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Acute stress disorder: lasts only for a month, due to only one specific event
ADHT: Inattentive to doing tasks
hyperactivity - impulsivity symptoms
childhood
agitation: move limbs in a ritualistic sequence
agoraphobia: fear of being alone or away from home & security
alogia: you lack speech, your monotone or mute
anhedonia: you have no feelings or pleasures
anti social: lying, con artists, feel no guilt
anxiety: long lasting and intense dread
anxious fearful disorderes: dependent, avoidant, obseessive compulsive
autism: no attachment no eye contact no smile/cry hate being held
rock themselves
avoidant: afraid of rejection and criticism
avolition: lose motivation for taking care of yourself
Axis I: clinical syndromes
Axis II: personality disorders, retardation
Axis III: mental conditionsmedical
Axis IV: Psychosocial/Enviromental problems
Axis V: Global assesment function scale
1=worst
10=least
0=inadequate info
biological cause of anxiety disorder: we're evolutionary predispositioned for anxiety disorders
too little gaba = higher arousal
too much norepinephrine = panic attacks
too littled seratonin = OCD
biological cause of schizophrenia: ventricles in the brain are enlarged esp int he thalamus and prefrontal cortex
biological causes of mood disorders: twins have high correlation in depression
little seratonin
high cortisol
bipolar disorder (manic depressive): mania! elated, emotional, high vs. depression (opposite rxns)
might have delusions, make bad decisions in mania
body dysmorphic: preoccupied/exagerrate your bodily appearance

SELF CONCIOUS ABOUT A PIMLE.
borderline: intensly afraid of abandonment
will never leave relationships
catatonic schizophrenia: negative symptoms
disordered movement
conduct disorders: agression to people and animal, weapons, destruction of property, theft, cons, violation of rules
childhood
conversion disorder: freud's hysteria
no feelings--> glove anethesia
blind/deaf buyt no cause for it
usually preceeded by a stressor
delusions: reference (common events apply to you)
granduer (youre more powerful than in reality)
persecution (feel others are out to get you)
thought broadcasting (others can hear thoughts = mumbling)
thought blocking/withdrawal (someone i
dependent: helpless, dont wanna be alone
submissive, clingy, indecisive
diathesis - stress approach to mood disorders: some people are predisposed to get stressed out
diathesis stress approach for schizophrenia: about predispositions over thresholds
diathesis-stress model: predispositional stress: early learning, genetics make us predispositioned to develop a disorder in the face of stressors
disorganized shizophrenic: hallucinations, abolition,
both neg & pos symptoms
dissociative amnesia: same as d. fugue, but you don't leave home and get a new idenity
dissociative disorders: your present awareness is separated from your previous thoughts
sudden, usually temporary
split conciousness
dissociative fugue: lost memory and you create a new identity and leave home

usually due to stress and trauma
dissociative identiy disorder DID: person has multiple identities independent of each other
dramatic erratic disorders: narcisstic, borderline, antisocial
dysthymia: milder form of depression
GAD (generalized anxiety disorder): free floating anxiety
always anxious, trouble sleeping, always worrying about something bad that will happen
hallucinations: false preceptions (auditory, smell, sight, touch) to any external stimuli

hearing voices and seeing things
humanist approach: disorders due to our actualizing tendency towards growth was blocked. we can't express our feelings or our parents were unsupportive
humanist cause of mood disorders: person has a lack of purpose or meaning in living (FRANK)
humanistic cause of anxiety disorder: anxiety between your actual and ideal self
hypochondriasis: you're preoccupied with a fear of havig this disease.
you report hella symptoms and you convince yourself you already have it!!
illogical thought/language: neologism : making words taht dont exist
loose association: illogically connected thoughts
clang: double meaning of words sounds
word salad: chaotic thought that's extreme
learned helplessness: depression from your idea that you can't control life/stressors anymore

seligman
major depressive disorder: extremes that can last up to 6 weeks, loss of interest in activities, exagerrated pessimism
narcisstic: exagerrating your importance and achievements
arrogant
negative attributional style: seligman
stable internal: depression is permanent
stable external: you always blame the enviro
unstable internal: you have ctrl
unstable external: your surprised!

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negative cognitive set: beck
a distorted pattern of thinking about yourself , a situation, your future
you focus only on bad things
negative symptoms of shizophrenia: alogia, avolition, anhedonia

deficient in behavior
take away good
neo-freudian cause of anxiety disorder: ego ideal; want unconditional approval!
inadequate self-concept
"never good enough"
neurobiological biopsychosocial model: disorder due to anatomy of our body,brain,genetics
norm violation: violation of cultural norm that defines abnormal behavior
obsessive compulsive: preoccupied with being orderly, neat
STINGY
OCD: unwanted, upsetting thought causes ritualisic, repetitive behavior to avoid an unwanted outcome
odd eccentric disorders: paranoia,schizoid,shizotypical
pain disorder: complaining about a localized and severe specific pain w/o any physcial cause of it
panic disorder: panic w/o any cause or threat
paranoid: unjustified suspictions and distrust of others
paranoid schizophrenic: later in life,
positive symptoms
grandeur and persecution
personal distress: impairs functio/health. is maladaptive & causes you harm. defines abnorm behavior
pervasive developmental disorder: your not responsive to the outside world. you're in your own little world
autistic
childhood
positive symptoms of schizophrenia: delusions, hallucinations, illogical thinking/speech, agitation
PPD: women depressed after child's birth
obsessive of harming baby or herself
psychodynamic cause of anxiety disorder: symbols cause anxiety; conflict between the ID and punishment. fear that the superego won't ctrl the ID
psychodynamic cause of mood disorders: we had insecure attachments w parents
psychodynamic theryapy approach: goal to give patients insight into the source of their problem
to bring into conciousness
break through their defense mechanisms
psychological biopsychosocial model: disorder due to psychological processes
PTSD: flashbackswhile your in an activity that come without any warning; vivid memories
residual schizophrenia: taking medicine to lessen it
ruminative style: worsens depression vs. distracting style to be less depressed
SAD: wintertime sadness..
schizotypical: odd beliefs. STRANGE
separation anxiety disorder: youre really distressed and scared of being lost or losing others
childhood
shizoid: speak inflat expressions; no emotion
shizophrenia: split mind
ex. giggle while you're sad
sociaicultura/learning approach: cultural factors contribute to abnormal behaviors. going against what's labeled correct
social cognitive approach: disorder due to past learning and distressed learning
social cognitive cause of a somoatoform disorder: we get attention, priviledges when we fake things.. so we need reinforcement to boost our self confidence
social cognitive cause of anxiety disorder: through classical and operant conditioning, observation
cognitive: exageration of dangers, unrealistic expectations and you underestimate your capacity for dealing with it
social cognitive cause of mood disorders: stressors' response determines how likely we become depressed

learned helplessness, negative cog set, negative attributional style, ruminative style

BECK & SELIGMAN
social cognitive explanation of dissociative disorders: since people act differently in diff situations, these are only EXTREMES of it
memory loss = reward (escape from the bad)
negative reinforcement
social phobia: anxious of others criticism or being humiliated
somatization: under 30 vague complaints; very dramatic, no cause. impairs your daily life
somatoform disorder: you have physical symptoms of a disorder but find no real cause
specific phobia: only afraid of one thing
statistical infrequency: untypical behavior that defines abnormal behavior
stress disorder: nonsevere stress causes VERY strong response; extreme rxns
strong diathess vs. weak diathesis: little stressors make you depressed vs.
strong stressors make you depressed
undifferentiated schizophrenia: cant put it into any catergory YOUR A RETARD!

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