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-anxiety disorder
-avoid situations where you have to be evaluated
-ex: public speaking, eating in front of others |
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-anxiety disorder
-experience persistent and uncontrolled irrational beliefs
-thoughts interfere with actions and behavior
-ex: stair counting |
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characterized by having inflexible and long standing mal adaptive ways
-NOT schizophrenia |
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-feel people are out to get them
-mitrust everyone
-have difficulty in relationships
-sensitive to critism |
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-very submissive and clingy
-dpend on everyone else to make their life desicions
-very agreeable and affectionate |
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-dramatic erratic
-seek attention by exaggeration a situation
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-closely related to histronic
-exaggerated sense of self importance
-constant need of admiration
-accept favors no mater how imposing
-greatly react to critism |
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-can be charming, manipulative
-thought pattern are against society
-violate rights of others
-pple who lie, conartist
-EX: trick the elderly, take advantage of disasters
RED FLAG: children who harm pets |
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| Causes for personality disorders |
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-hereditry
-neurotransmitters
-drop in seratonin
-upbringing |
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-hearing voices, paranoia
-personality disenigrates
-hallucnations, delusions |
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schizophrenics are split into 4 groups as far as what happens to them
-1/4 only have one episode and then they are fine
-1/4 can operate on their own with medication
-1/4 must be in an institution w/ medication
-1/4 kill themselves |
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| disorganized schizophrenia |
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-inappropriate behavior and emotions
=incoherent language
-hallucinations
-if they have them theres no theme
ex: drinking own urine |
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-disrutption in motor activity
-appear frozen
-some have motor agitation
ex: finger in front of face |
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-delusions of persecution
-feel spyed on and plotted against
-will act on delusions, hear voices
-delusions of grandeur
-delusional jealousy |
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in paranoid schizophrenics
-believe they are someone famous or important |
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| undifferentiated schizophrenia |
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-mix set of symptoms
-features from all sub-types
-grab bag |
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-left over
-pple who have suffered from major past episodes are free of major positive symptoms
-usually with treated people |
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what is the cause of the disease?
1) Genetic
2)Brain
ventricles look different
3)Environmental
person with predisposition has occurence
4) Dopamine
an excess of dopamine in receptors
EX: people who use drugs |
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excessive and long lasinng anxiety
-person feels anxious and worried
-becomes jumpy and irritable
-more common in women, paired with depression usually |
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| -have panic attacks without warning or cause |
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and anxiety disorder involving strong irrational fear of an object or situation
-strong reaction isnt justified |
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| -strong fear of being away from a safe place or home or familiar person |
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psychological problems with symptoms of a physical disorder without a physical cause
EX: track girl with no physical symptoms |
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type of somatoform disorder
-the person appears to be blind, deaf, or paralyzed
-usually caused by stress |
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somTOFORM DISORDER
-person has strong unjustified fear of they have a serious sickness
EX: heart disease, cancer, AIDS
-seek unnecessary medical treatment |
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-have dramatic reports of physical pain
-no specific illness |
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-person has disruptions in memory
-can be weeks or hours |
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| `Abnormal behavior os caused by a combo of biological, psychological, and sociological factors. |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Mental Disorders
-Describes each form of a disorder |
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| Evaluating the Diagnostic System |
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goal are to help, identify appropriate treatment and group people together with similar disorders for research
- Not much validity or interrator reliability |
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| involve fear of specific physical objects, places, or activities |
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| Causes of Anxiety Disorders |
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Biological Factors: abnormal levels of neurotransmitters and oversensitive brainstem mechanisms
Psychological Factors: may exaggerate a danger associated with a past experience. |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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-multiple personality disorder
-having more than one identity |
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| persistent and extreme mood swings with no consistent cause |
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| Major Depressive Disorder |
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involves feelings of sadness, hopelessness, inadequacy, worthlessness and guilt
-last long periods
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| alternating feelings of extreme depression and mania |
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intense feelings of frustration
-anger, self-hatred |
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Biological: altered levels of serotonin and norepinephrine
Psychological and Social:
-people with dependency
-learned helplessness
-negative mental habits |
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-severyly distrubed thinking, emotion, behavior
-impair persons ability to function and communicate
-word salad
-hallucinations |
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| Substance-Related Disorders |
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result of prolonged use of psychoactive drug
-usually involves addictions |
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