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Sadness

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Dysphoria

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Focusing on the individual

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Idiographic

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Occurring suddenly and time limited

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Acute

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A belief that is completely false

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Delusion

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Multiple disorders

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Co-Morbility

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State of excitement

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Mania

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Assessment of a person’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral state

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Mental Status

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A collection of basic knowledge about a concept that serves as a guide

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Schema

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Focusing on groups of individuals

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Nomothetic

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Continuing or ongoing

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Chronic

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Failure to cope in response to stress

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Decompensation

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An inability to recognize objects

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Agnosia

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Description of treatments that apply the same principles across multiple disorders

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Transdiagnostic

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Surgical procedure pioneered by Moniz which involved cutting in the frontal lobe area

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Prefrontal Lobotomy

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Methods people use to deal with stressful situations

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Coping Skills

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Measure of effectiveness of a treatment technique in psychotherapy

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Efficacy

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Study of how environmental conditions can change the expression of genes without changing the genetic sequence

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Epigenetics

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The cause of something

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Etiology

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An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present

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Hallucination

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Faking for a purpose

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Malingering

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Loss of contact with reality

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Psychosis

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The extent to which something measures what it is supposed to measure

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Validity

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The mental process of disconnecting from one’s thoughts, feelings, memory, or identity

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Dissociation

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Feelings of elations

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Euphoria

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The consistency of a measure

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Reliability

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Difficulty in speaking

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Alogia

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An impairment of Language

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Aphasia

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Unintelligible unorganized speech

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Word Salad

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The process of determining which of two or more diseases or disorders with overlapping symptoms a particular patient has

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Differential Diagnosis

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Psychomotor symptom that leads to a decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture.

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Waxy Flexibility

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Painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina in response to sexual intercourse

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Vaginismus

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Loss of ability to execute motor movements

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Apraxia

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A failure to engage in goal directed behavior

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Avolition

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An association of words by sound rather than by meaning

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Clang

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Often called the “ice pick lobotomy,” it’s use was pioneered by Walter Freeman and consisted of forcing an ice pick into the back of the eyelid in order to destroy the part of the brain thought to be responsible for mental illness.

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Transorbital Lobotomy

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The belief that other people have power to remove thoughts and/or feelings from a person’s mind.

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Thought Withdrawal

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A loss of identity or feeling detached from one’s self

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Depersonalization

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A feeling that one’s surrounding are not real

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Derealization

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The belief that others can insert thoughts, feelings, behaviors into one’s mind

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Thought Insertion

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The idea that psychological disorders arise from inherent vulnerabilities and environmental stressors

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Diathesis Stress Model

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The belief that others can hear or are aware of a person’s thoughts and/or feelings

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Thought Broadcasting

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Painful sexual intercourse

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Dyspareunia

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Mimicking and repeating something that is said

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Echolalia

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A condition similar to mania but less severe

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Hypomania

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The interpretation of common events as having high personal significance

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Idea of Reference

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Lack of logical connections

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Loose Association

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A made up word that only the person who made it up knows the definition of

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Neologism

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Repetition of a particular response despite the cessation of a stimulus

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Perseveration

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A discredited theory that mothers of people diagnosed with schizophrenia were responsible for their child’s diagnosis

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Schizophrenogenic Mother

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A neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements

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Tardive Dyskinesia

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