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Behavior that deciates from the norms of society
Behavior seen as different or weird |
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| Behavior that is potentially harmful to oneself or to others not just physically harmful, but also emotionally harmful to the well-being of a person or others. |
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Behaviors can be defined as
-Atypical only (talking to the paint on the wall),
-Both atypical & maladaptive (dancing naked while standing on an overpass railing about an Espressway) or
-Maladaptive only (a college student drinking an excessive amount of alchool at a party). |
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| Mental Disorders are diagnosed according to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Dirorders, 4th Edition (APA, 1994). This book provieds a list of sumptoms common to each type of disorder which can be used to help classify disorders into categories. |
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| Personality Diorders and Mental Retardation |
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| General Medical Condition |
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| Psychosocial & Environmental Conditions |
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| Global Assesment of Functioning Scale |
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| Disorders involving high levels of negative emotions such as fear, nervousness and dread. |
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| Repeated panic attacks, unclear fear of something bad happening in the absence of a threatening stimulus. |
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intense, irrational fears that dominate a person's life on many levels.
Phobias are the most common mental disorder in the United States. |
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| intense irrational fear of an object, creature or specific situation (snakes, spiders, heights etc.) |
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| intense irrational dear of being in a public situation where a tragic event may ovvure from which the person might not esxape or may embarassed by overreacting (wont go to the movies for fear the theater will catch on fire and be trapped inside). Doesn't leave home due to fears. |
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| intense irrational fear of being evaulated by others in social situations. Will leave home but either avoids public places where people are present or endures intense anciety when forved to be in the presence of others. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
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| intense anxiety resulting from obsessions (uncontrollable, repeating thoughts like the inhability to stop thinking about the precise order of clothes hanging in the closet) or compulsions (ritualized behaviors thar are uncontrollable repeating and unwanted like constant hand washing lock checking cleaning and straightening). |
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| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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| has lived throiught a life threatening trauma (rape, combat, plane crash, terroristbombing) and now is dominated b y repeated unwanted thoughts dreams and flashbacks of the event extreme avoidance of reminders of the event numbed emotiong jumpy unable to sleep for fear the event will occur again. |
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This is the short term version of PTSD, lasting from 2-30 days but having the same symptoms.
PTSD is diagnosed with the symptoms last from 30 days and beyond. |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| intense worry and anxiety about everything not just one specific thing. Intense worry about bad things happening in the future for which there is no real conclusive indication. |
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| A general oprehention towards something. |
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| A biological or innatte response to what you see as being a life threatening situation. |
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| Whoever gets diagnosed with GAD (generalized anxiety disorder) will also have. . . . |
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| . . .Depression & substance abuse. |
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| intense anciety resulting frm the misinterpretation of small common physical problems as conclusive evidence of a serious even life threatening illness. Intense fear of being affected by physical illness. |
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| the major form of psychosis (loss of reality) diagnosed along with bipolar disorder and major depression is one of the three major mental disorders. Affects just over 1% of the mid 20s considered to be a biologically based brain disease may be triggered or made worse by stressful situations. |
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| False beliefs --true belief in weird or unusual things. |
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| False sensory experiences, they actually hear or see things that are not there, most commonly auditory but also visual or even tactile. |
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Types of Schisophrenia
Disorganized Type |
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| fits the common stereotype of a "crazy person" disorganized, purposeless or bizarre behavior. |
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Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid Type |
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| system of parnoid delusions often a complex web or false beliefs incolving being spied on or conspired against by others auditory or visual hallucinations often paranoid in nature |
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Types of Schizophrenia
Catatnic Type |
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| extreme social withdrawel does not react to others or things in environment, in a stupor or zombie-like state often shows rigid, bizarre body postures, most rare type most severe tyupe often does not respond to medication. |
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Types of Schizophrenia
Residual Type |
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| is characterized by a past history of at least one episode of schizophrenia, but the person currently has no positive symptoms (delusions, hallucinations etc). |
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Types of Schizophrenia
Undifferentiated Type |
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| is characterized by some symptoms seen in all of the above types but not enough of any one of them to define it as another particular type of schizophrenia. |
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| The best prognosis for schizophrenia is... |
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| An eating disorder is marked by extremes. It is present when a person experiences severe disturbances in eating behavior, such as extreme reduction of food intake or extreme overeating or feelings of extreme distress or concern about their body weight or shape. |
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Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
(weight loss) |
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| Anorexia nervosa is characterized by emaciation of a relentless pusuit of thinness and unwillingness to maintain a normal or healthy weight a distortion of body image and intense fear of gaining weight a lack of menstruation among girls and women and extremly disturbed eating behavior. |
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Eating Disorder
Bulimia Nervosa
(weight managment) |
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| Bulimia nervosa is characterized by recurrent and frequent episdoes of eating unusually large amounts of food (ie. binge eating) and feeling a lack of control over the eating. |
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consuming a large amount of food in a short about of time.
A binger can consume on average 3000 calories within a 2 hour period of time (but mostly 30 min) and as many as 3,400 calories in one sitting.
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self induce vomitting.
The purge can be from self-induced vomitting, taking laxatives, diuretics, or enemas or participating in excessive excersise or periods of fasting. |
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Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
Restricting Type (Introverted) |
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| People who restrict food from the body. |
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Eating Disorder
Anorexia Nervosa
Binge Eating/Purging Type (Extroverted). |
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Have social obligations.
Visibly & Socially active |
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Anhedonia
(Neagative Symptom) |
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"Lack of pleasure"
Not flat, just no pleasure |
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Alogia
(Negative Symptom) |
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"A vacancy of speech"
Speech is meaningless |
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Flat Affect
(negative symptom) |
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| Things that are not typical, normal, or usual. |
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The majority (51%)
Does what everyone else does.
A comparison |
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| The scientific study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict and change abnormal patterns of functioning. |
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socially and culturally unacceptable behavior.
*Your thoughts can be deviant and your actions can be deviant* |
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| To cause strain or anxiety on yourself or somebody else. |
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Abnormality
3.) Dysfunction |
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to interfere with daily functions.
(This distracts or confuses people that they cannot care for themselves properly). |
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| Putting yourself or others at risk. |
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| disorders involving long-term patterns of maladaptive behavior seen in interactions with others. |
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| Histrionic Personality Disorder |
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neurotic attention seeking behavior, highly dramatic, upset if not center of attention in a group.
"Drama Queen" |
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| Narcissistic Personality Dirorder |
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| falsely inflated sense of self and thinks self superior to others and therefore should reeive special treatment in life, self absorbed. |
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| Anti-social Personality Disorder |
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| consistently violates the rights of others with no guilt or remorse for doing so. will, cheat, steal and not feel sorry. |
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