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Biological model
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View that psychological disoreders have a biochemical or phsysiological basis.
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psychoanalytic model
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View that psychological disorders result from unconscious internal conflicts.
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Cognitive-behavioral model
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View that psychological disorders result from learning maladaptive way of thinking and behaving.
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Diathesis-stress model
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View that psychologically predisposed to a mental disorder(those with a certain diathesis)will tend to exhibit that disorder when particularly affected by stress.
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Diathesis
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Biological predisposition
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Systems approach
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View that biological, psychological, social risk factors combine to produce psychological disorders. Also known as the biopsychosocial model of psychological disorders.
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
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Manual that lists and describes thae various kinds of psychological disorders.
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Mood Disorders
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Disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state.
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Depression
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A mood disorder characterized by overwhelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and perhaps escessive guilt or feeling of worthlessness.
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Mania
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A mood disorder characterized by euphoric states, extreme physical activity, excessive talkativeness,distractedness, and sometimes grandiosity.
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Bipolar disorder
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A mood disorder in which periods of mania and depression alternate, sometimes with periods of normal mood intervening.
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Anxiety disorders
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Disorders in which anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior.
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Specific phobia
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Anxiety disorder charcterized by and intense, paralyzing fear of something.
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Social phobia
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An anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, inappropriate fears connected with social situations or performances in front of other people.
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Agoraphobia
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An anxiety disorder that involves multiple, intense fears of crows, public places, and other situations that require separation from a source of security such as the home.
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Panic disorder
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An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent panic attacks in which the person suddenly experiences intense fear or terror without any reasonable cause.
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Generalized anxiety disorder
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An anxiety disorder characterized by prolonged vague but intense fears that are not attached to any particual object or circumstances.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
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An anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts or to perform senseless rituals.
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Psychosomatic disorders
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Disorders in which there is real phuysical illness that is largely cause by psychological factors such as stress or anxiety.
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Somatoform disorders
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Disorders in which there is an apparent physical illness for which there is no organic basis.
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Conversion disorder
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Somatoform disorder in which a dramatic specific disability has no physical cause but instead seems related to psychological problems.
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Hypochondriasis
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A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absence of any organic evidence of such illness.
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Body dysmorphic disorder
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A somatoform disorder in which a person becomes so preoccupied with his or her imagined ugliness that normal life is impossible.
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Dissociative disorders
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Disorders in which some aspect of the personality seems separated from the rest.
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Dissociative identity disorder
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(Formally called multiple personality disorder) Disorder characterized by the separation of the personality into two or more distinct personalities.
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Schizophrenic disorders
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Severe disorders in which there are disturbances of thoughts, communications, and emotions, including delusions and hallucinations.
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Psychotic (psychosis)
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Behavior characterized by a loss of touch with reality.
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Insanity
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Legal term for mentally disturbed people who are not considered responsible for their criminal actions.
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Hallucinations
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Sensory experiences in the absence of external stimulations.
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Delusions
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False beliefs about reality that have no basis in fact.
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Disorganized Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenic disorder in which bizarre and childlike behavior are common.
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Catatonic Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenic disorder in which disturbed motor behavior is prominent.
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Paranoid Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenic disorder marked by extreme suspiciousness and complex bizarre delusions.
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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenic disorder in which there are clear schizophrenic symptoms that do not meet the criteria for another subtype disorder.
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Sexual dysfunction
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Loss or impairment of the ordinary physical responses of sexual function.
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Paraphilias
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Sexual disorder in wich unconventional objects or situations cause sexual arousal.
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Fetishism
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A paraphilia in which a nonhuman object is the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.
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Pedophilia
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Desire to have sexual relations with children as the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.
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Gender-identity disorders
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Disorders that involve the desire to become, or the insistence that one really is, a member of the other biological sex.
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Personality disorder
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Disorders in which inflexible and maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving learned early in life cause distress to the person or conflict with others.
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Antisocial personality disorder
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Personality disorder that involves a pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical and exploitative behavior and an inability to feel affection for others.
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