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What are the 4 d’s of clinical psychology? (used to determine if someone has a psychological disorder)

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Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger

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What is deviance

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goes against social norms

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What is distress

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upsetting to the individual or others

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What is dysfunction

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disrupts daily living

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What is danger

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risk for themselves or others

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Specific Phobia

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Anxiety disorder characterized by paralyzing fear of something that could be feared but is excessive and unreasonable

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Social Phobia

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Anxiety disorder characterized by a fear of PERFORMING in front others

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Agoraphobia

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Anxiety disorder characterized by intense fear of crowds, BEING IN PUBLIC PLACES, needs security of home

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Panic Disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by short and frequent panic attacks

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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Anxiety disorder characterized by long lasting intense fear that is not attached to any particular object or circumstance

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Posttraumatic stress disorder

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Anxiety disorder that occurs long after the event is over or stress goes away and comes back later in life

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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An anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts or perform senseless rituals

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Obsessions

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Involuntary thoughts that keep occuring

ex: I am in danger

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Compulsions

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Repetitive ritualistic behaviors that a person feels a need to perform

ex: cleaning hands to not feel gross and dirty

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Major Depressive or clinical depression

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Intense sadness for a long period of time

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Dysthymia

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Less intense sadness but persists with little relief for a period of 2 years or more

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Mania

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a state where a person becomes euphoric or high, extremely active, very talkative, and easily distracted

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Bipolar disorder

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Periods of mania and depression alternate sometimes with periods of normal moods in between

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Paranoid

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suspicious, argumentative, tendency to blame others, jealous, cold

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Schizoid

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Few friends, longer, NO INTEREST IN SOCIALIZING, unable to form close relationships

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Schizotypal

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Aloof and indifferent, magical thinking, superstitious beliefs, unusual ideas

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Antisocial

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Against society, breaks rules and laws, take advantage of others, feels little guilt

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Borderline

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Unstable relationships, erratic emotions, unpredictable aggressive and sexual behavior

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Histrionic

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dramatic, ATTENTION SEEKERS, FAKE EMOTIONS

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Avoidant

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Feelings of inadequacy, avoid interpersonal situations for fear of criticism

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Dependent

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excessive need to be taken care of that leads to submissive and clinging behaviors; fear of separation

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Obsessive compulsive

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Perfectionist, preoccupied with details, rules, excessively dedicated to work instead of pleasure

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Somatoform disorder

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a mental disorder where symptoms suggest physical illness or injury but cannot explain where they got them from
(physical symptoms)

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Conversion disorder

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A condition where patients present with neurological symptoms like numbness, blindness but no neurological explanation is possible

(neurological symptoms)

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Schizophrenia

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a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, hallucinations and inappropriate emotions or actions

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Delusions

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False beliefs

ex: someone is gonna hurt me

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Hallucinations

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False perceptions

ex: hearing or seeing things

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Positive symptoms

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presence of a new addition feature or symptom

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Negative symptoms

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Lack of typical behaviors

ex: to less voice, expressionless face

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Disorganized

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Hard to follow speech or thought process or inappropriate emotion like cry when something is funny

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Catatonic

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Repeating of another’s speech or movements like keep touching hair, no emotions, lack of normal responses

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Diathesis-Stress Model

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Genetic influence (certain genes that you may carry) and the emergence of an environmental stressor can cause a psychological disorder

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