Chapter 14 - Psychology Of Adjustment

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medical model

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it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease

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Thomas Szasz

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illness only relates to the body. mental illness is a deviation from social norms not a illness.

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Diagnosis

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distinguishing one illness from another

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Etiology

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apparent causation and developmental history of an illness

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prognosis

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is the forecast about the probable course of an illness

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how doctors define abnormal behavior (3)

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1. Deviance
2. maladaptive behavior
3. Personal distress

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Epidemiology

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the study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in the population

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Prevalence

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the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period

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Anxiety Disorders

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a class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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marked by a chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat

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phobic disorder

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marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger.

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panic disorder

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characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly.

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Agoraphobia

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fear of going out to public places

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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marked by persistent uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions

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Neurotransmitters

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chemicals that carry signals from one neuron to another

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Somatoform Disorders

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physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors

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Somatization disorder

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marked by a history of diverse physical complains that appear to be psychological in orgin

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Conversion disorder

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significant loss of physical function with no apparent organic basis usually in a single organ system

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Hypochrondriasis (Hypochondria)

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excessive preoccupation with health concerns and incessant worry about developing physical illness

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Dissociative disorders

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a class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity.

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Dissociative amnesia

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sudden loss of memory for important personal information tha tis too extensive to be due to normal forgetting.

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Dissociative fugue

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people lose their memory for their sense of personal identity (forget name... family... etc)

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Dissociative identity disorder

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coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very different personalities

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mood disorders

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class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes.

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Major depressive disorder

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persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure

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Susan NolenHoeksema

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Women are more depressed than men because they are more likely to be victims of sexual abuse, poverty, harassment, and role constraints.

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Bipolar disorder

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experience of both depressed and manic periods

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concordance rate

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percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder

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schizophrenic disorders

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class of disorders marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual social and emotional processes

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Delusions

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false beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality

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Hallucinations

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sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real external stimulus or that represent gross distortions of perceptual input

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paranoid schizophrenia

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dominated by delusions of persecution along with delusions of grandeur

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity.

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disorganized schizophrenia

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severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen

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undifferentiated schizophrenia

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idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms

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Nancy Andreasen

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Divided schizophrynics into two categories... negative symptoms.... positive symptoms....

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Eating disorders

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severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight and unhealthy efforts to control weight.

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Anorexia nervosa

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intense fear of gaining weight disturbed body image, refusal to maintain normal weight, and dangerous measures to lose weight

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Bulimia Nervosa

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habitually engaging in out of control overeating followed by fasting, laxatives, excessive exercise, or vomiting

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Binge eating disorder

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distress inducting eating binges that are not accompanied by purging fasting and excessive exercise seen in bulimia.