Behavior Disorders Test 2

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by a failure to conform to social and legal codes, by a lack of anxiety and guilt, and by irresponsible behaviors.

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by a fear of rejection and humiliation and a reluctance to enter into social relationships.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by intense fluctuations in mood, self-image, and interpersonal relationships.

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by reliance on others and an unwillingness to assume responsibility.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by self-dramatization, the exaggerated expression of emotions, and attention-seeking behaviors.

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Impulse Control Disorder

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A disorder in which the person fails to resist an impulse or temptation to perform some act that is harmful to the person or others; the person feels tension before the act and release after it.

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Intermittent Explosive Disorder

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Impulse control disorder characterized by separate and discrete episodes of loss of control over aggressive impulses, resulting in serious assaults on others or destruction of property.

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Kleptomania

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An impulse control disorder characterized by a recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects.

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, an exploitative attitude, and a lack of empathy.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by perfectionism, a tendency to be inter-personally controlling, devotion to details, and rigidity.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by unwarranted suspiciousness, hypersensitivity, and a reluctance to confide in others.

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Pathological Gambling

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An impulse control disorder characterized in which the essential feature is a chronic and progressive failure to resist impulses to gamble.

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Personality Disorder

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A disorder characterized by inflexible and maladaptive personality traits that cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress for the individual.

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Pyromania

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An impulse control disorder having its main feature deliberate and purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion.

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by social isolation, emotional coldness, and indifference to others.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder characterized by peculiar thoughts and behaviors and by poor interpersonal relationships.

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Trichotillomania

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An impulse control disorder characterized by an inability to resist impulses to pull out one's own hair.

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Asthma

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A chronic inflammatory disease of the airways in the lungs, in which the airways become constricted, making it difficult to empty the lungs therefore reducing the amount of air that can inhaled.

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Behavioral Medicine

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A number of disciplines that study social, psychological, and lifestyle influences on health.

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Biofeedback Training

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A therapeutic technique in which the person is taught to voluntarily control a particular physiological function, such as heart rate or blood pressure.

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Cluster Headache

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Excruciating headache that produces stabbing or burning sensations in an eye or cheek.

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Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

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A narrowing of the arteries in or near the heart, resulting in the restriction or partial blockage of the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart.

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Essential Hypertension

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Chronic high blood pressure, usually with no known biological cause; the most common disease in the United States.

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

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A three-stage model for understanding the body's physical and psychological reactions to biological stressors.

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Hardiness

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A concept developed by Kobasa and Maddi that refers to a person's ability to deal well with stress.

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Life-Change Model

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An explanation of stress that assumes that all changes in a person's life - large or small, desirable or undesirable - can act as stressors and that the accumulation of small changes can be as powerful as one major stressor.

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Migraine Headache

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Severe headache characterized by constriction of cranial arteries, followed by dilation of the cerebral blood vessels, resulting in moderate to severe pain.

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Psychophysiological Disorder

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Any physical disorder that has a strong psychological basis or component.

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Relaxation Training

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A therapeutic technique in which the person acquires the ability to relax the muscles of the body in almost any circumstances.

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Stress

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An internal response to a stressor.

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Stressor

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An external event or situation that places a physiological or psychological demand on a person.

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Sudden Death Syndrome

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Unexpected abrupt death that seems to have no specific physical basis.

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Tension Headache

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A headache thought to be produced by prolonged contraction of the scalp and neck muscles, resulting in vascular constriction.

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Transaction Model of Stress

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Explanation of stress that states that stress resides neither in the person alone nor in the situation alone, but rather between the two.

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)

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A somatoform disorder that involves preoccupation with an imagined physical defect in a normal-appearing person, or an excessive concern with a slight physical defect.

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Continuous Amnesia

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An inability to recall any events that have occurred between a specific time in the past and the present time; the least common form of psychogenic amnesia.

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Conversion Disorder

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A somatoform disorder in which there are complaints of physical problems or impairments of sensory or motor functions controlled by the voluntary nervous system, all suggesting a neurological disorder but with no underlying cause.

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Depersonalization Disorder

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A dissociative disorder in which feelings of unreality concerning the self or the environment cause major impairment in social or occupational functioning.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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A dissociative disorder characterized by the partial or total loss of important personal information, sometimes occurring suddenly after a stressful traumatic event.

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Dissociative Disorder

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Mental disorder in which a person's identity, memory, or consciousness is altered or disrupted; includes dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder (multiple-personality disorder), and depersonalization disorder.

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Dissociative Fugue

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Confusion over personal identity accompanied by unexpected travel away from home, also called fugue state.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

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A dissociative disorder in which two or more relatively independent personalities appear to exist in one person; formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

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Factitious Disorder

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Disorder in which symptoms of physical or mental illness are deliberately induced or simulated with no apparent incentive.

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Generalized Amnesia

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An inability to remember anything about one's past life.

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Hypochondriasis

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A somatoform disorder characterized by persistent preoccupation with one's health and physical condition, even in the face of physical evaluations that reveal no organic problems.

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Localized Amnesia

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The most common type of amnesia; and inability to recall all the events that happened during a specific period, often centered on some highly painful or disturbing event.

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Malingering

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Faking a disorder to achieve some goal, such as an insurance settlement.

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Pain Disorder

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A somatoform disorder characterized by reports of severe pain that has no physiological or neurological basis, is greatly in excess of that expected with an existing condition, or lingers long after a physical injury has healed.

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Posthypnotic Amnesia

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An inability to recall events that occurred during hypnosis.

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Selective Amnesia

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An inability to remember certain details of an incident.

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Somatization Disorder

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A somatoform disorder in which the person chronically complains of a number of bodily symptoms that have no physiological basis; complaints include at least four symptoms in different sites, two gastrointestinal symptoms, one sexual symptom, and one pseudoneurologic symptom.

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Somatoform Disorder

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Mental disorder that involves physical symptoms or complaints that have no physiological basis; include somatization disorder, conversion disorder, pain disorder, hypochondriasis, and body dysmorphic disorder.

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Systemized Amnesia

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The loss of memory for only selected types of information, such as all member's of one's family.

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Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder

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At least one physical complaint with no physical basis that has lasted for six months or more.

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Acute Stress Disorder (ASD)

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Exposure to a traumatic stressor that results in dissociation, reliving the experience, and attempts to avoid reminders of the events and that lasts for more than two days and less than thirty days.

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Agoraphobia

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An intense fear of being in public places where escape or help may not be readily available; in extreme cases, a fear of leaving one's home.

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Anxiety

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Feelings of fear and apprehension.

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Anxiety Disorder

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A disorder that meets of three criteria: the anxiety itself is the major disturbance; the anxiety is manifested only in particular situations; or the anxiety results from an attempt to master other symptoms.

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Compulsion

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The need to perform acts or to dwell on thoughts to reduce anxiety.

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Exposure Therapy

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A therapy technique in which the patient is introduced to encounters (can be gradual or rapid) with the feared situation.

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Flooding

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A behavioral treatment that attempts to extinguish fear by placing the client in continued in vivo or imagined anxiety-provoking situations; a form of exposure therapy.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

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Disorder characterized by persistent high levels of anxiety and excessive worry over many life circumstances.

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Modeling Therapy

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A therapeutic approach to phobias in which the person with the phobia observes a model in the act of coping with, or responding appropriately in, the fear producing situation.

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Obsession

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An intrusive and repetitive though or image that produces anxiety.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Disorder characterized by intrusive and repetitive thoughts or images, or by the need to perform acts or dwell on thoughts to reduce anxiety.

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Panic Disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by severe and frightening episodes of apprehension and feelings of impending doom.

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Phobia

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A strong, persistent, and unwarranted fear of some specific object or situation.

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

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An anxiety disorder that lasts for more than thirty days; develops in response to a specific extreme stressor; characterized by intrusive memories of the traumatic event, emotional withdrawal, and heightened autonomic arousal.

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Social Phobia

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An intense, excessive fear of being scrutinized in one or more social situations.

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Specific Phobia

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An extreme fear of a specific object or situation; a phobia that is not classified as either agoraphobia or social phobia.

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Systematic Desensitization

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A behavioral therapy technique in which relaxation is used to eliminate the anxiety associated with phobias and other fear-evoking stimuli.