Chapter 22: Psychiatric Disorders Flashcards
psychiatry
treatment of the mind
psychotherapy
techniques for treating mental disorders
psychopharmacology
study of drug therapy for the mind
psychologist (specialist who studies the mind)
non-medical professional who is trained to test, conduct psychotherapy, analysis, and research
+ cannot prescribe medication
+ cannot admit someone to the hospital
Rorschach test
Ink-block test
+ an impression that ask people their thoughts about an ink-block.
amnesia (clinical symptoms)
loss of memory.
anxiety (clinical symptoms)
varying degrees of uneasiness, apprehension, or dread often accompanied by palpitations, tightness in the chest, breathlessness, and choking sensations.
apathy (clinical symptoms)
absence of emotions; lack of interest, emotional involvement, or motivation.
compulsion (clinical symptoms)
uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly in an attempt to reduce anxiety.
+ circulatory compulsion occurs in the hypothalamus
conversion (clinical symptoms)
anxiety becomes a bodily symptoms, such as blindness, deafness, or paralysis, that does not have a physical basis.
delusion (clinical symptoms)
fixed, fasle belief
dissociation (clinical symptoms)
uncomfortable thoughts are split off from the person’s conscious awareness to avoid mental distress. In extremes cases, dissociation can lead to multiple personalities.
dysphoria (clinical symptoms)
intense feelings of depression, discontent, and generalized dissatisfaction with life.
euphoria (clinical symptoms)
intense feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, excitement, and joy.
hallucination (clinical symptoms)
false or unreal sensory perception as, for example, hearing voices when non are present. An illusion is a misperception of an actual sensory stimulus, such as hearing voices in the sound of rustling leaves.
labile (clinical symptoms)
rapid emotional change
mania (clinical symptoms)
elevated, expansive state with talkativeness, hyperactivity, and racing thoughts.
mutism (clinical symptoms)
no, or very little, ability to speak
obsession (clinical symptoms)
involuntary, persistent idea or emotion; the suffix mania indicates a strong obsession with something (e.g., pyromania an obsession with fire).
paranoia (clinical symptoms)
overly suspicious system of thinking; delusion that one is being harassed, persecuted, unfairly treated.
anxiety disorder
characterized by unpleasant tension, distress, avoidance, behavior
bipolar disorder
alternating periods of mania and depression
depressive disorders
chronic sadness, lord of energy, hopelessness, worry
dissociative disorders
breakdown of memory, identity, perception
eating disorders
bingeing, purging, body image disturbance
neurodevelopmental disorder
childhood disorders characterized by delays in socialization, communication
personality disorders
lifelong personality patterns which are inflexible, impaired social functions
schizophrenia spectrum/psychotic disorders
chronic psychotic diorders
+ may have hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, flat affect and lack of initiative
schizophrenia spectrum/psychotic disorders
chronic psychotic diorders
+ may have hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, flat affect and lack of initiative
sexual dysfunction
inability of person to respond sexually or to experience sexual pleasure
somatic disorders
presence of physical symptoms that can’t be explained physical/mental disorders
substance and addiction disorders
regular obese of dependence on psychoactive substance
ECT (treatment)
electrical current used to induce convulsion and loss of consciousness
drug treatment
will be covered in the chapter on pharmacy
anxi/o
uneasy, anxious, distressed
aut/o
self
hallucin/o
to wander in the mind
(a hallucination is a sensory perception in absence of many external stimuli.
+An illusion is perception in which sensory stimuli are present, but correct interpret )
hypn/o
sleep
iatr/o
treatment, physician
ment/o
psych/o
mind
neur/o
nerve
phil/o
attraction to, love
phren/o
mind
somat/o
body
schiz/o
splits
somatic
body
-genic
pertaining to producing
-leptic
to seize hold of
-mania
obsessive preoccupation
-phobia
fear
-phoria
feeling, hearing
-thymia
mind
a-
an-
no, not, without
cata-
up
hypo-
deficient, below, under
para-
abnormal
iatrogenic
pertaining to originating/produced by the physician or treatment
psychosis
abnormal condition of the mind (with delusions and hallucinations)
psychogenic
pertaining to originating in the mind
