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| normal response to major interpersoal loss; can be tremendously painful and can laugh for many months |
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| the emotional reaction stemming from a relatively minor event; it is transient and rarely interferes with functioning |
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| how grief differs from depression |
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| no significant loss of self esteem; no severe sleep disturbances (especially early AM waking), no pervasive loss of interest in normal life activities, no significant agitation, no suicidial ideation, patient clearly relates sadness to the loss |
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| depressent mood or irritability, loss of interest in normal life activities, impairment of functioning, irrarion or exaggerated erosion of self esteem, nonspecific physical complaints, dramatic change in patterns |
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| a symptom of depression which is the loss of ability to experience pleasure and a loss of interest in normal life activities |
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| common disorders that may cause depression |
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| AIDS, Alzheimers, chronic pain, cushing's disease, diabetes, |
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| mild, chronic depressive disorder characterized by daytime fatique, negative thinking, low self-esteem and motivation, decreased capacity for joy, lasts for a period of over two years |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder |
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| regular temporal relationship between onset of symptoms and a particular time of the year |
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| very high risk of suicide |
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| common disorders that may cause mania |
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| brain tumors, syphilis, delirium, influenza, mulitple sclerosis |
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| classic description of bipolar illness with clearly recognized episodes of depression and mania |
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| obvious episodes of depression, but manic phases are often brief, much less intense, and often unreocgnized; many treatment-resistant depressions turn out to be this |
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| two or more episodes of both depression and mania within a year |
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| mixed mania, patients that have concurrent manic and depressive symptoms; e.g. increased activity and feelings of worthlessness |
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| pronounced and persistant mood of euphoria or iritability, elevated self esteem, decreased need for sleep, rapid speech, racing thoughts, distractibility, psychomotor agitation, poor judgement |
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| increased energy and mental productivity, decreased need for sleep, talkative, elated, irritability |
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| brief, extremely intense surge of anxiety, often comes on suddenly, extremely intense, lasts from 1-30 minutes |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| long term, low level, fairly continuous anziety, may have no specific life stressors, |
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| repeated episodes of full-blown panic and the fear of having those attacks |
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| anxiety is experienced only whent he person is in social settings |
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| common disorderst aht may cause anxiety |
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| alcoholism, central nervous system degenerative diseases, delirium, hypoglycemia, |
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| impaired reality testing: severe confusional states, delusions, hallucinations, and marked impairment in judgement and reasoning |
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| ability to perceive reality |
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| schizophreniform disorder |
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| brief psychotic reaction, looks ilke schizophrenia but remits quicker and often does not recur |
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| common diseases that may cause psychosis |
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| CNS issues, delirium, dementias, huntinton's disease, mulitple sclerosis, epilepsy |
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| positive schizophrenic symptoms |
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| delusions, impaired thinking, hallucinations, confusion, impaired judement, severe anxiety, agitation, and emotional dyscontrol |
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| incoherent speech, bizarre behavior, extreme confusion |
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| negative symptoms of schizophrenia |
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| flat or blunted affect, poverty of thought, emptiness and anhedonia, psychomotor retardation/inactivity, blunting of perception (insensitivity to pain) |
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| chracterological traits of schizophrenics |
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| social isolation and a sense of aleitnation, low self esteem, social skills deficits |
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| side effect of antipsychotic medications, an uncontrolled sense of inner restlessness |
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| side effects of antipsychotic meds including dry mouth, constipation, blurry vision, urinary hestiation, and occasional delirium |
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| persistent, intrusive, troublesome thougths of impulses that are recognized by the patient as senseless |
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| repetitie behaviors or rituals enacted in response to an obsession |
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| obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| obsession and/or compulsions create signficant distress or are time consumign enough to interfere with normal routines |
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| attention deficit hyperactivity disorder |
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| a neurochemical disturbance resulting in impulsivity, difficulties in feeling motivated, distractibility, difficulties organizing tasks and activities, hyperactivity, impaired emotional controls, |
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| post traumatic stress disorder |
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| may be seen in the aftermath of a recently occurring severe stressful event or can present in chronic form which continues many years after traumatic event; symptoms include: generalized anxiety, panic attacks, depression, transient psychotic symptoms, intrusive symtoms, intense unwatned memories, flashbacks or nightmares, and states of emotional numbness |
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| clinical disorders and other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention |
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| personailty disorders/ mental retardation |
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| general medical conditions |
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| psychosocial and environmental problems |
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| global assessment of functioning |
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| Global assessment of functioning |
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| clinicians judgement of a clients overall level of functioning |
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| subaverage functioning, an IQ of 70 or below |
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| marked impairment in the use of mulitple nonverbal behaviors such as eye to eye contact, facial expressions, body postures; failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level; lack of spontaneous seekign to share enjoyment with others; delay in development of spoken language; repetitive use of spoken language, lack of make-believe play; inflexibe adherence to routine; certain motor mannerisms (finger flapping, hand twisting); preoccupation with parts of objects |
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| aggression to people or animals, destruction of property, deceitfulness or theft, serious violations of rules, |
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| oppositional defiant disorder |
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| negativistic, hostile, and defiant behavior, loses temper, argues with adults, defies rules, deliberately annoys people, blames others for personal mistakes, spiteful or vindictive, angery and resentful, often touchy or easily annoyed by others |
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| pooping in inappropriate places whether involuntary or intentional |
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| repeaded peein into bed or clothes |
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| depressed mood, fatigue, body weakness/discomfort, vivid and unpleasant dreams, agitation, slowing of activity, increased apetite, cravings |
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| irritability, cravings, insomnia, sore throat/mouth, tight chest, constipation, headache, inability to concentrate |
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| blackouts, convulsions, fevel, agitation, delirium tremens, insomnia, tremors, nausea, sweating, heache, clammy smkin, palpitations, loss of appetite. |
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| mini mental state examination |
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| a 30 question test screening for cognitive impairment; screens arithmetic, memory, and orientation |
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| appearance, attitude, behavior, mood & affect, thought process, speech, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, judgement |
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| intentional production or feigning of physical or phsychological symptos with the purpose of assuming the sick role (external incentives are absent) |
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| over a period of at least six months, recurrent arousnig fantasies, urges, or behaviors including exposing one's genitals to an unsuspecting stranger |
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| recurrent, intense, arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors involving touching and rubbing against a nonconsenting person |
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| recurrent, intense, arousing fantasies, urges, or behaviors invovling sexual activity with a prepubescent child (13 years or younger); causing significant distress |
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| a strong persistent cross-gender identification |
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| intermittent explosive disorder |
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| failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property |
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| pleasure, gratification, or relief when pulling hair resulting in noticeable hair loss |
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| develops within 3 months of onset of stressors; marked distress greater than what should be expected, significant impairment in social or occupational functioning; once stressor is gone, symptoms do not persist more than six months |
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| antisocial personailty disorder |
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| failure to conform to scial norms, breaks the law, lies often, impulsivity, failure to plan ahead, irritability, repeated physical fights, reckless disregard for the safety of others, consistent irrespnosbility |
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| histrionic personality disorder |
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| likes to be center of attention, usually sexually seductive or provacative, rapidly shifting expression of emotions, uses physical appearance to draw attention to self, imprsessionistic speech, dramatic, easily influencd by others, considers relationships to be more intimate than they actual are |
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| narcissistic personality disorder |
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| lack of empathy, self-important,m grandiosity, need for admiration, sense of entitlement, arrogant |
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| avoidant personality disorder |
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| social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, hypsensitivity to negative evaluation, fear of being shamed or ridiculed |
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| thematic apperception test- claims to tap into subject's unconscious to reveal repressed aspects of personality, motives, and needs |
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| inkblots are analyzed to determine personality characteristics and emotional functioning |
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| Wechsler Intellecutal Scale for Children- measures intellectual capacity of a child, generates an IQ score |
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| Minnesota Multiphase Personality Inventory, to identify personality structure and psychopathology |
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| psychological prefernces in how peopel percieve the world and make decisions: extravert/intravert |
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