Exam 15: Mental Health and Psychopathology

What are the most important biological paradigms to understand psychopathology?

_________ refers to the attempt of transforming impulses into something constructive, such as baking when feeling sad or angry.

In a client-centred therapy, the therapist uses empathy and unconditional positive regard to create a supportive climate in which the client is helped to acquire positive self-worth.

Binge-eating disorder is characterized by binge-eating behaviour followed by periods of purging (e.g. forced vomiting).

Which psychological model was first formulated by Sigmund Freud?

In the nonpurging subtype of bulimia, individuals engage in fasting or excessive exercise to compensate for food consumed.

______________ is a type of attributional bias where individuals make a decision about the meaning or importance of an event on the basis of significantly less evidence than someone without a delusional disorder.

Describe the diathesis-stress model of psychopathology.

Which of the following Freudian defense mechanisms functions to reduce the amount of stress or conflict caused by specific experiences?

If you were to create a public campaign to contrast mental health stigma, what would you do to address the main issues associated with mental health stigma?

__________ looks at how early experiences can trigger or inhibit the expression of certain genes.

Which of the following defence mechanisms consists of ascribing unwanted impulses to someone else?

According to the Office for National Statistics Psychiatry Morbidity Report (2001), how many people in the UK will experience a diagnosable mental health problem every year?

The lifetime prevalence rate for a diagnosis of schizophrenia is around:

Unlike in the main anxiety disorders, anxious behaviour expressed by people in the anxious/fearful personality disorder cluster is a stable feature from late childhood to adulthood.

Which of the following disorders does NOT belong to Cluster B (i.e. dramatic/emotional personality disorders)?

Which of the following eating disorders presents a subdivision of purging subtype versus nonpurging subtype?

Which of the following paradigms seeks to understand psychopathology in terms of brain structure and function?

In the past, people exhibiting symptoms of psychopathology were often described as being '___________'.

In the area of intellectual disabilities, a(n) __________ score significantly below the norm of _________ has been used as a criterion for diagnosing intellectual disability.