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Test 4 Review Part 2 Flashcards

1
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Know the questions we ask to define abnormality

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  • Is the behavior considered strange in the person’s culture
  • Does the behavior cause personal distress
  • Is the behavior maladaptive
  • Is the person a danger to themselves or others
  • Is the personal legally responsible for their own actions
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What is the difference between adaptive and maladaptive behavior?)

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maladaptive-bad and negative. Adaptive-good and help function

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What is the DSM-V?

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diagnostic and static manual that creates common language between professionals

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know what these two say about mental disorders and how to treat them. Biological Perspective (medical model)

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Underlying physical disorders cause mental disorders, structural, brain biochemical, genetic, or infections

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know what these two say about mental disorders and how to treat them. Bio-psycho-social Perspective

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Combination of biological, psychological, and social causes

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What is the most common psychological disorder?

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anxiety

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What does research suggest is the most effective means of treating most mental illness?

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medication and therapy

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). Panic Attack

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Episode of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror. Pounding heart, uncontrollable shaking, sensation of choking, feelings of going to die or go crazy

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). Panic Disorder

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Person experiences recurring, unpredictable episodes of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror. Diagnosed after multiple panic attacks

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). PTSD

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Flashbacks, nightmares, intrusive memories, high anxiety

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What is survivor’s guilt

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Guilt over surviving a harrowing situation

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). Agoraphobia

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Irrational fear and avoidance of any social or performance situation

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). Social Phobia

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Intense fear of being in a situation from which escape is not possible

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). Specific Phobia

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Marked fear of a specific object or situation

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OCD- what is an obsession

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Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced at some time during the disturbance that caused anxiety or distress. Person attempts to suppress obsession with a compulsion

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OCD- what is a compulsion

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Repetitive behavior or mental acts that are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or distress

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Review the anxiety disorders we went over in class (general knowledge). Hording -know its a form of OCD

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Acquiring and failing to throw out a large number of items that would appear to have little or no value to others

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What is the difference between anxiety and fear?

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  • Anxiety is a response to an unknown, internal, vague problem
  • Fear is a response to a known external defined problem
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What is Major Depressive Disorder

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Marked by feelings of great sadness, despair and hopelessness, loss of ability to experience pleasure

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Major Depressive Disorder symptoms and signs

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  • Changes in appetite, weight, or sleep patterns
  • Loss of energy
  • Difficulty in thinking and concentrating
  • Recurrent thoughts of death and dying
  • Psychotic depressing
  • Hallucinations and delusions
  • Psychomotor disturbances
  • Slowed body movements, reaction time and speech
  • Constant movements, fidgeting, wringing of hands
21
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Major Depressive M:F ratio

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3:1 female to male

22
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Major Depressive Disorder Treatments

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Medication, psychotherapy, social support and exercise

23
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Difference between Bi-Polar 1 and 2

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1 - Depression switches with Mania

2 - Depression switches with hypomania

24
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Mania

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Excessive euphoria, inflated self-esteem, wild optimism, and hyperactivity with delusions of grandeur. Less 7 days

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hypomania

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Less intense than mania and lasts 3-4 days

26
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Mixed Episodes

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Depression and mania occur at the same time

27
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Active vs. Passive Suicidal Ideation

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Active- I have a plan

Passive - I don’t have a plan but would rather be dead

28
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High VS low Risk Behavior

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High - Using a gun

Low - Cutting arm

29
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High VS Low rescue potential

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High - Pills

Low - gun

30
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What is a delusion of grandeur

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Thinking they are famous

31
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What is a paranoid delusion

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Unreasonably suspicious

32
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What is a positive symptom of schizophrenia

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Abnormal symptom that shouldn’t be present, is there. (hallucinations, delusions)

33
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What is a negative symptom of schizophrenia

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Symptoms that should be present, but are missing (social withdrawal, apathy)

34
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What is flat affect?

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Lack of showing any emotion

35
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What is inappropriate affect?

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Crying when something is funny, or laughing when sad

36
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What is derailment?

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Can’t follow a thought to completion

37
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What are auditory and visual hallucinations?

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Hearing or seeing things

38
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Which gender is diagnosed with schizophrenia more often?

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Males

39
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At what age is schizophrenia normally diagnosed?

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18-25

40
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Factitious Disorder (Munchausen’s)

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Intentional production or faking of physical or psychological signs or symptoms

41
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Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another (Munchausen’s by proxy)

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Same as Munchausen’s by the inclusion of another person

42
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What is Malingering?

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Faking psychiatric illness (motivated by external incentives: disability or legal issues)

43
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What is Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Multiple Personalities

44
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Why is Dissociative Identity Disorder controversal

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Hard to observe

45
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Refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, intense fear of gaining weight

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Anorexia

46
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Binging and purging

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Bulimia

47
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What are the main overall symptoms of ODD (Oppositional defiant disorder)

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pattern of angry, irritable mood lasting 5 months

48
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What are the main overall symptoms of CD (conduct disorder)

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Repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which basic rights of others or social norms are violated

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