Psychopathology Essay

I. Introduction and History a. Three categories of beliefs about the etiology of psychopathology i. Supernatural-demonology, gods, magic ii. Biological basis (somatogenesis) iii. Psychological basis (psychogenesis) b. Philippe Pinel iv. Removed chains from patients and treated them kindly as an experiment; found it was successful c. Dorothea Dix v. Aroused worldwide awareness of inhumane treatment for the mentally ill and established 32 mental hospitals around the world d. Moral Treatment Management vi. Wide-ranging method of treatment that focused on the physical well being of hospitalized mental patients e. Lobotomy vii. Proved to be
Paradigms of Psychopathology g. Paradigms xi. Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Paradigm 1. Main premise: symptoms of psychopathology result from repressed unconscious conflicts within the individual 2. Corollary: treatment goal is to make unconscious conflicts conscious, thereby removing the need for symptoms 3. Sigmund Freud xii. Behavioral Paradigm 4. Both maladaptive and adaptive behavior is learned 5. Treatment consists of unlearning maladaptive behavior and/or learning new adaptive behaviors 6. B.F. Skinner xiii. Humanistic Paradigm 7. All humans will strive for self-actualization given the right environment; symptoms are result of rigidity and losing self-direected path 8. Goal of treatment is to provide nurturing environment that will allow the individual to regain self directedness and reach his/her full potential 9. Carl Rogers xiv. Cognitive Paradigm 10. Maladaptive behavior is caused by cognitive interpretation of events and situations, not by the events/situations
Hippocrates h. Classical conditioning xvi. UCS, UCR, CS, CR xvii. Ivan Pavlov i. Operant conditioning xviii. Reinforcement, punishment xix. Skinner j. Modeling xx. Bandura k. Token Economy l. Schemas- mental structure we use to organize and simplify our knowledge of the world around us m. Cognitive biases (cognitive distortions) xxi. Dichotomous thinking- thinking in extremes xxii. Overgeneralization- sweeping conclusion on one event xxiii. Magnification/minimization- exaggerations in evaluating performance or outcome xxiv. “should” thinking- everyone should conform to a rigid set of rules n. Cognitive restructuring xxv. Identifying problematic beliefs xxvi. Challenging beliefs xxvii. Replacing with more positive/realistic beliefs o. Graduated exposure p. Medical model xxviii. Disorder is discrete xxix. Disorder is within the individual xxx. Underlying cause xxxi. Treatment removes cause q. Diathesis/stress xxxii. Diathesis-predispostions xxxiii. Stress-response to exceeding