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What are the 3 criteria of Abnormal Behavior?
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1. Deviance
2. Maladaptive behavior 3. Personal Distress |
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What is significant about Deviance?
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Their behavior deviates from what their society considers acceptable. Patients tend to deviate from culture norms.
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What is significant about Maladaptive behavior?
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The patient's everyday adaptive behavior is impaired. Key Criterion in the diagnosis involves substance abuse.
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What is significant about Personal Distress?
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The Patient suffers from depression or anxiety disorders.
They describe their subjective pain and suffering to friends, relatives, and mental health professionals. |
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What is Axis I?
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Clinical Syndromes
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What is Axis II?
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Personality Disorders or Mental Retardation
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What is Axis III?
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General Medical Conditions
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What is Axis IV?
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Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
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What is Axis V?
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Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale
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What is included in Axis I ( Clinical Syndromes)
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1. Disorders diagnosed at an early age ( not adulthood)
2. Organic Mental Disorders 3. Substance-related disorders 4. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders 5. Mood disorders 6. Anxiety disorders 7. Somatoform disorders 8. Dissociative disorders 9. Sexual and gender-identity disorders 10. Eating Disorders |
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What is included in Axis II?
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Axis II is composed of Personality Disorders or Mental Retardation.
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What is included in Axis III?
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General Medical Conditions
Examples: diabetes, arthritis, and hemophilia. |
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What is included in Axis IV?
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Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
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What are Psychosocial and Environmental Problems?
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A Psychosocial or environmental problem may be a negative life event, an environmental difficulty or deficiency,an interpersonal stressor, an inadequacy of social support, or another problem
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Explain the GAF scale please :).
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The GAF scale is made up of estimates of an individual's current level of adaptive functioning
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What are some examples of Anxiety Disorders?
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1. Anxiety Disorder
2. Phobic Disorder 3. Panic Disorder 4. Agoraphobia 5. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 6. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder |
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Define General Anxiety Disorder
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A high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.
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What is Phobic Disorder?
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A persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger.
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Define Panic Disorder.
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Recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly.
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What is Agoraphobia?
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A fear of going out to public places.
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Define Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
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Persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts( obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions)
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What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
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Psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event.
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What are Somatoform disorders?
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Physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors
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What is a Conversion disorder?
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A significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis).
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What is Hypochondriasis?
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An incessant worry about developing physical illnesses.
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What are Dissociative Disorders?
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Class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity.
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Define Dissociative Amnesia.
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A sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting.
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Define Dissociative Fugue
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People lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity.
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What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
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Coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different personalities.
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What is the general definition of Schizophrenia?
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A class of disorders marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and deterioration of adaptive behavior.
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What are symptoms of Schizophrenia?
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1. Delusions and Irrational Thought
2. Deterioration of Adaptive Behavior 3. Distorted Perception 4. Disturbed Emotion |
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What are the types of Schizophrenics?
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1. Paranoid Type
2. Catatonic Type 3. Disorganized Type 4. Undifferentiated Type |
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What is included in Catatonic schizophrenia?
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Individual is marked by striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity.
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What is included in Paranoid Schizophrenia?
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Individual is dominated by delusions of persecution, along with delusions of grandeur.
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What is included in Disorganized Schizophrenia?
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A particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen.
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What is included in Undifferentiated Schizophrenia?
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Individuals who are schizophrenic but who cannot be placed into any of the three previous categories.
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