be caused by
Astrocyes (large glial cells)
Name the three states of ego and their function that were central to Freud's work
Id - illogical, emotional, irrational, animal drive
Ego - logical, rational, driven by reality
Superego - conscious thinking, driven by moral thought, ethical
Area of the brain responsible for speaking properly and balance
Cerebellum
Case Study's focus on
One individual
7 years old
How the drug is administered, with smoking being the fastest
Name 3 of Freud's Defense Mechanisms and describe them
Denial: Denying the reality of a situation
Projection: Taking your thoughts/feelings and putting them onto someone else
Displacement: taking energy and putting it on someone else that's safer to receive the feelings
Reaction formation: Saying one thing publicly and doing something else behind closed doors
Rationalization: Diminishing behaviors to make them seem less terrible
Repression: Pushing feelings down or shutting memories out
Suppression: Same as repression but the person is consciously doing it
Sublimination: Taking negative energy and turning it into a positive action instead.
Name the lobes of the cerebral cortex and their functions
Frontal - Thinking, reasoning, memory
Parietal - touch recognition, motor movement
Occipital - vision
Temporal - recognition of sights and sound, long-term memory storage
This is the role of institutional review boards
Research ethics
What are the interventions for anxiety
CBT
SSRI's
Meditation
Massage
Mindfulness
Parkinsons disease