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| A fear of going to public places |
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| a class of disorders marked by excessive apprehension and anxiety |
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Axis I - Clinical Syndromes
Axis II - Personality disorders or mental retardation
Axis III - General Medical Conditions
Axis IV - Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
Axis V - Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) Scale |
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| Cognitive factors of somatoform disorders |
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| catastrophic conclusions to minor bodily issues |
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| The percentage of twin pairs of relatives that exhibit the same disorder |
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| A significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis), usually in a single organ system |
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| Behavior that is considered “socially unacceptable” |
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| Distinguishing one illness from another |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) |
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| A multiaxial system that asks for judgements about individuals on five separate axes |
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| Disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity |
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| People lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
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| The coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities (Also known as Multiple Personality Disorder) |
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| The apparent cause and developmental history of an illness |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| A chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat |
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| Hypochondriasis (Hypochondria) |
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| An excessive preoccupation with one’s health and incessant worry about developing physical illnesses |
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| Behavior that inhibits a person’s ability to adapt to particular situations. |
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| Many anxiety reactions are acquired from |
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| classical conditioning and maintained through operant conditioning. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) |
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| Persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions) |
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| Recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occurs suddenly and unexpectedly |
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| The diagnosis of a psychological disorder based on a person’s report of personal distress. |
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| A persistent or irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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| Psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event |
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| The forecast of a probable course of an illness |
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| Genuine physical ailments caused in part by psychological factors, especially emotional distress |
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| A history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological in origin |
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| Physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors |
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| Some people are more likely to suffer from anxiety problems because |
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1. They misinterpret harmless situations as threatening
2. They focus excessive attention on perceived threats
3.They selectively recall information that seems threatening |
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| The proposal that it is useful to think abnormal behavior is a disease - The basis for the use of terms such as mental illness, psychological disorder, and psychopathology to refer to abnormal behavior |
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| enjoying the way of being sick, no extreme demands etc |
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| Disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes (Episodic). There are two types of mood disorders, bipolar and unipolar |
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| Major Depression Disorder |
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| When people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a lost of interest in previous sources of pleasure |
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| The experience of both manic and depressed periods, also known as manic-depressive disorder |
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