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| Behavior that causes a person to become distress,and prevent form function in their dally life. |
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| This prespective suggest that the fundamental causes of someone with abnormal behavior can be found through exam that may reveal hormonal imbalance, Aa chemical deficiency. |
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| Freud theroy that suggest that abnormal behavior stems for childhood conflicts over opposing wishes regarding sex snd aggression. |
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| Psychoanalytic Perspective |
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| Theroy that suggest that behavior that has been learned from the past is determines normal and abnormal behavior. |
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| Assumes that thoughts and beliefs are central to a person’s abnormal behavior, someone that has to take an exam, might believe not passing the the exam may determine there future causing stress and other behaviors |
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| Comprehensive and relatively precise definitions for more than 200 disorders, divided into 17 major categories |
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DSM-IV-TR
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders |
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| When anxiety occurs without external justification and begins to affect people’s daily functioning. |
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| Intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation, Fear of high places or ofenclosed places |
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| Occur that last from a few seconds to several hours,don;t have a identifiable stimuli,comes out of nowhereAnxiety suddenly rises to a peak, and one feels a sense of impending, unavoidable doom , |
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| Long-term, persistent anxiety and uncontrollable worry. Concerns about identifiable issues such as family, money, work or health. |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| Persistent unwanted thought or idea that keeps recurring, such as a man on vacation that constanly worry if he has locked the door, or a woman that hears the same tune running through her head. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder |
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| Irresistible urges to repeatedly carry out some act that seems strange and unreasonable, such as constanly checking the stove to make sure all the burners are off, or washing of one's hands |
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| A person that reexperience a stressful event in a vivid flashback or dream. |
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| posttraumatic stress disorder |
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| Disturbances in emotional experience that are strong enough to intrude on everyday living |
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| Severe form of depression that interferes with concentration, decision making, and sociability |
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Extended state of intense, wild elation
Feeling of intense happiness, power, invulnerability, and energy, becoming involved in wild schemes beliving that can succeed at anything |
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Periods of alternating mania and depression
May occur over a few days or over a period of years |
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| Refers to a class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs, affecting functions, thought and language,delusional,hallucinate, lack of emotion,and withdrawn. |
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| Characterized by a set of inflexible, maladaptive behavior patterns that keep a person from functioning appropriately in society |
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Sometimes referred to as sociopathic personality,has no regard to the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others. Seeming intellegent, charming and highly persuasive, closer look turns out to be manipulative and deceptive.
Show no regard for the moral and ethical rules of society or the rights of others
Extremely manipulative and deceptive
Con artist
Impulsive and lack the ability to withstand frustration
Lack guilt or anxiety about their wrongdoing |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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Difficulty developing a secure self-identity
Tend to rely on relationships with others to define self-identity
Emotional volatility leads to impulsive and self-destructive behavior, including self-mutilation
Feel empty and alone
May form intense, sudden, one-sided relationships, demanding the attention of another person and becoming angry when they don't receive it. |
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| Boarder line Personality Disorder |
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| Characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance Expect special treatment from others whilt disregarding others feeking.Inability to experience empathy for others |
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| Narcissistic Personality Disorder |
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| Alzheimer's disease and mental retardation is form of what type of disorder |
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A typical sexual activities that may include nonconsenting partners
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| What are the goals of psychologically and biologically based treatment approaches? |
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| techniques to help someone overcome psychological difficulties and disorders, resolve problems in living, and/or bring about personal growth |
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| What are the psychodynamic, behavioral, and cognitive approaches to treatment? |
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| Seek to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where clients may deal with problems more effectively |
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| What are the humanistic approaches to treatment? |
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Aims to enable people to reach their potential for self-actualization
Unconditional positive regard
Expressing acceptance and understanding, regardless of the feelings and attitudes the client expresses
Empathetic |
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| What is interpersonal therapy? |
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Considers therapy in the context of social relationships
Roots stem from psychodynamic approaches
Focuses on interpersonal issues such as conflicts with others, social skills issues, role transitions, and grief |
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| How does group therapy differ from individual types of therapy? |
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Several unrelated people meet with a therapist to discuss some aspect of their psychological functioning
Often centers on a common difficulty |
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| How effective is psychotherapy, and which kind of psychotherapy works best in a given situation? |
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| Freudian psychotherapy, in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior |
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| Lithium, Depakote, Tegretol are drugs used to treat? |
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| Mood Disorder and Bipolar |
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Procedure used in the treatment of severe depression
Electric current of 70 to 150 volts is briefly administered to a patient’s head, causing a loss of consciousness and often causing seizures |
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| Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) |
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| Aims to prevent or minimize the incidence of psychological disorders |
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