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Chapter 8 - Mental Disorder Flashcards

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Mental disorder

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pattern of abnormal thoughts, emotions, or behaviors

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Psychosis

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cannot distinguish difference between reality and fantasy

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Symptoms of psychosis

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delusions and hallucinations

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Positive symptom

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addition of thought, feeling, or behavior

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Delusion

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false beliefs about the world

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Paranoid

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People are plotting against them

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Grandiose

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one holds special power and unique knowledge

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Thought withdrawal

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thoughts removed from the head

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Thought insertion

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beliefs placed inside someone’s mind

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Somatic

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something abnormal happening in the body

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Hallucination

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sensing or perceiving things that others don’t

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What are the most common hallucinations

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Auditory

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Command hallucination

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false hearing of being ordered to do something

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Negative symptom

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lacking in psychological functioning or emotions

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Flattened affect

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cannot express appropriate emotion

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Alogia

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lack of communication

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Avolution

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Lack of energy in usual activities

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Disorganized symptoms

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weird behavior and confusing speech

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Word salad

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nonsense speech and unconnected ideas

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Catatonia

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lack of movement

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Loosening of association

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shifting train of thought

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Waxy flexibility

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staying in an uncomfortable position (like a wax figure)

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How likely is someone who has schizophrenia will commit violent crimes

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Level of violence may be high, but chances are low

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Delusional disorder

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having non-bizare delusions

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Delusional jealousy

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SO is being unfaithful

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Erotomanic

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someone with high status is in love with them

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Grandiose

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big ego

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Persecutory

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belief they are being attacked or harassed

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Delusional distress

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Fear, sadness, and anxiety that can lead to risk of violence

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Belief Maintenance

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increased likelihood of acting on delusions

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Major Depressive Disorder

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mood changes - loss of enjoyment
childhood abuse and trauma are influences

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Most common mood disorder

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Major depressive disorder

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Bipolar disorder

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alternating moods - higher chance of suicide

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Can experience multiple personalities - memory gaps

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PTSD

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caused by trauma - experience flashbacks to a traumatic event

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What is unique about PTSD

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only disorder with an explicit cause - stress

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NCRMD

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Not being held criminally responsible due to mental disorder - they did not know the severity of the crime they commited at the time

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Fitness to stand trial

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mental state of defendant at time of the the trial

39
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What is the most common mental disorder

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depression

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What mental disorder is most associated with violence

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schizophrenia

41
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Deinstitutionalization

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Provide community based care

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Principle of rationality-within-irrationality

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violence done from rational response of someone with an MD responding to irrational symptoms

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Threat symptoms

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makes someone feel like they are goin to be harmed

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Control override symptoms

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someone feels like they are being controlled and doesn’t have freedom

45
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How does substance abuse pair with mental disorders

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it can increase chances of criminal behavior because it intoxicates the mind of those who are already impaired

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How does SES play a role in MD

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higher rates of MD in low SES - more violence in poor neighborhoods

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