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| Major depressive disorder |
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| DSM-IV-TR: At least one episode of feeling profoundly depressed, sad, and hopeless, and/or losing interest in and the ability to derive pleasure from almost all activities, for at least 2 weeks |
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| Body symptoms such as loss of appetite, tiredness, and disruption of normal sleep patterns |
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| Developmental psychopathology |
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| The study of the origins and course of maladaptive behavior |
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| Expectations about how to behave in a particular social context |
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| Proposes that psychopathology results from the interaction over time of a predisposition or vulnerability to psychological disorder and the experience of stressful events |
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| Begins in infancy and is characterized by abnormal social development, impaired language and communication, and repetitive behavior |
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| Parroting of what someone else says |
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| Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) |
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| Family of autistic conditions |
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| Asperger Syndrome (also an ASD) |
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| Child has normal or above-average intelligence, good verbal skills, and a clear desire to establish social relationships but has seriously deficient soical-cognitive and social-communicative skills |
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| Malfunctioning of mirror neuron systems located in a number of brain areas of accounts for the deficits individuals with autism show in imitation, theory-of-mind skills, empathy, and language |
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| Higher level control functions based in the prefrontal cortex of the brain that allow us to plan, change flexibly from one course of action to another, and inhibit actions |
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| Extreme male brain hypothesis |
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| Attributes autism to a brain that is strong in "masculine" but weak in "feminine" mental skills |
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| Fail to grow normally, lose weight, and become seriously underweight for their age - and are often developmentally delayed as a result |
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| Undercontrolled disorders - act out in ways that disturb other people and violate social expectations |
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| Overcontrolled disorders, involve inner distress |
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| Co-occurence of two or more psychiatric conditions in the same individual |
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| Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) |
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| A well-established psychotherapy approach that identifies and changes distorted thinking and the maladaptive emotions and behavior that sstem from it |
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| Refusal to maintain a weight that is at least 85% of the expected weight for the persons's height and age |
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| Cascade model of substance use |
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| Transactional, multifactor model envisions development as a flow of water over a series of waterfalls, gaining momentum as it goes as each influence along the way helps realize the previous factors and contributes to the next influence in the chain of influence |
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| Dwelling unproductively on problems |
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