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| The concept that diseases have physical causes that can be treated and in most cases cured. |
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| The American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders, a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |
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| Creates stereotypes, can create false assumptions about people, affect how we percieve people, labels guide perceptions which guide interpretations. |
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| Distressing, persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety, four different types. |
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
(Anxiety disorder) |
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| When a person is unexplainanly and continually tense and uneasy. |
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Panic Disorder
(Anxiety Disorder) |
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| When a person experiences sudden episodes of intense dread. |
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Phobias
(Anxiety Disorder) |
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| When a person feels irrationally and intensly afraid of a specific object or situation. |
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O.C.D.
(Anxiety Disorder) |
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| when a person is troubled by repetitive thoughts and/or actions. |
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Common Obsessions w/ OCD among children
-O's |
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| conserns with dirt/germs, something bad happening (fire or death) and symmetry/exactness. |
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Common compulsions with OCD among children
-C's |
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| Excessive hand washing, bathing, grooming, repeating rituals, checking doors, locks, homework, etc. |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. |
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Major Depressive Disorder
(Mood Disorder) |
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| When a person experiences two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, diminshed interest in activities. |
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Bipolar Disorder
(Mood Disorder)
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| When a person alternates between dpression and mania. |
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| When a person is hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. |
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| A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. |
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| False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompanypsychotic disorders. |
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| Preoccupations with delusions or hallucinations, often with themse of persecution or grandiosity. |
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Disorganized
(Schizophrenia) |
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| Disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion. |
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Catatonic
(Schizophrenia) |
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| immobility (or excessive, purposless movement), extreme negativism, and/or parrotlike repeating of anothers speech or movements. |
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Undifferentiated
(Schizophrenia) |
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| Many and varied symptoms. |
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| Withdrawel, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared. |
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| Psychological disorders characterized by inflexiblle and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning. |
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| Anti-Social Personality Disorders |
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| When a person (usually male) exhibits lack of conscience for wrong doing, may be aggressive/ruthless or a clever con-artist. |
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