NSU Chapter 14
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| abnormal behavior | behavior that is deviant, maladaptive or personally distressful over a long period of time
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| medical model | a biological approach that describes psychological disorders as medical diseases with a biological origin
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| DSM-IV-TR | abbreviation for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition; the current version of the APA's major classification of psychological disorders
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| anxiety disorders | psychological disorders that feature motor tension, hyperactivity and apprehensive expectations and thoughts.
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| panic disorder | an anxiety disorder marked by recurrent sudden onsets of intense apprehension or terror
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| Obsessive-compulsive disorder | an anxiety disorder in which the individual has anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away (obsession) and/or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to present or produce some future situation (compulsion)
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| post-traumatic stress disorder | an anxiety disorder that develops through exposure to a traumatic event, severly oppressive situations, severe abuse, and natural and unnatural disasters
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| mood disorders | psychological disorders in which there is a primary disturbance in mood. Prolonged emotion that colors the individual's entire emotional state
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| depressive disorders | mood disorders in which the individual suffers from depression. An unrelenting lack of pleasure in life.
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| major depressive disorder | a mood disorder indicated by a major depressive episode and depressed characteristics, such as lethargy and hopelessness, lasting at least two weeks
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| dysthymic disorder | a depressive disorder that is generally more chronic and has fewer symptoms than major depressive disorder
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| bipolar disorder | a mood disorder characterized by extreme mood swings that include one or more episodes of mania (an overexcited, unrealistically optimistic state)
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| schizophrenia | a severe psychological disorder that is characterized by highly disordered thought processes
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| hallucinations | sensory experiences in the absence of real stimuli
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| catatonia | a state of immobility and unresponsiveness
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| flat affect | a negative symptom in which the person shows little or no emotion speaks without emotional inflection, and maintains an immobile facial expression.
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