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Obsessive compulsive disorder

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Characterized by obsessive thoughts + compulsive behaviors such as continual washing of hands prompted by feeling of uncleanliness

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General anxiety disorder

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Chronic or long lasting state of anxiety, fear, or tenseness

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Panic disorder/ panic attack

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Type of anxiety that attacks with out reason or warning

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Specific phobia

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An excessive fear of an object, situation, person, or idea

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Social anxiety disorder

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Person who is anxious or self conscious in everyday social situations

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Post traumatic stress disorder

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A disorder in which after affects of terrifying events keep people from living a normal life

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Anxiety disorders

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A disorder in which real or imagined threats prevent a person from enjoying life

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Cognitive disorders

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A disorder in which a persons brain deteriorates in function

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Dementia

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General term for decline in mental ability severe enough to affect quality of life

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Alzheimer’s

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Type of dementia

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Conduct disorder

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Disorder in which children and adults constantly break the rules of society

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Eating disorder

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Disorder of norm eating routine

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Anorexia nervosa

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Makes people loose more weight than is healthy for them, obsessive desire to loose weight

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Bulimia

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When a person binge eats then purges

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Binge eating disorder

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A person eats or consumes a large amount of food in a short amount of time

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Mood disorder

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A mental disorder involving moods that are extreme AKA affective disorder

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Clinical depression

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Long lasting feelings of loneliness, hopelessness or sadness

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Bipolar disorder

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A condition on which a person has extreme periods of happiness and depression

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Seasonal affective disorder

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A type of depression that occurs when a person has decreased exposure to sunlight

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Personality disorder

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A disorder in which a persons pattern of thinking feeling and acting interfere with daily living

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Antisocial personality disorder

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A persons pattern of life conflicts with society. A person with this disorder may become indifferent to another persons needs

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Borderline personality disorder

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When a person has sudden changes in mood, relations, or behaviors

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Schizophrenia

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A long term mental disorder in which there is a break down in your logical thought process leading to inappropriate thoughts and actions

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Somatoform disorder

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A disorder in which a person has symptoms of disease but no physical cause can be found

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Hypochondria

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The idea and obsession that you have serious or life threatening illnesses

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Formal intervention

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Meeting between a person who needs help and loved ones to try to get the person to seek help

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Evaluation

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A physical and mental exam to find out the causes of the disorder

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Psychiatrist

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Will diagnose and treat mental disorders and can prescribe medication

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Psychologist

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Will diagnose and council mental disorder but can not prescribe meds

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Psychiatric social workers

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Work with clients on mental and emotional problems

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Medication

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A form of treatment for mental disorders

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Impatient treatment

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Go to a hospital or treatment facility and stay there for a period of time to be treated

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Outpatient treatment

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To live at home but make visits for treatment

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Stress

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Your body and minds response to the demands of day life

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Distress

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Negative stress

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Eustress

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Positive stress

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Stressor

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Cause of stress

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Psychosomatic illness

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Stressed in our mind leads to illness

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Stress management strategies

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Progressive relaxation
Deep breathing
Exercise
Journal
Talking
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Ulcer

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Open sore/hole in stomach lining or other place

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Type A personality

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Stressed,competitive, # oriented, time oriented

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Type B personality

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Laid back, relaxed, chill, flexable

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Perfectionist

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Try’s to be perfect in one or two areas of life

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Personality

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Individual differences, character traits, emotion

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How personality is formed

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Environment/heredity

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Abraham Maslow AND Erik erikson believed

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Personality developed from birth until death

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Sigmund Freud thought

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Personality didn’t change after chdhood

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Abraham Maslow thought of the…

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Hierarchy of needs  top to bottom
Self actualization 
Esteem needs
Social needs
Safety needs
Basic needs
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Erik erikson created the…

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Three Column list
Age(birth->death)/stage(inner conflict)-> task

The idea was that you had to accomplish things and if you are successful it impacts you positively and if you fail it affects you negatively

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Psychoanalysis

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Therapy where you are unconscious thoughts are brought to mind in order to resolve them

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Freuds personality theory

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Circle split into thirds

  • ID– biological urges
  • EGO–thought decision making part
  • SUPER EGO– right from wrong
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Three stages of GAS

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Alarm
Resistance
Exhaustion

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