 | William H. Reid, Michael G. Wise - 1995 - 347 pàgines
...hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (eg, praying, counting, repeating words silently) the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rules that must be rigidly applied haviors or mental acts either are not connected in a realistic way with what they are... | |
 | James F. Leckman, Donald J. Cohen - 1998 - 600 pàgines
...which are not simply excessive worries about realistic problems (APA, 1994). DSM-IV defines compulsions as repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform according to a rigidly applied rule in order to reduce distress or to prevent some dreaded outcome,... | |
 | Judith Neugroschl - 2004 - 201 pàgines
...to ignore or suppress them, or to neutralize them with some other thoughts or actions. Compulsions: Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person...perform in response to an obsession, or according to rigid rules. The acts are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or neutralizing or preventing the... | |
 | Daniel J. Carlat - 2005 - 316 pàgines
...Impulses Images that cause anxiety and that the person tries to ignore or suppress Compulsions Repeated behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession Behaviors or acts aimed at preventing or reducing distress Adapted from American Psychiatric Association.... | |
 | Leonard J. Haas - 2004 - 672 pàgines
...are recurrent, persistent thoughts that cause marked anxiety and distress, or compulsions, which are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform to reduce distress (APA, 1994). These obsessions or compulsions cause marked distress, are time consuming... | |
 | Michael E. Phelps - 2004 - 621 pàgines
...by obsessions (recurrent and persistent unwanted thoughts, impulses, or images) and/or compulsions (repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the person feels driven to perform), which are associated with marked anxiety or distress. PET studies of untreated, nondepressed subjects... | |
 | Vladan Starcevic - 2005 - 424 pàgines
...behaviors or unobservable mental acts (covert compulsions, mental compulsions, cognitive compulsions) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession and often according to strict rules • Repetitive • The purpose of compulsions is one or more of... | |
 | Mina K. Dulcan, Jerry M. Wiener - 2006 - 805 pàgines
...images, or impulses that are ego-dystonic, intrusive, and, for the most part, senseless. Compulsions are "repetitive behaviors... or mental acts... that the...feels driven to perform in response to an obsession" (American Psychiatric Association 2000, p. 462). A change in the diagnostic criteria from DSM-III-R... | |
 | Rita Barnard - 2006 - 234 pàgines
...provoke considerable anxiety and distress. Compulsions are repetitive behavioral or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rigid rules. Such compulsions are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded... | |
 | Edna B. Foa, Linda Wasmer Andrews - 2006 - 227 pàgines
...provoke considerable anxiety and distress. Compulsions are repetitive behavioral or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rigid rules. Such compulsions are aimed at preventing or reducing distress or preventing some dreaded... | |
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Repetitive behaviors (eg, hand washing, ordering, checking) or mental acts (eg, praying, counting, repeating words silently) that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, or according to rigidly applied rules. 
