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disorders
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
04/30/2013

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Term
General Anxiety Diorders
Definition

Excessive, uncontrollable and irrational worry about everyday things that is disproportionate to actual worry 

More likely females 

Term
DSM-IV
Definition
Diagnostic and statistical manual for disorders and illness
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DSM-IV Axis 1
Definition

Referes to the disorder that needs immediate attention 

The disorder the brought the person into the office 

Term
Panic Attack
Definition

Brief, intense eposode of extreme fear characherized by sweating, dizzines light-headedness, racing hartbeat and feelins of impending death or going crazy 

Frequently occurs with another disorder 

Three tyes 

Unexpected, Situational, Situationally predisposed 

 

Term

Types of Panic Disorders

Unexpected 

Definition

the attack "comes out of the blue" without warning and for no discernable reason.

Term

Situational Panic Attack

Definition

situations in which an individual always has an attack, for example, upon entering a tunnel.

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Situationally Predisposed
Definition

- situations in which an individual is likely to have a Panic Attack, but does not always have one. An example of this would be an individual who sometimes has attacks while driving.

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Panic Disorder is diagnosed when...
Definition
An individual suffers at least to unexpected Panic Attacks
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Definition
Maked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severly stressful event
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Panic Disorder
Definition
Repeaded and unexpected panic attacks, along with either persisten concerns about future attacks or a change in personal behabior in and attempt to avoid them
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Phobia
Definition
an intense fear of an object or situation that is greatly out of proportion to its actual threat
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Agoraphobia
Definition
fear of being placed in a situation from which escape is difficult or embarrassing, or in which help is unavailable in the event of a panic attack
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Specific Phobia
Definition
intense fear of objects, places or situations
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Social Phobia
Definition
Fear of public appearances in which embarrasment seems likely
Term

Obsessive Compulsive disorder 

 

Definition
Repeated and lengthy immersion in obsessions or compulsions at least one hour per day
Term
Obsession
Definition
persistent idea, thought or impulse that is unwanted or inappropriate caused by distress
Term
Compulsion
Definition
repetitive behavior or mental act performed to reduce or prevent stress
Term
Depression
Definition

Feelings of hopelessness and inadequacy

Typically with lack of energy and difficulty in maintaining concentration or interest in life 

Term
Major Depression
Definition

Chronic or recurent state in which a person experiences lingering depressed mood or diminished interest in pleasuable activities 

Symptoms include 

weighloss/gain  and difficulty sleeping 

Term
Interpersonal Theory of Suicide
Definition
The theory that suicide is the outcome of the convergence of an intense desire to die due to a sense of not belonging and not wanting to be a burden to others, and the capability for lethal self-injury
 
Term
Thomas Joiner
Definition

Hypothesized that depression creates interpersonal problems 

when people become depressed they seek excessive reassurance which in turn leads others to dislike them 

Term
Schizophrenia
Definition

A disorder of thought 

Disturbances in attention, thinking, language, emotion, and relationships

90% Smoke 

Term
Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Definition

Delusions

Hallucinations

Hitting/Fighting

Word Salad 

Term
Dopamine Hypothesis
Definition
An excess of dopamine may be linked to the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Term
Word Salad
Definition

The association between words is disrupted to the point that it may become difficult or impossible to understand 

The continual use of related words in separate context., hitting, screaming 

Term
Hallucinations
Definition

Sensory perception that occurs in the absence of external stimulus 

Autitory(most frequent), olfactory, gustatory, tactile or visual (Rare)

Term
Delusions
Definition

Fixed beliefs that have no basis in reality 

Persecution 

Reference

Grandeur

Somatic

Term
Delusions of Persecution
Definition
People are out to get you
Term
Delusions of Reference
Definition
Mesages from media
Term
Delusions of Grandeur
Definition
Think you are God
Term
Delusions of Somatic
Definition
Parasites on brain
Term
Neologism
Definition
new words
Term
Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
Definition

Cannot be treated with

medications 

Social isolation, flat affect; lack of motiation; eccentric behavior; neglect of hygiene 

Symptoms that which is lacking from normal behavior; exist between psychotic episodes 

Term

Positive symptoms 

 

Definition

Can be treated 

That which is over and above normal behavior

 

psychotic episodes 

Delusions

Hallucinations 

Hitting/Fighting

Words Salad 

Term
Paranoid Sz
Definition

persecution/conspiracy 

 

more functional than others 

Term
Disorganized Sz
Definition

Hallucination/ delusion

 

lack ability to function daily; emotional impairment 

Term
Catatonic Sz
Definition

Disturbances in movement

 

Stereotyped behaviors (repetitive);Echolia )mimicing what others say 

Term
Undifferentiated Sz
Definition
Can't defind as other
Term
Residual Sz
Definition
When positive symptoms are present at low intensity
Term
Cognitive Symptoms
Definition
attention, working memory, executive function;cognitive flexibility
Term
Factors that need to be present Sz Diagnosis
Definition

Hallucinatins and Delusions

Disorganized speech, behavior, catatonia

Positive and negative symptoms 

Term
DSM
Definition
Systematic Organization of potential diagnosis
Term
Disorders  that fall under what DSM AxisI
Definition

Eating Disorders

Sexual Disorders

Sleep Disorders

Anxiety Disorders

Schizophrenia

Factitious Disorders

Mood Disorders

Adjustment Disorders

Term
AxisII
Definition
Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation
Term
Axis III
Definition
Psychosocial and Environmental problems
Term
Axis V
Definition
Global Assessment of Functioning
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Comorbid
Definition
Presense of one or more disorders in addition to the primary disorder
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