Psychopathology, Etiology, and Psychodynamics of Schizophrenia, Mood and Anxiety Disorders

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Tendency to speak very little or to convey little substance of meaning (poverty of content)

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Alogia

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Holding seemingly contradictory beliefs or feelings about the same person, event, or situation

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Ambivalence

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Feeling no joy or pleasure from life or any activities or relationships

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Anhedonia

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A vague unpleasant feeling of apprehension

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Anxiety

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Feelings of indifference toward people, activities, and events

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Apathy

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Loss of interest in social relationships

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Asocial

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Fragmented or poorly related thoughts and ideas

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Associative Looseness

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An orientation organized through experiences, which respond consistently to an object, person, or situation.

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Attitude Therapy

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It aimed to modify a patient’s patterns of behavior, which is viewed as a group of symptoms, rather than one specific symptom.

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Attitude Therapy

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Lack of volition: Absence of will, ambition, or drive to take action or accomplish task

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Avolition

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form of therapy that seeks to identify and help change potentially self-destructive or unhealthy behaviors of patient. The focus of treatment is often on current problems and how to change them

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Behavioral Therapy

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patient may had at least one manic episode that may be preceded or followed by hypomanic or major depressive episodes. In some cases, mania may trigger a break from reality (psychosis). ? disorder can be severe and dangerous

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Bipolar Disorder I

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patient had at least one major depressive episode and at least one hypomanic episode, but never had a manic episode.

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Bipolar Disorder II

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Restricted range of emotional feeling, tone, or mood

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Blunted Effect

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Psychologically induced immobility occasionally marked by periods of agitation or excitement; the client seems motionless, as if in a trance

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Catatonia

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This form of psychotherapy focuses on changing harmful thinking patterns, feelings, and behaviors.

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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy

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A method of psychotherapy that promotes the use of mindfulness to accept the traumatic event

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Commitment Therapy

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Therapies that allow patients to explore and express their thoughts, feelings, and experiences in a safe and creative environment

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Creative Therapies

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The patient had at least two years for adult or one year in children and teenagers of many periods of hypomania symptoms and periods of depressive symptoms (though less severe than major depression).

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Cyclothymic Disorder

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Fixed false beliefs that have no basis in reality

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Delusions

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Feeling of being detached from one’s thoughts, feelings, and body

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Depersonalization

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Feeling of disconnected from one’s surrounding environment

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Derealization

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This form of psychotherapy is for people with severe personality disturbances (which can include dissociative symptoms), and often takes place after the person has suffered abuse or trauma

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Dialectic-behavior Therapy

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A disconnection between a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or sense of who he or she is.

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Dissociation

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A mental illness in which there is a breakdown of mental functions that normally operate smoothly, such as memory, consciousness or awareness, and identity and/or perception.

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Dissociative Disorders

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Any activity that you engage in to redirect your mind off your current emotions. Instead of putting all your energy into the upsetting emotion, you reset your attention to something else.

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Distraction Techniques

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Imitation of the movements and gestures of another person whom the client is observing

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Echopraxia

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This technique is designed to treat people who have continuing nightmares, flashbacks, and other symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

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This helps teach the family about the disorder and helps family members recognize if the patient’s symptoms come back

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Family Therapy

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An unpleasant often strong emotion caused by expectation or awareness of danger

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Fear

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A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past, typically as the result of psychological trauma or taking mind altering drugs

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Flashbacks

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Absence of any facial expression that would indicate emotions or mood

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Flat Affect

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Continuous flow of verbalization in which the person jumps rapidly from one topic to another

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Fligh of Ideas

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strategies that can help a person manage their traumatic memories or strong emotions by focusing at present situation

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Grounding Techniques

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False sensory perceptions or perceptual experiences that do not exist in reality Ideas of reference: False impressions that external events have special meaning for the person

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Hallucinations

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A mental disorder in which the individual excessively save items and the idea of discarding items causes extreme stress

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Hoarding Disorder

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A mild form of mania, marked by elation and hyperactivity

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Hypomania

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called hypnotherapy. Uses guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness that is sometimes called a trance. The person’s attention is so focused while in this state that anything going on around the person is temporarily blocked out or ignored.

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Hypnosis

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Refers to producing false medical symptoms or exaggerating existing symptoms in hopes of being rewarded in some way.

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Malingering Disorder

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The act of living in the present moment to keep the victim’s thoughts and feelings at present circumstances or future possibilities than in the moment of the trauma.

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Mindfulness

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A mental illness marked by periods of great excitement or euphoria, delusions, and overactivity

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Mania

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A mental health condition characterized by sudden onset of intense apprehension or terror that last for 15-30 min

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Panic Disorder

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Persistent adherence to a single idea or topic; verbal repetition of a sentence, word, or phrase; resisting attempts to change the topic

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Perseveration

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An extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something.

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Phobia

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A mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event - either experiencing it or witnessing it

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Post-traumatic Stress Disorder

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A humanistic approach to changing the behavior patterns, values, interpretation of events, and life outlook of individuals who are not adjusting well to their environment(s) (e.g. home, school, and workplace).

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Psychoeducation

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sometimes called “talk therapy,” that includes several forms of therapy.

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Psychotherapy

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A group of disorder characterized by disturbance in thinking, feelings, perceptions and behavior

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Schizophrenia

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Mental health disorders characterized by an intense focus on physical (somatic) symptoms that causes significant distress and/or interferes with daily functioning.

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Somatic Symptom Disorder

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The act or an instance of taking one’s own life voluntarily and intentionally

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Suicide

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A chronic condition characterized by pulling, picking, scraping or biting the hair, nails or skin, that often cause self-damage.

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Trichotillomania