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Chap 14 psych disorders Flashcards

1
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What is the name of DMS

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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What is dms

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It is a book of disorder symptoms and the criteria mus meet to be diagnosed. It does not offer an explanation

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What are some criticism with dms

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It is overloaded , relies on the medical modal, lack reliability

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What are some negatives with labeling

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Biasing power, we only see their disorder, even when they behave as healthy we only see their label

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What is some positive with labelling

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Feel a sense of relief and know what’s wrong, become more understanding and facilitate communication with other people

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What is person-first language

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When a label is just part of who we are

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What is identity first language

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Owning our own mental illness

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Why is autism in a spectrum

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because there’s levels of severity ( some have debilitating symptoms) and developmental

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What are some symptoms of ASD

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Social deficit, difficult to feel emotions, attention deficits,difficult seeing others people perspectives,abnormal reaction, repeated interests and sameness ( where change is not good)

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What is schizophrenia known for

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As the cancer of mental illness

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Who is more affected to schizophrenia

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Males

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What are some positive symptoms of schizophrenia

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Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking /emotions/ behaviours/speech, lack of attention and catatonia

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What are some negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Flat affect ( difficult to express emotions), avolition ,alogia ,attention deficits and social withdrawl

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Why do we say schizophrenia is heterogenous

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Because it has multiple symptoms that can lead to other things

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What are the symptoms of major depressive disorder

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sad mood,loss interest,change of appetute,sleepd difficulties,slowness/agitation,energy loss,feeliing worthless,difficult concentrating, physical aches and pains and thoughts of suicide

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What is adaptive when experiencing anxiety

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They are essential for our life, they keep us safe and help us presue our goals

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What is maladaptive in fear and anxiety

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Overeaggerates, uncontrollable and dysfuntional

18
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Is anxiety one thing or a group of things

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A group of disorders that have maladaptive anxiety as something commun.

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What is agoraphobia

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The fear of being in a public space

20
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Where is OCD in the DSM

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they have their own category, they used to be in the same category in anxiety

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Why is OCD not in the same category as anxiety

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because they dont share obsession and compulsion

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What are obsessions

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highly irrational far fetched and intrusive thoughts that repeat over and over

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What are compulsions

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when you feel presured to do them over and over angain

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What happens when you resist OCD

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The anxiety explodes and becomes bigger and vengeance

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What is ptsd

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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What are the 4things that happen when experiencing PTSD

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Reliving the trauma, aroused nervous system, avoidance of any stimulus that could trigger us and cognitive moods

27
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What is a factitious disorder

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This is the munchausen syndrom

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What is the munchausen syndrom

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To pretend that were ill or unwell because we want to be diagnosed with an illness.

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What is Munchausen syndrome by proxy

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When we do it to someone with lss power and we make them ill

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Why is it difficult to diagnose someone

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bc when they know that their lies are getting out, they can run away and its dangerous

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What is personality

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Its the way we think ,feel or behave

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What is cluster A

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Odd and eccentric where its detached and indifferent form social things and mistrust of people

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What is cluster b

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Dramatic and emotional, where theres poor impulse control

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What is cluster C

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Fearful and anxious, we tend to be overly dependant on others even for simple things

35
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What cluster is borderline personality disorder in

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In cluster B

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