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| view of mental illness in which odd behaviour, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body |
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| perceptions that regarded mental illness as due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment |
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| institutions for the mentally ill created in the 15th century |
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| Approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness, and respect for the mentally ill. |
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| 1960's and 70's governmental policy that focused on releasing hospitalized psychiatric patients into the community and closing mental hospitals. |
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| condition marked by a history of at least one manic episode |
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| eating disorder associated with a pattern of bingeing and purging in an effort to lose or maintain weight. |
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| eating disorder associated with excessive weight loss and the irrational perception that one is overweight. |
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| Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) |
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| diagnostic system containing the American Psychiatric Association (APA) criteria for mental disorders. |
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| scholars who argue that psychiatric diagnoses exert powerful negative effects on people's perceptions and behaviours. |
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| percentage of people within a population who have a specific mental disorder |
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| dimensions of functioning |
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| co-occurrence of two or more diagnoses within the same person |
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| model in which a mental disorder differs from normal functioning in kind rather than degree |
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| model in which a mental disorder differs from normal functioning in degree rather than kind |
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| legal defence proposing that people shouldn't be held legally responsible for their actions if they weren't of "sound mind" when committing them |
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| Incompetence to stand trial |
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| assessment of a defendant's mental capacity to stand trial in a court of law |
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| Procedure of placing some mentally ill people in a psychiatric hospital or other facility based on their potential danger to themselves or others, or their inability to care for themselves. |
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| conditions marked by physical symptoms that suggest an underlying medical illness, but that are actually psychological in origin. |
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| an individual continual preoccupation with the notion that he/she is suffering from a serious physical disease. |
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| brief, intense episodes of extreme fear, characterized by sweatiness, dizziness, light-headedness, racing heartbeat, and feeling of impending death or going crazy. |
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| repeated and unexpected panic attacks, along with either persistent concerns about future attacks, or a change in personal behaviour in attempt to avoid them. |
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| Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
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| continual feelings of worry, anxiety, physical tension, and irritability across many areas of life functioning |
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| intense fear of an object or situation that's greatly out of proportion to it's actual threat |
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| fear of being in a place or 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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| intense fear of objects, places, or situations that are greatly out of proportion to their actual threat |
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| marked fear of public appearances in which embarrassment or humiliation is possible |
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| Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) |
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| marked emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event |
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| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder |
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| condition marked by repeated and lengthy (atleast one hour per day) immersion in obsession, compulsions, or both |
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| persistent ideas, thoughts, or impulses that are unwanted an inappropriate, causing marked distress |
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| repetitive behaviours or mental acts performed to reduce or prevent stress |
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| fear of anxiety related sensations |
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| state in which a person experiences a lingering depressed mood or diminished interest in pleasurable activities, along with symptoms that include weight loss and sleep difficulties |
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| Cognitive Model of Depression |
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| theory that depression is caused by negative beliefs and expectations |
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| tendency to feel helpless in the face of events we can't control |
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| experience marked by dramatically elevated mood, decreased need for sleep, increased energy, inflated self-esteem, increase in talkativeness, and irresponsible behaviour |
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| conditions involving disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity or perception |
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| Depersonalization Disorder |
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| condition marked by multiple episodes of depersonalization |
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| Depersonalization Disorder |
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| condition marked by multiple episodes of depersonalization |
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| inability to recall important personal information - most often related to a stressful experience - that can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness |
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| sudden, unexpected travel away from home or the workplace, accompanied by amnesia for significant life events. |
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| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) |
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| condition characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the person's behaviour |
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| severe disorder of thought and emotion associated with a loss of contact with reality |
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| strongly held , fixed beliefs that have no basis in reality |
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| psychological problems reflecting serious distortions in reality |
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| sensory perceptions that occur in the absence of an external stimulus |
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| Motor problems, including extreme resistance to complying with simple suggestions, holding the body in bizarre or rigid postures, or curling up in a fetal position |
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| perspective proposing that mental disorders are a joint product of a genetic vulnerability, called diathesis, and stressors that trigger this vulnerability |
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| condition in which personality traits, appearing first in adolescence, are flexible, stable, expressed in a wide variety of situations, and lead to distress or impairment |
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| Borderline Personality Disorder |
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| condition marked by extreme instability in mood, identity, and impulse control |
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| condition marked by superficial charm, dishonesty, manipulativeness, self-centredness, and risk taking |
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| Antisocial Personality Disorder |
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| condition marked by a lengthy history of irresponsible and/or illegal actions |
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