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Abnormal Psych Unit 3B
Chapters 15,16,17,18,19
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
04/15/2013

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State hospitals
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Public mental hospitals in the United States, run by the individual states.
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Milieu therapy
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A humanistic approach to instiutional treatment based on the belief that institutions can help patients recover by creating a climate that promotes self-respect, responsible behavior, and meaningful activity.
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Taken economy program
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A behavioral program in which a person's desirable behaviors are reinforced systematically throughout the day by the awarding of tokens that can be exchanged for goods or privileges.
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Antipsychotic Drugs
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Drugs that help correct grossly confused or disorted thinking.
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Neuroleptic drugs
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Conventional antipsychotic drugs, so called because they often produce undesired effects similiar to the symptoms of neurological disorders.
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Extrapyramidal effects
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Unwanted movements, such as severe shaking, bizarre looking grimaces, twisting of the body, and extreme restlessness, sometimes produced by conventional antipsychotic drugs.
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Tardive dyskinesia
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Extrapyramidal effects that appear in some patients after they have taken conventional antipsychotic drugs for an extended time.
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Agranulocytosis
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A life-threatening reduction in white blood cells. This condition is sometimes produced by the atypical antipsychotic drugĀ clozapine
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Deinstiutionalization
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The discharge of large numbers of patients from long-term institutional care so that they might be treated in community programs.
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Community mental health center
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A treatment facility that provide medication, psychotherapy, and emergency care for psychological problems and coordinate treatment in the community.
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Aftercare
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A program of post hospitalization care and treatment in the community.
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Day center
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A program that offers hospital-like treatment during the day only. Also known as a day hospital.
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Halfway House
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A resisdence for people with schizophrenia or other severe problems, often staffed by paraprofessionals. Also know as a group home or crisis house.
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Sheltered workshop
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A supervised workplace for people who are not yet ready for competitive jobs.
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Case manager
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A community therapist who offers a full range of services for people with schizophrenia or other severe disorders, including therapy, advice, medication, guidance, and protection of patients' right.
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Personality disorder
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A very rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that differs from the expectations of one's culture and leads to dysfunctioning.
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Paranoid personality disorder
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A personality disorder marked by a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others.
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Schizoid Personality Disorder
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A personality disorder charcterized by persisitent avoidance of social relationships and little expressive emotion.
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Schizotype personality disorder
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A personality disorder characterized by extreme discomfort in close relationships, odd forms of thinking and perceiving, and behavoioral eccentricities.
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Anitsocial personality disorder
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A personality disorder marked by a general pattern of disregard for and violation of other people's rights.
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Borderline personality disorder
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A personality disorder characterized by repeated instability in interpersonal relationship, self-image, and mood and by impulsive behavior.
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Histrionic personality disorder
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A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. Once called hysterical personality disorder.
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Narcissitic Personality Disorder
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A personality disorder marked by a broad pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.
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Avoidant Personality Disorder
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A personality disorder characterized by consistent discomfort and restraint in social situations, overwhelming feelings of inadequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.
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Dependent Personality Disorder
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A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of seperation, and an ongoing need to be taken care of.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
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A personality disorder marked by such an intense focus on orderliness, perfectionism, and control that the indivudual loses flexibility, openness, and efficiency.
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Seperation anxiety disorder
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A childhood disorder marked by excessive anxiety, even panic, whenever the child is seperated from home or parent.
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Play therapy
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An approach to treating childhood disorders that helps children express their conflicts and feelings indirectly by drawing, toys, and making up stories.
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Play Therapy
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An approach to treating childhood disorders that helps children express ther conflicts and feelings indirectly by drawing, toys, and making up stories.
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Oppositional defiant disorder
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A childhood disorder in which children argue repeatedly with adults, lose their temper, and swear, and feeling intense anger and resentment.
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Conduct Disorder
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A childhood disorder in which the child repeatedly violates the basic rights of others, displaying aggression and sometimes destroying other's property, stealing, or running away from home.
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Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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A disorder marked by inability to focus attention, or overacive and impulsive behavior, or both.
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Methylphenidate
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A stimulant drug, known better by the trade name Ritalin, commonly used to treat ADHD
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Enuresis
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A childhood disorder marked by repeated bed-wetting or wetting of one's clothes.
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Encopresis
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A childhood disorder characterized by repeated defecting in inappropriate places, such as one's clothing.
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Autistic disorder
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A pervasive developmental disorder marked by extreme unresponsiveness to others, poor communication skills, and highly repetitive and rigid behavior.
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Asperger's Disorder
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A pervasive developmental disorder in which individuals display profound social impairment yet maintain a relatively high level of cognitive functioning and language skills. Also known as Asperger's syndrome.
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Theory of Mind
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Awareness that other people base their behaviors on their own beliefs, intentions, and other mental states, not on information they have no way of knowing.
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Cerebellum
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An area of the brain that coordinates movement in the body and perhaps helps control a person's ability to shift attention rapidly.
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Augmentative Communication System
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A method for enhancing the communication skills of individuals with autism, mental retardation, or cerebral palsy by teaching them to point to pictures, symbols, letters, or words on a communication board or computer.
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Mental Retardation
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A disorder marked by intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior that are well below average.
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Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
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A score derived from intelligence tests that theoreticalyl represent a person's overall intellectual capacity.
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Mild Retardation
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A level of mental retardation (IQ between 50 and 70) at which people can benefit from education and can support themselves as adults.
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Moderate Retardation
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A level of mental retardation (IQ between 35 and 49) at which people can learn to care for themselves and can benefit from vocational training.
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Severe Retardation
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A level of mental retardation (IQ between 20 and 34) at which individuals require careful supervision and can learn to perform basic work in strucutrd and sheltered settings,
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Profound Retardation
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A level of mental retardation (IQ below 20) at which individuals need a very structured environment with close supervision.
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Down Syndrome
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A form of mental retardation caused by an abnormality in the twenty-first chromosome.
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Fetal alcohol syndrome
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A group of problems in a child, including lower intellectual functioning, low birth weight, and irregularities in the hands and face, that result from excessive alcohol intake by the mother during pregnancy.
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State school
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A state-supported institution for people with mental retardation.
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Normalization
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The principle that institutions and community residences should expose people with mental retardation to living conditions and opportunities similiar to those found in the rest of society.
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Special education
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An approach to educating children with mental retardation in which they are grouped together and given a seperate, specially designed education.
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Mainstreaming
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The placement of children with mental retardation in regular school classes. Also known as inclusion.
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Sheltered Workshop
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A protected and supervised workplace that offers job opportunities and training at a pace and level tailored to people with various psychological disabilities.
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Geropsychology
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The field of psychology concerned with the mental health of elderly people.
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Delirium
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A rapidly developing clouding of consciousness; the person has great difficulty concentrating, focusing attention, and following an orderly sequence of thought.
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Dementia
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A syndrome marked by severe problems in memory and in at leats one other cognitive function.
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Alzheimer's Disease
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The most commmon form of dementia, usually occuring after the age of 65.
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Senile Plaques
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Sphere-shaped deposits of beta-amyloid protein that form in the spaces between certain brain cells and in certain blood vessels as people age. People with Alzeheimer's disease have an excessive number of such plaques.
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Neurofibrillary Tangles
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Twisted protein fibers that form within certain brain cells as people age, people with Alzheimer's disease have an excessive number of such targets.
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Short-term memory
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The memory system that collects new information. Also known as working memory.
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Long-term memory
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The memory system that contains all the information that we have stored over the years.
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Vascular Dementia
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Dementia caused by a cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, which restricts blood flow to certain areas of the brain. Also known as multi-infract dementia.
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