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| according to its legal definition, means not knowing the difference between right and wrong. |
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| generally defined as a prolonged or recurring problem that seriously interferes with an individual's ability to live a satisfying personal life and function adequately in society. |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, excessive, and irrational fear that is out of all proprotion to the danger elicited by the object or situation. |
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| mental disorders involve genetic, physiological, or neurological factors that cause symptoms that can be diagnosed and treated; similar to doctors using drugs to treat physical diseases, psychiatrists use psychoactive drugs to treat mental disorders. |
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| Cognitive-Behavioral Approach |
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| emphasizes that mental disorders result from deficits in cognitive processes, sich as thoughts and beliefs, and from behavioral problems, such as deficits in skills and abilities. |
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| Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Approach |
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| focuses on unconscious or repressed conflicts underlying mental disorders. |
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| Statistical Frequency Approach |
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| says that a behavior may be considered abnormal if it occurs rarely or infrequentely in relation to the behaviors of the general population. |
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| says that a behavior is considered abnormal if it deviates greatly from accepted social standards, values, or norms. |
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| Maladaptive Behavior Approach |
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| defines behavior as psychologically damaging or abnormal if it interferes with the individual's ability to function in one's personal life or in society. |
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| involves a systematic evaluation of an individual's various psychological, biological, and social factors, as we as identifying past and present problems, stressors, and other cognitive or behavioral symptoms. |
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| one method of gathering information about a person's past and current behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, emotions, and problems; some are unstructured, which means they have no set questions, and some are structured with questions. |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV-Test Revision |
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| DSM-IV-TR; describes a uniform system assessing specific symptoms and matching them to almost 300 different mental disorders. |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| characterized by exessive or unrealistic worry about almost everything or feeling that something bad is about to happen; these anxious feelings occur on a majority of days for a period of at least six months. |
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| characterized by recurrent and unexpected panic attacks; plus, the person is so worried about having another panic attack that this intense worrying interferes with normal pschological functioning. |
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| a period of intense fear or discomfort in which four or more of the following symptoms are present: pouding hear, sweating, trembling, shortness or breath, feelings of choking, chest pain, nausea, feeling dizzy, and fear of losing control or dying. |
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| characterized by irrational, marked, and continuous fear of performing in social situations; people fear that they will humiliate or embarrass themselves. |
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| characterized by marked and persistent fears that are unreasonable and triggered by anticipation of, or exposure to, a specific object or situation. |
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| characterized by anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult or embarrassing if a panic attack or paniclike symptoms were to occur. |
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| Obsessive-Compulsive Diorder |
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| consists of obsessions, which are persistent, recurring irrational thoughts, impulses, or images that a person is unable to comtrol and that interfere with normal functioning, and compulsions, which are irresistible impulses to perform over and over some senseless behavior or ritual. |
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| consists of gradually exposing the person to the real anxiety-producig situations or objects that he or she is attempting to avoid and continuing exposure treatments until the anxiety decreases. |
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| marked by a pattern of recurring, multiple, and significant bodily symptoms that extend over several years; the bodily symptoms are not under voluntary control, have no known physical causes, and are believed to be caused by psychological factors. |
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| begins before age 30, lasts over several years, and is characterized by multiple symptoms- including pain, gastrointestinal, sexual, and neurological symptoms- that have no physical causes but are triggered by psychological problems or distress. |
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| refers to chaning anxiety or emotional distress into real physical, motor, sensory, or neurological symptoms for which no physical or organic cause can be identified. |
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| refers to a condition experienced by a group of people who, through suggestion, observation, or other psychological processes, develop similar fears, delusions, abnormal behaviors, or physical symptoms. |
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| refers to a repetitive and persistent pattern of behaving that has been going on for at least a year and that violates the established social rules or the rights of others; problems may include aggressive behaviors such as threatening to harm people, abusing or killing animals, destroying property, being deceitful, or stealing. |
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