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Differences between major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder |
Dysthymic - less severe than the other - not actually experiencing a major depressive episode, but can last longer 2 months - up to 2 years |
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Symptoms of major depressive disorder |
Fatigue Worthlessness Indecisivness |
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Euphoric mood |
Feeling of intense excitement and happiness (bipolar disorder) |
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Bipolar disorder and how it relates to a manic episode |
Bipolar = manic episode Bipolar 2 = hypermanic episode |
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Symptoms of manic and hypomanic episodes |
decreased need for sleep inflated self esteem distractability abnormally and persistently elevated/ irritable mood |
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Differences between bipolar disorder and cyclothymic disorder |
Cyclothymic - less severe than bipolar, but lasts longer |
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Neurotransmitter involved with major depressive disorder |
Serotonin |
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Bipolar disorder exhibits what? |
The strongest pattern of genetic inheritance |
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Interpersonal and social rhythm therapy |
Bipolar disorder Interpersonal therapy (IPT) time limited form of therapy based on the assumption that interpersonal stress induces on an episode of depression Rhythm therapy proposes that relapses can result from experiences of stressful life event, disturbances in circadian rhythm, and realtionships; used to treat bipolar disorder |
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Difference between behaviorally oriented therapy and CBT |
CBT = Rehabilitating mentally, reconstructing thoughts THOUGHTS Behaviorally oriented therapy = looking at behaviors (pavlov, skinner) BEHAVIOR |
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Psychodynamic orientation and how it explains manic episodes |
(Freud) focused on unconscious. Unconscious defense to guard against episode |
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Fluoxetine |
An example of a selective serotonin re uptake inhibitor (SSRI) |
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Differences between cross-dressing and transgenderism |
Cross-dressing: identifies with their biological gender Transgenderism: identifies with opposite gender |
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Specifiers for conduct disorder |
Childhood and adolescent are separate onsets |
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Pyromania |
An obsessive desire to set fire to things |
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Generalized anxiety disorder |
Excessive fear about a variety of things (work, school, relationships) |
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Body image and eating disorders |
People with eating disorders typically have distorted body perceptions |
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Fictitious disorder by proxy |
Fictitious disorder = consciously produces their own symptoms (for attention) Proxy = they induce symptoms onto another person |
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Emotion-Focused coping |
In emotion focused coping and individual changes something about the situation that is stressful? (False) Not changing the situation, but changing the emotions related to it |
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Do people with PTSD recover right away from treatment? or do they seek follow up treatment typically? |
They generally do not recover quickly and they typically have to get follow up treatment |
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Trichotillomania |
Hair pulling disorder |
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Effectiveness of antidepressants for treating trichotillomania, what can be more effective? |
Behavioral and cogitative methods (habit reversal training) can be more effective than antidepressants |
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Treatment of PTSD -- would techniques such as imaginal flooding be effective to treat PTSD? |
False -- No |
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According to the sociocultural perspective |
Individuals develop depressive disorders in response to stressful life circumstances |
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Anxiety disorders are the... |
Most prevalent form of psychological disorder (except substance abuse disorder) |
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Separation anxiety disorder |
A childhood disorder characterized by intense and inappropriate anxiety, lasting at least 4 weeks, concerning separation from home or caregivers |
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Selective mutism |
A disorder originating in childhood in which the individual consciously refuses to talk |
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Phobia |
Irrational fear associated with a particular object or situation |
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CBT views the causes of phobias to be based on... |
The individual's faulty inferences and overgeneralizations |
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Systematic desensitization as it relates to phobias |
By gradually exposing the individual to the feared simulus |
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Flashback |
A flashback occurs when a person is awake and intense feeling and visual memory of a traumatic event occurs |
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Difference between acute stress disorder and PTSD |
Acute stress disorder is only in an isolated window within a month, while PTSD is for longer than a moth |
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Symptoms of OCD |
A reoccurrence of repetitive compulsions that the individual has urges to preform (counting, handwashing) Intrusive thoughts and Images |
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What has been proven to be the most effective in the treatment of OCD? |
CBT |
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Habit reversal training to treat trichotillomania |
Such as wearing gloves or sitting on hands |
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Social anxiety disorder (social phobia) |
The intense fear of social situation where the individual can be scrutinized |
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Symptoms of agoraphobia |
Intense anxiety about being trapped or stranded in a situation without help if a panic attack occurs -- avoids public places |
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Somatic symptom disorder |
Physical symptoms that may or may not be accountable with medical conditions (true) |
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Dissociative identity disorder |
Previously known as multiple personality disorder, when a person dissociates from their own identity |
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Depersonalization disorder |
When people feel detached from their own body, not experiencing real life |
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Symptoms of conversion disorder |
Conversion disorder is when an individual's physical body is connected with an inner turmoil that is presented by physical symptoms They have an nonexistent physical ailment |
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Manlingering |
The fabrication of physical or psychological symptoms for some ulterior motive |
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Fetishistic disorder |
Sexual arousal by an inanimate object (can use body part or object) Partialism is where arousal is derived from a certain body part |
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Define voyeur from voyeurism |
Voyeur is where a person derives sexual pleasure from looking at unknowing people having sex or undressing |
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Exhibitionistic |
A person who derives sexual pleasure by exposing themselves to people who do not expect it |
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Treatment methods developed by Masters and Johnson are designed to... |
Reduce the client's anxiety over sexual preformance |
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Sensat focus |
Partners focus on stimulating one another in non-sexual ways |
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Gender identity is... |
An individual's self-perception as a male or female |
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Gender dysphoria |
Distress associated with feeling that a person belongs to the wrong gender |
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Paraphilias |
Behaviors in which an individual has recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors involving (1) nonhuman objects, (2) children or other non-consenting persons, (3) suffering or humiliation of self or partner, not culturally appropriate |
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Encropresis |
Happens in children where they have bowl movements in inappropriate places (not the toilet) |
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Oppositional defiant disorder |
A child argues a lot with parents and authority figures and often gets in fights with other children, child deliberately disobeys authority |
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Impulse-control disorders |
Psychological disorders where people repeatedly engage in potentially harmful behaviors |
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Unlike shoplifters or thieves, people with kleptomania... |
Don't actually with to have the objects they steal |
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People with intermittent explosive disorder feel... |
Justified for their anger during the outburst |
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Bulimia nervosa |
Alternations between extremes of eating large amounts of food in a short time, and then compensating for the added calories either by vomiting or other extreme actions to avoid gaining weight |
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Anorexia nervosa |
An inability to maintain normal weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and distorted body perception, restricting food |
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People with factitious disorder consciously... |
Produce their symptoms |
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Stressor |
A major event that has the ability to disrupt the course of an individual's life |
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The limbic system |
Mediates a person's responses to stress |
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Type A behavior pattern or personality |
High stung Intense Irritable Often doesn't take breaks Hard worker Increases risk factors for heart disease |
