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abnormal behavior |
patterns of behaviors, thoughts, or emotions considered pathological (diseased/disordered) for one or more of these four reasons: deviance, dysfunction, distress, danger |
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medical model |
the diagnostic perspective which assumes that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and possibly cured |
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psychological disorder parts |
sociocultural, biological, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic, evolutionary, behavioral |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) |
a classification system developed by the American Psychiatric Association that is used to describe abnormal behaviors |
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neurosis |
an outmoded term and category dropped from DSM in which a person does not have signs of brain abnormalities and does not display grossly irrational thinking or violate basic norms, but does experience subjective distress |
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psychosis |
a serious mental disorder characterized by extreme mental disruption and defective or lost contact with reality |
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insanity |
the legal (not clinical) designation for the state of an individual judged to be legally irresponsible or incompetent to manage their own affairs because of mental illness |
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comorbidity |
the co-occurance of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time |
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anxiety disorders |
a group of disorders characterized by fear or anxiety accompanied by physiological arousal and related behavioral disturbances |
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Major Anxiety Disorders |
1) generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) 2) panic disorder 3) phobias- agoraphobia, specific phobias, social phobias |
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learned helplessness |
Seligman's term for a state of helplessness or resignation, in which human or nonhuman animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible; the organism stops responding and may become depresseed |
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hallucination |
a false imaginary sensory perception that occurs without an external, objective source |
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delusion |
a false or irrational belief maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary |
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Types of Schizophrenia |
1) positive schizophrenia- additions to or exaggerations of normal thought processes and behaviors, including bizarre delusions and hallucinations 2) negative schizophrenia- the loss or absence of normal thought processes and behaviors, and appear as impaired attention, limited or toneless speech, flat or blunted affect, and social withdrawal |
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Biological Theories of Schizophrenia |
-Genetics -Neurotransmitters -Brain abnormalities |
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Diathesis-Stress Model |
a hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders such as schizophrenia, which suggests that people inherit their risk for mental disorders if they are exposed to certain extremely stressful life experiences |
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dissociative disorder |
a psychological disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of consciousness, identity, memory, and other features |
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dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
a mental disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality systems in the same individual at different times; previously known as MPD |
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personality disorder |
a mental disorder characterized by chronic inflexible maladaptive traits, which causes significant impairment of social and occupational functioning |
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Cultural-General Symptoms of Mental Health Difficulties |
nervous, trouble sleeping, low spirits, weak all over, personal worries, restless, feel apart/alone, can't get along, hot all over, worry all the time, can't do anything worthwhile, nothing turns out right |
