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Psych Disorders Flashcards

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ADHD

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Marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

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Medical model

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Concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital

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DSM-5

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The American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders

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Anxiety disorders

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Characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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In which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal

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Panic disorder

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An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.

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Phobia

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Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation

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Social anxiety disorder

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Intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such

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Agoraphobia

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Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic

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OCD

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Disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions

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PTSD

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Disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience

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Post traumatic growth

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Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises

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Mood disorders

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Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes

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Major repressive disorder

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Mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, atleast one of which must be either, depressed or loss of interest

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Mania

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Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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Bipolar disorder

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A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania

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Rumination

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Compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes

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Schizophrenia

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Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression

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Psychosis

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In which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

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Delusions

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False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders

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Hallucination

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False sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause

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Conversion disorder

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In which a person’s experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found

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Illness anxiety disorder

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In which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

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Dissociative disorders

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In which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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Dissociative identity disorder

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Rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities

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Anorexia nervosa

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An eating disorder in which a person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight

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Bulimia nervosa

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A person alternated binge eating with purging, excessive exercise, or fasting

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Binge eating disorder

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Significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging or fasting that marks bulimia nervosa

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Personality disorders

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Characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Antisocial personality disorder

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A person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members

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Psychological disorders

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A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

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