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Psychology
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03/09/2010

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Acute Stress Disorder
Definition
Anxiety Dis. sim. to PTSD but duration no longer than 4 wks
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amnestic disorder
Definition
impairmt in ability to learn new info or to recall prev learned info or past events; caused by gen med con. or substance use
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antisocial personality disorder
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pattern of disregard for and violation of rights of others; dx requires symptoms of Conduct Dis. prior to 15 and presence of char sympt since age 15
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Catharsis
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emotional release of repressed, unconscious material and affords client insihgt into rel. bt his behav and uncons processes
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hallucination
Definition
sensory perception that occurs in the absence of external stimuli of associated sensory organ
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obsession
Definition
recurrent, persistent and senseless idea, thought, image or impulse that is experienced as ego-dystonic
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delusion
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false belief firmly held despite objective evidence to the contrary and cultural norms that do not support the belief.
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abandonment depression
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"self activation leads to abandonment depression leads to acting out"-james masterson; a pattern seen in BPD
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MMPI-2
Definition
one of most widely used self-report inventories for personality assessment; clincial and validity scales prov. info about person's: char. traits and behav., incl. symptoms, major needs, perceptions of enviro, rx to stress, self concept, sexual id, emot control, interpers rel and psych resources
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Strategic Family Therapy
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uses tracking and mimesis; also: * Working in the present
* Reframing negativity
* Reversals
* Working with boundaries and alliances
* Detriangulation
* Opening up closed systems
* Tasks
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depersonalization
Definition
Depersonalization (or depersonalisation) is a malfunction or anomaly of the mechanism by which an individual has self-awareness. It is a feeling of watching oneself act, while having no control over a situation.[1] It can be considered desirable, such as in the use of recreational drugs, but it usually refers to the severe form found in anxiety and, in the most intense cases, panic attacks. Sufferers feel they have changed, and the world has become less real, vague, dreamlike, or lacking in significance. It can be a disturbing experience, since many feel that, indeed, they are living in a "dream".Depersonalization-derealization is the single most important symptom in the spectrum of dissociative disorders, including Dissociative Identity Disorder and Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified. It is also a prominent symptom in some other non-dissociative disorders, such as anxiety disorders, clinical depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, migraine, sleep deprivation, and some types of epilepsy.
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learned helplessness
Definition
person learns through uncontrollable events that resp. to certain events is futile
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flight of ideas
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Flight of ideas is one of the symptoms of bipolar mania as well as schizophrenia and ADHD. Some web definitions include:

* a nearly continuous flow of rapid speech that jumps from topic to topic, usually based on discernible associations, distractions, or plays on words, but in severe cases so rapid as to be disorganized and incoherent. It is most commonly seen in manic episodes but may also occur in other mental disorders such as in manic phases of schizophrenia
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loosening of associations
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a disorder of thinking in which associations of ideas become so shortened, fragmented, and disturbed as to lack logical relationship.
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conservation
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Conservation is one of Piaget's developmental accomplishments, in which the child understands that changing the form of a substance or object does not change its amount, overall volume, or mass. This accomplishment occurs during the operational stage of development between ages 7 and 11. You can often see the lack of conservation in children when there are, for example, several different sizes of juice on a table, and they chose the glass that is the tallest because they perceive the taller glass as having more juice inside of it (even though the tallest glass may also be the thinnest). All the glasses may have the same amount of juice in them, but children who haven't accomplished conservation will perceive the tall glass as being most full.
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parataxic distortion
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is a psychiatric term first used by Harry S. Sullivan to explain the inclination to skew perceptions of others based on fantasy.
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marasmus
Definition
a form of protein-energy malnutrition predominantly due to prolonged severe caloric deficit, chiefly occurring in the first year of life, with growth retardation and wasting of subcutaneous fat and muscle
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cybernetics
Definition
systems are self-regulating thru feedback loops
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transactional analysis
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Parent, Adult, and Child states—; games people play (Berne);There are basically three kinds of transactions:contracts

1. Reciprocal/Complementary (the simplest)
2. Crossed
3. Duplex/Covert (the most complex)
; life position (i'm ok, your'e ok, etc/; life scripts; injunctions and drivers (do this, shoulds, don't do...)
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reattribution
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attributing responsibility to appropriate parties, esp helpful if client guilt-ridden or depressed
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thought stopping
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behavioral technique; useful for ocd,...
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decatastrophizing
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cog behav technique used for anxiety esp; beck
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resistance
Definition
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