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| psychopathological functioning |
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| disruptions in emotional, behavioral, or thought processes that lead to personal distress of block one's ability to achieve important goals |
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| area of psychological investigation concerned with understanding that nature of individual pathologies of mind, mood, and behavior |
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| label given to psychological abnormality by classifying and categorizing the observed behavior pattern into an approved diagnostic system |
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| current diagnostic and statistical manual of the american psychological association that classifies, defines, and describes mental disorders |
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| experience of more than one disorder at the same time |
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1 clinical disorders
2 personality disorders/mental retardation
3 general medical conditions
4 psychosocial/environmental problems
5 global assessment of functioning |
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| mental disorder in which a person does not have signs of brain abnormalities and does not display grossly irrational thinking or violate basic norms but does experience subjective distress; a category dropped from DSM-III |
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| severe mental disorder in which a person experiences impairments in reality testing manifested through thought, emotional, or perceptual difficulties |
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| legal (not clinical) designation for the state of an individual judged to be legally irresponsible or incompetent |
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| causes of, or factor related to, the development of a disorder |
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| mental disorder marked by psychological arousal, feeling of tension, and intense apprehension without apparent reason |
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| generalized anxiety order |
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| anxiety disorder in which an individual feels anxious and worried most of the time for at least six months when not threatened by any specific danger or object |
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| anxiety disorder in which sufferers experience unexpected, severe panic attacks that begin with a feeling of intense apprehension, fear, or terror |
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| extreme fear of being in public places or open spaces from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing |
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| rational reaction to an objectivly identified external danger that may induce a person to flee or attack in self-defense |
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| persistent and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that is excessive and unreasonable, given the reality of the threat |
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| persistent, irrational fear that arises in anticipation of a public situation in which an individual can be observed by others |
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| phobia that occurs in response to a specific type of object or situation |
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| mental disorder characterized by obesssions-recurrent thoughts, images, or impulses that recur or persist despite efforts to suppress them-and compulsions-repetitive, purposeful acts performed according to certain rules or in a ritualized manner |
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| mood disturbance such as severe depression or depression alternating with mania |
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| major depressive disorder |
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| mood disorder characterized by intense feelings of depression over an extended time, without the manic high phase of bipolar depression |
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| mood disorder characterized by alternation periods of depression and mania |
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| component of bipolar disorder characterized by periods of extreme elation, unbounded euphoria without sufficient reason, and grandiose thoughts or feelings about personal abilities |
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| general pattern of non-responding in the presence of noxious stimuli that often follows after an organism has previously experienced non-contingent, inescapable aversive stimuli |
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| chronic, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of perceiving, thinking, and behaving that seriously impairs an individual's ability to function in social or other settings |
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| borderline personality disorder |
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| disorder defined by instability and intensity in personal relationship as well as turbulent emotions and impulsive behaviors |
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| antisocial personality disorder |
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| disorder characterized by stable patterns of irresponsible or unlawful behavior that violates social norms |
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| disorder in which people have physical illnesses or complaints that cannot be fully explained by actual medical conditions |
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| disorder in which individuals are preoccupied with having or getting physical ailments despite reassurances that they are healthy |
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| disorder characterized by unexplained physical complaints in several categories over many years |
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| disorder in which psychological conflict or stress brings about loss of motor or sensory function |
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| personality disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of identity, memory, or consciousness |
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| inability to remember important personal experiences, caused by psychological factors in the absence of any organic dysfunction |
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| disorder characterized by a flight from home or work accompanied by a loss of ability to recall the personal past |
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| dissociative identity disorder |
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| dissociative mental disorder in which two or more distinct personalities exist within the same individual; formerly known as multiple personality disorder |
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schizophrenic disorder
disorganized
catatonic
paranoid
undifferentiated
residual |
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| severe form of psychopathology characterized by the breakdown of integrated personality functioning, withdrawal from reality, emotional distortions, and disturbed thought processes |
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| false or irrational belief maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary |
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| diathesis-stress hypothesis |
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| hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, that suggests that genetic factors predispose an individual to a certain disorder but that environmental stress factors must impinge in order for the potential risk to manifest itself |
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| attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder |
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| disorder of childhood characterized by inattention and hyperactivity impulsivity |
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| developmental disorder characterized by severe disruption of children's ability to form social bonds and use language |
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| negative reaction of people to an individual or group because of some assumed inferiority or source of difference that is degraded |
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| him and his colleagues demonstrated that it may be impossible to be judged "sane" in an "insane" place |
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| believed mental illness is a myth, it does not exist |
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| one of the first to use that idea of classifying someone with a mental illness as "sick" instead of "possessed" or "immoral" |
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| responsible for creating the first truly comprehensive classification system for psychological disorders |
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| leading researcher on depression, developed the theory of cognitive sets |
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| came up with idea that individuals believe, correctly or not, that they cannot control future outcomes that are important to them |
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| experiments contrasting the response styles of men and women when they begin to feel negative moods. men try to distract themselves, women ask why they are in bad moods |
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