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Clinical Psychology (12%-16%) Flashcards

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Psychologist

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Can’t prescribe meds, supports people through psychotherapy

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Psychiatrist

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Can prescribe meds, identify disorders/diagnosed generally, works inside of a hospital

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Abnormal behavior

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Deviant, distressing, dysfunctional, dangerous

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Deinstitutionalization

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When better psychotropic drugs were created this move it began to remove patients who were not considered a threats of themselves or the community from mental hospitals

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Generalized anxiety disorder

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Experience excessive anxiety under most circumstances and worry about practically anything

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Panic disorder

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Anxiety disorder marked by recurrent and unpredictable panic attacks

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Specific phobia

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Intense, irrational fear response to a specific stimuli

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Agoraphobia

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Afraid to be in public situations which escape might be difficult or help unavailable if panic like or embarrassing symptoms were to occur

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Compound disorder of thought and behavior

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Obsessions

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Persistent, Intrusive and unwanted thoughts that an individual cannot get out of his or her mind

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Compulsions

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Ritualistic behaviors performed repeatedly

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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Result of some trauma experience by the victim. Victims re-experience the traumatic event in nightmares about the event or flash backs in which they relive the event

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Bipolar disorder

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Mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania

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Major depressive disorder

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Involves intense depressed mood, reduce interest or pleasure and activities, loss of energy, and problems in decision making for a minimum of two weeks

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Paranoid personality disorder

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Patterns of distrust and suspiciousness about other peoples motives, individual thinks that others are out to threaten, betray, exploit, or harm

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Persistent avoidance of social relationships and little expression of emotion

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Schizotypical personality disorder

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Extreme discomfort in close relationships, very odd patterns of thinking and perceiving, and behavioral eccentricities

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Antisocial personality disorder

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General pattern of disregard for and violation of other peoples rights, closely linked to criminal behavior

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Borderline personality disorder

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Repeated instability in interpersonal relationships, self image, and mood and by impulsive behavior

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Histrionic personality disorder

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Characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality, dramatic and attention seeking

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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A broad pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy

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Avoidant personality disorder

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Consistent discomfort and restraint and social situations, overwhelming feelings of an adequacy, and extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation/potential rejection and humiliation

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Dependent personality disorder

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A pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of separation and an ongoing need to be taken care of

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Obsessive compulsive personality disorder

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Intense focus on orderliness, perfectionism and control that the person loses flexibility, openness, and efficiency

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Inability to focus attention or overactive and impulsive behavior, or both
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Autism spectrum disorder
Extreme unresponsive to others, severe communication deficits and highly repetitive and rigid behaviors, interests and activities
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Intellectual disability
Disorder marked by intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior that are well below average
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Alzheimer’s disease
Fatal degenerative disease in which brain neurons progressively die, characterized by loss of memory, reasoning, emotion, and control of bodily functions
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Anorexia nervosa
Life-threatening eating disorder that involves intense fear of weight gain or becoming overweight, disordered perception of one’s weight/body shape, persistent restriction of calorie intake
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Body dysmorphia
Increasing cognitive miss perception of being overweight despite evidence to the contrary
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Bulimia nervosa
Recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors for the intake of food such as purging
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Binge eating disorder
Uncontrollably eating a large amount of food in a short period of time, after binging episode a person will not purge and will feel an extreme sense of guilt
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Somatic Symptom disorder
Characterized by physical symptoms including pain, and anxiety in these individuals about having a disease
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Illness anxiety disorder
Characterized by a preoccupation with a serious medical or health condition with either no or mild physical symptoms such as nausea or dizziness that persist for six months
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Conversion disorder
Characterized by loss of some bodily functions without physical damage to the affected organs or their neural connections
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Dissociative amnesia
Loss of memory for a traumatic event or period of time that is too painful for an individual to remember
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Dissociative identity disorder
Rare mental disorder characterized by at least two distinct and relatively enduring identities or dissociative personality states that recurrently control a persons behavior
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Schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorates as a result of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions and motor abnormalities
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Dopamine hypothesis
High fluctuation of levels of dopamine can be responsible for schizophrenic symptoms
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Flooding
Exposing people to fear invoking objects or situation intensely and rapidly
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Systematic desensitization
Client makes a list of fears and then learns to relax while concentrating on these fears Joseph Wolpe 
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Aversion therapy
Pairing an undesirable behavior with and aversive stimulus in the hope that the unwanted behavior will eventually be reduced
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Token economy
Behavioral strategy relies on reinforcement to modify behavior. Clients are allowed to earn tokens that can be exchanged for special privileges or desired items
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Biofeedback
Mind-body technique that involves using visual or auditory feedback to gain control over involuntary bodily functions
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Cognitive behavioral therapist
Human emotions and behavior are predominantly generated by ideas, beliefs, attitudes and thinking
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Rational emotive behavior therapy
Psychological problems arise when thoughts are irrational and lead to behavioral consequences that are distressful Albert Ellis
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Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy
Based on the idea that how we think, how we feel and how we act all interact together
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Psychoanalysis
Primary focus of psychodynamic therapy is to uncover unconscious contents of a client psyche in order to alleviate psychic tension
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Free association
Client spontaneously reports thoughts, feelings, and mental images that come to mind
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Mental blocks resistance
Patient’s conscience or unconscience attempt to block disturbing memories, motives and experiences
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Transference
A patient projects or transfers on result conflicts in feelings onto the therapist
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Unconditional positive regard
Allow client to steer the direction of the therapy, clients have value
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Active listening
Therapist listens to client, paraphrasing what the client says, prevents advice or judgments
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Anti-depressant drugs
Elevate mood by affecting neurotransmitters such as serotonin that are linked to depression
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SSRI
Blocks the reuptake of serotonin
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Electric convulsive therapy
Biological treatment in which a brain seizure is triggered as an electric current pass through electrodes attached to the patient’s forehead

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