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Decks in this class (11)

Week 1 - Researching distress and mental health.
Family aggregation 1,
Is there a universal agreement ab...,
Difficulties in which 7 areas may...
27  cards
Week 2- Causal Factors and Viewpoints
Risk factor 1,
Variable risk factor 2,
If risk factor x cannot be change...
45  cards
Week 3 - Stress and Mental Health
The field of _________ is concern...,
Health psychology is a subspecial...,
Within __________ _______ there i...
16  cards
Week 4 - Anxiety
Anxiety 1,
Fear 2,
Anxiety disorders 3
61  cards
Week 5 - Mood Disorders and Suicide
______ depressive disorders in wh...,
_______ disorders in which a pers...,
_______ _______involve much more ...
92  cards
Week 6 - Therapy
Although definitions of the thera...,
Measurements of success in clinic...,
Research suggests that about __ p...
33  cards
Week 7 - Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative disorders are 1,
Dissociation only becomes patholo...,
Dsm 5 recognizes several types of...
27  cards
Week 8 - Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
Schizophrenia is characterized by...,
In schizophrenia there is a split...,
The risk of developing schizophre...
88  cards
Week 9 Disorders of childhood and adolescence
Timeline for childhood disorders 1,
Approximately ____ of children an...,
Anxiety disorders are the ___ com...
72  cards
Week 10 Personality disorders
The general features that charact...,
A personality disorder is diagnos...,
Antisocial personality disorder o...
70  cards
Week 11: Eating disorders and substance-related disorders
According to the dsm 5 apa 2013 e...,
Dsm 5 criteria for anorexia nervo...,
An important change from dsm iv t...
130  cards

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