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Abnormal behavior Flashcards

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Abnormal behavior

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behavior that is disturbing,disruptive,maladaptive and often the result of distorted thoughts

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medical aproach

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mental dissorders involve genetic, psychological, or neurological problems and can be diagnosed and treated with medicine

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biophysocial aproach

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biological, psychological, and socioculture factors combine and interact with each other to cause disorder.

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psychoanalitic aproach

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mental disorders may involve the unconcious mind. innapropriate thoughts

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DSM-V

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the classification system of disorders

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Post traumatic Stress Disorder(ptsd)

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reliving a severely traumatic event in reccuring dreams and memories.

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Panic dissorder

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Reccuring episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences extreme terror and accompying chest pain, chocking etc.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Consistant and excessive wory about almost everything.

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Phobias

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Presistent, irrational fear, and avoidance of a specific object.

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social phobia

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the irrational fear of most social situations

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agoraphobia

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After experiencing panic attacks they learn to fear the fear.

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OCD

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Presistent unwanted thoughts(obbsesions) cause one to feel the need(cumpulsions) to engage in a particular action.

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Conversion reaction

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Person experiences very real physical symptoms with no real cause

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Hypocondriasis reaction

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a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of disease.

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Treatments for phobias

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Exposure therapy, Systematic desensitization, mindfulness training.

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Mood dissorders

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disturbences of emotion.

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Major depressive disorder

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presistentaly depressed mood or loss of intrest in activities.

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Major depressive dissorder treatments

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SSRI’s, antidepresent, psychotherapy

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Treatment for mild depreshion

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antidepresents

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Dysthymic disorder

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Major depressive dissorder but less for two or more years becomes dysthymic disorder.

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Bipolar disorder

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switches between mania and depression

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mania

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period of abnormally high emotion,activity, optumism etc.

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personality dissorders

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inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Antisocial personality dissorder

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they veiw you as nothing more than tools(evil)

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causes of personality disorder

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genetics, abuse as a child

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treatments for personality disorders

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drugs that raise levels of seretonin

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schizophrenia

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Delusion, hallucinations, disorganized speech, incoherant thoughts, innapropriate emotion

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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Auditory delusions and hallucinations such as thought of being persecuted by others

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Disorganized schizophrenia

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Bizzare ideas often about ones body, confused speech, childish behavior, great emotional swings, neglect of personal hygiene.

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Catatonic schizophrenia

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periods of wild exitment or rigid prolonged immobility (assumes same frozen pose for hours on end)

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posotive schizophrenia

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delusions, hallucinations. behavior that is addition to bahavior

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negative schizophrenia

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loss of behavior. innapropriate emotion/behavior

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biological cause of schizophrenia

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too much dopamine, too little seretonin. imbalance in brain chemicals

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genetic cause of schizophrenia

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the more close you are genetically with someone schizophrenic the more likely you are to get it (twin,parent ,sibling etc.)

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treatments for schizophrenia

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Antipsychotic drugs: stops dopamine from being absorbed by the dendrites, clears thoughts.
side affects:facial tics(Tardive dyskenisia), limited mobility in the body

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DID

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exhibiting two or more distinct and altering personalities

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fugue

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a state or period of loss of awareness of ones identity

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amnesia

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loss of ones memoreies, facts or peices of information of experiences

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tollerance

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the ability to endure something

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Addiction

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a habit of doing something over again many times(usually not good for you)

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psychological dependence

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emotional components of drug abuse (difficulty thinging of anything else)

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physiological dependents

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the physical components of drug abuse (withdrawls, loss of sleep, shaking)

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