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Ch 14 Flashcards

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Statistical abnormality

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Abnormality defined on the basis of an extreme score on some dimension, such as IQ or anxiety

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Maladaptive behavior

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Some psychological or biological disorder that makes it difficult to adapt to the environment and day to day life

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Insanity

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A legal term that refers to ones inability to manage ones affairs or one is unaware of the consequences of ones actions

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Mental disorder

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A significant impairment in psychological functions

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Neurodevelopmental disorder

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Problems that arise before adulthood (such as autism)

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Neurocognitive disorder

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Problems not arising until adulthood (Alzheimer’s)

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Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders

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Severe mental disorders characterized by a retreat from reality

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Bipolar

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Depression alternates with periods of mania, meaning the person is agitated, elated, and hyperactive.

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Anxiety disorder

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Disruptive feelings of fear, apprehension, or anxiety, or distortion, elated, and hyperactive

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Trauma and stress and related disorders

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Behavior patterns brought on by traumatic stresses

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Obsessive compulsive related disorders

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Extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and compulsive performance of certain behaviors

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Dissociative disorders

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Temporary amnesia, multiple personality, or depersonalizations

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Somatic symptoms and related disorders

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Physical symptoms for witch their is no obvious physical cause (paralysis, blindness, illness, or chronic pain)

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Personality disorders

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Maladaptive personality patterns

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Sleep-wake disorders

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Difficulties falling asleep, staying asleep, waking up or any combination of these

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Paraphilic disorders

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Deviation in sexual behavior such as (pedophilia, exhibitionism, fetishism, voyeurism, and so on.

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Comorbitity (in mental disorders)

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They suffer from more than one mental disorder

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Psychosis

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A withdrawal from reality marked by hallucinations, delusions, personality disorganization

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Catatonia

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Considered a disorder in its own right, marked by stupor, rigidity, unresponsiveness, posturing, mutism, and sometimes agitated perpose-less behavior

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Psychological trauma

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A psychological injury or shock, such as that caused by violence, abuse, neglect, separation, etc.

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Stress-vulnerability model

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A model that attributes mental illness to a combination of environmental stress and inherited susceptibility

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Persistent depressive disorder

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Moderate depression that persists for two years or more

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Major depressive disorder

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A mood disorder in which the person has suffered one or more intense episodes of depression

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Cyclothymic disorder

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Moderate manic and depressive behavior that persists for two years or more

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Bipolar 1 disorder vs bipolar 2 disorder

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B1 is a mood disorder with episodes of mania and also periods of deep depression.

B2 is a mood disorder where they are mostly depressed but has had one or more episodes of mild mania

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Endogenous (in depression)

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Depression that appears to be produced from within rather than as a reaction to life events

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Postpartum depression

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A mild to moderately severe depression that begins within three months following childbirth

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Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

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Depression that occurs only during fall and winter; possibly because of lack of sunlight

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Phototherapy

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A treatment for SAD that involves exposure to bright, full-spectrum light

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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General worries of work, relationships, a storm, eta

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Agoraphobia

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The fear that something extremely embarrassing will happen if one leaves the house or enters an unfamiliar situation

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Adjustment disorder

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Continues exposure to normal stresses (job loss, illness etc) push an individual ove the edge

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Anxiety reduction hypothesis

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The self defeating cycle caused by a need for relief from anxiety

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Psychopathology

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The scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.

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