Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional.
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The biopsychosocial approach
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an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis
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DSMD4TR
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categorizes all psychological disorders, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition
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Fundamental problem with diagnostic labeling of psychological disorders are often?
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biases of the person we are labeling, misdiagnoses
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Maladaptive behaviors that reduce worry and fear are most indicative of what type of disorder?
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anxiety
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Generalized anxiety disorder is characterized by?
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Continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
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Intense apprehension, could not catch his breath, minutes long episode
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Panic attack
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She avoids most outdoor activities because she is afraid of spiders and bugs. Suffers from?
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Phobia
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Post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD
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an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
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OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and actions (compulsions).
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Irrational beliefs and hypervisualance can sometimes contribute anxiety disorders. This shows that disorders can be influenced by
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cognitive influences, how our thoughts change our behavior. Our cognitive influences can affect most of our anxiety issues.
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Learning perspective can change in therapy-
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teaches people about the irrational parts of what you fear
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Prominent feature of mood disorders
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experience of emotional extremes
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Major Depressive disorder
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a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods or diminished interest or pleasure in most activities, along with at least four other symptoms.
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Bipolar disorder
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Mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. Hard to diagnose in teens.
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Schizophrenia
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a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.
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Mood disorders and genetics
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biological perspective
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Social cognitive perspective, women are _____ vulnerable to depression because they are ______ likely to feel overwhelmed for all they have to do.
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more, more
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Schizophrenia and disorganized ____________
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fragmented thinking
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Word salad
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schizophrenia
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Research on causes of schizophrenia suggests that there is a connection to ___________
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genetics
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2 or more distinct or alternating personalities is a symptom of?
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Dissociative disorder (rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.)
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Anorexia nervosa typically characterized by?
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Eating disorder in which a person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15%) underweight. Obsessive fear of becoming overweight. Usually an adolescent female.
