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Psych Disorders
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trepanning | Drilling hole in skull to release evil spirits |
| Diagnostic labeling | Stigma and self-fulfilling prophecies |
| Pseudo explanations | Circular reasoning where you label symptoms w/ medical terms |
| Patient role | Promotes passivity in client |
| Diagnosis | Distinguishing one disease from another |
| Etiology | Apparent causation / developmental history of illness |
| Prognosis | Forecast of probable cause of illness |
| Generalized anxiety disorder | Chronic high level on anxiety not tied to any specific threat - called 'free floating anxiety,' and accompanied by dizziness, trembling, diarrhea |
| Specific phobia | Persistent, irrational fear to object or situation that presents no danger |
| Panic disorder | Recurring attacks of overwhelming anxiety that occurs suddenly and unexpectedly |
| Agoraphobia | Fear of going out to public places |
| Valium | Synapse that reduces neurotransmitter activity in GABA synapses. Shows neural circuits (GABA) may play a role in anxiety disorders |
| Preparedness | Biologically prepared or evolution to acquire fears more easily |
| Observational learning | Type of learning where children reciprocate parents' fears more easily |
| Neuroticism | Personality trait correlated with prevalence of anxiety disorders |
| Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | Marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals |
| Serotonin | Abnormalities in neural circuits using this implicates OCD |
| Somatic Symptom Disorders | Type of disorders where people's preoccupation with physical symptoms is so strong that causes significant distress |
| Conversion | Loss of physical functions without apparent physical basis |
| Illness anxiety disorder | Excessive worry about an illness |
| Histrionic personality | Self centered, over dramatic personality. More likely to develop somatic symptom disorders |
| Dissociative disorders | Type of disorders where you lose portions of consciousness and memory |
| Dissociative amnesia | Sudden loss of personal information too extensive to be from normal forgetting |
| Dissociative fugue | Loss of memory of entire life or identity |
| Dissociative identity | Also known as multiple personality |
| Extreme stress, beatings, and sexual abuse | Etiology of dissociative disorders |
| Mood disorders | Type of disorders marked by emotional disturbance |
| Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) | Periods of depression and mania that alternate with the seasons |
| Dysthymic disorder (Persistent depressive disorder) | Mild to moderate depression for at least 2 years |
| Bipolar | Mood disorder that alternates between maniac and depressive |
| Cyclothymic | Mildly bipolar for at least 2 year |
| Manic | Euphoric and sociable. Racing thoughts, impulsive, talkative, confident, illusions. Hyperactive, less sleep. |
| Depressive | Gloomy, withdrawn. Slow thought, indecisive, guilt, self blame, negative. Tired, sleep disturbance |
| Norepinephrine, serotonin, acetylcholine | Neurotransmitters important in depression |
| Attribution style | Way one views failures - internal, global, or stable |
| Precipitating stress | Link between stress and onset of depression in some people |
| Psychotic disorders | Severe mental disorders that causes abnormal thinking and perceptions |
| Schizophrenic disorders | Disorders marked by disturbances in thought |
| Delusion of reference | Thinking neutral event has personal meaning |
| Flattening of affect | Little emotional response |
| Catatonic behavior | Extreme muscle rigidity and random motor activity |
| Dopamine | Neurotransmitter important in schizophrenia |
| Larger ventricles, smaller thalamus | Brain problems in schizophrenia |
| Personality disorders | Disorders marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause subjective distress and impaired social and occupational functioning |
| Avoidant | Anxious / fearful - Excessively sensitive to potential rejection, socially withdrawn despite want for acceptance |
| Obsessive-compulsive | Anxious / fearful - Occupied w/ trivial details |
| Dependent | Anxious / fearful - Excessively lacking in self esteem / reliance |
| Histrionic | Dramatic impulsive - Overly dramatic, seeking attention |
| Borderline | Dramatic impulsive - unstable, unpredictable, impulsive |
| Dramatic / impulsive | Dramatic impulsive - grandiosely self important |
| Antisocial | Dramatic impulsive - chronically violating rights of others |
| Paranoid | Odd / eccentric - Pervasive and unwarranted suspisciousness |
| Schizotypal | Odd / eccentric - Thinking that resembles schizophrenia |
| Schizoid | Odd / eccentric - Defective in capacity of forming warm relationships |
| Antisocial personality | Impulsive, callous, manipulative, aggressive, irresponsible behavior - failure to accept social norms (less extreme than psychopathic) |
| Competency | Defendant's capacity to stand trial - deals with mental state at time of trial |
| Involuntary commitment | When people are hospitalized against will |
| Koro | Chinese and Malaysian males who fear that penis will retract into abdomen |
| Windigo | Algonquin indians' belief of intense craving of human flesh and fear of becoming cannibal |
| Anorexia nervosa | Fear of becoming fat and refusal to eat adequately |
| Bulimia nervosa | Repeated episodes of eating followed by compensatory vomiting, laxatives, etc. |
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