Abnormal Psychology

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

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Psychological disorder

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A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

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Attention deficit hyper activity disorder (ADHD)

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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 a hospital

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Medical model

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The American psychiatric Association’s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth addition, updated as a 2000 text revision; he why do you system for classifying 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 disorders

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And anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tents, apprehensive, and in the state of autonomic nervous system arousal

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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An anxiety disorder marked by an unpredictable minute long episode 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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An 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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And anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions

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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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And anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, Jumpy anxiety , And/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a Trumatic 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 disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause

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Somatoform disorder

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A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which you know is your logical basis can be found

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Conversion disorder

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A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

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Hypochondriasis

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

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Disassociative disorders

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

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Disassociative identity disorder

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A psychological disorder 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 a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities

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Major depressive disorder

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A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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Mania

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A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargic 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 actions

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Schizophrenia

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False believes, often of persecution or grandeur , That may accompany psychotic disorders

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Delusions

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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 personality disorder in which the person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. Maybe aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist

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Antisocial personality disorder