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Chapter 15+16 Flashcards

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Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings or behaviors

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Psychological disorder

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The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in the hospital

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Medical model

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The American psychiatric Association’s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, with an updated text your vision, a widely used system for clarifying psychological disorders

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DSM-IV-TR

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Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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Anxiety disorder

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In anxiety disorder in which a person is continuantly Tense, apprehensive, and any sick of automatic nervous system arousal

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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In anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations

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Panic disorder

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And anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation

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Phobia

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In anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder

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In anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a tramatic experience

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances in life crisis

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Post traumatic growth

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Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes

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Mood disorders

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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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Major depressive disorder

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A mood disorder in which a person has a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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Mania

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A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and let Sergey of depression and the overexcited state of mania

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Bipolar disorder

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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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Schizophrenia

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A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

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Psychosis

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False beliefs, often persecution or grandeur her, that may accompany psychotic disorders

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Delusions

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Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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Dissociative disorders

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A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities

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Dissociative identity disorder

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An eating disorder in which a person maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight

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Anorexia nervosa

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And eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating with purging or fasting

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Bulimia nervosa

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Significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, discussed, or guilt, but without the purging or fasting, that marks bulimia Nervosa

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Binge eating disorder

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Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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Personality disorders

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A person exhibits a lack of conscience for Wrong doing, even towards friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist

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Antisocial personality disorder

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Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a change therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

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Psychotherapy

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Prescribed medications or procedures that are directly on the persons physiology

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Biomedical therapy

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And approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the clients problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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Electic approach

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Freud’s therapeutic technique, Freud believed the patients free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences release previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self insight

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Psychoanalysis

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In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety laden materials

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Resistance

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In psychoanalysis, the analysts noting Supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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Interpretation

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In psychoanalysis, the patients transferred to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships, such as love or hatred for a parent

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Transference

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Therapy deriving from the psycho analytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces in childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self insight

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Psychodynamic therapy

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A variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a persons awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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Insight therapies

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A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, excepting, empathetic environment to facilitate clients growth

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Client centered therapy’s

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Empathetic listening in which the listener achieves, receipts, and clarifies

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Active listening

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Hey Karen, excepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed it would help client to develop self-awareness and self acceptance

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Unconditional positive regard

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Therapy that applies learning principles to the illumination of unwanted behaviors

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Behavior therapy

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Hey behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to e-book new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and averse conditioning

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Counterconditioning

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Behavioral techniques, such as sympathetic desensitization and virtual-reality exposure therapy, veggie anxieties by exposing people do things they fear and avoid

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Exposure therapies

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A type of exposure therapy associates a present relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

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Systematic desensitization

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And anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic stimulation of the greatest fears, such as airplanes flying, spiders, or public speaking

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Virtual-reality exposure therapy

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A type of counterconditioning that associates and unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

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Aversive conditioning

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In operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange of tokens for various privileges or treats

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Token economy

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Siri repeat it teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events in our emotional reactions

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Cognitive therapy

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A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s ideological, self-defeating and attitudes and assumptions

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Rational emotive behavior therapy

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A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

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Cognitive behavioral therapy

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A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by H7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

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Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction

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Group therapy

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Therapy that treats the family as a system. These and individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members

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Family therapy

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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Meta-analysis

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Clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

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Evidence-based practice

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A bond of trust and mutual understanding between the therapist and the client, who work together constructive way to overcome the clients problem

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Therapeutic alliance

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The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back towards their average

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Regression towards the mean

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Rosenhan findings

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Labeling causes misdiagnosis

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Diagnostic labeling help

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Helps doctors communicate about disorders

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Insanity

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Legal term. They don’t get that they’re wrong

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Agoraphobia

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Fear of a situation when escape is difficult or help is unavailable when panic strikes

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Obsession

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Unwanted repetitive thoughts

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Compulsions

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Actions

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Linkage analysis

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When researchers examine the DNA from affected and unaffected family members looking for differences

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Hallucination

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False sense

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Catatonia

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Stuck or fluid

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Epigenetics

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Can change during pregnancy due to depression

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Dissociation

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A split in consciousness, which allows some thoughts and behaviors to occur simultaneously with others

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The study of the effects of drug on mind and behavior

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Psychopharmacology

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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

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Antipsychotic drugs

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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Anti-anxiety drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression and some anxiety disorders. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters

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Antidepressant drugs

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A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetised patient

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Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

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Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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Psychosurgery

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A psycho surgical procedure once used to claim uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerve connections to the frontal lobe’s to the emotion controlling centers of the brain

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Labotomy

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The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

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Resilience

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Stress inoculation training

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Relax with stress/ anxiety

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CBT use

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PTSD

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Psychiatrist

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Medical degree. Can prescribe drugs

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Tardive dyskinesia

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Involuntary movement

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Xanax/ Ativan

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Anti- anxiety

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SSRI

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Depression

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Lambic system

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Emotion system

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Free association

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Revealing inner thoughts

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Beck

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Depression therapy and CBT

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Behavioral therapy use

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Self harm. Replaces old with better behavior

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Psychodynamic therapy use

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Expose unwanted thoughts

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EMDR

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Deals with trauma

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Light exposure therapy

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Counteracts winter depression

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Clinical psychologist

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Studies and treats psychological disorders

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Prozac

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Bulimia, OCD, antidepressant, panic

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Lithium

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Mood stabilizer

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Serotonin

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Low= depression

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Social cognitive

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Interaction between traits and social

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Paranoid schizophrenia

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Delusions or hallucinations with grandiosity and persecutions

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Too much dopamine

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Schizophrenia

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