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This may be defined as: Any circumstance that threatens or is perceived to threaten one's well-being and tax one's coping abilities
What is stress?
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This is the difference between the way our body responds to stress at work, and the kind of stress where a lion jumps out of your morning coffee.
What is none, no difference, or some implication thereof?
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Mark checked into the ER with sweaty palms, a racing heart, feelings of dizziness, and shortness of breath. The cardiologist thinks it is psychological. This is what Mark likely had.
What is a panic attack.
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Affective disorders relate to this. Affect is not acceptable...
What is mood?
100
Anna deathly afraid of puppies, and feels anxious even when reminded of them. Assuming this interferes with her day-to-day functioning, she likely has this type of anxiety disorder.
What is a phobic disorder?
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Long-term stress has this effect on your immune system.
What is reduces it's functionality?
200
This is a behavior aimed at reducing the impact of stress.
What is a coping strategy?
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This type of diagnostic system assumes that there are discrete boundaries of psychological functioning, and we can classify a person according to his or her behavior.
What is a categorical model?
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This type of classification system tries to collect a lot of data about the person and may rely on descriptors rather than diagnostic labels.
What is s continuum or spectrum-based diagnostic approach?
200
This is a means of dealing with stress that effectively solves the problem and is sustainable long-term.
What is an adaptive coping mechanism?
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Bill just got a big promotion at work, along with a huge raise. Is this likely to cause him stress?
Yes.
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This is a therapeutic modality that attempts to reduce the impact of stress by teaching skills and adaptive coping mechanisms.
What is DBT?
300
Bill feels depressed most of the day, nearly every day for a period of three weeks. During this time, he has had substantial weight gain, has slept 12 hours a day, has lost interest in his hobbies, and feels overwhelming guilt. Bill most likely suffers from this.
What is Depression, major depressive episode, or major depressive disorder?
300
Josh feels anxious often, about a variety of things. His friends describe him as "a worrier." Assuming this impacts his functioning on a day-to-day basis, this is likely his diagnosis.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
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Kim has a distorted sense of body image, and sees herself as very fat, in spite of her friends growing concerned about her low weight. In order to reduce her weight, she eats far fewer calories than her doctor asks her to. She likely suffers from this.
What is Anorexia nervosa?
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In Dr. Sapolsky's research, which group was the healthiest and least stressed out?
What were the alpha males?
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This is a way of dealing with stress that leads to long-term difficulties, or only temporarily relieves stress without affecting the root cause.
What is a maladaptive coping strategy?
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This is the text in which diagnoses for psychological disorders can be found (not the ICD).
What is the DSM-5?
400
George goes through periods of time where he feels a strong drive to eat huge amounts of food. After eating, he feels guilty and purges. This is what Bill likely struggles with.
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
400
John is a 22 year old male who has recently (over the past month) begun hearing voices and seeing things that are not there, and he is convinced that the CIA is after him. He had a period of about one year of odd behavior, though nothing quite so serious as what he is experiencing now. John most likely has this.
What is schizophrenia?
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This law explains why we tend to perform better on simple tasks when we are more stressed out, but perform worse on more complex tasks when stressed out.
What is the Yerkes-Dodson law?
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This is often referred to as the major stress hormone.
What is cortisol?
500
Bill holds the firm belief that he can control the weather (in spite of ample evidence suggesting he cannot), though seems to be presenting with no other symptoms. This is the disorder he likely has.
What is a delusional disorder?
500
In this type of delusion, a person may hold the belief that someone famous or powerful is in love with them.
What is an erotomanic delusion?
500
Carl was sent to my office by a concerned friend. Both the friend and Carl report to me that Carl hears God's voice and speaks to Him on a regular basis. Upon interview, Carl informs me that he is a member of a Pentecostal church. Given this information, I am likely to diagnose Carl with this.
What is nothing.