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Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distress over a relatively long period of time |
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The view that psychological disorders are medical diseases with a biological origin |
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder |
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One of the most common psychological disorders of childhood, in which individuals show one or more of the following: inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity |
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Psychological Disorders involving fears that are uncontrollable, disproportionate to the actual danger the person might be in, and disruptive of ordinary life |
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Generalixed anxiety disorder |
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Psychological disorder marked by persitent anxiety for at least six months and in which the individual is unableto specify the reasons for the anxiety |
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Anxiety disorder in which the individual experiences reccurent, sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror, often without warning and with no specific cause |
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Phobic disorder or Phobia |
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Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, overwhelming persitent fear of a particular object to situation |
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Anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety proviking thoughts taht will not go away and or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation |
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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Anxiety Disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event that has overwhelmed the person's abilities to cope |
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Psychological disorders-the main types of which are depressive disorders and bipolar diorder- in which there is a primary disturbance of mood: prolonged emotion that colors the individual's entire emotinal state |
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Mood Disorders in which the individual suffers from depression- an unreleting lack of pleasure in life |
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Major Depressive Disorder |
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Psychological disorder involving a significant depressive episode and depressed characteristics, such as lethargy and hopelessness, for at least two weeks |
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Mood disorder that is generally more chronic and has fewer symptoms than MDD; the individual is in a depressed mood for most days for at least two years as an adult or at least one year as a child or an adolescent |
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Mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania, an over excited, un realistically optimistic state |
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Psychological disorders that involve sudden loss of memory or change in identity due to the dissociation of the individual's conscious awareness from previous memories and thoughts |
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Dissociative disorder charachterized by extreme memory loss that is caused by extensive psychological stress |
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Dissociative disorder in which the individual not only develops amnesia but also unexpectedly travels away from home and sometimes assumes a new identity |
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Dissociative Identity Disorder |
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Formely called multiple personality disorder, the individual has two or more distinct personalities or identities, each with its own memories, behaviors, and relationships |
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Severe psychological disorder characterized by highly disordered thought processes, referred to as psychotic because they are so far removed from reality |
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Sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli |
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False, unsual, and sometimes magical beliefs that are not part of an individual's culture |
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Ascribing personal meaning to completely random events |
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State of immobility and unresponsiveness lasting for long periods of time |
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The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia |
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The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia |
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The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia |
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The displays of little or no emotion a common negative symptom of schizophrenia |
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View of schizopherina emphasizing that a combination of biogenetic dispostion and stress causes the disorders |
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Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly intergrated into an individual's personality. |
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Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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A psychological disorder characterized by guiltlessness, law-breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit |
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Borderline Personality Disorder |
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A psychological disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal realtionships, self image, and emotions, and of marked impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a vareity of context |
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