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Psychological disorder

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Psychological dysfunction associated with the stress or impairment and functioning that is not a typical or culturally expected response.

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Phobia psychological disorder

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Characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation

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Abnormal behavior

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Actions that are unexpected and often evaluated negatively because they differ from typical or usual Behavior

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Psychopathology

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Scientific study of psychological disorders

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Scientist practitioner

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Mental health professional expected to apply scientific methods to his or her work. A scientist practitioner must know the latest research on diagnosis and treatment, must evaluate his or her methods for Effectiveness, and may generate research to discover information about disorders and their treatment

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Presenting problem

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Original complaint reported by the client to the therapist. The actual treated problem maybe modification derived from the presenting problem.

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Clinical description

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Details of the combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of an individual that make up particular disorder

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Prevalence

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Number of people displaying a disorder in total population at any given time (compare with incidence)

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Incidence

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Number of new cases of disorder appearing during Pacific. (Compare with prevalence)

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Course

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Pattern of development and change of disorder over time

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Prognosis

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Predicted development of disorder over time

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Etiology

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Cause or source of disorder

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Exorcism

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Religious ritual that attributes disordered Behavior to possession by demons and seeks to treat the individual by driving the demons from the body

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Psychological treatment

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Treatment practices that focus on social and cultural factors. Such as family experience, as well as psychological influences. These approaches include cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal methods

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Moral therapy

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Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involve treating patients as normally as possible and normal environments

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Mental hygiene movement

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Mid 19th century effort to improve care of the mentally disordered by informing the public of their mistreatment

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Psychoanalysis

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Assessment and therapy pioneered by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes exploration of an insight into unconsciousness process and conflicts

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Behaviorism

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Explanation of human behavior, including dysfunction, based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from experimental psychology

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Unconscious

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Part of the psyche makeup that is outside the awareness of the person

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Catharsis

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Rapid or sudden release of emotion tension thought to be an important factor in psychoanalytic therapy

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Psychoanalytic model

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Complex and comprehensive Theory originally Advanced by Sigmund Freud that seeks to account for the development and structure of Personality, as well as the origin of abnormal behavior, based primarily on inferred inner entities enforces

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I d in psychoanalysis

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The unconscious psychic energy present at birth representing basic drives

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Ego in psychoanalysis

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The psychic energy responsible for finding realistic and practical ways to satisfied ID drives

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Superego in psychoanalysis

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The Sai Kennedy representing the internalized moral standards of parents and Society

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Intrapsychic conflicts

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In psychoanalytic theory, a struggle among the id, ego, and super-ego

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Trephination

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Drill into the skull

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Hippocrates

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Abnormality - disease arising from internal physical problems. (Mental problems)

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Johann Weyer

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Founder of psychopathology. German doctor believed the mind could be sick like the body.

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The reform movement & moral therapy

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Emphasized humane & respectful treatment.

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The somatogenic perspective

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Physical causes

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The pathogenic perspective

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Psychogical causes

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4 D's

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Dangerous - Distress - Dysfunction - Deviance

These help to diagnose patients.

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Treatment used to change abnormal behavior into normal behavior.

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Lack of agreement about goal.

About successful outcomes

About failure

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Current Models of Abnormality

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Perspectives - model or paradigms

Biological - Psychodynamic - Behavioral - Cognitive - Humanistic / Existential - Sociocultural

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3 types of biological treatments

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Drug therapy - Electroconvulsive therapy - Psychosurgery

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Drug Therapy

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Anxiolytics (anti-anxiety

Xanax, valium

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Antidepressant

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Prozac

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Antibipolar

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Mood stabilizers - Lithium

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Antipsychotic

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Risperidone

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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Shock treatment

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Psychosurgery

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Surgery on brain.

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Psychodynamic

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Sigmund Freud - you change bc of past experiences that happened to you

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Id - Ego - Superego

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Id- devil

Ego - head

Superego- angel

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Repression

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Ignore painful or dangerous thought becomes conscious.

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Denial

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Erased memory from brain. Like it never happened.

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Projection

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Take out frustration onto someone else.

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Reaction formation

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Given the situation you will act opposite of your norm.

Ex- laughing while lying