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)