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Circumstantial speech |
hyper-detailed, vague connection but goes on and on |
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tangential speech |
going off on a tangent, hopping from one topic to another and not sure how they got there |
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loose association/derailment |
still talking in sentences, but sentences are not related |
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word salad |
sentence structure is falling apart |
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echolalia |
parroting back words they've heard that day, repeating a single word |
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clanging |
weird rhyming, stuck on repetitive syllable |
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neologism |
making up words |
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preservation |
stuck on one idea and keep talking about it "I understand the rules of the requirements of the rules of the requirements" |
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thought blocking |
pauses/freezes while speaking |
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poverty of speech |
frequency of speech decreases or is absent |
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avolition |
loss of motivation to self-initiate purposeful activities (feeding, showering) |
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flat affect |
diminished emotional expression, no expression or tone, inappropriate affect (laughing without a present stimulus) |
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alogia |
diminishing speech output |
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anhedonia |
loss of experiencing pleasure |
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asociality |
lack of interest in social interaction |
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persecutory delusions |
harm, being conspired against |
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referential |
beliefs that events or objects have personally relevant meanings |
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somatic |
perception of a change in bodily function or appearance |
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erotomanic |
secret lover that no one knows about |
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nihilistic |
catastrophe-driven |
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grandiose delusions |
possession of special abilities, powers, over-inflated sense of self-importance |
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tardative dyskinesia |
permanent movement disorder from long-term use of antipsychotics |
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paranoid type |
least disabling, best prognosis, prominent positive symptoms, but absence of impaired cognitive functioning |
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disorganized type |
characterized by disorganized speech and behaviour, notably flat/inappropriate affect, worst prognosis and most disabling |
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catatonic type |
psychomotor disturbances which may present as immobility, rigid movement, extreme negativism |
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residual type |
has had at least 1 schizophrenic episode with negative symptoms, but is currently not experiencing positive symptoms |
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most studied feature of the brain when examining schizophrenia |
frontal and temporal lobes |
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anorexia: restricting type |
weight loss through dieting, fasting or excessive exercising |
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anorexia: binge eating/purging type |
weight loss through binge eating or purging in the last 3 months |
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escape from self-awareness model: eating disorders |
binge-eating occurs in order to escape high levels of aversive self-awareness |
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criteria for personality disorders |
deviation in the following areas: 1) cognition 2) affectivity 3) interpersonal functioning 4) impulse control |
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cluster A |
schizoid, schizotypal, paranoid, odd and eccentric (paranoid personality disorder) |
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cluster B |
antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, (dramatic, emotional, erratic) antisocial personality disorder |
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cluster C |
dependent, avoident, obsessive-compulsive (anxious, fearful) OCD, dependent personality disorder |
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5 higher order domains |
Negative affectivity (large range of negative emotions), antagonism, disinhibition, detachment, psychoticism |
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egosyntonic |
they do not view the disorder as a problem |
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egodystonic |
they see the disorder as a problem and causes distress |
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dissociative amnesia |
inability to recall important events (suppressed memories of sexual abuse) |
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dissociative fugue |
sudden, inexplicit flight from home, not knowing who they are or how they got there, very uncommon |
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depersonalization disorder |
feeling of being detachment from oneself (normal and not pathological) |
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psychodynamic/trauma model |
abuse in childhood, dissociates to protect self, does so often that personality fractures |
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sociocognitive model |
patient is highly suggestible and therapist who believes in other model subjects sessions to confirmation bias and reinforces symptoms of DID |
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factitious disorder |
harming self or others for medical attention |
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conversion disorder |
patients experience neurological symptoms without any evidence for this occurring (commonly seen in primitive societies and uneducated people) |
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psychogenic seizures |
events that resemble a seizure without the characteristics seen in the brain, treatment is the same as the sociocognitive model for DID |
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body dysmorphic disorder |
excessive preoccupation with certain aspects of their physical appearance (hair is #1) |
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Havelock Ellis: the psychology of sex |
objective and non-judgmental, sexual problems are psychological and not physical, deviations from the norm are harmless (gay stuff) |
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Richard von Krafft-Ebing: 200 cases of pathological sexuality |
coined and described many terms like pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, sexual deviations are treatable mental illnesses, not objective or tolerant |
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Magnus Hirschfeld |
created first sex research institute, sex surveys, destroyed by nazis |
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Alfred Kinsey (zoologist) |
first large-scale study of sexuality that survived, criticized and viewed as immoral and obscene |
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Masters and Johnson |
lab data dispelled many misconceptions about sex/sexuality, they did the circular levels of sex |
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intersexual |
born with genitalia that doesn't fit with male or female sex, ambiguous |
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hermaphrodite |
both genitalia |
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congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) |
female internal structures, masculinized external genitals |
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gender dysphoria |
discontent with biological sex and gender roles of sex |
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autogynephilic |
fantasies about one's own body as female is sexually exciting |
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Kinsey continuum |
classifying sexual orientation (where does asexuality exist?) |
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voyeuristic disorder |
observing an unsuspecting person who is naked, derobing, or having sex |
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exhibitionistic disorder |
exposure of genitals to unsuspecting strangers |
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frotteuristic disorder |
touching or rubbing up against a non-consenting person for pleasure |
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2 main directions of clinical child psychology |
adult-based approaches applied to child populations with modifications and child-specific approaches |
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intellectual disability |
mental retardation was used in the 60s, asylum model in 18-20th century, significant dysfunction in intellectual and adaptive functioning |
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social communication disorder |
persistent difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication, early onset |
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specific learning disorder |
usually reading, writing, mathematics |
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dyscalculia |
math disorder |
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autism spectrum disorder |
1 - social-emotional reciprocity 2 - nonverbal communicative behaviours used for social interaction 3 - developing and maintaining relationships |
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ADHD |
inattentive and hyperactive |
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motor disorders |
coordinated motor skills are below expected, clumsy and inaccurate performance |
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Tic disorders, Tourette disorder |
both motor and vocal impairments are required for this diagnosis |
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3 substantive criteria for fitness to stand trial |
1 - whether the accused is mute of malice 2 - whether the accused can pleas to the formal accusation 3 - if the accused has the intellectual capacity to comprehend the course of the proceedings on trial |
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impairment in any of these 3 areas result in not being able to be fit to stand |
1 - understand the nature and object of the proceedings 2 - understand the possible consequences of the proceedings 3 - accused is able to communicate with the counsel |
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4 factors required for criminal responsibility |
actus reus, men rea (mind), causation, defense |
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2 principles of temporary substitute decision makers |
best interest principle and capable wishes principle |
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involuntary hospitalization |
civil commitment, the detention of people against their will for their own and others' protection |