Chp15-2ndHalfReverse Flashcards

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A chronic, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of perceiving, thinking and behaving that seriously impairs an individual’s ability to function in social or other settings.

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Personality Disorder?

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A disorder defined by instability and intensity in personal relationships as well as turbulent emotions and impulsive behaviours.

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Borderline Personality Disorder?

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A disorder characterised by stable patterns of irresponsible or unlawful behaviour that violates social norms.

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Antisocial personality disorder?

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A disorder in which people have physical illnesses or complaints that cannot be fully explained by actual medical conditions.

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Somatoform disorder?

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A disorder in which individuals are preoccupied with having or getting physical ailments despite reasssurances that they are healthy.

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Hypochondriasis?

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A disorder characterised by unexplained physical complaints in several categories over many years.

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Somatisation disorder?

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A disorder in which psychological conflict or stress brings about loss of motor or sensory function.

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Conversion disorder?

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A personality disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of identity, memory or consciousness.

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Dissociative disorder?

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The inability to remember important personal experiences, caused by psycholgoical factors in the absence of any organic dysfuunction.

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Dissociative amnesia?

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A disorder characterised by a flight from home or work accompanied by a loss of ability to recall the personal past.

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Dissociative fugue

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A dissociative mental disorder in which two or more distinct pesonalities exist within the same individual, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

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Dissociative Indentity Disorder (DID)?

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Severe form of psychopathology characterised by the breakdown of integrated personality functioning, withdrawal from reality, emotional distortions, and disturbed thought processes.

Psychopathology - study of mental disorder, mental distress, and abnormal/ maladaptive behavior

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Schizophrenic disorder?

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False or irrational belief maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary.

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Delusion?

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A hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, that suggests that genetic factors predispose an individual to a certain disorder but that environmental stress factors must impinge in order for the potential risk to manifest itself

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Diathesis-stress hypothesis?

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A disorder of childhood characterised by inattention and hyperacitvity-impulsivity.

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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?

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A developmental disorder characterised by severe disruption of children’s ability to form social bonds and use language.

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Autistic disorder?

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The negative reaction of people to an individual or group becaue of some assumed inferiority or source of difference that is degraded.

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Stigma?