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73 Cards in this Set
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Pathological repetition of the same response to different stimuli
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Perseveration
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Distortion of thought with fixed false believe held despite contradictory evidence
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Delusion
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Limbs are maintained in whatever position they have been placed
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Cerea flexibilitas
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2 opposite impulses to action or thought in the same person at the same time
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Ambivalence
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Persistent recurrent idea that is difficult to eliminate from consciousness, seen in anxiety states
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Obsession
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Eurythmic mood
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Normal mood
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Pathological speech production of vulgar and obscene words
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Coprolalia
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Thought digressions from a central idea but eventually returns to main point during conversation
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Circumstantiality
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Inability to respond to motor commands
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Apraxia
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The illusion of recognizing a new situation as if it had occurred in the past
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Deja vu
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Insatiable sexual need or desire in men
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Satyriasis
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Insatiable sexual need or desire in women
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Nymphomania
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Acute, reversible confusion, some impairment of consciousness w/hallucinations or illusions, and inappropriate, impulsive, or violent behavior
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Delirium
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A perception of visual image or sound with no external source
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Hallucination
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Impairment in intellectual function w/o clouding of consciousness; memory disturbance, impaired judgement, altered mood, disorientation and poor concentration
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dementia
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Eating excrement
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Coprophagia
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Sensation of unreality concerning self and environment when becoming stressed or tired
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Depersonalization
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Person performs acts in full awareness but upon recovery cannot recollect them
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Fugue state
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Speech directed by the sound of a word rather than meaning
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Clang association
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Presence of the same delusional ideas in 2 people closely associated with one another
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Folie a deux
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Lack of concern about disability
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La belle indifference
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Extra-pyramidal motor disturbance with facial grimacing, seen in some patients starting antipsychotic drug therapy
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Dystonia
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Delusional belief that someone is in love with the patient
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Erotomania
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Grinding and gritting teeth
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Bruxism
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Patient makes up words no one else has heard
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Neologisms
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Psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another
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Echolalia
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Exaggerated concern about health that is not based on realistic medical pathology, but on interpretations of physical signs or sensations as abnormal
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Hypochondria
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Inability of patient to describe their own moods and emotions
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Alexithymia
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Emotional instability
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Labile affect
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Sudden, temporary loss of muscle tone causing weakness and immobilization, seen in narcolepsy
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Cataplexy
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Drowsiness, confusion, ataxia manifesting in early evening hours
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Sundowning
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Tendancy to repeat the motor responses of another person
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Echopraxia
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Frequent, mechanical repetition of the same posture, movement, or form of speech
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Stereotypy
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Irresistable, persistent impulse to perform an act, such as kleptomania, pyromania
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Compulsions
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Unconscious filling of memory gaps with imaginary experiences that have no basis in fact
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Confabulation
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Fear of strangers
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Xenophobia
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Fear of open places and leaving the home
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Agoraphobia
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Fear of high places
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Acrophobia
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Fear of small places
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Claustrophobia
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Fear of animals
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Zoophobia
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Deterioration in psychological functioning due to a breakdown of defense mechanisms and productive coping strategies
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Decompensation
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Thoughts, affective responses, ability to communicate and relate to others are grossly impaired
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Psychosis
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Loss of interest and withdrawal from pleasurable activities
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Anhedonia
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Difficulty distinguishing faces
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Prosopagnosia
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Exaggerated indifference to surroundings, not related to organic brain disease, and seen with depression
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Pseudodementia
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Inability to read
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Alexia
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Axis II covers?
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personality disorders
mental retardation |
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Axis III covers?
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medical/physical conditions
injuries infections |
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Axis IV covers?
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psychosocial stressors- lost job, lost home, divorced
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Schizoid Personality Disorder
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prefers to be alone
"lighthouse person" |
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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people find them odd
"hippie" |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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no internal sense of right or wrong
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Histrionic Personality Disorder
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attention seeking, dresses provocatively
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Paranoid Personality Disorder
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hypervigilant but not deluded or psychotic
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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stays in abuse, doesn't leave providers
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Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
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anxiety when things are not right
likes to be in control stubborn frugal with money like detailed schedules |
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Borderline Personality Disorder
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suicidal threats/gestures
self-mutilation |
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Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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sense of entitlement
attention seeking delusions of grandeur "i am beautiful/rich" |
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Cyclothymia
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ups and downs of mood
below level of bipolar |
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Factitious Disorder
aka Munchausen's Syndrome |
person likes to be in the hospital
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Munchausen's by proxy
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parent brings child to hospital for "sickness"
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Malingering
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looking for secondary gain...avoid punishment, get money
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Factitious disorder?
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aka Munchausens
Simulates illness to gain attention from medical personnel |
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Malingering disorder?
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Simulates illness to gain something...avoid prison, get insurance settlement
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Somatization disorder?
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History of:
2 GI symptoms 4 pain symptoms 1 sexual symptom 1 neurological symptom |
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Conversion disorder?
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Paralysis/blindness with stressful event
teens and young adults la belle indifference |
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Avoiding personally unacceptable emotions by behaving in attention getting, socially inappropriate manner
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Acting out
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Depressed 14 yr old girl has no history of conduct disorder, has sexual encounters with multiple partners after her parents' divorce
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Example of:
Acting out |
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Level 1 Defense mechanisms?
(Pathological) 4 |
Delusional Projection
Denial Distortion Splitting |
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Level 2 Defense mechanisms?
(Immature) 7 |
Acting out
Fantasy Idealization Passive aggression Projection Projective identification Somatization |
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Level 3 Defense mechanisms?
(Neurotic) 10 |
Displacement
Dissociation Hypochondriosis Intellectualization Isolation Rationalization Reaction formation Regression Repression Undoing |
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Level 4 Defense mechanisms?
(Mature) 7 |
Altruism
Anticipation Humor Identification Introjection Sublimation Thought suppression |
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Types of delusions?
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Persecutory
Grandious Somatic |
