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UNDERSTANDING MENTAL DISORDERS
... immediately…do not use drugs or alcohol to solve problems… Identify the Problem: Find what is causing the depression. Is it the result of loss, loneliness, or a biological cause. Take Action: Change negative thinking, seek support from others, and be active. Your body produces chemical to make y ...
... immediately…do not use drugs or alcohol to solve problems… Identify the Problem: Find what is causing the depression. Is it the result of loss, loneliness, or a biological cause. Take Action: Change negative thinking, seek support from others, and be active. Your body produces chemical to make y ...
Adjustment Disorders
... Some people react to a major stressor in their lives with extended and excessive feelings of anxiety, depressed mood, or antisocial behaviors. ...
... Some people react to a major stressor in their lives with extended and excessive feelings of anxiety, depressed mood, or antisocial behaviors. ...
2.2 What are Mood Disorders? - Counselling and Psychotherapy in
... Cyclothymic Disorder: at least 2 years of numerous periods of Hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for a manic episode and numerous periods of depressive symptoms that do not meet criteria for a Major Depressive Episode. Bipolar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified: Bipolar features that do not ...
... Cyclothymic Disorder: at least 2 years of numerous periods of Hypomanic symptoms that do not meet criteria for a manic episode and numerous periods of depressive symptoms that do not meet criteria for a Major Depressive Episode. Bipolar Disorder Not Otherwise Specified: Bipolar features that do not ...
Immigrant Children and PTSD
... Intense distress if exposed to anything resembling the event Anger outbursts Hypervigalence ...
... Intense distress if exposed to anything resembling the event Anger outbursts Hypervigalence ...
Dissociative Disorders - NAMI Southern Arizona
... that the world is unreal. While many people experience these sensations at one point in their lives, an individual with depersonalization disorder has this experience so frequently or severely that it interrupts his or her functioning. Dissociative identity disorder (DID)— previously called multiple ...
... that the world is unreal. While many people experience these sensations at one point in their lives, an individual with depersonalization disorder has this experience so frequently or severely that it interrupts his or her functioning. Dissociative identity disorder (DID)— previously called multiple ...
Chapter 16 Test Review - DeForest Area School District
... • When people’s symptoms of psychological distress are at their worst, whatever they do to try to alleviate the condition is likely to be followed by improvement rather than further deterioration. This is best explained in terms of: a. systematic desensitization. b. the therapeutic alliance. c. coun ...
... • When people’s symptoms of psychological distress are at their worst, whatever they do to try to alleviate the condition is likely to be followed by improvement rather than further deterioration. This is best explained in terms of: a. systematic desensitization. b. the therapeutic alliance. c. coun ...
anxiety disorders
... *The fear, anxiety or avoidance is persistent, typically lasting for 6 months or more *The fear, anxiety, or avoidance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. ...
... *The fear, anxiety or avoidance is persistent, typically lasting for 6 months or more *The fear, anxiety, or avoidance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. ...
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... 1. Conversion disorder-paralysis, blindness, deafness, or loss of sensation with no discernable physical cause, formally called “___________” “all in your head” 2. Hypochondriasis-excessive concern about ___________ and disease 3. Somatization disorder-people report multiple physical ailments rather ...
... 1. Conversion disorder-paralysis, blindness, deafness, or loss of sensation with no discernable physical cause, formally called “___________” “all in your head” 2. Hypochondriasis-excessive concern about ___________ and disease 3. Somatization disorder-people report multiple physical ailments rather ...
Anxiety
... Splitting off an idea or emotion from one’s consciousness. Psychological flight from anxiety ...
... Splitting off an idea or emotion from one’s consciousness. Psychological flight from anxiety ...
Abnormal Psychology
... NORMAL behavior in the given society/culture. • Cultures that are economically developed with fast-paced lifestyles tend to value diagnoses of abnormalities. • What is considered abnormal in one culture (i.e. a person proclaiming to see dead people) is not necessarily viewed as such in another cultu ...
... NORMAL behavior in the given society/culture. • Cultures that are economically developed with fast-paced lifestyles tend to value diagnoses of abnormalities. • What is considered abnormal in one culture (i.e. a person proclaiming to see dead people) is not necessarily viewed as such in another cultu ...
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... Linda’s neighbors describe her as typically shy and mild mannered. She seems to be a devoted wife and mother her husband and three children. Unbeknownst to these neighbors, Linda sometimes dresses up in flashy, revealing clothing and goes to bars to pick up strange men. At such times, she is boiste ...
... Linda’s neighbors describe her as typically shy and mild mannered. She seems to be a devoted wife and mother her husband and three children. Unbeknownst to these neighbors, Linda sometimes dresses up in flashy, revealing clothing and goes to bars to pick up strange men. At such times, she is boiste ...
Behavioral Perspective Quiz
... she leaves her desk she will not have the opportunity to talk and gossip with her classmates, so she stays in her desk and is repeatedly shocked. One day the student actually does some work. She doesn’t turn around and doesn’t talk to her friends for 5 whole minutes. She then notices that the shocks ...
... she leaves her desk she will not have the opportunity to talk and gossip with her classmates, so she stays in her desk and is repeatedly shocked. One day the student actually does some work. She doesn’t turn around and doesn’t talk to her friends for 5 whole minutes. She then notices that the shocks ...
Psychology Chapter 19: Group Interaction
... a. Self-Actualization – Humanistic view that to be normal or healthy involves full acceptance and expression of one’s own individuality and humanness i. Problem with this approach is that its hard to determine whether a person is actualizing themselves b. Labeling a person as mentally ill because of ...
... a. Self-Actualization – Humanistic view that to be normal or healthy involves full acceptance and expression of one’s own individuality and humanness i. Problem with this approach is that its hard to determine whether a person is actualizing themselves b. Labeling a person as mentally ill because of ...
Snímek 1
... • Schizophrenia • Schizophreniform disorder • Schizoaffective disorder • Delusional disorder • Brief psychotic disorder • Shared psychotic disorder • Psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition • Substance-induced psychotic disorder ...
... • Schizophrenia • Schizophreniform disorder • Schizoaffective disorder • Delusional disorder • Brief psychotic disorder • Shared psychotic disorder • Psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition • Substance-induced psychotic disorder ...
02 Psychology of personality. Modern theories of personality
... 1.persistent belief in the presence of at least one serious physical illness underlying the presenting symptom or symptoms, even thought repeated investigations and examinations have not identified any adequate physical explanation, or a persistent preoccupation with presumed deformity or disfigurem ...
... 1.persistent belief in the presence of at least one serious physical illness underlying the presenting symptom or symptoms, even thought repeated investigations and examinations have not identified any adequate physical explanation, or a persistent preoccupation with presumed deformity or disfigurem ...
Antisocial Personality Disorder
... A personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the norm of the individual’s culture. The pattern is seen in two or more of the following areas: cognition; affect; interpersonal functioning; or impulse control. The enduring pattern is inflexible and ...
... A personality disorder is an enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the norm of the individual’s culture. The pattern is seen in two or more of the following areas: cognition; affect; interpersonal functioning; or impulse control. The enduring pattern is inflexible and ...
Schizophrenic Disorders
... 3. Disorganized speech (e.g., frequent derailment or incoherence). 4. Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. 5. Negative symptoms (i.e., diminished emotional expression or avolition). B. For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, level of functioning in one or mor ...
... 3. Disorganized speech (e.g., frequent derailment or incoherence). 4. Grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior. 5. Negative symptoms (i.e., diminished emotional expression or avolition). B. For a significant portion of the time since the onset of the disturbance, level of functioning in one or mor ...
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... 2. Recognize the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manula of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Associaiton as the primary reference for making diagnostic judgments. 3. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of vvarious approaches to explaining psychological disorders: ...
... 2. Recognize the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manula of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Associaiton as the primary reference for making diagnostic judgments. 3. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of vvarious approaches to explaining psychological disorders: ...
psychological disorders Psych
... psychogenic amnesia that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment. ...
... psychogenic amnesia that find themselves in an unfamiliar environment. ...
Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
... • Typically lose interest in activities & relationships and take pleasure in nothing • Despite best efforts, everything from conversation to bathing is an unbearable, exhausting effort • Often exaggerated feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness, hopelessness, or guilt ...
... • Typically lose interest in activities & relationships and take pleasure in nothing • Despite best efforts, everything from conversation to bathing is an unbearable, exhausting effort • Often exaggerated feelings of inadequacy, worthlessness, hopelessness, or guilt ...
Abnormal Behavior
... Forgetting personal information for a brief episode No physical cause for the amnesia, is a reaction to stress ...
... Forgetting personal information for a brief episode No physical cause for the amnesia, is a reaction to stress ...
Specific Disorders
... His problem is clearly organic -- he has some physical damage or deficiency. No one argues over such things as syphilis or head trauma. These are clearly brain pathologies and clearly the realm of the physician It is the so called functional psychoses Those with no known organic cause that are the a ...
... His problem is clearly organic -- he has some physical damage or deficiency. No one argues over such things as syphilis or head trauma. These are clearly brain pathologies and clearly the realm of the physician It is the so called functional psychoses Those with no known organic cause that are the a ...