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63 Cards in this Set
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Compensation
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Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable
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Denial
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Refusing to acknowledge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it
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Displacement
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The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is considered less threatening or that is neutral
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Identification
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An attempt to increased self worth by acquiring certain attributes and characteristics of an individual one admires.
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Intellectualization
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An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the intellectual processes of logic, reasoning, and analysis
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Introjection
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Integreating the beliefs and values of another individual into one's own ego structure
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Isolation
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Separating a thought or memory from the feeling tone or emotion associated with it
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Projection
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Attributing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person
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Rationalization
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Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors
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Reaction Formation
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Preventing unacceptable or undesireable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors
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Regression
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Responding to stress by retreating to an earlier level of development and the comfort measures associated with that level of functioning
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Repression
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Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness
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Sublimation
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Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive
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Suppression
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The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness
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Undoing
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Symbolically negating or cancelling out an experience that one finds intolerable
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Anxiety disorder
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Disorder in which the characteristic feature is symptomes of anxiety and avoidance behaviors
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Somatoform disorders
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Disorders in which the characteristic features are physical symptoms for which there is no demonstrabale organic pathology
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Dissociative Disorders
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disorders in which the caharacteristic feature is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of the consciousness, memory, indentity, or perception of the environment.
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Physchosis
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loss of ego boundaries or a gross impariment in reality testing
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Grief
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A subjective state of emotional, phsyical, and social responses to the loss of a valued entity
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T/F:
absence of mourning aftera loss may be considered maladaptive |
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Denial
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1st stage of greif
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Anger
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2nd stage of greif
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Bargaining
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2rd stage of grief
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Depression
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4th stage of grief
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acceptance
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5th stage of grief
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Anticipatory grief
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When the work of grieving has begun before the loss (when loss is anticipated).
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Bereavement overload
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When there is frequent loss and the individual has not had time to complete the grieving process before another loss occurs
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Maladaptive response to grief
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when an individual is not able to progress satisfactorily through the stages of grieving to achieve resolution
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Prologned grief
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responces that are prolonged, delayed or inhibited. Can be associated with the stages of denial or anger
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Delayed / Inhibited grief
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subject is stuck at the denial stage of grief.
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distorted grief
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subject is tuck at the anger stage of grief
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T/F
Pathalogical depression is a distorted grief responce |
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Axis I
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Clinical disorders and other disorders that may be the focus of clinical attention
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Axis II
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Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation
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Axis III
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General medical conditions
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Axis IV
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Psychosocial and environmental problems
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Axis V
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Global assessment of functioning
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Selye
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founding father of stress research. Responsible for the 3 stages of reaction to stress
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Personality
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THe combination of character, behavioral, tempermental, emotional, and mental traits that is unique to each specific individual
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Freud
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Psychoanalytica or psychosexual theory
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Id
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Pleasure principal
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Ego
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reality principal
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Super-ego
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perfection principal
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The conscious
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all emories that remain within and individual's awareness. Events that are easily remembered or retrieved
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The preconscious
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all memories that may have been forgotten or are not in present awareness but, with attention, can readily be recalled into consciousness.
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The unconscious
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Includes all memories that one is unable to bring to conscious awareness. Repressed memories.
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Libido
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Psychic energy or the drive to fulfill basic physiological needs such as hunger, thrist, and sex
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cathexis
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process by which the id invests energy into an object in an attempt to achieve gratification
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anticathexis
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use of psychic energy by the ego and the superego to control id impulses
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Oral stage
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Birth - 18 mo
Relief from anxiety through oral gratifgication of needs |
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Anal stage
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18 mo - 3 years
Learning independence and control, with focus on the excretory function |
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Phallic
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3 - 6 year
Identification with parent of same gender; development of sexual identity; focus on gential organs |
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Latency
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6 - 12 yr
Sexuality repressed; focus on relationships with same-gender peers |
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Genital
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13 - 20 yr
Libido reawakens as genital organs mature; focus on relationships with members of the opposite gender. |
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Oedipus/electra complex
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child's unconscious desire to eliminate the parent of the same gender and to possess the parent of the opposite gender for himself or herself.
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Interpersonal Theory
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Sullivan
Individual behavior and personality development are the direct result of interpersonal relatioships. |
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Sullivan - Infancy
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Birth - 18mo
Relief from anxiety through oral gratification of needs |
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Sullivan - Childhood
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18mo - 6 years
Learning to experience a delay in personal gratification without undue anxiety |
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Sullivan - Juvenile
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6yr - 9yr
Learing from satisfactory peer relationships |
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Sullivan - Preadolescence
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9yr - 12yr
Learning to form satisfactory relationships with persons of same gender initiating feelngs of affection for another person. |
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Sullivan - Early Adolescence
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12 yr - 14yr
Learning to form satisfactory relationships with persons of the oposite gender; developing a sense of identiy |
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Sullivan - Late adolescence
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14yr - 21 yr
Establishing self identity; experiencing satisfying relationships; working to develop a lasting, intimate opposite gender relationship |