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Chapter 16 Flashcards

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4 D’s

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Deviant, distressful, dangerous, dysfunctional

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Deviant

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Any deviation from majority

  • different
  • extreme
  • unusual
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Distressful

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Unpleasant or upsetting to the individual

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Dysfunctional

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Disruptive to the persons ability to conduct daily activities

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of the 3 key symptoms

  • extreme in attention
  • hyperactivity
  • impulsivity
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Dangerous

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Threatening to the persons well being or to the safety of others

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Dissociative disorders

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Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts and feelings

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Dissociative identity disorders

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Rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities

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Diathesis stress model

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Looking at vulnerable/predisposition of mental disorders

-nature side

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Psychological disorder

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Harmful thoughts, feelings and actions

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Medical model

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Concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and cured

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DSM-IV

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system for classifying psychological disorders

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Anxiety disorders

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Psychological disorder characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

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Panic disorder

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Anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minute long episodes of intense dread in which someone experiences terror and accompany chest pain, choking and frightening sensations

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Phobic disorder

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Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of specific objects or situations

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and or actions

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Mood disorders

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Psychological disorder characterized by emotional extremes

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Major depressive disorders

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Symptoms last more than 2 weeks of Significantly depressed moods , drug use

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Labeling effects

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When labels can stigmatize a person by bias ing others interpretations and perceptions of past and present behaviors and by affecting he way people react to the labeled person

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Agoraphobia

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fear of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes

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Specific phobia

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Fear of a specific object

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Social phobia

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Intense fear of being scrutinized by others. Avoid speaking up, eating out, parties

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by haunting ,e,ories, nightmares, social withdrawal that lingers for 4 weeks or more after a traumatic experience

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Dissociative amnesia

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Inability to recall important personal events and information (repression)

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Dissociative fugue

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Caused by psychological stressed, escape this state by traveling

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Mania

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Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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Dysthymic disorder

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Down in dumps moods that fills most of the day nearly every day for 2 years but can still function on a daily basis

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Bipolar disorder

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mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lathargy of depression and over excited

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Schizophrenia

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Group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions and inappropriate emotions and auditory hallucinations

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Delusions

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False beliefs

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Hallucination

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Fantasy, usually auditory and often take the form of voices

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Catatonic

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Motionless and statue like positions

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Disorganized

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Disorganized speech or behavior

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Paranoid schizophrenic

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Preoccupation with dilutions or hallucinations, often with themes or persecution or grandiosity

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Undifferentiated schizophrenia

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Many and varied symptoms

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Residual schizophrenia

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Withdrawl, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared

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Personality disorders

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Psychological disorders characterized n

By inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrong doing even toward friends and family members

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