Abnormal Psychology Comer 8th Edition

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Abnormal Psychology Comer 8th Edition

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The aspect of the definition of abnormality that characterizes behavior as different from the
1.
norm is ______.

The stated and unstated rules that a society establishes to govern proper conduct are referred
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to as______.

Ken is so anxious that his anxiety by itself causes him to suffer. Ken’s situation represents the
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aspect of the definition of abnormality called ______.

Colleen is so afraid of open spaces that she cannot leave her house to go to work. This
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represents the aspect of the definition of abnormality called ______.
 Heather has been feeling depressed and has begun to feel helpless and hopeless and is
5. considering committing suicide. Killing herself represents the aspect of the definition of
abnormality called ______.

The idea that the behaviors we label abnormal are just problems in living has been proposed by
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______.

While some clinicians will refer to the person they are treating as a patient, others will refer to
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the person as a(n) ______.

The crude early form of surgery in which a hole was made in the skull of a person, presumably
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to allow evil spirits to escape, was called ______.

The procedure that a priest or other powerful person might perform to drive evil spirits from a
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person is called ______.
 ______ believed that abnormal behavior was caused by brain pathology that was a
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consequence of an imbalance in the four humors of the body.

11. The “parent” of modern medicine who believed that illnesses had natural causes was ______.

During the Middle Ages, a person who believed that he was possessed by wolves and other
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animals was said to be suffering from ______.

The roots of today’s community mental health programs can be traced back to the fifteenth
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century when people came to the Belgian town of______ for psychic healing.

An approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized humane and
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respectful approaches was known as ______ treatment.

The physician who instituted a series of reforms at La Bicêtre asylum and “unchained” mental
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patients was ______.
 The treatment for mental illness espoused by French physician Philippe Pinel and English
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Quaker William Tuke was called _____ treatment by their contemporaries.

The American advocate for laws mandating the improved treatment of people with mental
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disorders was ______.

The view that physical causes are at the root of mental illnesses is called the ______
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perspective.

The somatogenic view of mental illness was given a boost in the 1800s when it was discovered
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that general paresis was caused by ______.

20. Psychological causes are at the root of mental illness, according to the ______ perspective.

The inducement of a trancelike state in which a person becomes extremely suggestible fits into
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the ______ model of treating mental illness.
22. Psychoanalysis’s view of causes of abnormal and normal behavior fits into the ______ model.

23. Psychotropic medications fit into the ______ model of treating mental illness.

The major development utilizing drugs in the treatment of the mentally ill in the second half of
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the twentieth century was the development of psychiatric ______.

The reduction in the number of people housed in mental hospitals in the last 40 years can be
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attributed to a trend called ______.

26. Moving the focus for the care of the mentally ill out of hospitals is part of the ______ approach.

27. The largest group of professionals who provide mental health services are ______.
28. The degree that psychiatrists hold is the ______.

Answer Key

1. deviance

2. norms

3. distress

4. dysfunction

5. danger

6. Thomas Szasz

7. client

8. trephination

9. exorcism

10. Hippocrates

11. Hippocrates

12. lycanthropy

13. Gheel

14. moral

15. Pinel
16. moral

17. Dorothea Dix

18. somatogenic

19. syphilis

20. psychogenic

21. psychogenic

22. psychogenic

23. somatogenic

24. psychotropic medications

25. deinstitutionalization

26. community mental health

27. psychiatric social workers

28. M.D. or D.O.