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Clinical psychologist
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Graduate training in psychology who specialized in abnormal psy. registered, licenced
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Psychiatrist
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Physican who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
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Psychological disorder
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Disturbances of psychological functioning or behaviour associated with staes of personal distress or impaired social, ocfupational, or interpersonal functioning.
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What is a psychological disorder also called?
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Mental disorder
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Abnormal psychology
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Branch of psy. that deals with the description, causes, and tratment of abnormal behaviour patterns
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Estimated population of adult population who have a miental disorder during any one year period in canada: Mood Disorders
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4.8%
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Estimated population of adult population who have a miental disorder during any one year period in canada: Schizophrenia
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0.3%
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Estimated population of adult population who have a miental disorder during any one year period in canada: Anxiety Disorder - social phobia
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3 %
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Estimated population of adult population who have a miental disorder during any one year period in canada: Eating disorder - anorexia & bulimia
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Anorexia
0.7% -women
0.2% men
Bulimia
1.5% women
0.1% men
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Medical model
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Biological perspective in which abnormal behaviour is viewed as symptomatic of underlying illness
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Criteria for determining abnormality
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1. behavior is unusual
2.behavior is socially unacceptable or violates soical norms
3. perception or interpretation of reality is faulty
4. the person is in significant personal distress
5. Behavour is maladaptive or self-defeating
6. Behaviour is dangerous
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Hallucinations
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Perceptions that occur in the absence of an external stimulus that are confused with reality
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Paranoid
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Having irrational suspicions
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Delusions
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Fimly held but inaccurate beliefs that persist despite evidence that they have no basis in reality
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Ideas of persecution
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Form of delusional thinking characterized by false beliefs that one is being persecuted or victimized by others
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