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| Axis 1: clinical disorders and other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention |
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| Psychological disorders that impair functioning and are stressful and factors that are not disorders but may affect functioning |
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| Axis 2: Personality disorders and mental retardation |
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| Rigid, enduring, maladaptive personality patterns and mental retardation. |
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| Axis 3: General Medical Conditions |
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| Chronic and acute illnesses and medical conditions that may have an impact on mental health. |
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| Axis 4: Psychosocial and environmental problems |
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| problems in physical surroundings of the person, may have impact on diagnosis, treatment, and outcome |
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| Axis 5: Global Assessment of functioning |
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| overall judgment of current functioning, including mental, social, and occupational. |
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| criteria for diagnosing “abnormal” behavior |
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| Is the behavior unusual? Experiencing severe panic when faced with a stranger or being severely depressed in the absence of any stressful life situations? |
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| criteria for diagnosing “abnormal” behavior |
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Definition
Does the behavior go against social norms?
Does the behavior cause the person significant subjective discomfort?
Is the behavior maladaptive? |
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| criteria for diagnosing “abnormal” behavior |
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| Does the behavior cause the person to be dangerous to self or others, as in the case of someone who tries to commit suicide or attacks other people without reason? |
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Definition
Panic disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder
Post traumatic stress disorder
Specific phobia
Social phobia
Agoraphobia
Generalized anxiety disorder |
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| panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in daily life |
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| Obsessive compulsive disorder |
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Definition
| intruding, recurring thoughts of obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior |
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| Post traumatic stress disorder |
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Definition
| resulting from exposing to major stress, lasting more than one month. |
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| Generalized anxiety disorder |
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Definition
| person has feelings of dread and impending doom along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts six months or more |
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Definition
| fear of interacting with others, or being in situations that might lead to negative evaluation. |
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| of being in a place of situation from which escape is difficult of impossible |
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| fear of object of specific situations or events |
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| take the form of bodily illnesses and symptoms but for which there are no real physical disorders. |
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| Psychosomatic disorder (psychophysiological) – (somatoform) |
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| psychological stress causes a real physical disorder or illness. |
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| Hypochondriasis – (somatoform) |
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Definition
| the person is terrified or being sick and worries constantly, going to doctor repeatedly, becoming preoccupied with sensation of the body |
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| Somatization disorder – (somatoform) |
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Definition
| the person dramatically complains of specific symptom, which there is no real physical cause |
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| Conversion disorder – (somatoform) |
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Definition
| person experiences a specific symptom in the somatic nervous system’s functioning, such as paralysis, numbness, or blindness, for which there is no physical cause. |
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| person is suffers from delusions of persecution, grandeur, and jealousy, together with hallucinations |
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| person experiences period of statuelike immobility mixed with occasional bursts of energetic, frantic movement, and talking |
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| Disorganized Schizophrenia |
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Definition
| behavior is bizarre and childish and thinking, speech, and motor actions are very disordered. |
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| severe mood swings between major depressive episodes and manic episodes |
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| moderate depression that least for 2 years or more and typically a reaction to some external stressor |
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Definition
| consists of mood swings from moderate depression to hypomania and lasts 2 years or more. |
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| person has no morals or conscience, behaves in an impulsive manner without regard for the consequences |
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| person is moody, unstable, lacks a clear sense of identity, often clings to other. (intense and relatively unstable relationship) |
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| anything that does not allow a person to function within of adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life. |
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| Seasonal affective disorder |
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| mood disorder caused by the body’s reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months. |
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| process of cutting holes into the skull of living person |
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| false beliefs held by a person who refuses to accept evidence of their falseness |
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| false sensory perceptions, such as hearing voices that do not really exist |
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