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Psych disorder myths

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Not a sign of weakness

Not incurable

Not usually violent and dangerous

Usually behave like everyone else

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Medical model

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Useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease

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Problems with medical model

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Negative effects of labeling

Pseudoexplinations

Passive patient role

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Diagnosis

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Distinguishing different illnesses

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Prognosis

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Forecast based on diagnosis

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Eitology

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Apparent causation and developmental history of illness

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Prevalence

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Percentage of cases of disorder within a specific population

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Incidence

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Percent of new cases of disorder. Can't be negative

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Deviance

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Behavior that society deems unacceptable

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Maladaptive behavior

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Behavior interferes with everyday functioning

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Personal distress

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Person reports subjective pain and suffering

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Dsm

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Manual of disorders. Disorders must be in dsm for insurance to cover

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Anxiety disorder

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Excessive apprehension

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Chronic high levels of anxiety, non specific threat

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Phobic disorder

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Persistent irrational fear when no actual danger

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Panic disorder

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Recurring panic attacks, sudden and unexpected. Can lead to agoraphobia- fear off unfamiliar situations

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Ocd

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Unwanted thoughts and senseless rituals

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Etiology of anxiety

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Biological - neurotransmitter canned gaba

Environmental - classical conditioning and negative reinforcement

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Stratoform disorders

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Physical ailments with no biological basis and due to psychological factors.

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Malingering

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Falsifying illness for personal gain

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Psychosomatic disorders

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Genuine physical illness caused in part by psychological factors

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Somatic system disorder

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History of diverse physical complaints that are psychological in origin. Specific ex: gastro, neurological

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Insisting on having an illness even though doctors say they are fine

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Conversion disorder

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Significant loss of major physical function with no biological factors

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Etiology of stratoform

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Think healthy means no pain

Sick role

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Dissociative disorders

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When people lose contact with portions of their conscious memory, disrupts sense of identity

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Dissociative amnesia

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Sudden loss of memory of important info. Usually traumatic event or surrounding the event

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Dissociative fugue

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Lose memory of entire life along with identity

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Multiple personality disorder

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Etiology of dissociative

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Stress or traumatic incident

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Mood disorders

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Emotional disturbances that can disrupt processes

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Major depressive disorder

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Ppl show persistent feelings of sadness or dispair. Loss of interest. Change in sleeping patterns. Lack of energy

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Persistent depressive disorder

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Must be not as happy as average person on average for two years

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Bipolar depression

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Manic and depressed episodes

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Mania

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Abnormally happy mental state

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Cyclothymia

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Mild bipolar disorder, last two years

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Etiology of mood

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Genetic

Neurological - serotonin

Thought processes self deprecating

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Schizophrenic disorders

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Disillusion, hallucinations, disorganized speech, deterioration of behavior

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Delusions

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False beliefs out of touch with reality

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Hallucinations

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Sensory perceptions without outside stimulus

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Positive symptoms

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Delusions, hallucinations

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Negative symptoms

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Behavioral defects or absences

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Etiology of schizophrenic

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Genetic

Brain structurally different

Prenatal development problems