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| concerned with the dx and tx of persons with mental disorders |
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| thoughts, feelings, disorders |
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| difficulty manifested by subjective distress or observable dysfunction |
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| clinically significant impairment or distress |
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| what are the contributing factors to mental disorders? |
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| biologic, psychological, social |
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| indirection and delay in reaching the point, components may have a meaningful connection |
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| shift from one subject to another withouth meaningful connection. |
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| almost continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt change form subject to subject based on understandable connections. |
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| invented or distorted words, be careful of slang |
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| speech that is largely incomprehensible |
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| sudden interruption of speech in midsentence or before copmletion of a thought, "loosing a thought" |
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| fabrication of facts to fill in gaps in impaired memory. common in Korsakoff's Syndrome from alcoholism |
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| persistent repitition of words or ideas |
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| repitition of words/phrases of others |
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| repitition of the movements of others |
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| choice of word based on sound not meaning, common in schizo and manic episodes |
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| repetitive behaviors or mental acts a person feels driven to perform to produce a future state of affairs. |
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| recurrent, uncontrollable thoughts, images, or impulses that a person considers unacceptable and alien. |
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| persistant irrational fears with compelling desire to avoid the stimulus |
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| apprehension, fear, tensions, uneasiness that may be focused (anxiety) or free floating (impending doom) |
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| sense that things in the environment are strange, unreal, or remote |
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| sense that one's self is different, changed, unreal, or has lost identity or become detached from one's body or mind |
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| feelings of depersonalization |
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| false, fixed, or personal beliefs not shared by other members of the person's cuulture or subculture |
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| misinterpretation of real or external stimuli |
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| misinterpretation of real external stimuli |
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| subjective sensory perceptions in the absence of relevant external stimuli. Person may or may not recognize the experience as false. |
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| are perceptions associated with dreaming, falling asleep, or awakening classified as hallucinations? |
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| what disorders are hallucinations associated with? |
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| delirium, dementia, PTSD, schizo, alcoholism |
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| what is a warning signal of psychiatric distress? |
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| medically unexplained conditions lasting longer than 6 weeks |
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| what common functional syndromes often co-exist with psych disorders? |
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| IBS, chronic fatigue, TMJ, multiple chemical sensitivity |
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| disorder of condition that is the focus of clincal attention (chief complaint) |
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| personlity disorders and metal retardation |
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| general medical conditions |
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| psychosocial & environmental problems |
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| global assessment funcitioning scale (GAFS) |
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| axis 4 environmental factors include..... |
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| educational, occupational, legal system/crime, economic, access to healthcare, housing |
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| mild, moderate, and servere classification are used for..... |
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| mental retardation, conduct disorders, manic episodes, and major depressive disorders |
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| all criteria were initially met, only some are currently met |
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| all criteria previously met, no signs and symptoms currently remain |
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| individual is considered to be recovered |
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| partial remission, full remission, and prior history are used to describe.... |
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| manic episodes, major depressive disorder, and substance abuse with severity and course specifiers |
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