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abnormal psychology
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the scientific study of metal disorders and their treatment
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psychological disorders
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behaviors that are maladaptive for life functioning and or cause serious personal distress and/or harm to self or others
Atypical or Irrational |
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psychoanalytic (freud)
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behavior disorders are functions of unconscious internal conflicts
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biological
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behavior is caused (at least partially) by biochemical or physiological bases
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cognitive-behavioral
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psychological disorders results from learning maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving
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bio-psycho-social
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has all three aspects to it.
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Vulnerability stress model
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people who are biologically predisposed to a disorder will tend to exhibit that disorder particularly when affected by stress
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legal definitions
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insanity is a legal word
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classification
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labeling has ups and downs, up is that they can help treat the disorder but the down is that your always being given a label
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DSM
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lists the symptoms to classify them but not treatment or causes, published by the psychiatric association
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psychotic
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more serve loss contract with reality, they are more rare
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neurotic
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less serve, more anxiety
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axis 1
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-schizophenia
-anxiety disorders - mood disorders -dissociative disorders |
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axis 2
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-personality disorders
-mental retardation -impair social function -deviated from cultural norms -being in childhood and adolescence -fairly resistant to treatment |
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schizophrenia
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1% of the population(very rare)
on set late 20's |
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Hallucination
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false sensory experiences, for any sense (hearing voices, smell things)
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Delusion
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false thought or belief or thought pattern
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schizo Type 1
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Acute (positive) or excess hallucination/delusions
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schizo Type 2
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Chronic (negtive)
-thoughts- aren't enough -social withdraw -emotions-not apporiate for the situation -flat affect-no emotion -speech-word salad -neologism-make up words -low levels of energy |
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paranoid
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someone is out to get me, organized cognition and emotion, but with hallucinations and delusions that are usually concerned with persecution
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catatonic
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extreme movement symptoms ranging from excessive motor activity to posturing (immobility for long periods of time)
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disorganized
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disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, or inappropriate emotion (child like)
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undifferentiated
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mixed bag category symptoms fit the criteria of more than one of the above three types or none of them
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residual
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there has been a past schizophrenic episode but presently only some negative symptoms and no positive symptoms
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Schizo Nature causes
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-biologically/genetic
-reoccur in families -internal twins 50% - high levels of dopamine -brain abnormalities -brain ventriles are too large -smaller thalamus - less active frontal lobe |
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Schizo Nurture causes
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-environmental
-vulability stress model -stress: disturbed family relations -one person in the family has an overwhelming control -social class-low income levels |
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Anxiety disorders
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feeling of fear, neurotic disorders
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generalized anxiety disorders
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excess global persistant (period of 6 months) anxiety, free floating or inapporate, motor tension, automatic nervous system (hyper active),apprehension to doom, hyper alert, can't concentrate
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panic attack
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is a single event, a combination of all the symptoms (acute) lasts for a few moments
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panic disorder
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a bunch of panic attacks, reoccurring
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phobias
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a marked and persistant fear, intense, uncontrollable, irrational, excessive
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agoraphobia
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fear of being in open spaces (away from their safe place or home)
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assoicated with panic disorders
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Social phobias
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fear of being in a performance, or other people are judging/watching you.
ex:fear of public speaking |
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specific phobias
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specific objects or situations
ex:acrophobia- fear of heights -not enough gaba (neurotransmitter) |
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-obession-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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obession: thought (uncontrollable, keeps coming back, persistent)
compulsion: behavior, repeated, very rigid (have to do it everytime) |
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Post traumatic stress disorder
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sometimes comes very far after the traumatic situation
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major depressive disorder
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serve, prolonged mood change
ex-prozac, anti depression |
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major depressive episode (unipolar)
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-poor appetite or weight gain
-insomnia or hypersomina -loss of interest in usual activities - loss of energy -feeling of worthlessness, inappropriate guilt -can't concentrate, slowed thinking -recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation wishes to be dead |
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Dysthemia
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depression that is milder, but it lasts for a longer period (chronic) years
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manic episode
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(rare) extreme state of excitement/happy
-very happy -self confidence -dellusional (being famous) -don't seem to need sleep -distracted -poor judgment, violent behaviors |
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Bipolar disorder
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-periods of manic periods and depression
-1% of the population |
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Bipolar disorder type 1
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major depressive episode and major manic episode
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Bipolar disorder type 2
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more depressive with mild manic episodes
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depression treatment
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lithium= doesn't work for everyone
-effective dose from toxic dose for some -take weeks to work - during manic fases they don't want to take them |
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personality disorders
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a disorder characterized by inflexible, long standing personality traits that lead to behavior that impairs social functioning and deviates from cultural norms, usually begin in childhood
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