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Exam 3 Flashcards

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psychosis

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A mental disorder characterized by a disconnection from reality.

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Diagnosing Schizophrenia

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  • After symptoms of psychosis continue for six months or more
  • Individuals must also show a deterioration in their work, social relations, and ability to care for themselves
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Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia

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“Added”
- delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking, incoherent communication, and peculiar behavior

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Negative symptoms of Schizophrenia

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“Loss”
decreased ability to initiate actions or speech, express emotions, or feel pleasure

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Catatonia

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a condition involving extremes in activity level, peculiar body movements or postures, strange gestures and grimaces, or a combination of these

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Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia

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Includes the onset and buildup of Schizophrenia symptoms

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Active Phase of Schizophrenia

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the person shows full-blown symptoms of schizophrenia

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Residual phase

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psychotic behavior and symptom severity decline

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What is type I schizophrenia?

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Type I schizophrenia is dominated by
positive symptoms

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What is type II schizophrenia?

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Type II schizophrenia is dominated by
negative symptoms

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Dopamine hypothesis

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hyperactive dopamine transmission results in schizophrenic symptoms

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Treatment for schizophrenia

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-antipsychotic drugs
-psycho therapy (traditional VS atypical)

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What is tardive dyskinesia

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A condition affecting the nervous system, often caused by long-term use of some psychiatric drugs

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Causes of schizophrenia

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abnormal brain structures, high expressed emotion

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GENDER DYSPHORIA

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Marked (mismatch) between one’s experienced or expressed gender and biologically assigned gender

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Guideline 1

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Psychologists understand that gender is a nonbinary construct that allows for a range of gender identities and that a person’s gender identity may not align with sex assigned at birth.

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What is a personality disorder?

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An enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs the sense of self, emotional experience, goals, and capacity for empathy and/or intimacy

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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People with this disorder display great instability, including major shifts in mood, an unstable self-image, impulsivity, relational conflict and fear of abandonment

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Causes of BPD

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Lack of parental acceptance, neglect/abuse, amygdala, prefrontal cortex, serotonin

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Treatments of BPD

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Dialectical behavior therapy

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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People with histrionic personality disorder are extremely emotional and continually seek to be the center of attention

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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People with narcissistic personality
disorder are generally grandiose, need much admiration, and feel no empathy with others

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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People with antisocial personality disorder persistently disregard and violate others’ rights

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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This disorder is characterized by deep
distrust and suspicion of others

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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This disorder is characterized by
persistent avoidance of social
relationships and limited emotional
expression

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Schizotypal Personality Disorder

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This disorder is characterized by a range of interpersonal problems, marked by extreme discomfort in close relationships, odd ways of thinking, and behavioral
eccentricities

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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People with avoidant personality disorder are very uncomfortable and inhibited in social situations, overwhelmed by feelings
of inadequacy, and extremely sensitive to negative evaluation

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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People with dependent personality disorder have a pervasive, excessive need to be taken care of, are clinging and obedient, fearing separation from their loved ones

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Why are personality disorders
controversial?

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  • These disorders are particularly hard to diagnose and easy to misdiagnose, difficulties
    that indicate serious issues of reliability and validity
  • Problems with clinician judgments and subjectivity
  • Overlap among categories
  • Lack of cultural sensitivity
30
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competency to stand trial

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refers to the mental state at time of psychiatric examination after arrrest and before trial

31
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The insanity defense

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Innocent by reason of insanity; refers to the mental state at the time of the crime

32
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tarasoff ruling

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Obligates mental health professionals to break confidentiality when clients pose clear and imminent danger to other
person

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