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| Criteria that makes something a "disorder" |
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| When behavior is DEVIANT, DISTRESSFUL, and DYSFUNCTIONAL |
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| the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders(fourth edition), a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |
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Symptoms: 2+ weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, sleep difficulties, and loss of interest in pleasure and activities.
Causes: Genetics, Loneliness, learned helplessness, negative explanatory style, rumination.
Treatment: Cognitive techniques, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, extreme cases of shock therapy. |
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Causes: strong genetic component
Treatment:Lithium (a mood stabilizer) |
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| Social-Cognitive Perspective |
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| views behavior asinfluenced by the interaction between persons(and their thinking)and their social context. |
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| The belief thatyou can't control important things in life. |
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| Negative Attribution Style |
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| Tendency to blame negative events on factors that are: Internal("its my fault"), Stable("it wont change), Global("it affects every part of my life") |
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| Brooding, repetitivee thinking about negative events |
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Symptoms: Sudden episodes of intense dread and anxiety including: heart palpitations, hyperventilation, occasional fainting, feelings of unreality and detachment from body.
Causes: First panic attack happens after stressful life event
Treatment: w/o drugs, therapy, relaxation training and exposure therapy. |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) |
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Symptoms: Person feels continually aroused, worries constantly and excessively, is highly sensitive to criticism and has difficulty making decisions.
Causes: Frequent and upredictable traumatic experiences in childhood, first appears following a stressful experience.
Treatment: Tranquilizers such as Xanax, Valium, and Libruim. |
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Symptoms: Persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
Causes: Based on actual experiences or evolution
Treatment: Therapy using behavioral techniques such as: flooding, systematic desensitization, virtual reality systematic desensitization. |
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| Obsessive-Compilsive Disorder |
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Symptoms: Obessions - Person has unwanted repeptitive thoughts. Compulsions - behavior rituals performed in repsonse to the obsessions.
Causes: increased activity in the caudate nucleus and children stre-throat infections.
Treatment: Behavioral techniques & Cognitive techniques |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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| a.k.a mulitple persoanlity disorder, person has two or more identities that alternately control the person's behavior, original personality denies any awareness of the others, may be cause by physical or sexual abuse as a child |
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Positive Symptoms: Delusions, Hallucinations, and Disordered thinking.
Negative Symptoms: Lack of motivation, flattened or inappropriate emotions, and poverty of speech.
Causes: Genetic disorder, prenatal viral infections, oxygen deprivation at birth.
Treatment: primarily through medications. |
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