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Module 47-48
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/16/2009

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Psychological disorders
Definition
persistently harmful thoughts, feelings, and action (deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional)
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ancient treatments
Definition
trephination, being caged like an animal, beaten, burned, castrated, mutilated, and transfused with animal's blood.
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Phillip Pinel
Definition
France- insisted that madness was an ailment of the mind
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Medical Model
Definition
Etiology- cause and development of the disorder.
Diagnosis- symptoms and distinguishing from each disease
Treatment- in a psychiatric hospital
Prognosis- forecast about disorder
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biopsychosocial perspective
Definition
assumes that biological, socio-cultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders.
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Definition
persistent and uncontrollably tenseness and apprehension; autonomic arousal; can't identify or avoid cause of feelings
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Panic Disorder
Definition
minute of dread (terror, chest pains, choking, frightening sensations)
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Phobias
Definition
Agoraphobia-open places
Claustrophobia-closed spaces
Hemophobia-blood
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OCD
Definition
unwanted thoughts, senseless rituals, causing distress. (germs, dirt, something terrible happening)
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Post-traumatic stress disorder
Definition
4+ weeks of PTSD (haunting memories, jumpy, social withdrawal)
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dissociative disorder
Definition
Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous thought, memories, feelings. (sense of being unreal, watching yourself as in a movie)
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Dissociative Identity Disorder DID
Definition
person shows two+ distinct personalities.(multiple personalities disorder)
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Antisocial Personality Disorder
Definition
person(man) shows lack of conscience for wrong, even to friends and family (sociopath or psychopath)
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Major Depressions Disorder
Definition
common cold of psych disorders. depression lasts 2+ weeks and isn't caused by drugs or medicine. (tiredness, worthlessness, no interest in family, friends, activities)
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Bipolar
Definition
(manic-depressive disorder)b/w depression and mania
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Schizophrenia
Definition
disorganized and delusional thinking; disturbed preceptions; innapropriate emotions and actions (hallucinations; apathy)
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