T1: Understanding Abnormal Behavior

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    • Huntington’s Disease – a degenerative brain disease that appears in early to middle age that causes deterioration in the brain, specifically in the basal ganglia.
    • Trephination - It is an old practice where people make a hole in the skull to identify possession.
    • Supernatural - In ancient history, it is a behavior rooted from astrology, evil spirits, demons, etc.
    • Bile - it gives us different personality (dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, etc.)
    • What are the historical conceptions of abnormal behavior?
      • Supernatural
      • Biological
      • Psychological
    • Eustress - it is a positive stress.
    • Distress - it is a negative stress.
    • What are the four criteria of mental disturbance?
      • Deviance
      • Dysfunction
      • Distress
      • Danger
    • Diagnosis is base from the result of the assessment. While, prognosis is the future of the outcome of the assessment.
    • Psychological disorder - a psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.
    • Etiology - the study of origins, has to do with why a disorder begins (what causes it) and includes biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
    • Hippocrates is considered to be the father of modern Western medicine.
    • Hippocrates assumed that normal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors:
      • Blood (came from the heart)
      • Black Bile (spleen)
      • Phlegm (brain)
      • Choler/Yellow Bile (liver)
    • A phlegmatic personality indicates apathy and sluggishness but can also mean being calm under stress.
    • A choleric person is hot tempered.
    • Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterial microorganism entering the brain, include believing that everyone is plotting against you (delusion of persecution) or that you are God (delusion of grandeur), as well as other bizarre behaviors.
    • Moral therapy is a form of psychotherapy believes that a person with a mental disorder could be helped by being treated with compassion, kindness, and dignity in a clean, comfortable environment that provided freedom of movement, etc.
    • Moral therapy as a system originated with the well-known French psychiatrist Philippe Pinel and his close associate Jean-Baptiste Pussin
    • Franz Mesmer is widely regarded as the father of hypnosis, a state in which extremely suggestible subjects sometimes appear to be in a trance.
    • Catharsis is a therapeutic practice to recall and relive emotional trauma that has been made unconscious and to release accompanying tension.
    • Psychopathology the field concerned with the nature, development, and treatment of mental disorders.
    • Episodic course is where the individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time.
    • Prevalence rate is the figure that shows how many people in the populations have the disorder.
    • Incidence rate is the statistics on how many new cases occur during a given period, such as a year
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