Mental Health Flashcards

1
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Name some psychological disorders?

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  1. Anxiety disorder
  2. Mood disorder
  3. Personality disorder
  4. Psychotic disorder
  5. Dissociative disorder
  6. Eating disorder
  7. Sleep disorder
  8. Substance disorder
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2
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What is an anxiety disorder?

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  1. an emotional state of unpleasant physical and mental arousal
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What is separation anxiety disorder?

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Fear or anxiety about separation from attachment figures, that is developmentally inappropriate

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4
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What is selective mutism?

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Failure to speak in social situations

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5
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What is specific phobia

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unreasonable fear of a certain object or situation

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What is social anxiety disorder?

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Fear or avoidance of social interactions or situations

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What is panic disorder?

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Abrupt surges of fear or discomfort

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What is agoraphobia?

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fearful of public open spaces or being enclosed

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9
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What is generalized anxiety disorder

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persistent and excessive anxiety

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What is substance/medication induced disorder?

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anxiety linked to substance or intoxication withdrawal

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What is a somatoform disorder?

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A psychological disorder characterized primarily by physical symptoms

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What is the criteria for diagnosing a somatic symptom disorder?

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  1. One or more of the somatic symptom disorders include one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing.
  2. Excessive thoughts, feelings or behaviors related to somatic symptoms.
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13
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How many types of somatic disorders are there?

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7

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What is a conversion disorder?

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  1. individuals experience a change in sensory or motor function with no apparent physiological cause and are affected by psychological factors.
    More common women, convert distressing event
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15
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Define illness anxiety disorder

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Individuals are excessively preoccupied and worried about the possibility of having or getting a serious illness.

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16
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What is Factitious disorder?

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  1. Individuals pretend to have or produce physical or physiological symptoms for no apparent reason.
17
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Define psychological factors affecting medical conditions?

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  1. These factors are diagnosed when attitudes or behaviors have a negative effect on a medical disorder that a person has
18
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Mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality

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Schizophrenia

19
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What is a positive symptoms of psychosis.

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Adding something that is not there

20
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What is negative psychosis

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removing something

21
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Delusions
Disordered thoughts and speech
Hallucinations are all signs of what type of psychosis

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positive

22
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Removal of normal emotional responses:
Flat affect
Reduced quantity or fluency of speech is what type of psychosis

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negative

23
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Loss of contact with reality

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psychosis

24
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What are contributing factors to schizophrenia?

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  1. Hereditary

2. Environmental factors

25
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How is schizophrenia treated

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  1. antipsychotic drugs
  2. training programs
  3. community support
  4. psychotherapy
  5. family education
26
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What two criterion are required for a diagnosis of schizophrenia?

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  1. Hallucinations
  2. Delusions
  3. Disorganized speech
27
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False beliefs that usually involve misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences

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Delusions

28
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Involves hearing, seeing, tasting, or physically feeling things that no one else does auditory, hallucinations are most common

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hallucinations

29
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Characterized by collection of speech abnormalities that can make persons verbal communication difficult or impossible to comprehend

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Disorganized speech

30
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Bizarre or inappropriate behavior, actions or gestures and inappropriate affect such as exhibiting incorrect emotional responses for a given context

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Disorganized or catatonic behavior

31
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Blunted or flat affect (emotional inexpressive and apparent unresponsiveness) alogia (poverty of speech) a sociality (apparent lack of desire for the company of others) anhedonia (apparent inability to show or feel pleasure) and a volition of will spontaneity and initiative

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negative symptoms

32
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at least 1 psychotic symptom for less than 1 month

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brief psychotic disorder

33
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displays symptoms of schizophrenia for 1-6 months usually transition to schizophrenia

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schizophreniform disorder

34
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symptoms of schizophrenia and a major depressive, manic, or mixed episode, major mood episode must be present for the majority of the illness

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schizoaffective disorder

35
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Disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of abnormal mood

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mood disorder

36
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sustained internal emotion that reflects a person’s view of life

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mood

37
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refers to an individuals visible emotion in the moment

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affect

38
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What are the two categories of mood disorders?

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  1. Depressive and related disorders

2. Bipolar related disorders