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41 Cards in this Set
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Anxiety
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Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune
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Fear
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Emotional response consisting of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life threatening emergencies
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Panic
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Sudden overwhelming fright or terror
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Panic attack
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Abrupt experience of intense fear of discomfort in the absence of danger accompanied by a number of physical symptoms, such as dizziness or heat palpitation
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Behavioral inhibition system (BIS)
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brain circuit in the limbic system that responds to threat signals by inhibiting activity and causing anxiety
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fight/ flight system (FFS)
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Brain circuit in animals that when stimulated causes an immediate alarm and escape response resembling human panic
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generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
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Anxiety disorder characterized by intense, uncontrollable, unfocused , chronic and continuous worry that is distressing and unproductive accompanied by physical symptoms of tenseness irritability and restlessness
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panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA)
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fear and avoidance of situations the person believes might induce a dreaded panic attack
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Agoraphobia
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Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult
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panic disorder without agoraphobia (PD)
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Panic attacks experiences without development of agoraphobia
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Panic control treatment (PCT)
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Cognitive behavioral treatment for panic attacks, involving gradual exposure to feared somatic sensations and modification of perceptions and attitudes about them
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Specific phobia
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unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interferes with daily life functioning
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blood-injury-injection phobia
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unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury or the possibility of an injection. Victims often experience fainting and a drop in blood pressure
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situational phobia
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fear of enclosed places or public transportation
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natural environment phobia
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fear of situations or events in nature, especially height, storms and water
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animal phobia
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unreasonable, enduring fear of animals or insects that usually develops early in life
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separation anxiety disorder
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excessive, enduring fear in some children that harm will come to them or their parents while they are apart
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social phobia
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extreme, eduring, irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations
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post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
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Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows esposure to a severe helpless- or fear inducing threat. The victim reexperiences the trauma, avoids stimuli associated with it and develops a numbing of responsiveness and an increased vigilance and arousal
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Acute stress disorder
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severe reaction immediately following a terrifying event, often including amnesia about the event, emotional numbing and derealization. Many victims later develop post traumatic stress disorder
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
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Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, persistant, intrusive thoughts and impulses as well as repetitive actions intended to suppress them.
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Obsessions
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recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks to suppress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by outside forces.
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compulsions
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Repetitive, ritualistic, time consuming behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform
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alters
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shorthand term for alter ego, the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder
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dissociative identity disorder (DID)
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Formerly known as multiple personality disorder; a disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind
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dissociative trance disorder (DTD)
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Altered state of consciousness in which the person believes firmly that he or she is possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction
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dissociative fugue
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dissociative disorder featuring sudden, unexpected travel from home, along with an inability to recall one's past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity
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localized amnesia
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memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events
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generalized amnesia
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condition in which the person loses memory of all personal information, including his or her own identity
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dissociative amnesia
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Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information, usually of a stressful or traumatic nature
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depersonalization disorder
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dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the client's life and prevent normal functioning
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derealization
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situation in which the individual loses his or her sense of the reality of the external world
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body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
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Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance ("imagined ugliness")
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pain disorder
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Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity or maintenance
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factitious disorder
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nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except possibly sympathy and attention
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malingering
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deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain
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conversion disorder
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physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it
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somatization disorder
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Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long-lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident
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hypoghondriasis
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somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over the belief that one has a disease process without any evident of physical cause
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dissociative disorders
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disorders in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings, and reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate
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somatoform disorders
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pathological concerns of individuals with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition
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