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| deviant, distressful, and disfunctional patterns of thought, feelings, and actions. |
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| attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) |
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| a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age by age 7 of one or more of the three symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. |
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| the concept that diseases, inthis case pyschological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnoised, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through trestment at the hospital. |
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| the american psychiatric associations diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, it is a book that is widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. |
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| A list of anxiety disorders...p. 41 |
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1. generalized anxiety disorder
2, panic disorder
3. phbias
4. obsessive complusive disorder
. post tramatic stress disorder |
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| psychological disorders characteriszed by distressing, persistant anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. |
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| geneeralized anxiety disorder? |
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| an anxiety disorder in which a person continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous sytem arrousal. |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictible minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiances terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or frightneing sensations. |
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| an anxiety disorder marked by persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation. |
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| obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)? |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and...or actions (compulsions). |
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| post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? |
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| an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawl, jumpy anxiety, and...or insomia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience. |
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| positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extrememly challenging circumstances and life crises. |
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| psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form wihtout apparent physical cause. (see coversion disorder and hypochondiasis) |
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| a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiances very soecific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. |
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| a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normalb physical sensations as symptoms of a disease. |
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| disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. |
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| dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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| a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternatining personalites. Formerely called multiple personality disorder. |
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| psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. see bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder and mania. |
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| major depressive disorder? |
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| a mood disorder in which a person experiances, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities. |
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| a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, widely optimistic state. |
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| a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. (formerly called manic-depressive disorder.) |
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| a group of severe disorders characterized by unorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions. |
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| a psychological dis order in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions. |
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| false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders. |
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paranoid: thinking that one is being targeted or persecuted, can be identified by hallucinations.
Disorganized: flat or inappropriate emotions..with disorganized speech.
Catatonic: excessive movement, copying other people's movements and speech.
Undifferentiated: having many varied symptoms.
residual: withdrawal after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared. |
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| psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and induing behavior patterns that impair social functioning. |
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| antisocial personality disorder? |
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| a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrong-doing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. |
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