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| Having two or more psychological disorders. |
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| How to define abnormal behavior |
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Deviance - (norm violation)
Distress - (personal suffering)
Dysfunction - (impaired functioning, can't fulfill family, social and work roles) |
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| An anxiety disorder involving strong fear of being alone or away from the security of home, often a history of panic attacks |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder (and symptoms) |
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| excessive, long-lasting, unfocused anxiety. Symptoms are jumpiness, irritability, sleeplessness, fatigue, inability to concentrate. |
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| Panic disorder (and symptoms) |
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Recurrent, terrifying panic attacks without warning or obvious cause.
Symptoms include intense heart palpitations, pressure or pain in the chest, dizziness or unsteadiness, sweating, and feeling faint |
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder |
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Obsessions - persistent, upsetting, unwanted thoughts
Compulsions - ritualistic, repetitive behaviors |
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| separation anxiety disorder |
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| child worries about being lost, kidnapped, or injured; fear too that parent will be injured when they are at school |
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- apparent blindness, deafness, paralysis, or insensitivity to pain
-tends to appear under severe stress |
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a strong, unjustified fear of having physical illness.
Make frequent trips to doctors to report symptoms and request unnecessary treatment |
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| dramatic but vague reports of a multitude of physical problems rather than any specific illness |
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| intense distress about an imagined abnormality of the skin, hair, face, or other bodily area |
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| dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| a dissociative disorder in which a person reports to having more than one identity. |
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| dissociative amnesia disorder |
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| a dissociative disorder makerd by a sudden loss of memory |
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| a dissociative disorder incolcing sudden loss of memory and possible assumption of a new identity in a new location. |
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| an affective disorder in which a person feels sad and hopeless for weeks or months, feels sad and overwhelmed, typically losing interest in activities and relationships and taking pleasure in nothing |
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| an affective disorder involving a pattern of comparatively mild depression that lasts for at least two years |
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| mania or hypomania alternating with deep depression |
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| an elated, very active emotional state, in this stage many are very creative (bursting with ideas) |
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| cyclothymic disorder/personality |
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| an affective disorder characterized by an alternating pattern of mood swings that is less extreme than that of bipolar disorders |
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| SAD - Seasonal Affective Disorder |
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| an episode of major depression that occurs at the same time of the year, most often experienced during fall and winter months when days are short and sunlight is limited. |
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1) mental illness including depression, conduct disorders, and substance abuse
2) family stress/dysfunction
3) environmental risk such as firearm in the home
4) situational crises (traumatic death of loved one, physical/sexual abuse) |
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| suicide resilience factors |
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- family support
- peer support
-community connectedness
-cultural or religious beliefs that discourage suicide
-coping and problem-solving skills
-good self-esteem, sense of purpose |
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| schizophrenia positive symptoms |
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| disorganized thoughts, hallucinations, and delusion |
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| schizophrenia negative symptoms |
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| absence of plreasure, lack of speech, and flat affect |
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| narcissistic personality disorder |
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| exaggerated ideas of self-importance and achiecements; preoccupation with fantasies of success; arrogance |
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| anti-social personality disorder |
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| chronic, remorseless pattern of impulsice, irresponsible, dishonest behavior |
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| histrionic personality disorder |
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| excessive emotionality and preoccupation with being the center of attention; emotional shallowness; overly dramatic behavior |
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| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
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| primarily inattentive and/or impulsive |
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| relatively stable pattern of aggression, disobedience, destructiveness, inappropriate sexual activity, academic failure, and other problematic behaviors |
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| pervasive developmental disorders/autistic spectrum disorders |
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1) deviant responses to sensations such as touch, hearing, smell, and taste
2)unusual ways of relating to people, objects, and events
3) speech and language delays for some and deficits with pragmatic skills
4) resistance to change in their environment
5) lack of ability to play (pretend play or with others) |
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| substance-related disorders |
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| harmful long-term use of psychoactive drugs |
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| a pattern of drinking that may lead to addiction and almost always causes severe social, physical and other problems |
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| for men, more than 5 drinks in 2 hours; for women, drinking at least 4 drinks in two hours (can lead to alcohol poisoning) |
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| a condition, resulting from repeated use, in which the same amount of a substance produces a diminished effect |
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| symptoms that occur at the abrupt discontinuation of any drug, appear only after a dependency has been formed, may be uncomfortable or life-threatening |
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| (study in 2006, Swartzwelder) specifically, the hippocampus can stop functioning properly |
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| Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections, a specific form of OCD brought on by the same virus that causes strep throat or scarlet fever. |
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| biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors can predispose us toward a disorder; a certain amount of stress is needed to trigger the disorder |
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| US classification of mental disorders |
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| DSM-IV-TR - (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) |
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| -free association, explore manifest and latent content of dreams, analyze freudian slips |
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| clients improve by how much they want to |
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| cognitive behavior therapy such as taional-emotive therapy and Beck's Cognitive therapy |
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| assumes psychological problems are cause by how people think about events, not the events themselves, |
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| systematic desensitization |
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| progressive relaxation training: create a desensitization hierarchy, relaxation while imagining progressively scarier items |
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| clear, direct expression of positive and negative feelings, use of i-statements, often conducted in groups |
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| teaches comfortable and effective interactions, how to get along with peers, making conversation on dates |
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| electroconvulsive shock therapy |
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| brief electrical shock administered to the brain, usually to reduce depression that does not respond to drug treatments |
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| cognitive behavior therapy |
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| anxiety, schizophrenia, depression |
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| systematic desensetization |
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| anxiety (in vivo) virtual reality PTSD |
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| anxiety, ADD bipolar, schizophrenia, depression |
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| electroconvulsive shock therapy |
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| schizophrenia, depression, mania |
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