Clinical Psychology

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Abnormal vs normal behaviors (DP)

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Clinical Psychology

Study of why people act abnormal

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Medical Model

Abnormal behavior explanation, physical causes that can be diagnosed

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Psychoanalytic

Abnormal behavior explanation, Unconscious drives

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Humanistic

Abnormal behavior explanation, mental illness vs self-actualization

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Cognitive

Abnormal behavior explanation, learned helplessness, stress and trauma

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Biological

Abnormal behavior explanation, genetic, evolution, brain structure

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DSM-V classification system

System for classifying psychological disorders, it’s a manual for the diagnosis

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anxiety disorders

Fear of the worst happening, and loss of control

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

When a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal (nervous system always fired up)

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Panic disorder

Recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly

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Phobia

Intense and irrational fear

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OCD

Persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thought and urges to engage in senseless rituals

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PTSD

Haunting memories, social withdraw, and other symptoms due to a traumatic event

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Dissociative disorders

mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and identity

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Somatic symptom and related disorders

Symptoms of a physical disorder are present without a physical cause

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Illness anxiety disorder

A person interprets normal health as a symptom of disease (always thinking they’re sick)

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Factitious disorder

Pretending to have a mental disorder to gain sympathy or attention

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Conversation disorder

When a person displays blindness, deafness or hearing loss without a physical cause

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Depressive disorders

Disorders where a person experiences extreme moods, such as depression or mania

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Schizophrenia

Delusions, hallucinations, and/or diminished emotional expression

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Delusional disorder

Presence of one or more delusions for at least one month (can’t tell what’s real and what’s imagined)

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Catatonia

When someone is unresponsive to something going on, even if they’re awake

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Personality disorders

Inflexible ways of behaving that create a variety of problems

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Personality Disorders: Cluster A

Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal

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Personality Disorders: Cluster B

Histrionic, Narcissistic, BPD, psychopath, sociopath

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Personality Disorders: Cluster C

Dependent, OCD, Avoidant

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Persistent deflects in social communication and interaction

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ADHD

Persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity that interferes with development

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Neurocognitive disorders

Affect memory, attention, perception and social cognition. (Alzheimers, brain injury, etc)

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Feeding and Eating disorders

Anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, Pica (eating things that aren’t food)