A reaction sometimes observed in individuals who have experienced a trauma, characterized by flashbacks and recurrent nightmares.
Acute stress disorder
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An eating disorder characterized by an extreme concern with being overweight and by compulsive dieting, sometimes to the point of self-starvation.
Anorexia nervosa
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The set of procedures for gathering information about an individual's psychological state, sometimes leading to a diagnosis.
Assessment
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A disorder usually diagnosed in young children, and characterized by a wide range of developmental problems, including language and motor problems.
Autism
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Eating a large amount of food within a brief period.
Binge Eating
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A perspective on psychopathology that emphasizes the biological, psychological, and social factors that contribute to mental illness.
biopsychosocial perspective
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An eating disorder characterized by repeated bingeand- purge bouts
Bullimia nervosa
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The tendency for different mental disorders to occur together in the same person
Comorbidity
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Actions taken to ensure that binge eating does not translate into weight gain (e.g., self-induced vomiting).
Compensatory behaviour
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The probability that a person with a particular familial relationship to a patient (e.g., an identical twin) has the same disorder as the patient.
Concordance rate
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A conception of psychopathology that distinguishes factors that create a risk of illness (the diathesis) from the factors that turn the risk into a problem (the stress).
Diathesis-stress model
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A state in which someone leaves home, then, days or months later, suddenly realizes he is in a strange place and doesn't know how he got there; often understood as a means of coping with (and escaping from) extremely painful events.
Dissociative fugue
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A disorder that results in a person developing two or more distinct personalities.
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
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Asserts that the brains of people with schizophrenia are oversensitive to the neurotransmitter dopamine
Dopamine hypothesis
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A mild manic state in which the individual seems infectiously merry, extremely talkative, charming, and tireless.
hypomania
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The hypothesis that mental disorders result from some form of faulty learning.
Learning model
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The percentage of people in a certain population who will have a given disorder at any point in their lives.
Lifetime prevalance
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A pattern sometimes observed with bipolar disorder in which the person displays a combination of manic and depressive symptoms.
Mixed states
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A conception of how mental disorders arise that emphasizes the roles played by many different factors.
Multicausal model
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A disorder that stems from early brain abnormalities.
Neurodevelopmental disorder
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The percentage of people in a given population who have a given disorder at any particular point in time.
Point prevalance
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The hypothesis that mental disorders result from psychological causes.
Psychogenic hypothesis
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An interview in which questions are posed in a standardized yet flexible way.
Semi structured interview
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The hypothesis that mental disorders result from organic (bodily) causes.
Somatogenic hypothesis
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An eating disorder characterized by an extreme concern with being overweight and by compulsive dieting, sometimes to the point of self-starvation.
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Anorexia nervosa
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The set of procedures for gathering information about an individual's psychological state, sometimes leading to a diagnosis.
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A disorder usually diagnosed in young children, and characterized by a wide range of developmental problems, including language and motor problems.
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Eating a large amount of food within a brief period.
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