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| medical model applied ot abnormal behavior |
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| proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease |
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| 3 Criteria of Abnormal Behavior |
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1.)Deviance-ppl going against societies norms viewed as abnormal
2.)maladaptive behavior- psychological disorder b/c their everyday adaptive behavior is impaired
3.)personal distress- usually criteria for ppl with depression |
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| psychodiagnosis; Classification of disorders |
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-clinical syndroms
-personality disorders or mental retardation
-general medical conditions
-psychosorcial and environmental problems
-global assessment of functioning scale |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat |
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| persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger |
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| recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly |
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a fear of going out to public places
-complication of phobic disorder |
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| persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals |
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| psottraumatic stess disorder |
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| endurring psychological disturbance attributed to experience of a major traumatic even |
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| % of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder |
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| cognitive factors of anxiety |
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-misinterpret harmless situations as threatening
-focus excessive attention on percieved threats
-selectively recall info that seems threatening |
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| genuine physical ailments caused in part by psychological factors, especially emotional distress |
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| physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors |
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| history of diverse physical complaints that appear psychological in origin |
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a significant loss of physical function, usually in a single organ system
-symptoms do not match up with apparent disease |
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| excessive preoccupation with one's health and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses |
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| class of disorders in which ppl loose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity |
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| loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting |
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| ppl loose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| multiple personality disorder |
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| emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical,perceptual, social, and thought processes |
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| experiences anxiety and depression |
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| experiences either depression or anxiety |
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| genetic vulnerability of mood disorders |
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| heredity can creat a perdisposition of mood disorders this is stronger with bipolar |
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| neurochemical factors of mood disorders |
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| abnomal levels of norepinephrine and serotonin |
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| class of disorders marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganinzed speech, and deterioration, of adaptive behavior |
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| gener symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| irrational thought, delusions, deterioration of adaptive behavior, distorted perception, disturbed emotion |
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| paranoid type of schizophenia |
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dominated by delusions of persecution along with dilusions of grandeur
-think ppl are after you |
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| catatonic type of schizophenia |
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| striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity |
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| disorganized type of schizophrenia |
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| severe deterioration of adaptive behavior |
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| undifferentiated type of schizophrenia |
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| mixture of schizophrenic symptom |
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| negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| behavioral deficits, flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention, poverty of speech |
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| positive symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| halluciations,delusions,bizarre behavior, wild flights of ideas |
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| favorable prognosis of schizophenia |
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-onset of disorder has been sudden
-onset has occurred at later age
-social and work adjustment were relatively good priorto onset of the disorder
-proportion of nengative symptoms is relatively low
-patient is healthy, and has a supportive family |
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| neurochemical factors of schizophrenia |
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excess dopamine
-using glutamate as a NT |
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| structrual abnomalities in the brain causing schizophrenia |
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