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Psychological Disorder
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Def: A "harmful dysfunction" in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and justifiable.
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Medical Model
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Def: the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders, the medical model assumes that these "mental" illnesses can be diagnosed on the vbasis of thier syptioms and cured throught therapy, which may include treatment in a psyciatric hospital.
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Bio-psycho-social perspective
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Def: a comtemptorary perspective which assumes that biological, psychological, and sociacultural factors combine and interact to prduce psychological disorders.
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DSM-IV
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Def: the American Psychiatric Associaction's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Ed)," a widely used system for classifying psychyolical disorders. Presently distrivuted in an updated 'text revision'
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Neurotic Disorder |
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Neurotic Disorder
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Def: a psycholical disorder that is usually distressing but that allows one to think rationally and function socially.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Psychotic Disorder |
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Psychotic Disorder
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Def: a psycholigcal disorder in which a person loses contact w/reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted prceptions.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Anxiety Disorder |
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Anxiety Disorders
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Def: psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: Psychotic Disorder |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Def: an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonmic nervous system arousal
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: DSM-IV |
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Panic Disorder
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Def: an anxiety disorder marked by a minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying checst pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
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Phobia
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Def: an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
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Obsessive-Compulsive disorder
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Def: anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and or actions (compulsions).
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Mood Disorder
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Def: psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes: major depressive, manic, episodes, and bipolar.
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Major Depressive Disorder
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Def: a modd disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of wothlessness, and dimisnished interest or pleasure in most activities
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Manic Episode
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Def: a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
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Bipolar Disorder
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Def: a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelssness of lethargy of depression and the overexited state of mania (formerly manic-depressive disorder)
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Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Def: a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. AKA multipple personality disorder.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: DSM-IV |
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Dissociative Disorders
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Def: disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from perevious mems, thoughts, and feelings.
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Schizophrenia
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Def: a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions.
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Delusions
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Def: false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
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Personality Disorder
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Def: psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Def: a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscioence for wrong-doing, even towrad friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: DSM-IV |
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Psychotherapy
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Def: an emotionally charged, confiding interation between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: DSM-IV |
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Eclectic Approach
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Def: an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of theapy.
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Psychoanalysis
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Def: Freud's theory of personality and therepeutic techniques that attribues our thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and the therapist's interpretaions of them-released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patied to gain self-insight.
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Resistance
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Def: in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
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Interpretation
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Def: in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other sig. beahvs in order to promote insight
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Transference
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Def: in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emoitions linked with other relationships (shuch as love or hatred for a patient)
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Client-Centered Therapy
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Def: a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth
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Active Listening
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Def: empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: DSM-IV |
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Behavior Therapy
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Def: therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behabiors.
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Counterconditioning
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Def: a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on class cond. inclued systempatic desensitization and aversive cond.
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Exposure Therapies
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Def: behabior techniques, such as systematic desesitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things tye fear and avoid.
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Systematic Desensitization
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Def: a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleased relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-troiggering stimulie. Commonly used to treat phobias.
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Aversive Conditioning
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Def: a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
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Token Economy
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Def: an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior. A patient exchanges a token of come sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges ro treats.
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Cognitive Therapy
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Def: therapy that teaches people now, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
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Cognitive-behavior Therapy
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Def: a popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self0defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)
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Family Therapy
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Def: therapy that treates the family as a system. Views an indiveiduals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family mems; attempts to guide fam mems towrad pos relationsihps and improved communication.
Ex: Comic Sans is Awesome! RC: DSM-IV |
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Regression Toward the Mean
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Def: the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) towarde their average.
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Meta-Analysis
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Def: a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different reserach studies
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Psychopharmacology
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Def: the study of the effects of drugs on mind and vehavior.
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Lithium
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Def: a chemical that provides an effective drug therapy for the mood swings of bipolar (manic depressive) disorders
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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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Def: a biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
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Psychosurgery
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Def: surgery that removes or detroys brain tissue in an effort ot change behavior
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Lobotomy
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Def: a now0rare psychosurgical procedure once usee to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
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