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Selye

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Studied how we react during a stressful event. Came up with a 3 step adaptation syndrome.

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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion

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Type A Personality

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Anal Retentive, Setting Deadlines, More Prone to Stress and Heart Disease

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Type B Personality

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More Laid Back, not keeping consistent schedules.

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Stress on Cardiovascular

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BP problems, Heart Attack

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Stress on Respiratory

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Upper Respiratory Infection, Colds, Asthma

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Stress on Gastrointestinal

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IBS

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Stress on Muscular

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Tension

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Stress on Skin

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Acne, Psoriasis

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Stress on Immune System

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Suppressed

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Stress on Metabolic

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Increases cortisol, loses or gains weight.

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Social Support

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The belief that others understand your needs and will try to help you.

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Instrumental Support

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Offering assistance in a tangible way.

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P.T.S.D.

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Started becoming in the lime light after Vietnam. Happens because of violent circumstances.

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Symptoms of P.T.S.D.

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Recollections, nightmares, flashbacks, Startling, memory impairment, difficulty sleeping

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Survivor Guilt

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Theorized by Marzo, ‘How did I get out and not my friends?’ Can cause irrational thoughts.

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How to treat Survivor Guilt

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Talk about it, Routines, Look at strengths, Make meaning from it, have a support network.

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Personality Disorder

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Maladaptive patterns of behavior.

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Types of Personality Disorders

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Passive Agressive, Paranoid, Narcissistic, Borderline, Anti-Social, Avoidant

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Passive Agressive Personality Disorder

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People acting kind, but in hostile ways.

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Thinking that people are out to get them.

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Someone who things that they are considerably important

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Can be very manipulative, like drama

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Anti-Social Personality Disorder

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Disregard for others

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Avoidant Personality Disorder
Extremely withdrawn
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Etiology
What the cause is of something
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Prognosis
How you see the client coping with the diagnosis
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Phobic Disorders
Irrational fears
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DSM
Book that emphasizes observable behaviors and can help give a diagnosis.
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OCD
Repetitive, persistant thoughts, with compulsive actions or ritualistic behavior.
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DSM Format
1. Diagnosis, 2. Personality Disorders, 3. General Medical Conditions, 4. Psychosocial Evaluation, 5. Global Assessment of Function (0-100)
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Somatoform Disorders
Experiencing symptoms without physical reason
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Types of Somatoform Disorders
Conversion Disorders, Hypochondriasis
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Conversion Disorders
Having physical symptoms without any sort of reason (hysterical pregnancy)
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Hypochondriasis
Person interprets any symptoms they have to be a severe illness.
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Symptoms of Major Depression
Change in appetite, fatigue, loss of interest, change in sleep, suicidal thoughts.
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Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
Super high energy into a low depression.
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Hallucinations
Experiencing something without the stimuli. Most common is auditory.
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Delusions
False belief of reality.
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Agoraphobia
Fear of the outside world and becoming house bound.
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Schizophrenia
Disorders that make people out of touch with reality, can be chronic
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
Unresponsive
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
Feeling persecuted, severe
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Disorganized Schizophrenia
Becoming withdrawn and babbling
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
All other symptoms
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Gestalt Psychology
Perception of the whole being.
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Psychoanalytic Psychology Treatments
Free Association, Interpreting Dreams, Transference, Counter-Transference, On a couch with a blank wall
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Resistance
When client starts fighting and sabotaging treatment.
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How long to treatments last in Psychoanalytic?
Several times a week for many years
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What do psychoanalytic treatments focus on?
The unconscious
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Cognitive Therapy
Aaron Beck, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are all connected.
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Aversion Therapy
Associating Habit with something negative
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Behavioral Therapy
Awareness is not the key, behave as if things are okay and they will be.
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Systematic Desensitization
Wolpe, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Prioritized list of fears, Break fear into small parts
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Client-Centered Therapy
Humanist view, Client decides what to talk about.
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By-Stander Effect
If someone needs assistance, the more people are around, the less likely someone is to help.
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Milgram
Shocking of individual to prove obedience between teachers and students.
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Asch
Lines on the board, participants conformed to the actors in front of them.
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Fundamental Attribution Error
Tend to explain other's by saying that it's their fault, but when we explain ours, its situational.
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Social Facilitation
Well learned behaviors are performed better in front of an audience.
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Zimbardo
Role play, people put in a powerful role treat others non-respectfully. Prisoners and Guards.
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Stereotypes
A negative trait we think that every member of some group has.
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Mere Exposure Effect
If you're around someone more, the more likely you are to fall in love with them.
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Social Loafing
Group members don't work as hard on group work.
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Gestalt technique
Uses 2 chairs for clients to talk to rejected parts of themselves.
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Transactual Analysis
Analyzes communication styles, looking for complimentary or crossed transactions.
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Drugs that are used for depression
Zoloft and Prozac
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Aaron Beck
Looks at how clients distort cognition so about self, the world, and the future.

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