Abnormal behavior Flashcards
Abnormal behavior
behavior that is disturbing,disruptive,maladaptive and often the result of distorted thoughts
medical aproach
mental dissorders involve genetic, psychological, or neurological problems and can be diagnosed and treated with medicine
biophysocial aproach
biological, psychological, and socioculture factors combine and interact with each other to cause disorder.
psychoanalitic aproach
mental disorders may involve the unconcious mind. innapropriate thoughts
DSM-V
the classification system of disorders
Post traumatic Stress Disorder(ptsd)
reliving a severely traumatic event in reccuring dreams and memories.
Panic dissorder
Reccuring episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences extreme terror and accompying chest pain, chocking etc.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Consistant and excessive wory about almost everything.
Phobias
Presistent, irrational fear, and avoidance of a specific object.
social phobia
the irrational fear of most social situations
agoraphobia
After experiencing panic attacks they learn to fear the fear.
OCD
Presistent unwanted thoughts(obbsesions) cause one to feel the need(cumpulsions) to engage in a particular action.
Conversion reaction
Person experiences very real physical symptoms with no real cause
Hypocondriasis reaction
a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of disease.
Treatments for phobias
Exposure therapy, Systematic desensitization, mindfulness training.
Mood dissorders
disturbences of emotion.
Major depressive disorder
presistentaly depressed mood or loss of intrest in activities.
Major depressive dissorder treatments
SSRI’s, antidepresent, psychotherapy
Treatment for mild depreshion
antidepresents
Dysthymic disorder
Major depressive dissorder but less for two or more years becomes dysthymic disorder.
Bipolar disorder
switches between mania and depression
mania
period of abnormally high emotion,activity, optumism etc.
personality dissorders
inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
Antisocial personality dissorder
they veiw you as nothing more than tools(evil)
causes of personality disorder
genetics, abuse as a child
treatments for personality disorders
drugs that raise levels of seretonin
schizophrenia
Delusion, hallucinations, disorganized speech, incoherant thoughts, innapropriate emotion
Paranoid schizophrenia
Auditory delusions and hallucinations such as thought of being persecuted by others
Disorganized schizophrenia
Bizzare ideas often about ones body, confused speech, childish behavior, great emotional swings, neglect of personal hygiene.
Catatonic schizophrenia
periods of wild exitment or rigid prolonged immobility (assumes same frozen pose for hours on end)
posotive schizophrenia
delusions, hallucinations. behavior that is addition to bahavior
negative schizophrenia
loss of behavior. innapropriate emotion/behavior
biological cause of schizophrenia
too much dopamine, too little seretonin. imbalance in brain chemicals
genetic cause of schizophrenia
the more close you are genetically with someone schizophrenic the more likely you are to get it (twin,parent ,sibling etc.)
treatments for schizophrenia
Antipsychotic drugs: stops dopamine from being absorbed by the dendrites, clears thoughts.
side affects:facial tics(Tardive dyskenisia), limited mobility in the body
DID
exhibiting two or more distinct and altering personalities
fugue
a state or period of loss of awareness of ones identity
amnesia
loss of ones memoreies, facts or peices of information of experiences
tollerance
the ability to endure something
Addiction
a habit of doing something over again many times(usually not good for you)
psychological dependence
emotional components of drug abuse (difficulty thinging of anything else)
physiological dependents
the physical components of drug abuse (withdrawls, loss of sleep, shaking)
