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Abnormal Behavior

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Psychological dysfunction that is associated with distress or impairment in functioning and response that is not typical or culturally expected.

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Psychopathology

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Scientific study of psychological disorders

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Presenting problem

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original complaint reported by the client to the therapist. The actual treated problem may be a modification derived form the presenting problem.

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Clinical Description

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Details of the Combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of an individual that make up a particular disorder.

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Prevelance

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Number of people displaying a disorder in the total population at any given time

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Incidience

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Number of new cases of a disorder appearing during a specific period.

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Course

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Pattern of development and change of a disorder over time

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Prognosis

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Predicted development of a disorder over time

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Etiology

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Cause or source of a disorder.

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Psychosocial treatment

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Treatment practices that focus on social and cultural factors (such as family experience) as well as psychological influences. These approaches include cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal methods.

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Moral Therapy

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Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involved treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments.

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Psychoanalysis

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Assessment and therapy pioneered by Sigumd Freud that emphasizes exploration of, and insight into, unconscious processes and conflicts.

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Behaviorism

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Explanation of human behavior, including dysfunction, based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from experimental psychology.

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Unconscious

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Part of the psychic makeup that is outside the awareness of the person

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Catharsis

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Rapid or sudden release of emotional tension thought to be an important factor in psychoanalytical therapy.

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Psychoanalytic Model

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Complex and comprehensive theory originally advanced by Sigmund Freud that seeks to account for the development and structure of personality, as well as the origin of abnormal behavior, based primarily on inferred inner entities and forces.

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Id (psychoanalysis)

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The unconscious psychic entity present at birth representing basic drives.

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Displacement

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Transfers a feeling about, or a response to, an object that causes discomfort onto another, usually less-threatening, object or person.

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Denial

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Refuses to acknowledge some aspect of objective reality or subjective experience that is apparent to others.

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Projection

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Falsely attributes own unacceptable feelings, impulses or thoughts to another individual or object.

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Ractionalization

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Conceals the true motivations for actions, thoughts, or feelings through elaborate reassuring or self-serving but incorrect explanations.

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Reaction formation

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Substitutes behavior, thoughts or feelings that are the direct opposite of unacceptable ones.

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Repression

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Blocks disturbing wishes, thoughts or experiences form conscious awareness.

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Sublimation

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Directs potentially manipulative feelings or impulses into socially acceptable behavior.

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Ego (psychoanalysis)

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The psychic entity responsible for finding realistic and practical ways to satisfy "id" drives

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Superego (psychoanalysis)

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The psychic entity representing the internalized moral standards of parents and society.

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According to Freudian theory, anxiety is a signal for the ego to marshal its defense mechanisms, which function as

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unconscious protective processes.

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According to the authors of your textbook, the definition of a psychological disorder is associated with

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impaired functioning.

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​According to the definition of personality disorder, only individuals who show ________ patterns of maladaptive behavior should be diagnosed with a personality disorder.

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relatively permanent

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After Philippe Pinel systematically introduced moral therapy as a treatment in mental hospitals in France, a similar type of treatment was first established in a U.S. hospital by​

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Benjamin Rush.

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After the mid 1800s, moral therapy declined as a treatment for the mentally ill in the United States because

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​immigrants caused an increase in the mental hospital population.

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​All of the following are examples of defense mechanisms according to psychoanalytic theory EXCEPT

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adaptation.

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​All of the following are ways in which mental health professionals might function as scientist-practitioners EXCEPT

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​analyzing their own motivations and reasons for helping people with psychological problems.

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​Anton Mesmer, an early 18th century physician, purported to be affecting cures in patients by unblocking their flow of a bodily fluid he called “animal magnetism.” In fact, any effectiveness of his methods was actually due to

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​the power of suggestion.

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​A psychological dysfunction refers to

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a breakdown in cognitive functioning

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breakdown in emotional functioning.

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breakdown in behavioral functioning.

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​According to psychoanalytic theory, the role of the ego involves

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mediating conflict between the id and the superego.