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Psychological Disorders Pt 3 Flashcards

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A diagnostic category which describes inflexible behavior patterns that impair social relationships and functioning

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Personality disorders

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Inflexible behavior of personality disorders

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Inflexible- don’t change no matter what the context is

Behavior- traits

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Functioning of personality disorders

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Can’t keep a job, imprisonment

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Personality disorders: cluster A

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Includes the “odd or eccentric” disorder

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Personality disorders: cluster B

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Includes “dramatic and erratic” personality disorders

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Personality disorders: cluster C

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Includes “anxious and fearful” personality disorders

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Cluster A personality disorder- paranoid personality

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Constant and longstanding mistrust and suspicion of others. Interpret others motives as out to get you

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Cluster A personality disorder- schizoid personality

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Shows detachment and disinterest in all social relationships

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Cluster A personality disorder- schizotypal personality disorder

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Sense of discomfort with social relationships that coincides with eccentric behaviors and thoughts

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Erratic

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Unpredictable

In cluster B

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Cluster B personality- histrionic personality

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Characterized by excess and extreme emotions and ATTENTION SEEKING BEHAVIOR

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Always need to be center of attention, overly dramatic, and often inappropriately sexually provocative

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Histrionic personality

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Cluster B personality disorder: borderline personality

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Characterized by instability in relationships and moods

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Tend to have poor self-image ad very impulsive (highest suicide risks) and unpredictable. Black and white thinking

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Borderline personality

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Cluster B personality disorder: narcissistic personality

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Characterized by an exaggerated sense of self importance

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Often believes they are overly “special,” and that they are entitled to special treatment.
“Don’t you know who I am?”
Very self-absorbed

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Narcissistic personality

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Cluster B personality disorder: obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Pervasive preoccupation with order, perfectionism, and control (no flexibility)
Interferes with social relationships and ability to accomplish tasks

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Cluster B personality disorder: anti-social personality disorder

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Characterized by a lack of conscience for wrong doing toward anyone. Fail to conform to social norms and laws.

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Very deceitful, irresponsible, and dangerous. Often aggressive or con artists and fearless. No remorse for wrong doing

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Anti-social personality disorder

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Most dangerous criminals fall under what disorder

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Anti-social personality disorder

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Biological link to anti-social behavior

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PET scans illustrate reduction activation in a murderer’s frontal cortex and less activity in amygdala

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Cluster C personality disorder: avoidant personality

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Avoids most social situations because of a fear of criticism or rejection,

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Avoids all social interactions. Feels inadequate and doesn’t take risk to avoid embarrassment

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Avoidant personality

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Cluster C personality disorder: dependent personality

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Submissive personality type that has trouble making decisions or taking care of self without others.

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Lack self confidence in own judgement

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Dependent personality

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Category of disorders which individuals have abnormal interpretations, feelings, or behaviors towards a physical/bodily symptom

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Somatic Disorders

Soma-Body

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John believes his slight headache is life threatening and may be evidence of brain cancer

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Somatic disorder

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Somatic symptom disorder and illness anxiety disorder, what is more severe

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Examples of somatic disorders

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Somatic symptom disorder
Illness anxiety disorder
Conversion disorder
Factious disorder

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Individual has at least one physical symptom which disrupts their daily life coupled with excessive health concerns about the nature of their illness

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John goes to several doctors and reads web md constantly in response to his stomach aches even if all doctors have told him it is not a life threatening issue

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Somatic symptom disorder

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Somatic symptom disorder includes 75% of cases formerly known as

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Hypochondriasis

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Illness anxiety

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Individual who has extremely preoccupation with having or getting an illness even if they DO NOT have any physical symptoms or very mild symptoms

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Jan is extremely anxious about getting Ebola even though she has no symptoms. She checks her body and takes her temperature 10X a day to see if there is any evidence. She also avoids public places where she thinks there is any chance she could come contact w/ illness

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Illness anxiety

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Illness anxiety includes 25% of

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Hypochondriasis cases

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Illness anxiety disorder

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Side ache- I guess I end an appendectomy

Headache- probably brain tumor

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Conversion

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Refers to the LOSS OF A PHYSICAL OR SENSORY FUNCTION when the is NO NEUROLOGICAL/MEDICAL CAUSE to explain

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Physical function of conversion

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Blindness, deafness, paralyzed

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Blindness/paralysis when nothing wrong with the body

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Conversion

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Conversion symptoms often have sudden

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Onsets, terminations, and reappearances

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Factitious disorder

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Conditions in which a person deceives others by pretending they have an illness by deliberately producing, faking, or exaggerating symptoms even in the absence of external rewards

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Factitious work

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FAKEticious

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Factitious disorder imposed on another

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Involves falsifying physical symptoms on another person, usually a child, most often by injuring other person

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