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What does Abnormal Mean?

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The Present of a Harmful Dysfunction such as:

Maladaptive Behavior

Significant Impairment in Psychological Function

Atypical Behavior

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What us Maladaptive Behavior?

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Behavior that can make it difficult to function, adapt to an environment, or meet
everyday demands

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What does Significant impairment in psychological functioning mean?

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Those with mental illness may have disrupted abilities to control thoughts, behaviors, or
feelings

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What does Atypical Behavior mean?

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Behavior that is not Typical of the Majority of the Population?

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What is the Difference between hallucinations and Delusions?

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Hallucinations are fake perceptions like sights sounds and smells

Delusions are fake beliefs like the government is run by lizard people

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What are 3 Eating disorders?

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Anorexia Nervosa
Binge Eating Disorder
Bulimia Nervosa

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What is Anorexia Nervosa

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Person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet and
becomes significantly underweight, yet, still has distorted view of themselves
being fat

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What is Binge Eating Disorder?

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Significant binge eating, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the
purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa

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What is Bulimia Nervosa?

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Person alternates binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) with purging (by
vomiting or laxative use), fasting, or excessive exercise

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What are three main causes of mental disorders?

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Biological Factors

Psychological Factors

Socio Cultural Factors

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What are Biological Factors?

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  • Genetic predisposition
  • Structural and functional brain abnormalities
  • Neurotransmitter imbalance
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What Are Psychological Factors?

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  • Emotional distress
  • Personality
  • Cognitive pattern
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What are Sociocultural Factors?

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  • Environmental stressors
  • Social isolation
  • Cultural and societal expectations
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What are some Mental Disorders on the Test?

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Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
* Autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
* Anxiety disorders (5 subcategories)
* Mood-related disorders (4)
* Dissociate disorders
* Personality disorders (3)
* Eating disorders (3)

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What is ADHD?

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  • Traditionally considered a childhood disorder
    Key symptoms:
    Extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
    that impairs normal functioning.
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What is Autisim Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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  • Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction
    across multiple contexts
  • Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities
  • Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social,
    occupational, or other important areas of current functioning
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How many Subcategories of Anxiety Disorders are there?

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5

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How many Subcategories of mood Related Disorders are there?

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4

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What are the Subcategories of Mood Related Disorders?

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  • Major Depressive Disorder
  • Persistent Depressive Disorder
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
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What are the subcategories of Anxiety Disorders?

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  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Panic Disorder
  • Phobias
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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What are Dissociate Disorders?

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Conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous
memories, thoughts, and feelings

Think Mutiple Personality’s

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What are Personality Disorders?

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Characterized by disruptive, inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that
impair social functioning

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How many Personality Disorders are there?

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3

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What are the Personality Disorders?

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Characterized by disruptive, inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that
impair social functioning

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What are Anxiety Disorders?

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  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Panic Disorder
  • Phobias
  • Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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What are Mood Related Disorders?

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  • Disturbances of mood that affects entire emotional state
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What is Major Depressive Disorder?

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Person experiences two or more weeks with five or more following
symptoms

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What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?

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  • Person experiences mildly depressed mood more often than not for
    at least two years, along with at least two other symptoms
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What is Bipolar Disorder?

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  • Person experiences not only depression but also mania which is
    characterized by elevated levels of energy, grandiose plans and
    increased creativity
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What is Schizophrenia?

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Characterized by disturbed perceptions, disorganized speech, and/or
diminished, inappropriate emotional expression

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What us Dissociative identity Disorder?

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  • Rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and
    alternating personalities–formerly called multiple personality disorder
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What are Examples of personality disorders?

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Narcissistic personality disorder
* Borderline personality disorder
* Antisocial personality disorder

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What is Narcissitic Personality Disorder?

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  • A sense of entitlement and demonstrate grandiosity in their beliefs and
    behavior
  • A strong need for admiration, but lack feelings of empathy
  • Preoccupied with fantasies of success, power, beauty etc.
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What is Borderline Personality Disorder?

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Pattern of marked impulsivity and instability and affects interpersonal
relationships and self-image

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What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?

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  • A person (usually male) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing,
    even toward friends and family members
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What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

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  • Person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic
    nervous system arousal
  • Symptoms persist for 6 months or more
  • Constant state or worry, agitation, sleep problem
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What is Panic disorder?

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  • Person experiences unpredictable minute-long episodes of intense
    dread and often lives in fear of when the next attack might strike
  • Irregular heartbeat, chest pain, shortness of breath, choking,
    trembling, dizziness
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What are Phobias?

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  • Person experiences a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a
    specific object, activity, or situation
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What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?

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  • Characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or
    actions (compulsions)
  • Occurs when obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors interfere
    with everyday life and cause distress
  • Is more common among teens and young adults than older people
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What is PTSD?

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  • Characterized by haunting memories (flashbacks, nightmares), social
    withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, difficulties with
    memory and concentration, and/or insomnia lingering for 4+ weeks
    after a traumatic experience
  • Often involves battle-scarred veterans, survivors of accidents,
    disasters, violence, and sexual assaults
  • Has higher risk for women
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