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Dysfunctional Behavior

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Dysfunctional Behavior

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    1. Dysfunctional Behavior Lisa Calabrese, Riley Carey, Michelle LaPlante

    3. Greek and Roman Times Hippocrates, a Greek physician known as the father of medicine, was the first to offer the idea that dysfunctional behavior is biological and should be treated as a disease

    4. Middle Ages Dysfunctional behavior was explained by possession by the devil Exorcisms and lobotomies were used as “cures”

    7. 18th Century More humane treatment of the mentally ill Pinel, a French doctor, argued that the mentally ill should be treated better Acted on this by freeing patients and treating them with compassion and respect

    8. 20th Century Return to Hippocrates’ biological model, or the “medical model” Several other models were also created Sigmund Freud pioneered psychotherapy Drugs began being used as a common treatment by the 1960’s

    9. 21st Century More and more, previous models are being abandoned as psychologists lean towards bio-psycho-social perspective This model basically states dysfunctional behavior is a product of nature and nurture or heredity and environment

    10. Models of Dysfunctional Behavior Hypotheses on the nature of dysfunctional psychology Each offers causes and cures

    11. Biological Treats psychological illnesses as having physical causes which include: Synaptic transmission and neuro-transmitters Brain structure and injury Genetic pre-dispositions

    12. Cures from biological perspective: Electro-convulsive therapy Drugs Surgery

    13. Behavioral The symptoms are the disorder and if the symptoms are cured, the disorder is As a result, the cure is simply to change the behavior Cures: Systematic desensitization Aversion therapy

    14. Cognitive Mental illness is caused by flawed beliefs and disturbances of standard thought process Cure: Change thinking because a change in thoughts and emotions toward something will change outward behavior toward it Rational Emotion Therapy

    15. Aaron T. Beck: seen as the father of the cognitive branch and came up with a widely used way to measure levels of depression Albert Ellis: came up with the cognitive behavioral theory Influential People for the Cognitive Model

    16. Psychodynamic Illness comes from repressed emotions and thoughts from previous experiences, often from childhood Based on work of Sigmund Freud Cures: Free association Therapy Art therapy (developed by Carl Jung)

    18. Sociocultural and Gender Considerations

    19. Sociocultural Considerations Cultural differences must be considered when diagnosing someone with dysfunctional behavior because of differing concepts of “normality” and “abnormality.” Also, different cultures can cause dysfunctional behavior.

    20. Gender Considerations Women are twice as likely as men to get depression, and ten times more likely to contract an eating disorder Men are more likely to suffer hyperactivity and anti social personality, and four times more likely to commit suicide and suffer from alcoholism. They are also more aggressive- the arrest rate for murder in the United States is 9 men to 1 woman.

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