Ch. 5-7 Abnormal Psychology

Front 1

1. pounding heart, accelerated heartbeat
2. sweating
3. trembling/shaking
4. sensations of shortness of breath
5. feeling of choking
6. chest pain
7. nausea or abdominal distress
8. feeling dizzy/unsteady/faint
9. fear of losing control/going crazy
10. derealization/depersonalization
11. fear of dying
12. parethesias
13. chills or hot flashes

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Panic Attack

Front 2

A. Excessive anxiety about a number of events/activities occurring longer than 6 mos.
B. Finds it difficult to control the anxiety
C. at least 3 of the following:
1. restlessness, on edge
2. being easily fatigued
3. difficulty concentrating/blank mind
4. irritability
5. muscle tension
6. sleep disturbance
D. focus of the anxiety is not confined to Axis I disorder
E. causes clinically sig. distress in social, occupational, or other imp areas
F. disturbance is not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Front 3

Either Obsessions or Compulsions
1. recurrent and persistent thoughts, impulses, or images
2. those are not simply excessive worries about real life problems
3. person attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts or to neutralize them with some other thought or action
4. person recognizes that these thoughts are a product of their own mind
1. repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession
2. behaviors/mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded event - however, they're not connected in a realistic way
B. at some point, the person realizes that the o or c are excessive or unreasonable
C. o or c are time consuming or cause distress/ interfere with day
D. disturbance is not due to the direct effects of a substance

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Front 4

A. preoccupation with fears of having a serious disease based on the person's misinterpretation of bodily symptoms
B. the preoccupation persists despite appropriate medical evaluation
C. the belief in A is not of delusional intensity and is not restricted to a circumscribed concern about appearance
D. causes clinically sig distress in social, occupational, or other imp areas
E. the duration of the disturbance is at least 6 mos.
F. preoccupation is not better accounted for by GAD, OCD, depressive disorder, or another somatoform disorder

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Hypochondriasis

Front 5

A. a history of many physical complaints beginning before the age of 30
B. each of the following criteria must have been met:
1. 4 pain symptoms
2. 2 gastrointestinal symptoms
3. 1 sexual symptom
4. 1 pseudo-neurological symptom
C. Either 1 or 2:
1. after appropriate investigation, each of the symptoms in criterion B can't fully be explained by a known general medical condition or substance
2. when there is a related general medical condition, the physical complaints or resulting social or occupational impairment are in excess of what would be expected from the findings
D. the symptoms are not intentionally produced or faked

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Somatization Disorder

Front 6

A. one or more symptoms affecting voluntary motor or sensory function
B. psychological factors are judged to be associated with the symptom because the initiation of the symptom is preceded by conflicts/stressors
C. the symptom is not intentionally produced/faked
D. the symptom cannot be fully explained by a general medical condition or substance
E. the symptom causes clinically sig distress in social, occupational, or other imp areas
F. the symptom is not limited to pain or sexual dysfunction

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Conversion Disorder

Front 7

A. intentional production of physical signs
B. the motivation for the behavior is to assume the sick role
C. external incentives for the behavior - economic gain, avoiding legal responsibility, etc

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Factitious Disorder

Front 8

A. pain in one or more site that is serious enough to warrant clinical attention
B. the pain causes clinically sig distress in social, occupational, or other imp areas
C. psychological factors are judged to have an important role in the onset/severity
D. the symptom is not intentionally produced/faked
E. the pain is not better accounted for by another disorder

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Pain Disorder

Front 9

A. preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance. If slight physical anomaly is present, the person's concern in markedly excessive
B. the preoccupation causes significant distress in social, occupational, or other imp areas
C. the preoccupation is not better accounted for by another disorder

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Body Dysmophic Disorder

Front 10

A. the predominant disturbance is sudden, with inability to recall one's past
B. confusion about personal identity or assumption of new identity
C. the disturbance does not occur exclusively during the course of dissociative identity disorder and is not due to effects of a substance
D. the symptoms cause clinically sig impairment in social, occupational, or other imp areas

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Dissociative Fugue

Front 11

A. Either 1 or 2:
1. Trance associated with at least 1 of the following:
* narrowing of awareness of immediate surroundings, selective focusing
* stereotyped behaviors or movements experienced as being beyond one's control
2. possession trance - this is attributed to the influence of a spirit, power, deity, or other person as evidenced by 1 or more of:
* stereotyped and culturally determined behaviors or movements experienced as being controlled by the possessing agent
* full or partial amnesia for the event
B. the trance or possession trance state is not accepted as a normal part of a collective cultural or religious practice
C. causes clinically sig distress in social, occupational, or other imp areas
D. trance does not occur exclusively during the course of a psychotic disorder

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Dissociative Trance Disorder

Front 12

A. the presence of 2 or more distinct identities or personality states
B. at least 2 of these identities recurrently take control of the person's behavior
C. inability to recall important personal information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness
D. the disturbance is not due to the direct effects of a substance or medical condition

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Dissociative Identity Disorder