Flashcards in Chapter 17 Deck (37):
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panic disorder
sudden attacks of severe, overwhelming anxiety without an indentifiable cause
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phobia
intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation or even the thought of it
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acr/o-
extremity, highest point
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acrophobia
fear of heights
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agoraphobia
fear of crowds or public places
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agor/a-
open areas or space
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arachnophobia
fear of spiders
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arachn/o-
spider, spider web
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claustrophobia
fear of closed-in spaces
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claustr/o-
enclosed space
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mirophobia
fear of germs
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ophidiophobia
fear of snakes
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ophidi/o-
snake
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soci/o-
human beings; community
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thanatophobia
fear of death
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thanat/o-
death
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xenophobia
fear of strangers
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xen/o-
foreign
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post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event
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Bipolar Disorder
chronic mood swings between mania and depression, extreme happiness and then swings of severe depression
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Psychosis
loss of touch with reality
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Delusional disorder
continued false beliefs concerning events of everyday life that are fixed and unchanged despite the efforts of others to persuade or evidence
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Schizophrenia
chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life with bizarre behviorr
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Oppositional defiant disorder
persistent aggressive behavior defiance of and refusal to obey rules, disrespect for authority figures, with anger, stubbornness and touchiness
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Tourette's syndrome
frequent, spontaneous, invultary movement tics (throat clearing, eye blinking) and vocal tics (grunts, barks) and comments that are socially inappropriate vulgar or obsecene, or racial
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Exhibitionisn
obtaining power, control and sexual arousal by exposing the genital area in public areas to strangers
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Fetishism
obtaining sexual arousal from objects rather than a person
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Rape
obtaining power, control and sexual arousal from forces sexual intercourse with a noncensting adult
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Sadism
obtaining power, control, and sexual arousal by deliberately causing abuse, pain, humiliation, or bondage to another person
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Transsexualism
person's beliefs that he or she has been assigened to the wrong sexual identlty
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Transvestism
obtaining sexual arousal by wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex or posing as someone of the opposite sex
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Voyeurism
practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people
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Munchausen syndrome
exhibiting factitious medical or psychiatric symptoms; patients are aware that they are lying, but are unaware that their motivation is the desire fo assistance, attention, pity, and being exucsed from the normal expectations of life
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Depersonalization
loss of connection between personal thoughts and sense of self and the environment
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Fufue state
abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories
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Rorschach test
inkblot test, using cards, patients is asked to describe what the inkblot shapes mean to them
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