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Principles and practice of exposure
Exposure has been defined as: ‘facing something that has been avoided because it provokes anxiety’. The term ‘exposure’ covers a number of different processes that may be applied in practice. In-vivo exposure refers to exposure ‘in real life’, where the client is actually in the presence of the feared stimulus or situation. Flooding is used […]
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Family Therapy Models and Theories
Family therapy approaches. A number of different family therapies have been used to treat anorexia, although all seek to change the power structure within the family by empowering parents, preventing alliances that cross generations, and reducing tensions and problems between parents. Note that this approach contrasts markedly with the cognitive behavioural interventions described above which […]
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Multivariate Behavior Genetic Studies of Mood and Anxiety
Disorder Symptoms Most multivariate behavior genetic contributions to the classification of mood and anxiety disorders have been based on three general approaches: (1) split an existing diagnostic category into subtypes and examine differences in the causes of the resulting subtypes; (2) look for common causes that cut across the symptoms of several diagnostic categories, using […]
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Abnormal versus Normal Behavior
A major question that has plagued the field of abnormal behavior is, what are the criteria for abnormal behavior (or psychopathology, mental illness, or a similar term)? Perhaps a clue to the answer can be seen in the medical profession, that can diagnose physical illness or disease fairly accurately. In the history of developing successful […]
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Stress inoculation training for PTSD
Another frequently reported behavioral approach to treating PTSD involves teaching patients specific coping skills for reducing or managing PTSD symptoms and/or alternative responses to fear and anxiety. Specific interventions applicable to PTSD include relaxation training, anger management training, thought stopping, assertiveness training, self-dialogue, problem-solving skills training, and relapse prevention. An example of this approach is […]
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Disorders: Mental or Medical?
A widespread controversy involves the medical model of mental illness as a ‘‘disease.’’ Interestingly, definitions of disease or illness have the same conceptual difficulties in disentangling a scientific or neutral definition from value statements as definitions of abnormal behavior. All disorders are usually undesirable and harmful according to social values, but disorders are more than […]
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Mental Disorders: External Behavior or Internal
Mental Disorders: External Behavior or Internal Mechanisms Two frequent criticisms of Wakefield’s concept of internal mechanisms are that the notion is both ‘‘mentalistic’’ (a term that drives strict behaviorists crazy) and biological. Most psychologists would agree that what goes on inside a person is important. However, important scientific methods and procedures must be considered when […]
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Mental Disorders: Scientific Concepts or Value
Judgments? It is true that many forms of abnormal behavior are normative concepts based on value judgments. Most mental disorders are negative conditions that justify social concerns, but defining them in terms of pure value judgments allows classifying many socially disapproved behaviors as disorders when they clearly are not. Incarcerated Soviet dissidents, ‘‘childhood masturbation disorder,’’ […]
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Psychological Theories of Sleep
Sleep is an inhibition, a resting state of consciousness. Mental activity or consciousness is dependent upon peripheral incoming stimuli, and when these are absent, a lowering of mental activity follows and sleep results. According to this theory, if all peripheral stimuli are cut out, sleep will naturally follow. When we attempt to sleep, we voluntarily […]
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Side effects of antipsychotics
Side effects Typical antipsychotics are sometimes classified, in the British National Formulary for example, by their side-effect profi le. This is dependent on their propensity to act not only as an antagonist at dopamine D2 receptors but at other dopamine receptors and other types of receptors such as alpha-1 adrenaline, H1 histamine and M1 acetylcholine […]
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