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Masked depression

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underlying depression in children in middle childhood that is masked by a wide variety of deviant but nondepressive behaviors

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Adjustment disorder

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deviant behavior that is a reaction to a specific event or events, such as parental death or divorce

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Dysthymic disorder

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characterized either by a depressed mood or by irritability in children, along with at least two other specific symptoms of depression; the disturbance persists for at least a year

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Cognitive triad

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in Beck's cognitive theory of depression, attributions about the self involving worthlessness, helplessness, and hopelessnesss

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Self-efficacy

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an individual's estimation of the likelihood of achieving a given outcome

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Causal attribution

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beliefs concerning whether events are the result of factors within the self are likely to persist or are pervasive across situations

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Anaclitic depression

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the infant's reaction of despair following the loss of a loved and needed caregiver

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Bipolar disorder

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a severe form of psychopathology characterized by depression alternating with states of euphoria or over activity

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Conduct disorder

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behaviors in which children act out their feelings or impulses toward others in an anticsocial or destructive fashion

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Psychopaths

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a psychopathology marked by callousness, egocentricity, shallow emotions, superficial charm, manipulativeness, impulsiveness, and an absence of meaningful relations

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Coercion

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in parent-child interactions, use of negative reinforcement to influence the other's behavior, the child who ceases to tantrum once the parents capitulate to his or her demands

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Personality disorders

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deeply ingrained, maladaptive behaviors that, while more pervasive than the anxiety disorders, still do not significantly diminish the individual's reality contact

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Object constancy

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in object relations theory, the ability to integrate both positive and negative feelings into a single representation of the self or other

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Projection

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a mechanism of defense in which anxiety provoking impulses are denied in oneself and attributed to others

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Projective techniques

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personality assessment methods using ambiguous or unstructured stimuli

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Identity

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in Erik Erikson's theory, the search for inner continuity and interpersonal mutuality that begins in adolescence and is evidenced by a vocational choice

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Anorexia nervosa

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a voluntary restriction of food and/or an involvement in purging in an active pursuit of thinness that results in at least a 15 percent loss of body weight; restricting type relies solely on strict dieting to lose weight; binge-eating/purging alternates between dieting and binge eating, followed by self induced vomiting or purging

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Bulimia nervosa

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an eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by attempts to prevent weight gain either through self induced vomiting or misuse of laxative sin the purging type or through fasting or excessive exercise in the nonpurging type

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Substance dependence

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a pattern of continual use of a substance despite significant substance related problems, resulting in symptoms such as tolerance, withdrawal, and a lifestyle consumed with activities revolving around substance use

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Maltreatment

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behavior that is outside the norms of conduct and entrails a substantial risk of causing physical or deviant but nondepressive behaviors

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Neglect

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deficiencies in provision of caregiving that compromise the child's physical and/or psychological health

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Sexual abuse

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involving children in incest, sexual assault, fondling, and exposure to sexual acts, and pornography

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Pedophilia

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a state of being sexually aroused by children