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| What is a mental disorder? |
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Definition
| Any behaivor or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self destructive, seriously impairs the person's abillity to work or get along with others, or endagers others or the community |
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| Define Harmful Dysfunction? |
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| Any behaivor that is (1)HARMFUL to oneself or others, and (2)DYSFUNCTIONAL b/c it is ot preforming its evolutionary function |
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| What is the purpose of DSM? |
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| DSM primary aim is descriptive; to provide clear diagnostic categories, so that clinicians and researchers can agree on which disorders they are talking about and then can study and treat these disorders |
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| What are some advantages of using DSM? |
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Definition
| DSM provides clear universal description and ways of treating mental disorders |
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| What are some problems with DSM? |
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Definition
1) Danger of over diagnosis
2) The power that the diagnosis lable has
3) The confusion of serious mental disorders with normal problems
4) The illusion of objectivity |
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| What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder? |
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Definition
| It is excessive, uncontrollable anxiety or worry; a feeling of foreboding and dread |
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| How long must symptoms occur before diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder can be made? |
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Definition
| Must occur the majority of the days for a 6 month period; cannot be brought on by physical causes such as diseas, drugs, or drinking to much coffee |
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| What is Post-Tramatic-Stress-Disorder? |
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Definition
| In the immediate aftermath of any crisis or trauma, such as war, rape, torture, natural disasters, sudden bereavement, or terrorist attack where symptoms persist for more than a month or longer and begin to impair a persons abillity to function |
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| What are symptoms of Post-Tramatic-Stress-Disorder? |
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Definition
| Stress, insomnia, agitation, reliving the trauma, intrusive thoughts, a sense of detachment, loss of interest in familiar activities |
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Term
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Definition
| An exaggerated, unrealistic fear of a specific situation, activity, or object |
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| How do phobias differ from fears? |
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Definition
| "Fear" is the normal response to a genuine danger. With phobias, the fear is either irrational or excessive. |
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Term
| What is Obsessive-Cumpulsive-Disorder? |
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Definition
| OCD is an anxiety disorder in which a person feels trapped in repetitive, persistent thoughts(obsessive) ad repetive ritualized behaviors(cumpulsive) designed to reduce anxiety |
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| How do obsessions differ from cumpulsions? |
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| Obsessions refers to thoughts while Cumpulsion refers to behaivors |
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| What is the function of the Compulsions in OCD? |
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| The compulsion function in this disorder to reduce anxiety |
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Term
| What is Major-Depression? |
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Definition
| A mood disorder involving disturbances in emotions(excessive sadness), behavior(loss of intrest in one's usual activitys), cognition(thoughts of hopelessness), and body function(fatigue and loss of appetite) |
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Term
| How does major depression differ from normal sadness? |
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Definition
| Sadness is a part of being human -- a natural reaction to painful circumstances. All of us will experience sadness at some point in our lives. Depression, however, is a physical illness with many more symptoms than an unhappy mood. |
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| What is Bipolar disorder? |
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| A mood disorder in which both depression and mania(excessive euphoria) occur |
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Term
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| It is an adnormally high state of exhilaration, where a person feels powerful and is full of plans, but these plans are normally based on delusional ideas |
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| What characterizes borderline personality disorder? |
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Definition
it is a disorder in which a person makes impulsive actions, and has an unstable mood and chaotic relationships.
Frequent switches from love to hate and back again. |
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| How does borderline personality disorder differ from bipolar disorder? |
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Definition
| Borderline patients do not have the extreme highs and lows that characterize Bipolar disorder. |
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Term
| Define antisocial personality disorder? |
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Definition
| A personality disorder characterized by a life long pattern of irresponsible, antisocial behavior such as lawbreaking, violence, and other impulsive, reckless acts |
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Definition
| A maladaptive pattern of substance use leading to clinically significant impairment or distress |
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| What is dissociative idenity disorder? |
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Definition
| A controversal disorder marked by the apparent appearance within a person of two or more distinct personalities, each with its own name and traits (fromally called multiple personality disorder) |
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| What is the controversy with Dissociative identity disorder? |
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| Critics argue that psychologist were actively creating other personalities through suggestion and intimadtion of vunerable clients |
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Definition
| A psychotic disorder marked by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized and incoherent speech, inappropriate behaivor, and cognitive impairment |
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| What are the four types of Schizophrenia? |
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Definition
1)Paranoid Schizophrenia – having hallucinations
and delusions but with no cognitive deficits
2)Disorganized Schizophrenia – having disrupted speech and emotions
3)Catatonic Schizophrenia – engaging in strange physical movements Holding positions for hours Echoing everything that others say
4)Undifferentiated Schizophrenia-significant problems exist, but symptoms do not fit other three types |
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| jumble of incoherent speech as sometimes heard in schizophrenia |
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| What is the difference between delusions and hallucination? |
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Definition
| Delusions are false or erroneous beliefs where as hallucinations are the hearing of voices or seeing things that are not there |
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| What is the most common biological treatment? |
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Definition
| Medications that alter production of or the response of neruotransmitters in the brain |
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| What are the six cautions about drug treatment? |
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Definition
1)The placebo effect
2)High relapse and dropout rates
3)Disregard for effective, possibly better nonmedical treatments
4)Dosage problems
5) Unknown sideeffects and risk over time and drug interaction
6) Untested offlable use |
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| What is electroconvulsive therapy(ECT)? |
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Definition
| A procedure used in cases of prolonged and severe major depression, in which a breif brain seizure is induced |
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| What disorder is Electoconvulsive therapy used with? |
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Definition
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| When is Electoconvulsive used to treat severe major depression? |
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Definition
| When the depression is crippling, or suicdial impulses exist, and for those who do not respond to other treatments. |
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| How does Electoconvulsive thearpy alleviate symptoms of major depression? |
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Definition
| Electrodes placed on one side of the head causes a seizure that is short lived |
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| How do psychodynamic theorys attempt to cure mental disorders? |
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Definition
refered to as the talking cure, they require clients to come multiple times a week, where they talked not abouot their immediate problems, but about their dreams and their memories of childhood
*Freud belived that intensive analysis of these dreams and memories would give patients insight and emotional release, he belived the persons symptoms would disapear |
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| What are the two types of exposure theorpy? |
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Definition
Gradual Exposure- graudaly desensitize a client to there fear based on pavolean conditioning
Flooding-Client is taken right into the feared situation
Both are done until panic subsides |
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| What is systematic desensitizing? |
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Definition
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Term
| What is contingency management? |
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| Managing the consequences to change behavior |
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