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| Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distressful over a relatively long period of time. |
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| The view that psychological disorders are medical diseases with a biological origin. |
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| The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; the major classification of psychological disorders in the United States. |
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| All diagnostic categories except personality disorders and mental retardedation |
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| Personality disorders and Mental Retardation |
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| General Medical Conditions |
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| Psychological and Environmental Problems |
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| Current level of functioning |
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| Psychological disorders involving fears that are uncontrollable, disproportionate to the actual danger the person might be in, and disruptive of ordinary life. |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| Psychological Disorder Marked by persistent anxiety for at least six months and in which the individual is unable to specify reasons for the anxiety |
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| Anxiety disorder in which the individual experiences recurrent, sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror, often without warning and with no specific cause. |
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| Phobic disorder or Phobia |
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| Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, overwhelming, persistent fear of a particular object or situation |
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| An intense fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in social situations. |
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| OCD Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
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| Anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away and or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation. |
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| Psychological disorders- the main types of which are depressive disorders and bipolar disorder in which there is a primary disturbance of mood: prolonged emotion that colors the individual's entire emotional state |
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| Mood disorders in which the individual sufferes from depression- an unrelenting lack of pleasure in life |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| Psychological disorder involving a significant depressive episode and depressed characteristics such as lethargy and hopelessness for a min of 2 weeks. |
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| Mood disorder that is generally more chronic and has fewer symptoms than MDD. The individual is in a depressed mood for most days for at least 2 years or one year as an adolescent |
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| Mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania, an overexcited, unrealistically optimistic state. |
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| Extreme manic episodes during which they may experience hallucinations |
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| A milder version of the mood disorder. |
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| Psychological disorders that involve a sudden loss of memory or change in identity due to the dissociation of the individual's conscious awareness from previous memories and thoughts |
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| Psychological States in which the person feels disconnected from immediate experience |
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| Inability to recall important events |
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| Dissociative disorder characterized by extreme memory loss that is caused by extensive psychological stress |
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| Dissociative disorder in which the individual not only develops amnesia but also unexpectedly travels away from home and can assume a new identity. |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| Formerly called multiple personality disorder, a dissociative disorder in which the individual has two or more distinct personalities or identities each with its own memories behaviors and relationships |
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| Severe psychological disorder characterized by a highly disordered thought processes, referred to as psychotic because they are so far removed from reality. |
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| They reflect something added above and beyond normal behavior. Hallucinations, delusions, referential thinking, and catatonia. |
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| Sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli |
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| False, unusual and sometimes magical beliefs that aren't a part of their culture. |
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| Ascribing personal meaning to completely random events |
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| State of immobility and unresponsiveness lasting for long periods of time |
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| An excess of normal functions |
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| The display of little or no emotion- a common negative symptom of schizophrenia |
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