SY232 Study Guide - Final Guide: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Moral Panic, Metacognition
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It was rst associated with cognitive disability nowadays we seem to see it everywhere. Ndings used to be under 1%, now its up to around 2. whether this is because of labelling more people as autistic or because people with the autistic gene are reproducing more is unknown. Anr- automatic negative reinforcement function. vicious circle > nasty thought . 1- what are their beliefs? how did they interpret their distress. one idea- people think in terms of polar opposites. they look at everything in binary categories. sick v. non- sick. distinguish between some stress and real distress. stigma. 2- avoidance of real distress- prepared to say that theyre stressed but not in real distress. trying to avoid real distress as they still see things as polar opposites. wish the problem away. 4- threshold for real distress keeps moving- feature of normalizing. you put off the real distress to the end. you don"t need help. you can avoid the problem.
