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| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, or behaviors |
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| The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured through treatment in a hospital |
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| the APA's "Diagnnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders", a widely used system for classifying mental disorders |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| An anxiety disorder in nwhich a person is continually stressed, fearful, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal |
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| An anxiety disorder for marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain choking, or other frightening experiences |
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| An anxiety disorder marked by a persistant, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation |
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| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted thoughts and actions |
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| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 or more weeks after a traumatic experience |
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| A disorder in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits 2 or more distinct and alternating personalities |
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| A psychological disorder characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that inhibit social functioning |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| A personality disorder in which are the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive or ruthless or a clever con-artist |
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| Substance Related Disorder |
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| A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant any impairment or distress |
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| Aa chemical substance that alters perception and mood |
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| The diminishing effectt with regular use of the same dose of a drug, requiring the user to take larger and larger doses before experiencing the drug's affect |
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| Compulsive drug craving and use |
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| the discomfort and distress that follows discontinuing the use of a addictive drug |
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| The physiological need for a drug, marked by unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the drug is stopped |
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| a psychological need to use a drug, such as to relieve negative emotions |
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| Drugs (such as alcohal and opiates) that reduces neural activity and body functions |
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| Alcohol use marked by tolerance, withdrawal if suspended, and the drive to continue use |
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| Drugs that depress the activity of the central nervous system, reducing anxiety but impairing memory and judgment |
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| Opium and its derivatives, such as morphine and heroin; they depress neural activity, temporarily lessening pain and anxiety |
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| Drugs (such as caffiene, nicotine, ecstasy, etc.) that speeds up neural activity and body functions |
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| Drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes |
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| A stimulating and highly addictive drug in tobacco |
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| A highly addictive drug that stimulates the central nervous system with speeded-up body functions and associated mood and energy changes, over time appears to reduce dopamine levels |
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| A synthetic stimulant and mild hallucinogen. Produces euphoria and social intimacy, both with short-term health risks and long-term harm to serotonin-producing neurons and to mood and cognition |
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| Psychedellic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the abscencee of sensory input |
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| A powerful hallucenogenic drug, also known as acid |
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| An altered state of consciousness reported after a close brush with death, often similar to drug-induced hallucinations |
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| The major ingrediant in marijuana, and triggers various affects, including mild hallucinations |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| A mood disorder in which are a person experiences, in the abscence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest in most activities |
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| A mood disorder in which the person alternates between hopelessness and mania |
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| A mood disorder marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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| A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions |
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| False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany schizophrenia and other disorders |
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| Treatment any involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth |
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| Prescribed medications or medical procedures |
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| An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various types of therapy |
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| Freud's therapeutic technique. He believed the patient's free associations, resistance, dreams, and transference released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight |
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| In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material |
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| In psychoanalysis, the analyst's supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight |
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| In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships |
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| A Freud-influenced perspective that sees behavior, thinking, and emotion in terms of unconscious motives |
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| A humanistic theory developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, empathetic environment to promote client's growth |
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| empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies |
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| Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behavior |
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| A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behavior, includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning |
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| A behavior technique, such as systematic desensitization, that treat people by exposing people to the things they fear or avoid |
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| Systematic Desenitization |
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| A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli. Used to treat phobias |
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| Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy |
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| An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulation of their greatest fears |
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| A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior |
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| An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for desired behaviors and can later exchange the tokens for rewards |
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| therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions |
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| Cognitive-Behavior Therapy |
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| A popular integrated approach that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy |
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| Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed toward a family member |
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| Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders |
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| drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |
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| drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availablity of certain neurotransmitterss |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of a sedated person |
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| Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) |
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| the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or depress brain activity |
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| Surgery to remove or destroy brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
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| A psychosurgical procedure once used to control uncontrollably violent or emotional patients. The procedure cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobess to the emotion-controlling center of the inner brain |
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