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Eating disorder
- intense fear of gaining weight
- disturbed body image
- refusal to maintain normal weight
- dangerous measures to lose weight
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class of disorders
marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety |
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(manic-depressive)
marked by experience of both depressed and manic periods |
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Type of schizophrenia
- striking motor disturbances ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity
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| eating disorder, engaging in out-of-control overeating, followed by compensatory efforts |
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| existance of two or more disorders |
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| % of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder |
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| Abnormal syndroms found only in a few cultural groups |
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| False beliefs/out of touch with reality but are maintained |
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| Distinguishing one ilness from another |
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| Disorganized schizophrenia |
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type of schizophrenia
- particularly severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen
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Sudden loss of memory for important personal info
(too extensive to be b/c of normal forgetting) |
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| Class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity. |
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| Disorder in which people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity |
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| Dissociative Identity disorder |
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A type of dissociative disorder characterized by the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very differnet personalities.
Also called multiple-personality disorder |
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| Severe disturbances in eating behavior characterized by preoccupation with weight concerns and unhealthy efforts to control weight. |
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| The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness |
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| The degree to which a relative of a schizophrenic patient displays hightly critical or emotionally overinvolved attitude toward the patient |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| A psychological disorder marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat. |
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| Sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus, or gross distortions of perceptual input. |
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| A somatoform disorder characterized by excessive preoccupations with health concerns and incessant worry aobut developing physical illnesses. |
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| Major depressive Disorder |
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| Mood disorder characterized by persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure. |
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| Manic-depressive disorder |
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Mood disorder marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.
(=bipolar disorder) |
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| The view that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. |
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| A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes. |
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| Multiple Personality disorder |
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A type of dissociative disorder characterized by the coexistence in one person of two or more very complete, and usually very differnt, personalities.
(=dissociative identity disorder) |
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| schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention and poverty of speech. |
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| Obsessive Compulsive disorder |
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| Type of anxiety disorder marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions). |
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| A type of anxiety characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly |
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| A type of schizophrenia that is dominated by delusions of persecution + delusions of grandeur. |
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| A type of anxiety disorder marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situations that presents no realistic danger. |
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Schizophrenic symptoms that involve behavioral excesses or peculiarities.
hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and wild flights of ideas. |
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| Post-traumatic stress disorder |
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| Disturbed behavior that is attributed to a major stressful event but hta emerges after the stress is over |
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| A forecast about the probable course of an illness |
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| physical ailment with a genuine organic basis that are caused in part by psychological factors, especially emotional distress. |
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| A class of psychological disorders marked by disturbances in thought that spill over to affect perceptual, social and emotional processes. |
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| A type of somotoform disorder marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin |
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| Undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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| A type of schizophrenia marked by idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenic symptoms. |
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| psychological theory that explains behavior as both a result of biological and genetic factors ("nature"), and life experiences ("nurture"). |
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| Clinical disorders, including major mental disorders, and learning disorders |
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| Personality disorders and mental retardation |
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| Acute medical conditions and physical disorders |
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| Psychosocial and environmental factors contributing to the disorder |
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| Global Assessment of Functioning--least informative and most subjective |
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Know name?
personal hygiene?
gait?
speech? |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| behavioral therapy to help overcome anxieties (using classical conditioning) |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (of mental disorders) Text revision |
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| 3 clusters of p/d clinical interview |
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1) odd behavior
2)dramatic behavior
3)hysterical/anxious |
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