Modern Psychology | Psychological Treatments | Four Ds of Abnormal Behavior | Key Terms |
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No Single Theory Dominates
What single perspective dominates the clinical field?
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Private Psychotherapy
Before the 1950s, all outpatient care for abnormal behavior took the form of ______?
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Culture
Another word for society, compasseses beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities.
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Deinstitutionalization
Movement that shifted mentally-ill patients in "insane asylums" to federally funded community mental health centers.
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sufferer, healer, and a series of contacts between healer and sufferer
What are the three essential features of all forms of therapy?
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Imbalance in bodily fluids
Hippocrates believed that abnormal behavior was caused by:
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Danger
Which one of the four Ds is defined by "Posing risk or harm to oneself or others?"
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Moral Treatment
Further by Dorothea Dix and Bejamin Rush, care that emphasized humane and respectful treatment
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Situational or Specific Circumstances;
Judgments of abnormality depend on _______________ as well as on cultural norms.
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a stone instrument used to cut away a circular section of the skull.
Trephening is what:
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Deviance
Which one of the four Ds is defined by "outside of the societal/culture norms; unusual, odd, erratic."
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Norms
Stated and unstated rules for appropriate behavior that vary through societies and cultures
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Positive Psychology
The area of psychology concerned with the study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits, and abilities is:
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State Hospitals
The work of Dorothea Dix led to the establishment of 32 _____________ around the country?
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Distress
Which one of the four Ds is defined by "Unpleasant or upsetting to the person?"
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Asylums
Institutions that were formed to care for the mentally ill that were not seen as “fit” for society.
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A psychologist has a Ph.D. (doctorate) cannot prescribe medications, but provides therapy. A Psychiatrist are medical doctors and can prescribe medications and provide therapy (although rare)
The main difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist is:
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More extreme measures were taken; such as whipping or starving the person.
According to ancient views of abnormality, if a standard exorcism failed to rid a person of their abnormal behaviors, which of the following steps would be taken?
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Dysfunction
Which one of the four Ds is defined by "Interferes with the ability to conduct daily activities in a positive manner
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Abnormal Psychology
What term is an effort to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning.
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