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| What does your text book say about being normal? |
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| It is normal to fear being abnormal and normal to have problems |
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| What is the DSM- IV's primary purpose? |
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| Provid descriptive criteria for diagnosing mental disorders. |
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| What is the major advantage of the DSM? |
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| Realiability has greatly improved. |
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| What disorders involve rigidly, maladaptive traits that can cause great stress? |
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| What type of disorder involved a lass of interest in activities once loved, feelings of hopelesness, fatigue and a loss of appetite? |
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| Dissociative identity disorders...? |
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| Each identity appearts to have its own memories, preferences, personality and medical problems. |
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| What disorder are illusions, hallucinations, incoherent speech, and loss of emotions? |
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| Some people with what schizophrenia completely withdrawls in private world, sitting for hours without moving? |
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| Research on prognosis on recovering from schizophrenia suggests that? |
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| People do learn to control symptoms and do maintain good family relationships. |
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| When a friend is suicidal, it is important to remember that.... |
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| Most suicides occur during periods of acute crisis. And one people get through the crisis the desire to die fades. |
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| What kind of test is a personality test used to infer motives, conflicts, and unconscious dynamics on bias of your interpretations of ambiguous stimuli? |
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| The cheif characteristic of anxiety disorder is...? |
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| Continuous, uncontrollable anxiety or worry. |
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| Marissa has reacquring hot flashes, trembles, dizziness, and heart palpitations and feels like she is going crazy. What disorder is she having? |
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| What disorder is a fear of fear? |
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| A feeling of fearful situations to eat in public and write in the present of others is... |
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| The prevelence of mood disorders for each gender indicates what? |
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| Bipolar affects sexes equally, and major depression occurs 2 to 3 times more ofetn in females than males. |
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| Tommy has an intense relationship with his girlfriend. He alternates between idealizing and devaluating her. He is also very intense feeligs of being alone. Tommy has...? |
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| Borderline personlaity disorder. |
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| If a person repeatedly breaks the law, uses deceit to con others, and behaves compulsively. It would be true to say that, that person has...? |
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| Antisocial personality disorder. |
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| All panic attacks occur out of no where |
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| False (they occur out of stress) |
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| (true or false) A phobia is an urelastic, exaggeration or fear of specific objects, actions or activities |
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