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| What is a psychological disorder? |
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| Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors |
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| What is the medical model for psychological disorders? |
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| The current model, mental disorders are caused by physical causes and can be diagnosed, treated, and cured |
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| How is culture important in psychological disorders? |
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| Culture can affect what is viewed as deviant behavior. Also the same stressor can cause different symptoms in different cultures |
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| What are anxiety disorders? |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by high levels of anxiety or the inability to reduce anxiety |
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| What is generalized anxiety disorder? |
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| An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and worried |
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| What is a panic disorder? |
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| An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable panic attacks |
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| An anxiety disorder in which an irrational dear causes a person to avoid some object, activity, or situation |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions |
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| An anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia |
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| What is post-traumatic growth? |
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| Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes |
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| What is major-depressive disorder? |
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| A disorder in which a person experiences two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods or diminished interest or pleasure in most activities |
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| A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state |
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| What is bipolar disorder? |
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| A mood disorder in which a person alternates between depression and mania |
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| A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors |
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| A disorder marked by irrationality and lost contact with reality |
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| False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur |
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| What are dissociative disorders? |
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| Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings |
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| What is dissociative identity disorder? |
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| A disorder in which two or more distinct identities alternately control a person's behavior |
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| What are personality disorders? |
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| Disruptive, inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair one's social functioning |
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| What is antisocial personality disorder? |
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| A disorder in which a person lacks a conscience for wrongdoing |
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| What is the "PI" approach to diagnosing disorders? |
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| Presence, persistence, pervasiveness, and impairment |
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| When did the DSM I come out? |
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| When did the DSM III come out? |
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| When did the DSM IV come out? |
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| When did the DSM 5 come out? |
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| Being diagnosed with more than one disorder |
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| What are some of the pros of the DSM? |
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| Efficiency of communication, guiding of research, prediction, guiding of third-party reimbursement, and guiding of assessment and treatment |
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| What are some of the cons of the DSM? |
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| Loss of information, artificial dichotomy, labeling effects, and overdiagnosis/false positives |
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| Is the DSM categorical or dimensional? |
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| It is categorical, meaning you either have the disorder or you don't, there isn't a continuum. |
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Axis I: clinical disorders
Axis II: personality disorder
Axis III: General medical conditions
Axis IV: Psychosocial and environmental problems
Axis V: Global assessment of functioning |
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| Approximately what percentage of school-age children suffer from clinically significant levels of AD/HD symptoms? |
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| What is the ratio for male to female diagnoses of AD/HD |
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| What is the heritability estimate for AD/HD? |
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