Introduction to Anormal Psychology Flashcards
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It is a psychological ___ within an individual that is associated with ___ or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or ___.
Dysfunction;
Distress;
Culturally Expected
Psychological ___ refers to a breakdown in ___, ___, ___ functioning.
Dysfunction;
Cognitive;
Emotional;
Behavioral
That the behavior must be associated with ___ to be classified as a disorder adds an important component and seems clear: The criterion is satisfied if the individual is ___.
Distress;
Extremely upset
Defining psychological disorder by ___ alone doesn’t work, although the concept of ___ contributes to a good definition.
Distress
The concept of ___ is useful although not entirely satisfactory.
Impairment
At times, something is considered abnormal because it occurs ___; it ___ from the average. The ___ the deviation, the more ___, it is.
Infrequently;
Deviates;
Greater;
Abnormal
The most widely accepted definition used in DSM-5 describes ___, ___, or ___ dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present distress and impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or impairment.
Behavioral;
Psychological;
Biological
___ is the scientific study of psychological disorders.
Psychopathology
Within psychopathology are specially trained professionals, including ___ and ___, ___, ___, and ___, as well as ___ and ___ and ___.
Clinical and Counseling Psychologists;
Psychiatrists;
Psychiatric Social Workers;
Psychiatric Nurses;
Marriage and Family Therapists;
Mental Health Counselors
Many mental health professionals take a ___ approach to their clinical work and therefore are called ___.
Scientific Approach;
Scientific Practitioners
Mental health practitioners may function as scientist-practitioners in one or more of three ways, namely:
Consumer of Science;
Evaluator of Science;
Creator of Science
Mental Health Professionals are considered to be ___ as they enhance the practice.
Consumer of Science
Mental Health Professionals are considered to be ___ as they determine the effectiveness of the practice.
Evaluator of Science
Mental Health Professionals are considered to be ___ as the conduct research that leads to new procedures useful in practice.
Creator of Science
In hospitals and clinics, we often say that a patient “presents” with a specific problem or set of problems, or we discuss the ___.
Presenting Problem
___ is a traditional shorthand way of indicating why the person came to the clinic.
Presents
___ represents the unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder.
Clinical Description
The word ___ refers both th the types of problems or disorders that you would find in a clinic or hospital and to the activities that you would find in a clinic or hospital and to the activities connected with assessment and treatment.
Clinical
One important function of the ___ description is to specify what makes the disorder ___ from normal ___ or from other ___.
Clinical;
Different;
Behavior;
Disorders
“How many people in the population as a whole have the disorder?” This is called the ___ of the disorder.
Prevalence
Statistics on how many new cases occur during a given period, such as a year, represent the __ of the disorder.
Incidence
In addition to having different symptoms, age of onset, and possibly a different sex ratio and prevalence, most disorders follow a somewhat individual pattern, or ___.
Course
Some disorders follow a ___ course, meaning that they tend to last a long time, sometimes a lifetime.
Chronic
Other disorders follow an ___ course, in that the individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time.
Episodic
