Psychopathology- Chapter 11

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Behavioral tendencies that are relatively stable across time and place

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Personality Traits

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Disorders characterized by extreme and rigid personality traits that cause impairment

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Personality disorders

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An individual's unique and table way of experiencing the world that is reflected in a predictable set of reactions to a variety of situations

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Personality

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Personality traits involving extreme distrust and suspiciousness

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Paranoid personality disorder

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A defense mechanism in which an individual attributes his or her own emotions to someone or something else

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Projection

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Innate behavioral tendencies

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Temperament

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Organized belief systems

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Cognitive schemas

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Personality traits involving detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.

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Schizoid personality disorder

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A defense mechanism in which an individual retreats from emotional engagement with others

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Withdrawal

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A defense mechanism in which a detached rational approach is used to protect against upsetting emotions.

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Intellectualization

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Personality traits involving eccentricities of behavior, cognitive, or perceptual distortions, and acute discomfort in close relationships

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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A state of being profoundly out of tough with reality

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Psychotic

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Idiosyncratic beliefs that normal events contain "special" meanings

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ideas of reference

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Believing that one's thoughts influence external events

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Magical thinking

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The illogical childlike mode of thinking that is associated with the unconscious mind

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Primary process thought

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Logical, reality-oriented thinking

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Secondary process thought

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personality traits involving profound disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others

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Antisocial personality disorder

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A defense mechanism in which an individual causes other to experience the victimization, powerlessness or helplessness that he or she has experienced in the past

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Identification with the aggressor

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Personality traits involving instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, impulsivity, and self destructive behavior.

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Borderline personality disorder

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A defense mechanism in which one views oneself or others as all-good or all-bad in order to ward off conflicted or ambivalent feelings

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Splitting

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Personality traits involving excessive, superficial emotionality and attention seeking

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Histrionic personality disorder

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A defense mechanism consisting of the forgetting of painful mental content

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Repression

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Personality traits involving extreme grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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A defense mechanism in which someone or something is seen as being perfect of wonderful in order to protect against negative feelings.

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Idealization

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A defense mechanism in which someone or something external is disparaged in order to protect against negative feelings about oneself

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Devaluation

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Personality traits involving social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

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Avoidant personality disorder

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A defense mechanism in which an individual avoids unpleasant feelings by focusing on pleasant daydreams

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Escape into fantasy

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Personality traits involving submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be cared for by others

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Dependent personality disorder

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A defense mechanism that involves a return to childlike behavior in order to avoid anxieties associated with progressive development

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Regression

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Personality traits involving preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism , and control at the expense of spontaneity flexibility, and enjoyment.

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Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

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A defense mechanism in which an unwanted impulse or emotion is turned into its opposite.

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Reaction formation

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Undoing a defense mechanism in which one action or thought is used to "cancel out" another action or thought

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Undoing

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A defense mechanism in which thoughts occur without associated feelings

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Isolation of affect

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Descriptive case studies of individual treatments.

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Uncontrolled clinical reports

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Studies that evaluate individual treatments but utilize standardized research measures.

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Single-case design

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Studies that systematically examine groups of clients being treated for the same disorder

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Controlled outcome research

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Diagnostic criteria sets in which a person is required to meet a minium number of predetermined diagnostic criteria in order to warrant a diagnosis- no one criterion is critical to the overall diagnosis

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Polythetic

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A diagnostic system in which individuals are rated for the degree to which they exhibit traits along certain dimensions

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Dimensional system

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A diagnostic system like the DSM system, in which individuals are diagnosed according to whether or not they fit certain defined categories.

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Categorical system