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Psychiatry

Psychiatry. Study, Treatment, & prevention of mental disorders. Definitions. Psychiatrist – doctor who specializes in psychiatry Psychologist – qualified person in psychology, - usually not a doctor,

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Psychiatry

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  1. Psychiatry Study, Treatment, & prevention of mental disorders

  2. Definitions • Psychiatrist – doctor who specializes in psychiatry • Psychologist – qualified person in psychology, - usually not a doctor, - not able to prescribe medication -studies human behaviour

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  4. Mental disorders • Anxiety disorders – emotional states where person fears an imagined danger Symptoms include rapid pulse, sweating, trembling, nausea, tension, & apprehension • Psychosis – people find it difficult to distinguish fact from fantasy • Psychosomatic – symptoms feel real to the person but are of emotional or imagined origin

  5. Mental Disorders • Confabulation – fabricated memories. person has no intention to deceive& believes memories are true • Hallucinations – sensory experiences e.g. seeing, hearing things that do not exist • Schizophrenia – any of several psychotic disorders characterised by disturbances of mood, thought, sense of self & behaviour, contact with reality

  6. Mental Disorders • Delusions- fixed beliefs of things that are untrue, e.g. person is Jesus • Illusions – are misinterpretations of real sensory experience e.g. a mirage of seeing water in the dessert. • Panic disorders – episodes of extreme fear & can include physical symptoms of anxiety disorder • Repression – unpleasant thoughts, feelings, & ideas are suppressed or removed from consciousness

  7. Mental Disorders • Conversion disorder – stress & anxiety are converted into body symptoms • Major depression

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  9. Diagnostic Terms

  10. Conditions & terms

  11. Conditions and Terms

  12. Treatments • Antidepressants • Cognitive therapy - form of psychotherapy that helps a person to change unhelpful or unhealthy thinking habits, feelings and behaviours. • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - electrical impulse is applied to the brain to induce a seizure psychotherapy Is thought that ECT-induced seizures interrupt electrochemical messages and ‘reset’ the brain. ACT 1

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