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34 Cards in this Set
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Word Salad |
Confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words or phrases |
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Bipolar Disorder |
Disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of mania and depression |
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Phobia |
A severe anxiety is focused on a particular object, animal, activity, or situation that seems out of proportion to the real dangers involved |
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Delusions |
False beliefs maintained in the face of contrary evidence |
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Antisocial Personality |
A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and a lack of conscience |
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La belle indifference |
The loss of function with relative calm |
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Amnesia |
Loss of memory that may occur after a blow to the head or as a result of brain damage |
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Personality disorder |
Maladaptive or inflexible ways of dealing with others and one's environment |
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Diathesis-stress hypothesis |
An individual may have inherited a predisposition toward schizophrenia |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder |
Someone seems to have two or more distinct identities, each with its own way of thinking and behaving |
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Hallucinations |
Perceptions that have no direct external cause |
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Hypochondriasis |
A somatoform disorder characterized by being preoccupied with imaginary ailments |
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Dissociative Fugue |
A person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past |
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Disturbances of affect |
Emotions that are inappropriate for the circumstances |
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Conversion disorder |
Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function |
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Undifferentiated type schizophrenia |
Basic symptoms of schizophrenia such as deterioration of daily functioning, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate emotions, thought disorder |
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DSM IV Axes |
The fifth version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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Somatoform disorder |
Physical symptoms for which there is no apparent physical cause |
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Claustrophobia |
Fear of enclosed spaces |
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Major Depressive Disorder |
Severe form of depression that interferes with functioning, concentration, and mental and physical well-being |
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Post traumatic stress |
A condition in which a person who has experienced a traumatic events feels severe and long lasting after effects |
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Acrophobia |
Fear of heights |
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Agoraphobia |
Fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment |
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Compulsion |
A person also may repeatedly perform coping behaviors |
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Obsession |
A recurring thought or image that seems to be beyond control |
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Flashback |
Involuntary recurrent memory |
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Delusions of grandeur |
False belief that one possess superior qualities |
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Catatonic type schizophrenia |
Remain motionless for long a period |
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Delusions of persecution |
Person believe they are being persecuted |
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Alcoholism |
Disease characterized by the habitual intake of alcohol (addiction) |
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Developmental disorders |
Axis 2 Comprise a group of psyciatric conditions originating in childhood |
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Thomas Szasz- Theory |
He claims that most people whom we label mentally ill are not ill at all |
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Panic attack |
Sudden onset of intense apprehension, fear, or terror that occurs without apparent cause |
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Psychosomatic |
Disorder that have definite physical symptoms but are thought to be caused by emotional or psychological factors |
