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| What Criteria do we use for it to be an Abnormal Condition? |
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Definition
-Causes personal distress
-Is disabling
-Violates Social norms |
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Term
| Examples of Defense Mechanisms |
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Definition
| Avoidance, denial, repression, passive aggression. |
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| What is Operant Conditioning |
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Definition
| Refers to the modification of voluntary behaviors. |
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Term
| What are the 5 axises of the DSM-IV |
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Definition
1. Any of the disorders
-Mood, childhood, anxiety
2. Personality disorders and Mental Retardation
3.Medical History
-Physical problems that may lead to an issue
4. Social-Environmental Stressors
- Death, Divorce, debt
5. Global assessment of function |
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| What is the most common way we assess? |
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Definition
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| Scale used to assess stress |
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Definition
Social Readjustment Rating Scale
--Holmes and Rahe |
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Term
| Three issues with self-report assessments. |
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Definition
- You are expecting the person to be honest
- Reading level of test taker
- The person has to be self-aware. |
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Definition
- probably the oldest self-report test out there that assesses psychopathology and emotional disorders.
- You don't get a score, you get a profile.
- Not good at differential diagnosis, just tells you if there is a problem.
- read about it in the book |
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| Give some examples of Projective tests. |
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Definition
Rorshach
TAT - Thematic apperception test.
These come out of the Freudian belief in the unconscious. |
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| What is the best way to test small children? |
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Definition
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| Examples of Neurobiological assessments |
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Definition
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| The study most frequently used, particularly in rare conditions. |
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Definition
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Term
| What can and can't case studies do for you? |
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Definition
They can't generalize the results to other cases
They can give you a very detailed analysis of one person. |
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Term
| The study of the frequency and distribution of a disorder in a population |
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Definition
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Term
| The biggest symptom of Generalized Anxiety Disorder. |
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Definition
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Term
| Lying about symptoms to reach a goal |
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Definition
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| Lying about symptoms with no evident goal |
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Definition
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Definition
| No, but it can precipitate an attack |
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Term
| What is something that can exacerbate any disorder. |
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Definition
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| What do you to get things under control like anger, hostility, cynicism, depression, and anxiety. |
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Definition
- Arousal reduction
--muschle relaxation, meditation
- Cognitive reconstruction
-- Help them change how they think about things
- Behavioral skills training
-- people skills, etc.
- Environmental change
-- new job, new home, new place |
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Term
What are the symptoms of depression?
possible essay |
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Definition
-Sadness
-Hopelessness
-Loss of interest and withdrawal
-Vegetative symptoms like sleep disturbance or appetite disturbance
-Loss of ability to concentrate
-Suicidal thinking
-Psychomotor retardation
--difficult to move
-Psychomotor agitation
-- difficult to sit still |
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Term
| Which has more genetic uploading; Unipolar or Bipolar? |
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Definition
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Term
| a psychological attribute that indicates how people explain to themselves why they experience a particular event. |
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Definition
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Term
| What is comorbid with eating disorders |
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Definition
| Mostly depression and personality disorders |
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Term
| Social-Cultural Issues having to do with Eating Disorders |
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Definition
-Primarily developed in women in a society that values thinness.
-Happens in every westernized industrialized culture but does not happen in Agrarian Cultures
-Not usually an ethnic issue.
-It is lower in African-American Females, but when African-American females move into the middle classs, their numbers look the same as White middle class females. |
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Term
| Symptoms of Anorexi Nervosa |
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Definition
-Continual weight loss
-Intense fear of gaining weight
-Amenorrhea |
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Term
| A belief that is firmly held in spite of evidence to the contrary |
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Definition
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Term
| A sensory stimulation in the absence of things actually happening |
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Definition
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Term
| Traditional ways of sub-typing schizophrenia |
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Definition
-Disorganized schizophrenia
-Catatonic schizophrenia
-Paranoid schizophrenia
-Chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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Term
| The most regressed sub-type of schizophrenia |
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Definition
Disorganized schizophrenia
-speech, language, and behavior are all disorganized |
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Term
| A sub-type of schizophrenia where Motor symptoms are teh issue. |
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Definition
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Term
| sub-type of schizophrenia where you have delusions of grandeur or delutsions of persecution. |
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Definition
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Term
| The catchall sub-type of schizophrenia for those that don't fit the other subtypes. |
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Definition
| Chronic undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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Term
| French guy of first took people out of mental hospitals who weren't criminals and treated them. |
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Definition
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Term
| The first to come up with a system of describing mental illness. |
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Definition
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Term
| The first to come up with a system of describing mental illness. |
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Definition
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Term
| The first to come up with a system of describing mental illness. |
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Definition
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Term
| the unorganized part of the personality structure that contains the basic drives |
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Definition
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Term
| it seeks to please the id’s drive in realistic ways that will benefit in the long term rather than bringing grief |
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Definition
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| organized part of the personality structure, mainly but not entirely unconscious, that includes the individual's ego ideals, spiritual goals, and the psychic agency (commonly called 'conscience') that criticizes and prohibits his or her drives, fantasies, feelings, and actions |
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Term
| The first to work alot with blue collar children and families |
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Definition
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Term
| Person who did alot with introversion and extroversion |
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Definition
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Term
| A very non-directive treatment based on the belief that people can heal themselves if they are given the right conditions to do so. |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
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| First to really do cognitive therapy |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
External event
How you perceived it
How you felt |
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Term
| What is a child's self-view based on? |
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Definition
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Term
| What theory says that all of us are predisposed to something, and if we are put in the right conditions, we will develop the disorder. |
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Definition
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Term
| Things you might explore in a clinical interview. |
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Definition
-Physical problems
-Level of stress/anxiety
-Their mood
-How clearly they are thinking
-Treatment history
-Family history
-Educational history
-Chemicals |
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Term
| A series of tests specifically targeted to one disorder or another |
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Definition
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Term
| You either have it or you don't vs. everyone has a certain amount of everything. |
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Definition
| Categorical diagnoses vs. Continuum |
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Term
| Important rules in observing kids |
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Definition
-Know what you are observing
-A number of short observations is as valid or more valid than one long observation
-You are observing and recording....you can interpret later. |
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Term
| Examples of neuropsychological assessments |
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Definition
Halstead Reiten
Luria-Nebraska |
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Term
| A method of assessment in which you attempt to teach a person how to relax and help them be aware of what areas they carry the most tension. |
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Definition
| Psychophysiological assessment |
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Term
| Experiments in which you have to approximate by using animals instead of humans. |
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Definition
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Term
| An experiment where you aren't trying to generalize results, you just want to see how a specific person responds to a specific treatment. |
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Definition
Single-subject experimental design.
--Uses ABAB design
--Record, intervene, record, etc. |
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Term
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Definition
-Blood pressure rises
-sweat
-tense
-stomach ache
-you get klutzy
-shortness of breath |
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Term
| What do you have to have for it to be a phobia |
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Definition
| The fear has to be stressing or debilitating |
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Term
| Disorder with highest heritability rating |
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Definition
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Term
| A brief period of sparked terror that is un-cued |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
-Obsessional thinking
-Compulsive Behaviors that reduce the anxiety |
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Term
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Definition
-Re-experiencing the event
-Avoidance of situations that may cause them to have flashbacks
-Isolating onesself
-They will say they don't to feel anymore
-Hyper-aroused --- Always on edge |
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Term
| Same symptoms as PTSD, but it happens right after the event |
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Definition
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Term
| Examples of Anxiety Disorders |
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Definition
| Phobias, Panic Disorder, GAD, OCD, PTSD |
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Term
| Who has Anxiety Disorders more, Men or Women? |
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Definition
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Term
| Risk Factors for Anxiety Disorders |
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Definition
Genetics
CNS liability
Personality issues
Cognitive Factors |
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Term
| Three types of Medications prescribed for Anxiety Disorders |
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Definition
Anti-anxiety agent
Tricyclic anti-depressants
SSRIs |
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Term
| Examples of Somatoform disorders |
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Definition
-Body dysmorphic disorder
-Pain disorder
-Malingering disorder
-Factitious disorder
-Hypochondrias |
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Term
| A chronic depression disorder |
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Definition
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Term
| People that have been through chronically traumatic events and have so many different symptoms and problems its hard to really give a diagnosis. |
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Definition
DESNOS
Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified |
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Term
| Memory loss due to a stressful event |
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Definition
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Term
| Two main types of Mood Disorders |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| -Have to have several depressive symptoms (four or five at least) for more than two weeks |
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Term
| When you have only one or two depressive symptoms for at least two years |
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Definition
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Term
| Three Sub-types of Bipolar Disorder |
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Definition
-Bipolar 1
--Episodes of both MDD and
Major Mania
-Bipolar 2
-- MDD and Hypomania
-Cyclothymia
-- Mild Depressive Dissorder and
hypomania |
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Term
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Definition
-Elevated mood
-Grandiose image of one's own abilities
-Energy level is high with reduced need for sleep
-Pressured Speech
-Outlandish behavior and Delusions
-Drug use |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Examples of Unipolar Disorders |
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Definition
SAD
Post-partum Depression
Post-partum Psychosis
Melancholia
Catonic features |
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Term
| Medications for Unipolar depression |
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Definition
-Tri-cyclic Anti Depressants
-Second-generation anti-depressants
----prozac, paxil, Zoloft
-MOIs |
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Term
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Definition
Mood Stabilizers
- Lithium
- Anti-seizure medications - Depakote
- Second generation psychotics |
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Term
| Non-medical treatments for Unipolar Disorders |
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Definition
-Interpersonal psychotherapy
-CBT
-Mindfulness Based Therapy
-Social Skills training |
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Term
| Non-medicinal treatment for Bipolar |
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Definition
| Electroconvulsive Therapy |
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Term
| Concepts in preventing suicide |
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Definition
-Ethically, you are bound to attempt to stop them
-Reduce psychological pain
-Help them see options
-Cannot be nondirective, you have to intervene and take some control over the person's life. |
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Term
| Physical changes that occur in Anorexia |
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Definition
-Blood pressure drops
-HR slows
-Can cause damage to internal organs
-Hair loss
-Enlarged Ventricles
-Problems with electrolytes |
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Term
| Difference between Anorexia with Binge purge and Bulimia is.. |
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Definition
| There is not continual weight loss in Bulimia |
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Term
| Physical symptoms of Bulimia |
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Definition
-Damage to gastro-intestinal tract
-Messed up electrolytes |
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Term
| Proably the most debilitating disorder |
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Definition
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Term
| Different types of Schizophrenic symptoms |
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Definition
Negative Symptoms
Positive symptoms
Disorganized symptoms |
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Term
| Negative Schizophrenic Symptoms |
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Definition
-Avolition - loss of energy
-Alogia - Poverty of speech
-Absence of interest
-Anagdolia - loss of pleasure
-Affect - Facial impression is flat or
inappropriate
-Asociality |
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Term
| Positive symptoms of Schizophrenia |
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Definition
| Delusions and Hallucinations |
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Term
| Disorganized symptoms of Schizophrenia |
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Definition
-Pressured Speech
-Catatonia - Everything is slowed down |
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Term
| other psychotic disorders other than schizophrenia |
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Definition
-brief psychotic episode
-Schizo-affective disorder
-Schizo-phrenoform disorder |
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Term
| When you have Schizophrenic symptoms that occur after a trauma or bereavement, but it only lasts for a week or month or so |
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Definition
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Term
| If you have some symptoms of schizophrenia, but you don't have the disorder |
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Definition
| Schizo-affective disorder |
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Term
| When you have schizophrenic symptoms for only a short time. |
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Definition
| Schizo-phrenoform disorder |
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Term
| Medications for Schizophrenia |
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Definition
-First geration Anti-psychotics
--Thorazine, Prolixin, Stelazine
-Second Generation Anti-Psychotics
--Clozaril, Respirdal, Olanzapine |
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Term
| non-medicinal treatment for schizophrenia |
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Definition
-Work with families on stress management, communjication, medication management.
-Work with patient on social skills
-Help patients learn how to realize when their symptoms are starting
-Help them learn how to recognize that their delusions and hallucinations are not real. |
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Term
| Disorders with genuine physical symptoms that are caused or worsened by psychological factors. |
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Definition
| Psychophysiological disorders |
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Term
| an environmental condition that triggers psychopathology. |
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Definition
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Term
| A description of the biological response to sustained and unrelenting physical stress. |
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Definition
| General adaptation syndrome |
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Term
| The continued need for the body to adapt to stress. |
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Definition
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Term
| High Blood pressure without an evident biological cause. |
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Definition
| Essential Hypertension -- or primary Hypertension |
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Term
| Three features of a disorder in which epidemiology wishes to study. |
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Definition
Prevalence
Incidence
Risk Factors |
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Term
| The proportion of a sample that had experience a disorder up to the time of the interview |
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Definition
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Term
| The number of new cases of the disorder that occur in some period |
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Definition
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Term
| Conditions or variables that, if present, increase the likelihood of developing the disorder |
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