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Psychology 101- test 4
Dr. Leblanc Test 4 study guide
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Physiology
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05/05/2013

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Abnormal behavior
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Behavior that is deviant (atypical), distressing, maladptive (dysfunctional), Socially Unacceptable
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Theoretical approches to psychological disorders
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Biological Approch: Medical Model- Disorders with biological origins 

Psychological Approch: Experiences, thoughts, emotions, personality 

Sociocultural Approch: Social content

Biopsychosocial Model: interaction of biogical, psychologocal and sociocultural factors 

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anxiety disorder
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have unrealistic, irrational fears or anxieties of disabling intensity as their most obvious manifestation.
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Types of anxiety disorder
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Generalized anxiety Disorder- psychological disorder marked by presistent anxeity for at least six months and in which the individual is unable to specify the reasons for the anxeity 

Panic disorder-anxiety disorder in which the individual experiences recurrent, sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror, often without warning and wih no specific cause.

Phobic Disorder-Anxiety disorder characterized by an irrational, overwhelming, presistent fear of a particular object or situation.
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder-anxeity disorder in which the individual has anxiety provoking thoughts that will not go away and/or urges to predorm repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or preduce some future situation.
Post-trimatic stress disorder-Anxiety disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event that has overwhelmed the person's abilities to cope.   

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Phobic Disorder
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  • Specific Phobia- You are afarid of one specific phobia 
  • Social Phobia- is an intense fear of being humiliated or embarrassed in social situations
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ODC, what are obsessions, what are compulsions
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  • OCD-Anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxietyprovoking thoughts that will not go away and/or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation. 
  • Obesssions- are recurrent thoughts
  • Compulsions- are recurrent behavior 
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Mood disorders
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  • Psycholgical disorder 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 individal's entire emotional state   
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Major depressive Disorder causes
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Dysthymic Disorder
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Bipolar Disorder
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Suicide 

Rates and what groups are most risk? 

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Schizophrenia 

Positive symptoms

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Delusions
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Hallucinations
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Thought processes
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Negative symptoms
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Diathesis-stress model
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Personality disorder
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Borderlin personality disordder
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antisocial personality disorder
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Why do some people stop taking medications
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who prescribes medications
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Antidepressants 

Tricylines, MAIOs, SSRIs

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Antianxiety

Benzoiazepines

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Lithium
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Antipsychotic Drugs
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ECT
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Psychodynamic Therapies/ Psychoanalysis
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Humanistic therapies
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Behavior Therapies
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Cognitave therapy
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Self-help group
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Therapeutic alliance
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Client participation
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what is the percentage of people improve from therapy
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