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mental disorder |
group of emotional, cognitive, or behavioral symptoms that cause distress or significant problems |
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Abnormal Psychology |
scientific study of troublesome feelings, thoughts, and behaviors associated with mental disorders |
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Statistical deviance |
classifying abnormality as lower or higher than average (problem: high intelligence is not abnormal, culturally different)
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Maladaptive bahavior |
one that interferes with a person's life (ability to care for oneself, have good relationships, function well at school, etc) |
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Three identifications of abnormal psychology |
Deviation from the norm, difficulty adapting to life's demands, personal distress |
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mental hygiene |
science of promoting mental health through education, early treatment, and public health measures |
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Clifford Beers |
Founder of mental hygiene movement |
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Somatogenic |
Perspectives on determining cause and treatment of mental disorder emphasizing physical, bodily causes |
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Psychogenic |
Perspectives on determining cause and treatment of mental disorder emphasizing psychological/mind-related causes |
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Types of prevention |
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary |
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Primary prevention |
targeting large groups of people who have not yet developed a mental disorder |
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Secondary prevention |
involves addressing emerging problems while they are still manageable |
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Tertiary prevention |
Reducing the severity, duration, and negative effects of the mental disorder |
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Two ways to fight stigma |
Education, Promotion of personal contact |
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Five models/perspectives of mental disorders |
Biological, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and sociocultural |
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Emil Kraepelin |
Father of psychiatric classification and key contributor to the biological model |
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Genotype |
genetic composition of a person (non-changeable, eye color, etc.) |
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Phenotype |
observable characteristic of a person (changeable, intelligence, etc.) |
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Behavior genetics |
The study of knowing which genetic and environmental influences impact the development of emotions, cognitions, and behavior. |
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Heritability |
Variation in a phenotype attributed to genetic factors |
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Molecular genetics |
analysis of DNA to find links between specific genes and mental disorders |
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Central nervous system |
brain and spinal cord, responsible for processing information from sensory organs |
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Peripheral nervous system |
helps control muscles and voluntary movement, regulates cardiovascular and endocrine, digestion, body temperature |
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Neurons |
nerve cells |
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Four components of neurons |
cell body, dendrites, one or more axons, terminal buttons |
