UNIT TWO:

Assessment and Treatments for Mental Disorders

Vocabulary

Definition & Explanation

Psychological assessment
Clinical diagnosis
Dysrhythmia
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
Computerized axial tomography (CAT)
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
Positron emission tomography (PET)
Functional MRI (fMRI)
Neuropsychological examination

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Structured assessment interview

Unstructured assessment interview
Projective personality tests
Minnisota multiphasic personality
inventory (MMPI)
Ethical Issues
Randomized clinical trials (RCT)
Response shaping

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Token economies

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Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

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Becks cognitive therapy

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Gestalt therapy

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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MOA)

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Tricyclic antidepressants

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Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors

(SSRI)
Benzodiazepine

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Lithium
Electroconvulsive therapy

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procedure that clinicians use psychological tests, interviews, observations to develop a profile of patient
summary classification using DSM/ICD/WHO
abnormal brain activity
brain waves in awake and sleep states, electrodes on scalp, oscillating
scanning reveals images of parts of the brain, X-ray beams
put in a scanner, no ions radiation, sharper image,
see how the organ is functioning by following glucose metabolism
changes in logcal oxygenation (blood), that way things can be mapped to a certain location
various testing on a persons cognitive, perceptual, motor performance as clues to brain damage
Halstead Category Test: buzzer or doorbell with right or wrong choices and figure out the patter.
Tactual Performance Test: blind-folded and then you have to put shapes into the corresponding grooves
Rhythm Test: 30 pairs of sounds in which you must determine whether the two are the same
Speech Sound Perception Test: a bunch of gibberish and you determine whether there is words in there
Finger Oscillation Test: speed of finger taps
set of questions to be answered to get enough info for DSM
going with the flow, sometime you dont get enough for DSM
Inkblot, Thematic Apperception, Sentence Completion Tests
550 questions of true or false

- Cultural bias, orientation of clinician, underemphasis, insufficient validation, inaccurate data

- (usually for pharmatherapy) randomly assigning half the people to testing and others with placebi
- positive reinforcement to establish desired behaviours that are missing
- creating a habit with positive reinforcement
- like currency in the real world, you do good work, you get paid, you can use that money to buy sparkly
things, used for substance abuse
- change clients maladaptive thought processed
- restructure the belief system and self-evaluation, increase individuals feelings of self-worth by removing
false beliefs
- for people who are too hard on themselves, expecting too much and then rendering that we are
worthless
- information-processing model
- biases distort how people process information and make sense of their own experiences, leading to
cognitive errors
- find the underlying reasons why they feel like poop all the time, get them to write it down and
acknowledge it, and then teach them thats not how shit goes down around here
- making sense of their bodily processed and emotions that they blocked of
- group therapy
- acting out the conflict
- inhibit the activity of monoamine oxidase (enzyme from the synapse that breaks down serotonin/nore)
that were released
- stop the serotonin and norepinephrine from reuptaking into the synapse
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increasing the availability of serotonin, norepinephrine

stop the serotonin from reuptaking into the synapse
for antianxiety
enhancing GABA since GABA inhibits the neurotransmitters
used for manic
for depression
bilateral, nodes on each side of the head, constant current electrical pulses
unilateral, current flow from one side to the brain (non dominant side)

Mental Status Exam

T1

Appearance, Behaviour, Cooperation, Speech, Thought, Afect, Mood, Perception, Level of consciousness,
Insight, Cognitive functioning, Knowledge base, Endings, Reliability of information