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What is the scientific study of mental disorders and their treatments?
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Abnormal Psychology
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The behaviors that are maladaptive for life functioning and/or cause serious personal distress and/or are harmful to others
Ex: Schizophrenia, depression, substance abuse |
Mental/Psychological Disorders
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Behavior disorders that are a funtcion of unconcious internal conflicts
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Psychoanalytic Disorders
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Behaviors caused (at least partially) by a biochemical or psychological bases
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Biological Disorder
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People who are biologically predisposed to a disorder will tend to exhibit that disorder when affected by stress
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Vulnerability stress model
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The classification of 300 mental disorders but doesnt say how they are caused or cured
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the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(DSM-IV)
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the DSM-IV is broken into two axis's what are they?
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Axis 1 --> Major mental disorders
Axis 2 --> Personality Disorders |
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The state in which you have lost contact with reality. (More severe than Neurotic)
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Psychotic
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Characterized by anxiety and being prone to be emotionally upset
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Neurotic
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having a split mind (NOT mulitple personalities) between mental processes and reality. Any of a group of psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations, and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional, behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia is associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and may have an underlying genetic cause.
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Schizophrenia
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