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the clustering of certain traits, beahviors, or disorders within a given family. family aggregation may arise because of genetic of environmental
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family aggregation
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often used in studies examining drug treament effects, a condition where neither the subject nor the experimenter has knowledge about what specific experimental condition (or drug) the subject is receiving
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double-blind study
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an inert pill or otherwise neutral intervention that produces desirable therapeutic effects because of the subject's expectations that it will be beneficial
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placebo
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a formalized naming system
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nomenclature
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negative bleeding
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stigma
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the tendency to jump to conclusions (often negative) about what a person is like based on beliefs about that group that exist (often incorrectl) in the culure (French people are rude, homosexuals have good taste in clothes, mental patients are dangerousO
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stereotyping
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assigning a person to a particular diagnostic category, such as schizophrenia
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labeling
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maladaptive behavior detrimental to an individual and/or a group
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abnormal behavior
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occurence of two or more identified disorders in the same psychologically disordered individual
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comorbidity
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patient's subjective description of a physicalor mental disorder
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symptoms
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objective observations that suggest to a diagnostician a patients physical or mental disorder
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signs
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term used to describe a disorder of sudden onset, usually with intense symptoms
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acute
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term used to describe a long standing or frequently recurring disorder, often with progressing seriousness
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chronic
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disorder low in severity
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mild
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disorder intermediate in severity
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moderate
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disorder of a high degree of seriousness
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severe
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term used to describe a disorder that tends to abate and recur
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episodic
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term used to describe a disorder pattern that tends to come and go
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recurrent
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branches of psychology and psychiatry dealing with legal problems related to mental disorders and the legal rights and protection of mental patients and memebers of society at large
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forensic psychology/forensic psychiatry
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Ruling by a California court (1974) that a therapist has a duty to warn a prospective victim of an explicit threat expressed by a client in therapy
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tarasoff decision
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the "not guilty by reason of insanity" please used as a legal defense in ciminal trials
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insanity defense
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The Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity Plea, or NGRI, is a legal defense a defendant might use to claim that he or she was not guilty of a crime because of instanity
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NGRI plea
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plea andp ossible verdict that would provide an alternative to pleading not guilty by reason of instanity and would allow for placing a defendant in a treatment facility rather than in a prison
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guilty but mentally ill (GBMI)
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