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Definitions of Abnormality
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1.Harmful behavior to self or others
2.Out of contact with reality 3.Inappropriate emotional reactions 4.erratic and unpredictable behavior |
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Insanity
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A legal term that allows people to be acquitted of crimes caused by mental diability
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DSM-IV-TR
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The current version of the Diagnostic and Statical Manual of Mental Disorders
*considered diseases of the mind |
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Personality disorders
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personality traits that cause significant distress or trouble
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generalized anxiety disorders
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A continuous state of high anxiety without any real external treatment
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Panic Disorder
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An axiety diorder characterized by frequent panic attacks
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Phobic disorder
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An irrational fear of a specific object, activity or situation
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Agoraphobia
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An intense fear of being away from away from a safe place such as the person's home
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Social Phobia
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An intense irrational fear of being embarrassed, critized or laughed at in social situations
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
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An anxiety disorder characterized by obsessions and compulsions
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Obsissions/Compulsion
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*A disturbing repetitive thought that person can't keep from thinking about
*A disturbing Act or ritual that the person can't help repeating |
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Somatization Disorder
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person complains of many medical problems that have no physiologial basis
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Conversion Disorder
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Psychologial problems are "converted" into a physical symptom
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Somatoform disorders
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person has a long history of many medical problems
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Pain Disorder
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psychologial response to pain causes significant impairment in the person's life
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Hypochondriasis
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The fear that onehas a serious life threating illness in the absence of any medical evidence
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Dissociative Disorders
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people experience identity problems that take the form of amnesia or dissociative identity disorders
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Dissociative amnesia
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trouble remembering important details about one's own life such as one's name or address
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Dissociative fugue
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Unexpected travel away from home in response to come peronal trauma
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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The development of more than one seperate and distinct personality formerly called multiple personality disorder
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Mood disorders
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disturbance of mood as their main feature
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major depression disorder
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depressed mood accompanied by low self esteem feelings of hopelessness and thoughts of suicide
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Dysthymic Disorder
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like symptoms of major depression but less severe
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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
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Any mood disorder that regularly occurs at a particular time of year
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Bipolar Disorder
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one or more manic or mixed episodes
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cyclothymic disorder
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similiar to bipolar but less severe symptoms
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Martin Seligman "learned helplessness"
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Dogs shocks (repeated failure should be prone to depression)
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Aaron Beck "faulty thinking"
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*only talk about bad things in their life rather than good things
*expands event beyond what is real *focus on negative *all or nothing thinking |
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Schizophrenia
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shattered personality between person's thoughts language emtions and behaviors
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Hallucination
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A false sensory perception
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Delusions
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A mistaken belief or misinterpretation or everyday events
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Blunted affect
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showing very little emotion no matter what happens
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Flat affect
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Showing no emotion at all
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Inappropriate affect
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Displaying emotions that are inappropraite for the current situation
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catatonic schizophrenia
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rigid body positions or other unusual physical behavior
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disorganized schizo
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extemely silly and bizarre behavior
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Paranoid schizo
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person feels that other are plotting against them persecutory delusions are common
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Undifferentitated schizo
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symptoms of schizo like hallucinations, but fails to meet the diagnostic standards for catatonic disorganized ot paranoid schizo
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residual schizo
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term applied to schizo who are not showing any current symptoms
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Dopamine
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A neurotransmitter substance in the brain thought by some to plat a role in schizophrenia
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Trephinng
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A surgical procedure that bores a hole in the skull
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Pinel~ Moral treatment
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form of therapy that stressed kind and considerate treatment of people with mental disorders
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tardive dyskinesia
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a devastating side effect of some amtipsychotic drugs that involves loss of muscle control
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Antipsychotics
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reduce the effects of dopamine in the brain
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Lithium
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drug used to treat violent mood swings of bipolar disorder
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therapeutic window
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the range of does of a drug strong enough to help the patient but not strong enough to cause serious physical problems
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Active placebo
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a placebo that cause the same side effect as the drug being tested against it
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Electroconvulsive Therapy ECT
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treatment in which electricty is passed through the patients brain
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Medical Model
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a broad influential theory suggesting that mental disorders should bethough of as medical problems
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Szasz
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not illnesses "problems of living" does not belive in labeling people as "sick"
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Breggin
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effects on treating mental disorders as illnesses...dangers in drug therapy
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Deinstitutionalization
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The dramatic reduction in mental hospital populations starting in the 1960's
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insight therapy
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helps people understand the roots of thier personal probelms
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free association
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having the patient say what comes to mind no matter how embarassing or trivial
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resistance
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turning away from important topics during free assocation
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dream analysis
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interperting the symbols that appear in the patients dreams
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transference
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the tendency for patients to treat the therapists s if they were an important person in the patients life like parent lover or child
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empathy
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take another person's point of view and feel what he or she is feeling
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unconditional positive reguard
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Love and approval that is given regardless or what a person does or says
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congruence
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a match between the person's true self andhis or her self concept
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active listening
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where a therapist reflects back the feelings and thoughts of a client
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Carl Rogers/Client Centered Therapy
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puts the client in charge of what happens in therapy/ where a client can solve their own problems
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Sigmend Freud/Psychoanalysis
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uses the analysis of free asscoiations dreams resistance and transferce to gice pt insight into their unconscious conflicts
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systematic desensitization
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helps people elminate specific fears by confronting them while relaxed
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Flooding
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people experice a barrage of intensely frighting stimuli to help the fear go through extinction
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contingency managment
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making sure that desirable behaviors are reinforced and undesirable behaviors are punished of ignored
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tokan economy
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the use of artificial reinforcers called tokens to reinforce positive behavior
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Extinction
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elmination of undersirable behaviors by making sure they are not followed by reinforcement
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Shaping
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Reinforcing successive approximations to some desirable behavior
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Punishment
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following an undesirable behavior with an unpleasant stimuli
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stimulus control
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changing behavior by elminating the stimulus that precedes that behavior
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Ellis REBT
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help people change the irrational belifs that make them unhappy
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Meta-Analyis
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A statical anaylsis of many research studies on one topic
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