Talking treatments provide a regular time and space for you to talk about your troubles an explore different feelings with a trained professional
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Who introduced counselling?
Carl Rogers
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What are three factors of counselling?
Short term, shallower level of experience and humanistic tradition
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What are three factors of psychotherapy?
Long term, deeper level of experience, psychoanalytical tradition
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But what about todays counselling or psychotherapy?
They can be short, medium or long term, there are psychodynamic counsellors; there are many similarities between the two
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Who are more likely to be consulted by a counsellor or psychotherapist?
More females
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What is the definition of a mental health problem?
They can affect the way you think, feel and behave
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How are mental disorders identified?
Reported symptoms of thoughts and feelings, observation of behaviours - how typical or atypical they are and they match up against criteria for known disorders
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What is the first D?
Deviance
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What does Deviance mean?
Does the person think, feel or act differently
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What can judgement be affected by?
Social/cultural norms/characteristics of the individual, context
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What is the second D?
Are the thoughts, feelings and behaviours causing distress to the person
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What is the 3rd D?
Dysfunction, do the thoughts, feelings or behaviours interfere with daily functioning
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What is the fourth D?
Are the thoughts, feelings or behaviours likely to be dangerous to the person or someone else
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What is prevalence?
Proportion of the population who have a specific disorder
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What is point prevalance?
At a specific point in time
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What about period prevalence?
At any point in a given time period
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What is lifetime prevalence?
At some point in life up to the time of assessment
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What is incidence?
The number of new cases of a disorder arising over a period of given period
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How many people have anxiety disorders?
8.2 million cases
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What are common features?
Excessive fear and anxiety and related behavioural disturbances
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What is fear? and Anxiety?
Fear: emotional response to imminent threat, anxiety: anticipation of future threat
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What do individual disorders differ in terms of ?
Trigger
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What is generalised anxiety disorder
Excessive or ongoing worry about multiple events; difficulty controlling worry
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What is social anxiety disorder?
Persistent fear/anxiety about social situations; fear of negative evaluation/rejection
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What is the definition of phobias?
Persistent fear of specific object
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What are features of obsessive compulsive disorder?
Unwanted or intrusive thoughts or repetitive behaviours or mental acts an individual feels driven to perform
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What is done?
Time consuming or cause distress
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What does intrusive thoughts lead to?
Content very similar to obsessions
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What is the most common obsession?
Contamination from dirt, germs then fear of harm, concern with order and then body or physical symptoms
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What is the most common compulsion to the least?
Checking gas taps, cleaning, repeating acts, mental compulsions
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What are features of depression?
Depressed mood; lack of interest; reduced energy, mood generally unrelated to circumstance
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What different symptoms can someone have?
Headaches, dizziness, irritability, sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, weight loss or gain,slow movement
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When is the age of onset?
20 years
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What is the average length of depressive episode?
6 months
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What is bipolar disorder?
Cyclical mood disorder - experiencing feelings of both depression and of mania
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What depressive moods are there?
slower movement of speech, worthlessness, loss of energy, depressed mood
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What are the symptoms of manic behaviour?
Feeling high or overly happy, extreme irritability talking fast, racing thoughts, inflated self esteem, very energetic
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Who introduced counselling?
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Carl Rogers
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What are three factors of counselling?
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What are three factors of psychotherapy?
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But what about todays counselling or psychotherapy?
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