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| persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, and actions |
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| What does ADHD stand for? |
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| attention-deficit disorder |
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| What doe the medical model assume? |
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| that psychological disorders are mental illnesses that can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, sometimes in a hospital. |
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| What is the bio-psychosocial approach? |
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| assumes that disordered behavior, like other behavior arises from genetic predispositions and physiological states, inner psychological dynamics; and social cultural circumstances |
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| What are some biological influences on psychological disorders? |
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| evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistry |
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| What are some psychological influences on psychological disorders? |
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| stress, trauma, learned helplessness, and mood0related perceptions and memories |
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| What are some social-cultural influences on psychological disorders? |
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| roles, expectations, and definitions of normality and disorder |
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| What classifies a person's disorder as schizophrenia? |
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| talks incoherently, hallucinates, or has delusions(bizarre beliefs), shows either little emotion or inappropriate emotion or is socially withdrawn |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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| medical and psychological disorders |
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| When is behavior considered disordered? |
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| deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional |
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| What are the dangers of the diagnostic labels? |
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| they can stigmatize a person by biasing others' interpretations and perceptions of past and present behaviors and by affecting the ways people react to the labeled person |
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| What are the potential benefits of using diagnostic labels? |
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| they establish a common vocabulary for mental health professionals giving therapy, and for researchers working on causes and treatments of disorders |
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| International Classification of Diseases |
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| What is generalized anxiety disorder? |
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Definition
| when a person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy |
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| What is a panic disorder? |
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| when a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread |
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| when a person feels irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object or situation |
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| What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? (OCD) |
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| when a person is troubled by repetitive thoughts or actions |
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| fear or avoidance of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailablewhen panic strikes |
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| an intense fear of being scrutinized by others |
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