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18 Cards in this Set
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night eating syndrome |
habitual tendency to wake up and eat in the middle of the night, leading to substantial personal distress |
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anhedonia |
Negative symptoms schizophrenia in which the individual unable to feel pleasure |
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atypical antipsychotics |
A class of drugs (eg. neuroleptics) used to treat schizophrenia and other disorders that were developed to elimate side effects, including problems with motor control |
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avoliton |
A negative symptom in schizophrenia in which the individual lacks interest and drive |
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catatonic schizophrenia |
A subtype of schizophrenia whose primary symptoms alternate between stuporous immobility and excited agitation |
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cognitive enhancement therapy (CET) |
a treatment for schizophrenia that involves competence-based training and cognitive capacities and skills (eg. attention, memory, and problem solving) and social cognitive skills (eg. conversing with someone) |
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dementia praecox |
an older term for schizophrenia, chosen to describe what was believed to be an incurable and progressive deterioration of mental functioning beginning in adolescence |
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disorganized schizophrenia |
A subtype of schizophrenia in which the person has diffuse and regressive symptoms. The individual is given to silliness, facial grimaces, and inconsequential rituals and has constantly changeable moods and poor hygiene. There are a few significant remissions and eventually considerable deterioration, formally called “hebephrenia” |
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paranoid schizophrenia |
A type of schizophrenia in which the client has numerous systematized delusions as well as hallucinations and ideas of reference. He or she may also be agitated, angry, argumentative, and sometimes violent. Types of schizophrenia were dropped in the DSM-5 in favour of the general term “schizophrenia” |
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residual schizophrenia |
The diagnosis given to people who have had an episode of schizophrenia but presently show no psychotic symptoms, though signs of the disorder do exist. This diagnosis is no longer possible given the changes in the DSM-5. |
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social-selection theory |
and attempt to explain the correlation between social class and schizophrenia by proposing that people with schizophrenia move downward and social status |
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sociogenic hypothesis |
Generally, and idea that seeks causes in social conditions; for example, that being in a low social class can cause one to bevome schizophrenic |
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undifferentiated schizophrenia |
The diagnosis give them for clients who symptoms do not fit any listed category or who meet the criteria for more than one subtype |
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waxy flexibility |
An aspect of catatonic immobility in which the persons limbs can be moved in a variety of positions and maintained that way for usually long periods of time |
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dark tetrad |
Constellation of treats consisting of the dark triad plus the dimension of sadism |
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dark triad |
A constellation of traits consisting of the combination of narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism |
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Dialectical behaviour therapy |
A therapeutic approach to borderline personality disorder that combines client centred empathy and acceptance with behavioural problem-solving, social skills training, and limit setting |
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schema therapy |
A form of cognitive therapy developed by Young. It focusses on identifying and modifying specific cognitive schemas believed to be at the root of personality disfunction |
