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21 Cards in this Set
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What are psychological disorders?
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-a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms
-impact multiple life areas -can create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms |
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What is the medical model's perspective on psychological disorders?
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-symptoms must be ongoing and a patterns
-deviant, distressful, dysfunctional |
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What is DSM-IV-TR
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-diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
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What is the DSM-IV-TR used for?
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-creates a common language and criteria for diagnosing mental disorders
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What is generalized as an anxiety disorder?
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-distressing and persistent anxiety
-maladaptive behaviors to reduce anxiety -inexplicably and continually tense and uneasy |
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What is a panic disorder?
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-sudden episodes of intense dread
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What is a phobia?
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-persistent fear of an object or situation
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What is OCD?
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-repetitive thoughts or actions
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What is an obsession?
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An inability of a person to stop thinking about a topic, feeling, emotion
-occurs without a high amount of anxiety |
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What is a compulsion?
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-a person is trapped in a pattern of repetitive and senseless thinking
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What characterizes major depressive disorder?
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-episodes of all encompassing low mood
-low self esteem -loss of interest or pleasure in previously enjoyable activities |
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What is the most common psychological disorder?
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-phobias
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What is the most common disorder for which people seek mental health services?
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-Major depressive disorder
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What is bipolar disorder
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a condition where people go back and forth between time of very good and times of very irritable
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multiple personality disorder
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-a disorder in which two or more distinct personalities are present and alternately take control of the individual.
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Schizophrenia
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-characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganization, catatonic behavior
-for a period of at least a month |
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How many people develop schizophrenia
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about 2 million people in the USA
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What are delusions
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-refers to 1 or more nonbizarre delusions of thinking
-being loved, being deceived, being poisoned, |
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positive symptoms
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-an excess or distortion of normal functions
-delusions, hallucinations, thought disorder, disorganized behavior |
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Negative Symptoms
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-a diminished or absence of characteristics of normal function
-can appear with or without positive functions -social withdrawal -lack of motivation -lack of emotion |
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What are the subtypes of schizophrenia
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-paranoid type
-disorganized type -catatonic type -undifferentiated type |
