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Psychopathology Exam 1 Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is psychopathology? - ✔✔Dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental processes that causes personal distress and is Atypical or not a culturally expected response. The science of psychopathology is done by mental health professionals that are united in the scientist-practitioner framework. How do you go about giving a clinical description of a client - understand each term? - ✔✔Begins with presenting the problem clinical description describe prevalence and incidence of disorders describe onset of symptoms state specifiers (course of disorders, severity) Prognosis What were the initial supernatural theories of abnormal behavior ? - ✔✔People increasingly turned to magic and sorcery to solve their problems. People assumed that individuals possessed by evil spirits were responsible for misfortune of townspeople. Treatments included exorcism, shaving a cross on victims head. Snake pits were also used to scare a spirit out of someone. Movement of moon and stars led to definition of lunatic. Describe the varying practices of psychopathology. - ✔✔Clinical & counseling psychologists either a Ph.D. or Psy.D. Psychiatrist: M.D. MFT & mental health counselors Mass Hysteria - ✔✔demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us. Paracelus suggested that.. - ✔✔movements of the sun and stars had profound effects on people's psychological functioning. Said that the gravitational effect of the moon on bodily fluids could be a possible cause for mental disorders. This theory inspired the word LUNATIC. Still common with followers of astrology. What were the initial theories of the biological tradition?(e.g., Grey, Hippocrates....using the information on your worksheet can be helpful to review and guide you on where to look in text)? Be able to correctly place the theories of supernatural from the biological traditions. - ✔✔Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern medicine. Humeral theory of medicine Somatoform disorders John P.Grey Erin Kraeplin Hippocrates - ✔✔Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern medicine. He considered the brain to be the seat of wisdom, consciousness, intelligence, and emotion. He believed all psychological disorders could be treated. Disorders involving these would then be logically located in the brain. Also recognized the importance of interpersonal interactions on psychology. Hippocratic-Galenic approach

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