prodromal - ANS A pre-psychotic period of psychological disturbance
symptom, sign - ANS mood is a... an affect is a...
80% - ANS The genetic etiology of autism spectrum disorder is generally considered to be...
(percentage)
Brief Psychotic Disorder - ANS Lasts more than a day, but less than a month, is a criterion
Thorazine - ANS The first choice for treating schizophrenia
identification with the aggressor example - ANS Abused children may turn out to be bullies. This
may be best explained by
hearing, vision; vision, hearing - ANS Clinicians may make incorrect diagnoses of disorders like
ADHD and ODD in children if they do not assess two critical physical functions. The two
functions are
co-morbidity - ANS the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual; share a
largely
pathology - ANS study of diseases and the produce changes that deviate from the assumed
normal condition
psychopathology - ANS manifestations of the mental illness
mental disorder (according to DSM) - ANS must produce clinically significant impairment or
distress on personal, social, occupational life, specifically their cognition, emotion regulation, or
behavior
sign - ANS observed and documented objectively
symptom - ANS experienced subjectively and cannot be observed. must be reported by the
patient.
Biological factors are the primary cause
incidence - ANS number of new cases
prevalence - ANS number of existing cases
, treatment - ANS affects prevalence, but does not affect incidence
iatrogenic - ANS any reaction produced by the physician/clinician and by being in position of the
client or patient
displacement - ANS #3 defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses/feelings
toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger
toward a safer outlet
denial - ANS #1 psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people refuse to believe or even
to perceive painful realities (External stimuli)
sublimation - ANS #8 transferring of unacceptable impulses into socially valued motives (most
mature defense)
reaction formation - ANS #4 psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which the ego
unconsciously switches unacceptable impulses into their opposites.
Thus, people may express feelings that are the opposite of their anxiety-arousing unconscious
feelings.
identification with the aggressor - ANS process of adopting the characteristics of individuals we
find threatening
projection - ANS #2 psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own
threatening impulses by attributing them to others
regression - ANS #5 psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with
anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains
fixated
- considered high-level, mature defense because person was previously at a higher state of
maturity to regress back from
altruism - ANS #7 dealing with stressors by dedicating to serving others and their needs.
humor - ANS #6 deal with stress by emphasizing the amusing or ironic aspects of the conflict or
stressor
repression - ANS the basic UNCONSCIOUS defense mechanism that banishes from
consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories (internal stimuli)
suppression - ANS Consciously and intentionally pushing unpleasant feelings out of one's mind
rationalization - ANS defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the
real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions
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