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society's perspectives for standards on psychological disorders
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-an orderly world in which people assume responsibility for their assigned social roles-conform to prevailing moves
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individual's standards for prespectives on psychological disorders
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happiness, gratification of needs
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mental health prof's standards for perspectives on psychological disorders
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-personality structure
- growth and development, autonomy, enviromental mastery, stress cope, and adaptation |
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the view that psychological disorders have a biochemical or physiological basis
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the biological model
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the view that psychological disorders result from unconscious internal conflicts
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the psychoanalytic model
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the view that psychological disorders result from learning maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving
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the cognitive-behavioral model
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the view that people that biologically predisposed to a mental disorder (those with a certain diathesis) will tend to exhibit that disorder when particularly affected by stress
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the diathesis-stress modela nd systems theory
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disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state
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mood disorders
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causes of mood disorders are...
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-biological factors
-psychological factors -social factors |
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the indiv. arrives at a sweeping conclusion about himself despite the scarcity or absense of evidence
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arbitrary interference
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the indiv. arrives at a conclusion based on only one of the numerous factors influencing a situation
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selective abstraction
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the indiv. arrives at the sweeping conclusion based on a single sometimes trivial event
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overgeneralization
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the indiv. tends to magnify difficulties and failures while minimizing accomplishments and successes
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a psychological factor of mood disorders: magnification and minimization
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when a condition begins to disrupt your ability to perform everyday tasks, it becomes a..
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disorder
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disorders in which anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior
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anxiety disorders
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an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, inappropriate fears connected with social situation or performances in front of other people
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social phobia
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an anxiety disorder that involves multiple, intense fear of crowds, public places, and other situations that require separation from a source of security such as the home
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agoraphobia
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an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent panic attacks in which the person suddenly experiences intense fear and terror without any reasonable cause
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panic disorder
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an anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts and/or to perform senseless rituals
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obsessive-compulsive disorder
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disorders in which there is real physical illness that is largely caused by psychological factors such as stress and anxiety
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psychosomatic disorders
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a somatoform disorder characterized by recurrent vague somatic complaints without a physical cause
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somatization disorder
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somatofrom disorders in which a dramatic specific disability has no physical cause but instead seems related to psychological problems
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conversion disorders
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a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absense of any organic evidence of such illness
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hypochondriasis
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a somatoform disorder in which a person becomes so preoccupied with her/his imagined ugliness that normal life is impossible
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body dysmorphic disorder
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disorders in which some aspect of the personality seems separated from the rest
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dissociative
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a dissociative disorder that involves flight from home and the assumption of a new identity with amnesia for past idenity and events
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dissociative fugue
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a dissociative disorder in which a person has several distinct personalites that emerge at different times
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dissociative identity disorder
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a dissociative disorder whose essential feature is that the person suddenly feels changed of different in a strange way
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depersonalization
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