Psychological Disorder Flashcards

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Being different from most other people in ones culture define what

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A psychological disorder

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Deviant distressful and dysfunctional pattern of thoughts,feelings,and actions

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Psychological disorder

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What is key to defining a disorder

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Dysfunction

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The concept that disease in this case psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed treated and in most case cured often through treatment in a hospital

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Medical model

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These people were sometimes caged in zoo like conditions

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“Mad” people

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Middle Ages thought psychological disorders were considered what

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The Devils work

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There may be a difficulty in the persons environment in the persons current interpretations of events or in persons bad habits and poor social skills

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Biopsychosocial approach

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The American psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders fourth edition

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DSM-IV-TR

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To be diagnosed with a specific disorders, people have to what?

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Fit the symptoms

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What is used to allow for a common language to be used between professionals

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Diagnostic labels

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Give the stages of schizophrenia

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  1. delusional
  2. briefpsychotic- 1 month
  3. Schizophreniaform-1-6 months
  4. schizophrenia anything greater than 6 months
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