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13 Cards in this Set
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psychological disorder
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deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thourghts, feelings and actions
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medical model
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the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and, in most cases, cured often through treatment in a hospital.
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dsm-iv-tr
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the american psychiatric associations diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disprders, fourth edition, updated as a 2000 text revision a widely used system for classifying disorders
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anxiety disorders
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PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS CHARACTERIZED BY SDISTRESSING, PERSISTENT ANXIETY or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
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generalized anziety disorder
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an anziety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousel
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panic disorder
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an anziety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accomaniying chest pain, choking, or other frigthening sensations
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phobia
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an anzxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity or situation
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ocd
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an anziety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions
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ptsd
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an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jump anziety and or insomnia that lingers four four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
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post traumatic growth
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positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises
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somatoform disorder
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psych disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic or bodily form without apparent physical cause
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conversion disorder
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a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no phsych basis can be found.
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hypochondriasis
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