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| it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. |
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| to distinguish one illness from another |
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| apparent causation, and developmental history of an illness |
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| forcast about probable course of an illness |
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| study of distribution of mental disorders in a population |
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| class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety |
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| generalized anxiety disorder |
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| chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat |
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| marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents to realistic danger. |
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| fear of going out to public places. |
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| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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| enduring psychological disturbance attrubuted to a major traumatic event. |
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| Indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other relatives who exhibit the same disorder. |
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| involve genuine physical ailments caused in part by psychological factors, especially reactions to stress. |
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| physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors. symptoms more imaginary than real |
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| characterized by a significant loss of physical function (with no apparent organic basis) usually in a single organ system. |
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| characterized by excessive preoccupatino with health concerns and incesstant worry about developing physical illness. |
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| A class of 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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| sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be forgetting. |
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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 |
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| involves the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very different personalities. |
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| A class of disorders marked by emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical perceptual social and thought processes |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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| people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a losee of interest in previous sources of pleasure |
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| consists of chronic depression that is insufficient in severity to justify diagnosis of major depression |
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| exhibiting chronic but relatively mild symptoms of bipolar disturbance. |
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| class of disorders marked by delusions hallucinations disorganized speech and deterioration of adaptive behavior |
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| Disorganized schizophrenia |
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| Severe deterioration of adaptive behavior is seen. |
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| excess dopamine activity is the neurochemical basis for schizophrenia. |
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| The degree to which a relative of a patient displays highly critical or emotionally overinvovled attitudes towards the patient |
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| 3 kinds of personality disorders |
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| odd/eccentric, anxious/fearful, dramatic/impulsive |
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| abnormal syndromes that are found only in a few cultural groups. |
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| mild forms of psychopathology. patient does not lose contact with reality. anxiety |
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| very severe forms of psychopathology. almost always hospitalized in life. lose contact with reality. delusions and hallucinations. |
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