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Socio-Cultural Causes
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Product of society
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hypochondriasis
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somatoform disorder; exaggerated concern about health and illness
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Obsession
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Recurring irrational or disturbing thoughts or mental images a person cannot prevent.
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Cognitive Causes
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Irrational and illogical thinking
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Anxiety disorders
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common symptom of anxiety
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Dissociative Disorders
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disruption in conscious process
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Clang associations
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Forming associations by rhyming
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Agoraphobia
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People fear that something extremely embarrassing will happen to them if they leave the house or enter unfamiliar situations.
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Tourette's Syndrome
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A neurological disorder characterized by tics, involuntary, rapid, sudden movements or vocalizations that occur repeatedly in the same way.
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Humanism Causes
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Social standards cause poor self-esteem
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axis I
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clinical disorders; major diagnosis (clinical depression, paranoid schizophrenia, etc.)
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masochism
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sexually aroused by having pain inflicted on them
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hallucinations
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perceptions in the absence of stimuli
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Disorganized (schizophrenia)
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Unusual verbal associations- symptoms occur in adolescence
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Tardive dyskinesia
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Slow, involuntary and uncontrollable movement- unusual facial and limb movement
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personality disorder types
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odd/eccentric (incl. paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal), dramatic/emotionally problematic (histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, antisocial), chronic fearfulness/avoidant (avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive)
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Grave's Disease
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Is an autoimmune disorder that involves overactivity of the thyroid gland (Hyperthyroidism).
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Malingering
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To feign illness or other incapacity in order to avoid duty or work.
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Prognosis
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Forecasts the probable course of a disorder
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bipolar depression
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mood disorder; depressed states and manic states with high energy and risky behavior and anxiousness
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insane
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cannot be held accountable for actions because of a psychological disorder
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Mood of Affective Disorders
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extreme or inappropriate emotions
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psychogenic amnesia
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dissociative disorder; a person cannot remember things and no physiological basis for the disruption can be identified
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Paranoid (schizophrenia)
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Delusions of grandeur or persecution- latest age of onset
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schizophrenia symptoms
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psychosis (lack of touch with reality), delusions (erroneous beliefs maintained in face of evidence to the contrary), hallucinations (false sensory perceptions)
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abnormal beh. causes-psychoanalytic
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unresolved internal conflict in unconscious mind
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Neurosis
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An outdated term once used to refer, as a group, to anxiety disorders, somatoform disorders, dissociative disordersm and some forms of depression,
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Medical Model
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Views abnormal behavior as a disease; assumes that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and/or cured on the basis of their symptoms
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seasonal affective disorder
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mood disorder; depression during times of the year with less light; treated with light therapy
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Anxiety Disorder: Behaviorist
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anxiety is learned through classical or operant conditioning or cognitive learning; a little boy loses his family on the Statue of Liberty and associates fear with heights
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disorganized schizophrenia
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odd uses of language
- neologism: make up words
- clang association: string of nonsense words that rhyme
- inappropriate affect: laugh in response to a death
- flat affect: no emotional responses
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Major depression
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Depressed mood or loss of pleasure, and at least 4 other symptoms during the same 2 week period
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Munchausen's Syndrome By Proxy
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A psychiatric disorder where patients pretend to have illnesses, and therefore are subjected to many medial tests and surgical procedures.
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Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
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A common virus of the herpes virus family, usually harmless or causing mild colds but capable of producing severe systemic damage.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV)
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The big book of disorders.
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dissociative identity disorder (DID)
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dissociative disorder; two or more distinct personality systems in the same individual
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mood disorder symptoms
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primary disturbance in affect or mood that colors entire emotional state
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Lithium Carbonate
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A drug used to lessen mood swings in people suffereing from some types of affective disorders.
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Delayed Traumatic Stress Syndrome
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A type of anxiety disorder that is triggered by an extremely traumatic event, you don't feel the stress right away.
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