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An overview of various psychological models, including the medical, psychoanalytic, humanistic, and scientific models. It also discusses concepts such as concordance rate, axes of mental health diagnosis, and different types of treatment. Additionally, it covers family therapy, milieu therapy, and group therapy, highlighting their differences and similarities.
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an inherited disorder rwould be expected to have a higher rate between monozygotic (identical) twins and a lower rate among siblings or dizygotic (fraternal) twins a. A more powerful way to determine whether a disorder has genetic basis is the study of families in which an adoption has taken place. Adoptive study: researchers look at children who’s biological parents have diagnosed psychological disorders, but who are adopted by “normal” parents b. Crossfostering study: researches look at children who are adopted by parents with psychological disorders but whose biological parents are psychologically healthy. c. Genetic mapping: a process researchers currently use in studying a variety of diseases thought to have a genetic basis. Rebecca Hasbrouck: Disheveled woman, hair was knotty, clothes were dirty and stained; she needed to “return to the world”. A few years earlier, she was living a comfortable life with a husband and two sons. As she and her family were returning from vacation, a large truck hit their car, causing it to run off the road and flip several times. This accident killed her husband and sons. After returning home from the hospital to her empty house, she was tormented by voices and memories. Her mother was suffering from severe depression as well and could be of no assistance to Rebecca. Her mother told her not to call again because she couldn’t be “burdened” by her. Feeling she had no one to turn to, she set out, looking for her lost family members – lost all contact with her former world and herself. Dr. Tobin recommended that she stay in a hospital during treatment for two weeks. During this time, she attended group therapy, spoke with many doctors about getting her life back on track and at the end, felt like she was “coming back from the grave.” After leaving the hospital, she stayed in a halfway house for a month and then found an apartment close to her sister’s house and she started writing books. Chapter Two
made threats). Dr. Tobin convinced him to be hospitalized and during his stay he was put on medication to regulate his moods and attend family therapy sessions. He turned his life around, applied for a job as a bank teller and continues to take his medicine. Chapter Three
a. Self monitoring: behavioral self report technique in which the client keeps a record of the frequency of specified behaviors – target behaviors. b. Behavioral observation: the clinician observes the individual and records the frequency of specific behaviors, along with any relevant situational factors.