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What is abnormal psychology

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scientific study for mental illness,disorders and anything that needs treatment and prevention

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Why do people not seek therapy

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because its expensive, people might live far away, ignorance and stigma that were going to be poorly judged and negative eugenics

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What is MSS

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Medical student syndrome, it is when you self diagnose

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What are the 4 D’s

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Deviant,Distressing,dysfunctional and dangerous

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What is deviant

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When were different from the rest of people

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What is distressing

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This applies to either the person or others but can also be non disordered

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What is dysfunctional

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Interfere with abilities and carries out everyday with activity life

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What is dangerous

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When people are displaying them and those around them

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What is the demonic model

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When people didn’t know what mental illnesses were and thought to be behaving abnormally so they did evil things to punish them

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What is the medical model

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during the renaissance changes happend, and the belief of mental illness was bio based

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who is pinel

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Imporved mentally ill people.

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How can syphilis impact our mental health

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If left untreated, a bacteria can affect something in the brain that gives us mental illness

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What is the limitation when dealing with medical problems and mental health

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We need to take in consideration the bio factors and disregard the others

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What is the biopsychosocial perspective

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We need to take into consideration nature/nurture,bio effects , psych and social factors

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What is the type of classification in the world of psychology?

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The DSM

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What is the full name of the DSM

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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What is the DSM used for

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A reference book for mental health professionals

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What does the DSM give

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Organizes disorder symptoms and the criteria that must be met to diagnose someone. It does not offer any explanation

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What are the cons of the DSM

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Overbloated ( too many categories) , reliant on medical modal and lack of reliability.

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How are labels negative

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Biasing power, we see through the filter of labels,they are always perceived by the label , biases in professionals

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How are labels positive

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relief to someone,more understanding, facilitates communication with professionals

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What is the person fist language

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Someone who suffers from mental illness and it not who they are, but what is apart of them

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What is identity first language

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They are the mental illness and they own it

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What is the importance of both of these languages

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To reduce stigma and not feel ashamed

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When do we classify neurodevelopment disorders
At birth
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What does ASD stand for
Autism spectrum disorder
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What is the meaning for spectrum in ASD
the level of severity and the development
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What are the symptoms of ASD
social deficient, Emotional deficiency, cognitve, attention,flexibility in thinking, perspective, abnormal reactions, interests and sameness.
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How doe the hallmark affect us
all aspects of humanity is affected
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What is schizophrenia also known for
the cancer of mental illness
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Who does schizophrenia affect more
Young adulthood
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What gender is most affected by schizophrenia
It hits harder for men
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What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Delusion,hallucinations ,Disorganized thinking , disorganized emotions ,disorganized behaviours , disorganized speech , attention and catatonia.
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What are delusions
high irrational beliefs not real
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What is hallucinations
perception of stimulus without stimulus
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What is disorganized thinking
Not being able to think straight
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What is disorganized emotions
emotions are inappropriate to situations
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What is disorganized behaviour
Behaviours inappropriate to the situation
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What is disorganized speach
Speech is incoherent ( word salad)
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How is our attention when diagnosed with schizophrenia
We cant focus on what were supposed to have attention on
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What is catatonia
We stay in a body position and we dont move for hours,or days
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What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Flat affect,avolition ,attentional deficits and social withdrawl
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What is the flat affect
Difficulty of expression emotions and feeling
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What is anolition
no motivation at all
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What is alogia
Total absence of speech
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What are the cognitive deficits
Attention, working memory and executive function
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What is bipolar and related disorders
Cycling between 2 extreme moods.
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What are some mania symptoms
Increased energy , euphoric mood, extreme irritability,overtalkative.distractability,unrealistc beliefs , increase sexual drive,abuse of drugs, aggressive behaviours, denial that everything is wrong,psychotic episodes
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What is hypomania
same symptoms as mania but less intese
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what is the one difference with mania and hypomania
No psychotic episodes
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What is bipolar I
Alternating between major depression and mania
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what is Bipolar II
Alternating between major depression and hypomania
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what is cyclothymic disorder
Alternating between mild depression and hypomania
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What is good about fear and anxiety
They are essential for survival,keeps us safe and help pursue our goals
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What is maladaptive fear and anxiety
Overexagerated ,uncontrollable and dysfunctional that affects our everyday activities
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What is one thing that anxiety disorders have in common
They all have maladaptive anxiety
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What is agoraphobia
Terrified of public places , terrified of what can happen in public places and become dependant of others
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What is the main feature of OCD
They are connected with maladaptive anxiety
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Why did they move OCD into their own category
because they have 2 features they don't share with it
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When is ocd bad
When it becomes abnormal (destructive ) or obsessed where its fair fetch and causes high levels of distress and anxiety
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What are compulsions
Behaviours and mental acts that we feel pressured to do them over and over again.
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What happens when we resist complusions
We explode and it becomes bigger, we seek vengance
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What is the link between hoarding and complusions
The need to save everything in our possession , difficult to get rid of stuff
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what is difficult about hoarding
the need to cover everything and anything
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How is hoarding dangerous
It affects relationships and our own health
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What is the full name of PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder
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How can ptsd develop
Sever trauma or very intense stress
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what is a direct situation to ptsd
You are living it
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what is vicarious situation of ptsd
You are watching it happen
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What is reliving in ptsd
reliving trauma , like were there again
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what happens to arrousal and reactivity in ptsd
Nervous system is arroused , like being in flight or fight
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What is avoidance in ptsd
avoiding any stimulus that can trigger us by shutting down
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what is cognitives and moods in ptsd
When our moods shift
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How can dissociative disorders appear
results in trauma
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what is dissociation
when we disconnect psychologically, from our body and own identities
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What is a negative symptom of dissociation
Memory, where were going to lose memories and not aware of them
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What are some positive symptoms
Depersonalization where we disconnect from ourself like were watching from a distance Derealization were we disconnect from the world Identity , where we disconnect from our own identity
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How does dissociative identity happen
in childhood trauma
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what does DID compose of
Multiple personality
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How can subpersonalities interact
they might not be aware of each other, they know each other and might or might not get along or they are aware but some are not aware
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What is somatic symptoms disorder
Overly concerend with the symptoms were experiencing
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What is factitious disorder
going out of our way to look ill and pretend we are and making us look ill
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Munchausen syndrome by proxy is what
We do everything is our power so that the person under our care is always sick
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how is Munchausen syndrome by proxy difficult to diagnose
Because the people take them away when suspision arise
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What is the motivation in anorexia
Being terrified of fat and gaining weight, so restrictive caloric intake to the point of starvation
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What is the motivation of feeding disorders
afraid of food by texture,colour
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what is bulimia nervosa
binge eating episodes followed by ways of getting rid of calories like laxative, self vomiting or excerise
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What is binge eating disorder
When we have a binge episode but nothing else
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What is personality
Typical way we think ,fee and behave
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What is a personality disorder
the way of thinking,feeling or behaving is inflexble ,maladaptive and violate social norms
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what is cluster A in personality disorders
Odd and eccentric where there's extreme social detachment , extreme suspicion and mistrust of others
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What is cluster B in personality disorders
Dramtical,emotional and erratic, where its poor impulse contral,emotion and behaviour regulation
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What is cluster C in personality disorders
Fearful and anxious where they are overly dependant on others for the simplest decisions. they are prefectionsist but wont accomplish anything
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Where does borderline personality disorder stem from
Cluster B
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What are the symptoms of someone with borderline personality disorder
strong and uncontrollable emotions,bouts,depression or anger,abandonment,emptiness,impulse control and suicide

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