5.4b Flashcards
Personality Disorders
inflexible patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that significantly impair an individual’s functioning and cause distress
Cluster A Personality Disorders
unusual or strange behaviors often leading to difficulties in forming and maintaining relationships
paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders
Cluster B Personality Disorders
A pattern of dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors that significantly impact interpersonal relationships and functioning.
Cluster C Personality Disorders
Anxious or fearful behaviors and include avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, often involving deceit, manipulation, impulsivity, and a lack of remorse.
Feeding and Eating Disorders
a persistent disturbance of eating patterns that leads to poor physical and/or psychological health
Anorexia Nervosa
a strong desire to lose weight, a low BMI, and habitually restrictive eating
Bulimia Nervosa
recurrent episodes of binge eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors like self-induced vomiting.
Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders
Mental health conditions triggered by exposure to traumatic and stressful events
PTSD
persistent and distressing symptoms that develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event.
Hypervigilance
Marked alterations in arousal and reactivity associated with the traumatic events.
Flashbacks
Feeling inside of a memory
Insomnia
difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or both, leading to significant distress or problems with functioning.
Emotional Detachment
a state where an individual experiences a lack of emotional connection with others, or even with their own feelings.
Hostility
a negative attitude towards others, characterized by ill will, animosity, and a tendency to be aggressive or unfriendly.
Dissociative Disorders
mental conditions characterized by a disruption or breakdown of memory, consciousness, perception, or identity, often triggered by trauma or stress
Dissociations
a disruption or discontinuity in the normal integration of mental processes like memory, identity, consciousness, and perception, often as a defense mechanism against overwhelming emotions or experiences.
DID
mental health conditions that involve a disconnection from one’s identity. These disorders include dissociative identity disorder (DID) and depersonalization-derealization disorder.
Dissociative Amnesia
a mental health condition that causes memory gaps, usually in response to trauma or stress
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
a psychiatric illness characterized by excessive thoughts (obsessions) that lead to repetitive, maladaptive behaviors (compulsions).
Obsessions
persistent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses that cause significant anxiety or distress, often leading to compulsive behaviors aimed at alleviating that distress.
Compulsions
a repetitive behavior or mental act that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, aiming to reduce anxiety or distress.
Bipolar Disorders
extreme mood swings, including periods of elevated mood (mania or hypomania) and periods of depression.
Mania
a period of abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, accompanied by increased activity and/or energy, often seen in bipolar disorder
Depression
a persistent mood disorder characterized by pervasive sadness, loss of interest, and difficulty functioning, often accompanied by physical symptoms and cognitive impairments.
Bipolar I Disorder
extreme fluctuations in mood, energy, and activity levels. (Manic episodes)
Bipolar II Disorder
characterized by a pattern of depressive episodes and hypomanic episodes, but not full-blown manic episodes
