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| to think of abnormal behavior as a disease |
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| distinguishing one illness from another |
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| a forecast about the probable course of an illness |
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| behavior is impaired; substance use |
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| troubled by depression or anxiety disorders |
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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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| a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no real danger |
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| recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly |
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| a fear of going out to public places |
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| Obsessive compulsive disorder |
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| persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urges to engage in senseless rituals (compulsions) |
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| Posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event |
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| marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to be psychological |
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| a significant loss of physical function |
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| excessive preoccupation with health concerns and continual worry about developing physical illnesses |
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| a sudden loss of memory for important personal info that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting |
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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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| people lose their memory for their entire lives along their sense of personal identity |
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| Dissociative identity disorder |
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| the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different personalities |
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| emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social, and thought process |
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| Major depressive disorder |
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| persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous sources of pleasure |
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| the experience of one or more overexcited episodes as well as periods of depression |
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| delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and deterioration of adaptive behavior |
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| Symptoms of Schizophrenia |
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| delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and violent behavior |
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| dominated by delusions of persecution, along with delusions of personal greatness |
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| striking motor disturbances, ranging from muscular rigidity to random motor activity |
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| Disorganized Schizophrenia |
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| severe deterioration of adaptive behavior |
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| Undifferentiated Schizophrenia |
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| idiosyncratic mixtures of schizophrenia symptoms |
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| behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions, social withdrawal, apathy, impaired attention and poverty of speech |
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| behavioral excesses or unusual habits, such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior and wild flights of ideas |
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| out of control overeating followed by vomiting |
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| intense fear of gaining weight, refusal to maintain normal weight, and use of dangerous measures to lose weight |
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| the coexistence of two or more disorders |
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| a legal status indicating that a person cannot be held responsible for his or her actions because of mental illness |
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| people are hospitalized in psychiatric facilities against their will |
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| transferring the treatment of mental illness from inpatient institutions to community based facilities that emphasize out patient care |
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| abnormal syndromes found only in a few cultural groups |
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| verbal interactions intended to enhance clients' self knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior |
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| the application of learning principles to direct efforts to change clients' maladaptive behaviors |
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| psychological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders |
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| insight therapy that emphasizes providing a supportive emotional climate for clients |
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| Systematic desensitization |
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| behavior therapy used to reduce phobic clients' anxiety responses through counterconditioning |
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| behavior therapy in which an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable response |
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| Electroconvulsive therapy |
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| biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions |
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