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Chapter 7 Vocab Flashcards

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What are mood disorders?

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Characterized by gross deviations in mood

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What is a major depressive episode?

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Most commonly diagnosed and most severe depression

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What is a hypo manic episode?

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Less severe version of a manic episode and usually lasts four days and doesn’t cause impairment in social or occupational functioning

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What is anhedonia?

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Loss of energy and inability to engage in pleasurable activities or have any “fun”

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What is mania?

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Individuals find extreme pleasure in every action

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What is flight of ideas?

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Speech becomes rapid and incoherent bc their trying to express so many exciting ideas at once

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What is unipolar mood disorder?

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Individuals who only experience either depression or mania only

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What are mixed features?

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when individuals experience manic symptoms but feel somewhat depressed or anxious at the same time

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What is dysphoric?

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Anxious or depressive

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What is major depressive disorder?

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The absence of manic or hypomanic episodes before or during the disorder

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What recurrent?

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Two or more major depressive episodes occurred and were deprecated by at least two months when the patient is not depressed

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What is persistent depressive disorder?

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Depression remains relatively unchanged overdoing periods of time 20-30 years

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What is double depression?

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Experience major depressive episodes and persistent depression with fewer symptoms

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What is hallucinations?

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Seeing or hearing things that aren’t there

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What are delusions?

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Strongly held but inaccurate beliefs

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What is mood congruence

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Hallucinations directly related to depression

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What are delusions of grandeur?

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Believing they see supernatural or specially gifted

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What is anxious distress specifier?

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Presence and severity of accompanying anxiety; most important additional specifier

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What is a melancholic features specifier?

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More severe somatic symptoms

Weight loss, loss of sex drive

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What are catonic feature specifiers?

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A sense of movement, where the muscles are waxy and they can be placed somewhere and remain there

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What are Atypical feature specifiers?

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Constantly oversleeping or overeating that causes weight gain

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What is a peripartum onset specifier?

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Depression that follows 1 day-6months after birth

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What are baby blues

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Minor reactions in adjustment to childbirth

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What is seasonal affective disorder?

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Episodes accompany certain seasons for at least 2 years

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What is cabin fever?

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SADis more extreme I high and low attitudes because they receive little light during the winter

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What is integrated grief

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The finality of death and it’s consequences are acknowledged and the individual adjusts to their loss

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What is complicated grief?

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Feelings of loss and emotions so painful that a person has trouble resuming a normal life

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What is premenstrual dysphoric disorder?

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Severe mood swings and anxiety

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What is disruptive mood disregulation disorder?

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When a child has chronic moods such as anger and idea tabulate without accompanying mania

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What is bipolar II disorder?

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Major depressive episodes alternate with hypomanic episodes rather than full mania episodes

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What is bipolar I disorder?

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Major depressive episodes alternate with full mania episodes

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What is cyclothymic disorder?

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Milder, more chronic version of bipolar disorder

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What is neurohormones

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Hormones that affect the brain and are increasingly the focus of study in psychopathology

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What is learned helplessness theory of depression?

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When people feel as though they have no control over their lives

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What is arbitrary inference?

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When an individual emphasizes the negative aspects in life rather than the positive

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What is depressive cognitive triad?

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Thinking negatively about themselves, immediate world and future

37
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What is a mood stabilizing drug?

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Lithium

38
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What transcribing magnetic stimulation?

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Works by placing a magnetic cool over the individuals head to generate a precisely localized electromagnetic pulse

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What is interpersonal psychotherapy?

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Focuses on resolving problems in existing relationships and learning to form important new interspersing relationships

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