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pyschological disorder

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a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition emotion or behavior

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medical model

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the concept that diseases haave physical causes that can be diagnosed treated often through the hospital

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epigenetics

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the study of enviormental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

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DSM-5

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a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders

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ADHD

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around age 7 one or more symptoms will appear: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity

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anxiety disorders

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distressing persistent anziety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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social anxiety disorder

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intense fear of social situations leading to avoidance

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generalized anxiety dosirder

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an anxiety disorder in awhich a person is continualy test apprehensive and autonomic nervous system arousal

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panic disorder

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anxiety disorder marked by episodes of intense dread in where a person experiences terror
ex: chest pain choking

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agoraphobia

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fear and avoidance of situations such as crowds
ex; im afaid of going outside and i dont have contorl over it

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phobia

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abnormal fear
ex: death

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OCD

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unwanted repetitive thoughts or and actions
ex; if you dont turn the nossle 10 times you will fall off a cliff

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PTDS

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haunting memories that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic event
ex: i went to war now i have ptsd of my friends dying

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major depressve dsorder

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happens in the absence of drugs or a medical condition for two or more weeks
ex: depressed moods

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bpolar disorder

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alternating between sadness and overexcitement
ex: im so sad then im so happy constantly

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mania

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hyperactive widly optimistic state
ex: going absolutely crazy

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rumination

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cumpulsive freeting and overthings about our problems
ex: thinking and obsessing over problems and sloutions

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schizophrenia

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disprganized delusional thinking. ex: inappropriate emotions and actions

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psychotic disorders

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where a person loses contact with reality
ex: irrantional idead and disorted perceptions

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hallucination

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false sensory experiences such as seeing something that isnt there
ex: theres a bear on my roof (theres not)

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delusion

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false beliefes that may accompany psychotic disorders

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chronic schizophrenia

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symptoms usually appear by late abolescence or early adulthood. as one ages the episodes are longer and recovery periods are shorten

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acute schizophrenia

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response to an emotionally traumatic event and has extended recovery periods

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somatic symptom disorder

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symptoms take a somatic bodily form without apparent physical cause

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conversion disorder

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a rare somatoform disorder where aperson expereinces very specific genuine physical symptoms for no psychological basis can be found

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illness anxiety disorder

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a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

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dissociative disorder

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disorders where consious awareness becomes seperated from pervious memories thoughts and feelings

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DID

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dissociative disorder where a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities

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personality disorders

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inflexible and enduiring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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antisocial personality disorder

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usually a man exhibits a lack of consiouce for wrongdoing even twords freinds and family

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anorexia nervosa

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body dysmorphia. tupically begins as a weightloss diet. drop weight over healthy standard.
ex: stopping eating and too much exerise

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bulimia nervosa

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episodes of overeating of high calorie foods followed by vommitiing fasting or too much exercise

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binge eating disorder

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eating disorder characterized by signigicant binge eating episodes.
ex: im going to the gym and eating healthily ( then you never do)

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psychotherapy

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treatments unvoling psychological tecniques consits of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

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biomedical therapy

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pathophysiological causes and offers pharmacutical and medical solutions for symptom alleviation

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ecletic approach

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an approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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psychoanalysis

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feuds theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts. the technique used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscous tensions

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resistance

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blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden material

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interpretation

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analysts noting supposed dream meanings resistances and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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transference

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a patients transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
ex: love or hatred for a parent

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psychodynamic therapy

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therapy deriving from the psychoanalystic traditin that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood eperiences and that seeks to enhance self insight

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insight therapies

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a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a persons awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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client centered therapies

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humanistic therapy by carl rogers says a therapist ill use active listening with empathetic enviorment to facilitate clients growth.
ex: person-centered therapy

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client centered therapies

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active listening

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empathetic listening in which the listener echoes and clarifies.
ex: a feature of carl rodgers client centered therapy

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unconditional positive regard

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according to rogers an attitude of total acceptance toward another person
ex: i will love you no matter what you do or say

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behavior therapy

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therapy that applies learning principles to the elemination of unwanted behaviors

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counter-conditioning

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a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new reponses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors based on classical conditioning

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exposure therapies

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confroning an emotion arousing stimulus directly and alot to lead an decrease in the emotional response
ex: you hate spiders? i will put one on you every other day until the phobia is gone

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virtual reality exposure therapu

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an anxiety treatment that progressivelt exposes people to simulations of their greates ferars
ex: airplane flying

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aversive conditioning

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counterconditioning that associates an unpleasent state with unwatned behavior
ex: drinking alcohol for nausea

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token economy

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operant conditioning procedure in where people earn a token or reward for a desired behavior in exchange for other later on rewards

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cognitive therapy

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therapy that teaches people new more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
ex: based on the assumption that thoughts intervene betewn events and out emotional reactions

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rational-emotional behavioral therapy REBT

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a confrontational cognitive therapy developed by Albery Ellis tha tvigiorously challanges peoples illigical self defeating attitudes and assumptions

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cognitive behavioral therapy CBT

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integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
ex: chaning self defeating thinking and changing behavior

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group therapy

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therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction

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family therapy

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therapy that treats the family as a system views an individuals unanted behaviors as influenced by or at other family members

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meta-analysis

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a procedure fro statistically combining the results of many different reasearch studies

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therapeutic alliance

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a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constuctively to overcome the clients problem

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psycho pharmacology

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the study of effects of drugs on mind and behavior

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antipsychotic drugs

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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and otehr forms of severse thought disorder

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antianxiety drugs

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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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antidepressant drugs

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drugs used to trat depression also increasingly prescribed fro anxiety. different types work by altering the availibilit of vaious neruotransmitters

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