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Definition of a Mental Disorder according to DSM IV
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- clinically significant behavioral or pyschological sydrome or pattern
- associated with distress or disability (impairment of functioning)
- not simply a predictable and culturally sanctioned resonse to an event
- reflects behavioral, psychological or bilogical dysfunction of individual
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Abnormal behavior
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Behavior that deviates from the norm of society
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Epidemiology
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The study of the distribution of diseases, disorders and health - related behaviors in a given population.
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Prevalence
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The number of cases in a population at any given period of time. usually expressed as precentages
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Point prevalence
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The proportion of cases for a disroder in a population at any given time
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Incidence
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The number of new cases that occur over a given period of time
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How many American people are affected by a mental disorder at one time in their lives?
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About Half
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Comorbidity
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The presence of two or more disorders in a individual. more likely to occur in people with severe mental disorders rather than mild.
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what was the primary treatment for demonic possesion?
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Exorcism - casted evil out of the inflicted person
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Hipporcates
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Greek physician. Father of modern medicine. Denied demons were the cause of mental illness. Emphasized heredity and predisposition. Believed dreams were important
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Hippocrates classification of mental disorders
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Mania, meloncholia and phrenitis (brain fever)
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Earliest and longest typologies of human behavior
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The sanguine, the phlegmatic, the choleric and the melancholic
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Four humors - essential fluids in the body
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Different proportions controlled temperment. blood, phlegm, bile and black bile
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Avincenna
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'prince of physicians' - wrote Canon of Medicine. Most widely read medical book ever written.
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Mental Ilness in the Middle Ages
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Characterized by superstition. care of the mentally ill left largely to the clergy. Treatment was kind - holy water, prayer
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