PSYC 235 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Central Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
21 Oct 2016
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3 main criteria: psychological dysfunction, personal distress/impairment, not typical/culturally acceptable. Mental health counsellors/social workers: masters of social work. Scientist-practitioner model: develops scientific methods to learn more about the nature of psychological disorders. Consumers of science (research in their field to learn more) Evaluator of science (question and run experiments in their field) Creator of science (applies what they"ve learned to the patient) Prevalence: how many people in the population as a whole have the psychological disorder. Incidence: how many new cases occur during a given period (e. g. , a year) Chronic: usually lasts the entire lifetime (e. g. , schizophrenia) Episodic: likely to recover then have it recur from time to time. Demons & witches: psychological disorders were seen as the work of demons and witches. Treatments: exorcisms, shaving a cross on the person"s head, securing them to a wall outside a church so they would benefit from hearing mass.
