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insanity
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a legal term, a way a lawyer try to help his client spend his life in an institution. . Were the person aware of what they were doing wrong.
-legal term only; rest primarily on whether a person is aware of the consequence of his or her actions and can control his or her behavior. |
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mental disorder
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chemical imbalance and what society sees as norms. Any behavior or emotion state that cause great worry, self defeating, and break down.
-any behavior or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering is self destructive seriously impairs the persons ability to work or get along with others or endangers other or the community |
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diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM)
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bible for psychologist or psychiatrist
-american psychiatric association published this; its primary aim is descriptive; to provide clear diagnostic catergorioes, so that clinicians and researchers can agree on which disorders they are talking about and then can study and treat these disorders |
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projective test
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psychological test used to infer a person motive, conflict and unconscious dynamics on the basis of the persons interpretations on the ambiguous
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Rorschach Inkblot test
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device by the Swiss psychiatrist Herman Rorschach in 1921; it consist of ten cards with symmetrical abstract pattern, originally form by spilling ink on the paper and folding the paper in half.
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Objective test (inventories)
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standardized objective questionnares requiring written responses; they typically include scales on which people are asked to rate themselves.
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)
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organized into into ten catergoies cover such problem as depression, paranoia, schizophrenia, and introversion
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generalized anxiety disorder
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-involve emotional, behavioral, cognitive and physical changes severe enough to disrupt a person's ordinary functioning and lasting at least two weeks |
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posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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tramatic experience and suffer with this later
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panic disorders
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sudden attack, could be anxious
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phobia
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an exaggerated unrealistic fear of a specific situation, activity, or object
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social phobia
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don’t want to put in situation to get judged by other people
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agoraphobia
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a set of phobias , often set off by a panic attack, involving the basic fear of being away from a safe place or person
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OCD
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an anxiety disorder in which a person feels trapped in repetitive, ritualized behaviors (compulsions) designed to reduced anxiety.
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major depression
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more severe than someone sad over life issues.
- what separates that from an every day= hopelessness. -low levels of norempinephrine or low seritonin levels -a mood disoreder involving disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness), bhavior (loss of interest in ones usual activities), cognition (thoughts of happiness), and body function (fatigue and loss of appetite) |
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mania
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high state of exhilaration (excessive homroone)
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bipolar disorder
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a mood disorder in which episodes of both depression and mania (excessive euphoria) occur.
-cycle between depressed state than manic state. |
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paranoid personality disorder
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cause inability to deal with people, mistrust
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Narcissitic personality disorder
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self oppsessed
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Antisocial personality disorder
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-occurs in 3% of males and less in females and accounts for half of crime
-a personality disorder characterized by a lifelong pattern of irresponsible antisocial behavior such as lawbreaking, violence, and other impulsive reckless acts; likely to be combined with psychopathy in the in the DSM-V. |
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substance abuse
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maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress
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biological model of addiction
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have no control so total ebstension from issue: AA
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learning model of addiction
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learn how to use the substance, not a disease.
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dissociative identity disorder (Multiple personality disorder, MPD)
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a controversial disorder marked by the apparent appearance within one person of of two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits; formerly known as MPD.
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schizophrenia
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seeing things that aren’t there, auditory hallucination inability to function in most parts of life. Losing traits they had before 88 % DON’T get it.
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