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Abnormal Behavior
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| Anything that causes Distress, impairment, risk to self and others, socially unacceptable |
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| Impact on the individual, impact on the family, impact on the community, impact on society |
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| Biological, Psychological, Sociocultural, (Biopsychosocial- together) |
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| What are its research methods? |
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| The scientific method and The Experimental method |
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| Put some examples of History in here |
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Biological, Psychological and Sociocultural
plus combined all 3 -Biopsychosocial |
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| Genetic, Medical, Brain Damage, Expose to Stimuli |
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| traumatic experience, learned associations, distorted perceptions, faulty thinking |
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| Disturbances, discrimination |
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| interactions in which biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors play a role in the development of the individual. |
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| The proposal that people are born with a predisposition that places them at risk for developing a psychological disorder if exposed to certain extremely stressful life experiences |
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| Objectivity, observations, hypothesis formation, ruling out competing explanations with proper controls |
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| Discovering the source of differences among people on psychological variables. |
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| An association or co-relation, between two variables. Expressed at +1, -1 |
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| Researcher use the survey method to gather information from a sample considered representative of a particular population. |
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| Of a disorder is the frequency of new events in a given time. |
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| Of a disorder is the number of people who have ever had the disorder at a given time or over a specified period. |
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| describe a Single-subject design in detail, studies of genetic influence. |
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| Stigma -a label that causes certain people to be regarded as different, defective and set apart from mainstream members of society and Distress. |
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| Used to refer to a person seeking Psychological services |
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| Used to refer to a person who is ILL and consistent with medical model, someone who passively waits to be treated. |
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| Observer of human nature, can expert in human relations, aids others |
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Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)
Not allowed to administer mediations |
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Licensed to administer medical treatment.
Can prescribe medications for treatment of psychological disorders. |
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| a broad way of measurement techniques. Involves having people provide scoreable information about their psychological functioning. |
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Publication that is periodically revised to reflect most up to date knowledge about psychological disorders |
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| basis for a treatment plan |
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| Diagnosis applied to anyone showing a set of symptoms. |
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| Diagnoses represent real and distinct and clinical phenomena. |
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| The frequency with which it occurs in the general population. |
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| a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress. |
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| a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom. |
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| a collection of symptoms that forms a definable pattern (behavior or psychological syndrome, present distress or disability) |
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| Implements that many disorders were caused by unconscious conflict. |
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| used to refer to various forms of behavior involving loss of contact with reality |
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| The five axis of teh DSM-IV-TR |
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Axis 1-5
1 Clinical disorders
2 personality disorders and mental retardation
3 General medial conditions
4 Psychosocial and environmental problems
5 Global assessment of functioning |
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Clinical Disorders
Meaning that each is a collection of symptoms that constitutes a particular from of abnormality
*Adjustment disorder |
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Personality disorders and mental retardation
disorders that present enduring characteristics of an individuals personality or abilities. |
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| General Medical conditions for documenting a client's medical conditions. (Total diagnostic picture) |
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| Psychosocial and environmental problems the clinician documents events or pressures that may affect the diagnosis, treatment or outcome of a clients psychological disorder |
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| Global assessment of functioning used to document the clinician's overall judgment of a client's psychosocial, social and occupational functioning. |
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