Chapter 15

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Psychopathology

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Patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving that are maladaptive, disruptive, or uncomfortable for those who are affected or for those with whom the come in contact

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Impaired Functioning

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Difficulty in fulfilling appropriate and expected family, social, and work-related roles.

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Biopsychosocial model

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A view of mental disorders as caused by a combination of interacting biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors

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Neurobiological Model

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A modern name for the medical model, in which psychological disorders are seen as reflecting disturbances in the anatomy and chemistry of The brain and in other biological processes

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Psychological model

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a view in which mental disorder is seen as arising from psychological processes

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Sociocultural Model

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A way of looking at mental disorders in relation to gender, age, ethnicity and other social and cultural factors.

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Diathesis-stress approach

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Viewing psychological disorders as arising when a predisposition for a disorder combines with sufficient amounts of stress to trigger symptoms

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Anxiety Disorder

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A condition in which intense feelings of apprehension are long-standing and disruptive

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Phobia

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An anxiety disorder involving strong, irrational fear of an object or situation that does not objectively justify such a reaction

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Specific phobia

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An anxiety disorder involving fear and avoidance of heights, animals, and other specific stimuli and situations

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Social Phobia

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An anxiety disorder involving strong, irrational fears relating to social situations

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Agoraphobia

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An anxiety disorder involving strong fear of being alone or away from the security of home

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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a condition that involves relatively mild but long-lasting anxiety that is not focused on any particular object or situation

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Panic Disorder

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An anxiety disorder involving sudden panic attacks

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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An anxiety disorder involving repetitive thoughts and urges to perform certain rituals

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Somatoform disorders

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Psychological problems in which there are symptoms of a physical disorder without a physical cause

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Conversion disorder

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A somatoform disorder in which a person displays blindness, deafness, or other symptoms of sensory or motor failure without a physical cause

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Hypochondriasis

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A somatoform disorder involving strong, unjustified fear of having physical illness

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Somatization disorder

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a somatoform disorder in which there are numerous physical complaints without verifiable physical illness

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Pain Disorder

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A somatoform disorder marked by complains of severe pain with no physical cause

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Dissociative disorders

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Rare conditions that involve sudden and usually temporary disruption in a person's memory, consciousness, or identity

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Dissociative fugue

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A dissociative disorder involving sudden loss of memory and the assumption of a new identity in a new locale

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Dissociative amnesia

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A dissociative disorder marked by a sudden loss of memory

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Dissociative identity disorder DID

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A dissociative disorder in which a person reports having more than one identity

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Mood disorder

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Conditions in which a person experiences extreme moods, such as depression or mania

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Major depressive disorder

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A mood disorder in which a person feels sad and hopeless for weeks or months

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Delusions

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False beliefs, such as those experienced by people suffering from schizophrenia or extreme depression

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Dysthymic Disorder

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A mood disorder involving a pattern of comparatively mild depression that lasts for at least two years

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Mania

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An elated, very active emotional state

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Bipolar I disorder

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A mood disorder in which a person alternates between deep depression and mania

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positive symptoms

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schizophrenic symptoms such as disorganized thoughts, hallucinations, and delusions

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Negative Symptoms

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Schizophrenic symptoms such as absence of pleasure, lack of speech, and flat affect

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Vulnerability Theory

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Vulnerability to schizophrenia is mainly biological, different people have differing degrees of vulnerability, influences in part by genetics and in part by neurodevelopmental abnormalities associated with environmental risk and psychological components

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Personality Disorders

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Long-standing, inflexible ways of behaving that create a variety of problems

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antisocial personality disorder

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A personality disorder involving impulsive, selfish, unscrupulous, even criminal behavior.

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Addiction

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Development of a physical need for a psychoactive drug

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Alcoholism

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A pattern of drinking that may lead to addiction and almost always causes severe social, physical, and other problems