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Psy 3010 Ch 5,6,10 Flashcards

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1
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  • Factitious disorder in which a person causes symptoms and claims he/she has a physical or mental disorder.
  • More common in women and rare.
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Munchhausen Disorder

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Refers to the deliberate production of physical or psychological symptoms with some external motivation.

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Malingering

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Deliberately falsifying or producing physical or psychological symptoms.

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Factitious disorder

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Involves at least one physical symptom that causes a person a great deal of distress as well as impairment in daily functioning.
-Person has recurrent thoughts that the symptom is serious or has great anxiety about the symptom or one’s health.

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Somatic Symptom disorder

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  • Person is preoccupied with having some serious disease that may explain general bodily changes.
  • May worry about having a particular disease even after medical tests prove otherwise.
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Illness Anxiety disorder

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  • Experience motor or sensory problems that suggest a neurological or medical disorder, even though one has not been found.
  • Ex: sudden blindness, deafness
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Conversion disorder

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  • Education of children and parents
  • Attending to uncommon bodily changes.
  • Cope with traumatic events
  • Adequate health care
  • Anxiety management
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Somatic symptom disorder treatment

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  • Interviews
  • Questionnaires
  • Personality Assessment
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Somatic symptom disorder assessment

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  • Cognitive therapy

- Behavior Therapy

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Psychological treatments of Somatic symptom disorder

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Involves examining inaccurate statements a person may be making and encouraging the person to challenge the thought and think more realistically.

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Cognitive Therapy

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Helps a person reduce excess behaviors such as checking symptoms and visiting doctors.

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Behavior therapy

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Lexapro, Prozac, Luvox, and Paxil

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Somatic symptom disorder treatment

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Selective serotonergic reuptake inhibitors

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Lexapro,Prozac, Luvox, Paxil

Improves anxiety and depression

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Separation of emotions, thoughts, memories, or other inner experiences from ones self.

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Disassociation

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Disassociation examples

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Daydreaming, spacing out, cannot recall all details of certain events

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Involve disturbances in consciousness, memory, or identity.

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Dissociative disorders

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Forgetting highly personal information, typically after a traumatic event.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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Have two or more personalities within themselves

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Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

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Involves persistent experiences of detachment from one’s body as if in a dream state.

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Depersonalization/Derealization disorder

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15% of people exposed to a traumatic event report high levels of

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dissociative symptoms

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Symptoms of these disorders are hidden within other disorders

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Dissociative disorders

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Semi-structured interview used for dissociative disorders

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SCID-D-R

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Dissociative Experiences Scale

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Questionnaire used for dissociative disorders

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Readiness to act in a certain way

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Personality trait

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Extreme levels of personality traits that cause great impairment in functioning, especially social and occupational functioning.

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Personality disorder

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Unusual way of thinking about self or others

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Cognitive feature

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Unusual way of experiencing and expressing emotions

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Affective feature

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Unusual way of interacting with others

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Interpersonal feature

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Unusual way of controlling impulses

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Impulse control

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Constantly mistrustful and suspicious of others, even those they know well.

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Paranoid personality disorder

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Have little interest in establishing or maintaining relationships with others and show little emotional expression.
-Few friends, rarely marry, few expressions

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Schizoid Personality disorder

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Interpersonal deficits, cognitive and perceptual aberrations, and behavioral eccentricities

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Schizotypal personality disorder

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Pattern of behavior that reflects an extreme disregard for and violation of the rights of others.

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Diagnostic construct related to antisocial personality disorder

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Psychopathy

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A pattern of impulsivity and unstable affect, interpersonal relationships, and self-image.

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Borderline personality disorder

36
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Displays pervasive and excessive emotionality and attention seeking.

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Historionic personality disorder

37
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Display grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy for others.

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Pervasive pattern of anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, and social hypersensitivity.

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Avoidant personality disorder

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Pervasive, excessive need to be cared for, leading to submissiveness, clinging behavior, and fears of separation.

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Dependent personality disorder

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Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

41
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Traditional view of borderline personality disorder

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Borderline of neurosis and psychosis.

42
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Prone to various anxiety and physical disorders because of their worrying, indecision, and stress.

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder sufferers

43
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3 risk factors for personality disorders

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Child maltreat, poor interpersonal skills, emotional dysregulation

44
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neurotransmitter is most linked to avoidant/fearful personality disorders

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Nordadrengeric and GABA

45
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A period of time, usually several minutes, in which a person experiences intense feelings of fear, apprehension that something terrible will happen and physical symptoms.

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Panic attack

46
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Extreme levels of worry about various events or activities. Is a life long problem.

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Generalized Anxiety disorder.

47
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Obsessions occur spontaneously, frequently, and intrusively.

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Obsessive compulsive disorder distress

48
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Excessive or unreasonable fear or a particular object or situation

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Specific/Situational phobia

49
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Preoccupied with an imaginary or slight defect in their appearance.

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Body dysmorphic disorder

50
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Accelerated heart rate, chest pain, dizziness, feeling of chocking

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Panic attack symptoms

52
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With regard to compulsions, how long would one last to be considered different from normal rituals such as counting change every time you empty your pockets?

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Must take place at least 1 hour per day but often last much longer.

53
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Regularly experience unexpected panic attacks. At least one of the attacks must be followed by a month or more of concern about having another attack.

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Panic disorder

54
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Anxiety about being in places where panic symptoms may occur, especially in places where escape may be difficult.

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Agoraphobia

54
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Intense on going fear or potentially embarrassing social or performance situations

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Social phobia

55
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How long after a traumatic event does PTSD most often develop?

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3 to 6 months of trauma

56
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Marked by frequent re-experiencing of a traumatic event through images, memories, nightmares, or flashbacks

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PTSD

57
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Distressing memories and dreams, negative mood, disassociation, avoidance, and arousal that last between 3 days to 1 month after the trauma.

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Acute stress disorder

58
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which type of emotion is most often present with PTSD?

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Detachment from others, fewer positive emotional responses, expectation of negative consequences

59
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Compulsion to pull out one’s hair, eyelashes, eyebrows, and other body hair.

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trichotillomania

60
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the genetic basis for twin studies on anxiety disorders shows

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Anxiety related disorders do have some moderate genetic basis.

61
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which part of the brain is associated with fearful responses

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Amygdala

62
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which part of the brain may be activated to create a perceived threat when there is actually none present

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Septal-hippocampal system

63
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the neurotransmitter most closely related to mood and motor behavior

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Seratonin

64
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In which a person slowly approaches a feared situation while practicing relaxation training and/or cognitive therapy.

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systematic desensitization

65
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Involves exposing a person to fear with little preparation.

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Flooding

66
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  • Mental health professionals hold negative perceptions of people with these disorders.
  • Clients difficult to manage
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Personality Disorders Stigma

67
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aspects of the brain that are related to somatic symptom disorders

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Amygdala, Hypothalamus, Prefrontal cortex, cingulate cortex, somatosensory cortex

68
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aspects of the brain that are related to personality disorders

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Amygdala, thalamus, basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus

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