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Reactive Attachment Disorder

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Failure to initiate and respond to social interactions or excessive familiarity in children.

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Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder

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Overfamiliarity with unfamiliar adults

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Postraumatic Stress Disorder (DSM-V)

Psychological Trauma: (1) ability to integrate emotional experience is overwhelmed, or (2) individual experiences threat to life, bodily integrity, sanity

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(A) Exposure
(B) Intrusion
(C) Avoidance
(D) Negative Mood, Cognitions
(E) Alterations in Arousal and Reactivity
(F) Duration: 1 month +
(G) Clinically significant (H) Not due to substance or another medical conditionSpecifiers: dissociative (depersonalization or derealization) or delayed expression

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Acute Stress Disorder

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Response to PTSD Criterion A that lasts 3 days to 1 month; if longer diagnosis may change to PTSD

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Adjustment Disorder

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When PTSD criterion A is met but response is less, or response is equivalent to PTSD but criterion A not met. Usually response to common stressors result in significant behavioral, emotional symptoms. Afer 6 months, diagnosis may change

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Bipolar I

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At least one manic or mixed episode. Depression does not have to reach level of major depressive disorder.

Manic episode: Period of elevated, euphoric, abnormally energetic, expansive, or irritable mood for 1 week +. Three of following: (1) grandiosity, (2) less sleep, (3) more talkative, (4) racing thoughts, (5) distractibility, (6) goal-directed activity, (7) involvement in high risk/irrational activities. Significant impairment, hospitalization, or psychosis. Rapid Cycling possible

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Bipolar II

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Hypomanic episodes - Episodes with same criteria as manic: 3+ of the listed symptoms. However, no hospitalzation necessary, and ability to keep on with life. Patient must meet major depression criteria

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Cyclothymic Disorder

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Cyclical mood swings that are less severe than mood disorder - symptoms like dysthymia and hypomania. Symptoms 2+ years. Lacks severe symptoms/psychosis of bipolar. May be significant periods between episodes that functioning adaptive.

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Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

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Used for young individuals (under 18) with difficulty controlling mood. Angry outbursts, dark moods.

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Major Depressive Disorder

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1 or more MDEs:
(A) 5+ of symptoms for 2+ weeks: (1) Depressed almost always, (2) Dimished pleasure in most things, (3) Weight changes, (4) Sleep changes, (5) Psychomotor changes - agitation or retardation, (6) Feelings of worthlessness, (7) Fatigue, (8) Diminished cognitive powers or indecisiveness, (9) Suicidal thoughts

(B) Not better accounted for by Schizoaffective Disorder; not superimposed on psychotic disorder

(C) Never manic or hypomanicSpecifiers for episodes: melancholic, psychotic, atypical, catatonic, seasonal

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Persistent Depressive Disorder

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Mild/moderate depression that lasts at least 2 years. Intermittent, brief normal moods

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Somatic Symptom Disorder (DSM-V)

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(A) 1+ Somatic significant/distressing symptom
(B) Excessive thoughts, feelings, behaviors, feelings of seriousness, anxiety devoted to this symptom
(C) Usually 6+ months, but not necessarily same symptom the whole time

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Illness Anxiety Disorder (DSM-V)

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(A) Preoccupation with having or acquiring serious illness
(B) Somatic symptoms not present or mild
(C ) High anxiety
(D) Excessive behaviors or avoidance
(E) 6+ months, not necessarily the same one
(F) Not better explained by other disorder

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Conversion Disorder (DSM-V)

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(A) Altered voluntary movement or sensory function
(B) Symptom and medical findings not compatible
(C ) No better explanation
(D) Clinically significant

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Factitious Disorder (DSM-V)

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(A) Falsification of physical/psychological symptoms, or induction of injury/disease
(B) Self-presentation
(C ) No obvious external incentives
(D) Not better explained by another disorder such as delusional and psychotic

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Specific Phobia

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Fear triggered by object or situation. Can be: animal, natural environment, blood, situational, etc.

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Social Phobia

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Fear of one or more social situation with exposure to scrutiny or negative evaluation. 2 subtypes: performace (speaking) and non-speaking (eating in public)

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Panic Disorder

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Unexpected panic attacks; worry about more attacks or maladaptive avoidance for at least 1 month after an attack. Brief, intense. 4+ of physical symptoms must occur.

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Agoraphobia

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Anxiety about being in places from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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(A) Excessive anxiety more days than not for 6 months about number of activities (not just about panic attack)
(B) Difficult to control
(C ) 3+ of: restlessness, fatigue, difficulty concentrating, irritability, muscle tension, sleep disturbance
(D) Clinically significant
(E) Not due to substance or medical condition
(F) Not explained by another disorder

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

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Recurring intrusive thoughts, impulses, images - disturbing, inappropriate, uncontrollable. Usually accompanied by compulsive behaviors to neutralize obsessive thoughts or prevent dreaded event/situation. 1+ hour a day

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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Obsessed with imagined or actual flaw in appearance so far to believe they are disfigured. Compulsive checking. Avoidance of behaviors so people will not see defect. Reassurance only provides temporary belief.

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Hoarding Disorder

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Hoarding seemingly useless items interferes with normal activities of life

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Trichotillomania

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Compulsive hair pulling

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Excoriation

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Skin picking

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Anorexia NervosaSubtypes: Restricting and Binge-Eating/Purging

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(A) Restriction of intake relative to requirements leads to significantly low weight
(B) Fear of weight gain and persistent behavior to prevent gain
(C ) Self evaluation dependent on weight or lack of recognition of seriousness of low body weight

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Bulimia Nervosa

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(A) Recurrent binge eating
(B) Recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviors
(C ) Once/week+ for 3 months
(D) Self-evaluation unduly influenced by shape/weight
(E) Disturbnace not only during episodes of anorexia

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Binge Eating Disorder

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(A) Recurrent binge eating
(B) Binge-eating associated with 3+ of following: eating rapidly, feeling uncomfortably full, eating a lot when not hungry, eating alone due to embarrassment, feeling disgusted or guilty after eating
(C ) Distress regarding binge eating
(D) 1+ times/week for 3 months

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Core features: Suspiciousness, Distrust. Suspects others are exploiting, harming, deceiving without probable cause. Preoccupied with doubts of trustworthiness and reads demeaning content into neutral. Grudges, unforgiving. May have transient psychotic symptoms under stress

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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Core feature: Detachment. Inability and lack of desire for social attachments. Solitary activities. Pleasure in few things. Indifferent to praise, criticism.

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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Core feature: Eccentricity in cognition, perception, behavior. Peculiar thought patterns and distortions, strange speech/perception interfere with interpersonal relationships. Personalized and superstitious, may believe they have magic powers. Transient psychotic symptoms under stress.

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Core feature: Emotionality and Attention-Seeking. Concerned with attractiveness, attention. Emotional, self-dramatizing, self-centered, vain, approval-seeking. Angry if attention not given. Easily influenced. Consider relationships to be closer than reality.

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Subtypes: Grandiose, Vulnerable

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Core features: Grandiosity, Need for Admiration, Lack of Empathy. Want admiration. Self-promoting, with fantasies of unlimited success, power, beauty, love. Believe they are unique, and that they can only be understood by high-status people. Entitled and retaliatory if not validated.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Core feature: Disregard for and violation of rights of others. Look up DSM diagnostic criteria.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Core feature: Affective instability. Pervasive pattern of instability with relationships, self image, affect. 5+:

(1) Unstable affect
(2) Unstable relationships - idealization or devaluation
(3) Unstable self-image
(4) Impulsivity in 2+ self-damaging areas
(5) Suicidal behavior/threats or self-harm
(6) Frantic to avoid real/imagined abandonment
(7) Chronic emptiness(8) Inappropriate, intense anger
(9) Transient stress related paranoia or dissociation

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Core features: Social Inhibition, Feelings of Inadequacy. Extreme social insecurity. Ineptness, hypersensitivity to criticism, shyness. Deficits in ability to feel pleasure. Want interpersonal contact but avoid

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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Core features: Helplessness, Self-doubt. Need to be cared for, problems separating and being alone, subordination of needs to keep others there, lack of anger, indecisiveness

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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Core Feature: Preoccupation with control. Excessive control with order, rules, details. Overly conscientious, neurotic, inflexible. Lack of expressiveness and ability to relax/have fun.

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Schizophrenia

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(A) 2+ present for significant portion of 1 month period: (1) Delusions, (2) Hallucinations, (3) Disorganized Speech, (4) Disorganized or catatonic behavior, (5) Negative symptoms such as diminished emotional expression or avolition. Note: at least one from 1-3
(B) Dysfunction in work, relationships, or self-care
(C) Signs of disturbance for 6+ months, with 1+ months with symptoms in A
(D) Rule out schizoaffective, depressive, bipolar
(E) Symptoms not caused by substance or medical condition
(F) If with autism or communication disorder, must have hallucinations or delusions for 1+ months

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Hybrid of schizophrenia and mood disorder, with mood symptoms meeting full criteria and present for 50%. Look up!

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Schizophreniform Disorder

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Like schizophrenia but only 1-6 months long

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Brief Psychotic Disorder

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Like schizophrenia but only a couple of days

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Delusional Disorder

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Delusions but otherwise normal

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