Chapter 7: Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Psychological disorder
Characteristic sets of thoughts, feelings, or actions that cause noticeable distress to the surfer are considered deviant by the individual culture or cause maladaptive functioning in society, meaning that some aspect of the individuals behavior negatively impacts others or leads to self defeating outcomes. Their trade or behaviors that differ from the cultural norm.
Biopsychosocial approach.
A broader classification system commonly used for the psychological disorders. This method assumes that there are biological, psychological, and social components to an individual’s disorder. The biological component or disorder is something in the body, The psychological component stems from the individual’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and the social component results from the individual surroundings.
Direct therapy.
Treatment that acts directly on the individuals, such as medication or periodic meetings with the psychologists.
Biomedical Approach.
Biomedical therapy emphasizes inventions that rally around symptoms reduction of psychological disorder. Assumes that any disorder has roots in biomedical disturbances and thus the solution should also be a biomedical nature.
Indirect therapy.
Aims to increase social support by educating and empowering family and friends of the affected individual.
How do you classify psychological disorders?
With the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). a compilation of many known psychological disorders and it is based on description of symptoms.
Delusions
False belief discordant with reality and not shared by others in the individual culture.
Psychotic disorder.
Present with one or more of the following symptoms: Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, disorganized behavior, catatonia, and negative symptoms. These symptoms are divided into positive and negative.
Positive symptoms.
Our behaviors, thoughts, or feelings added to normal behavior. Features that are experienced in individuals with psychotic disorders that are not present in the general population. Positive symptoms are considered by some to be two distinct dimensions. The psychotic dimension (Delusions and hallucinations) and the disorganized dimension (Disorganized thought and behavior). Negative symptoms are those that involve the absence of normal or desired behavior, such as disturbances of affect and avolition.
Delusions of reference.
involve the belief that common elements in the environment are directed towards the individual.
What are the positive symptoms?
Delusions and hallucinations, disorganized thoughts, and disorganized or catatonic behaviors.
Delusions of persecution.
Involve the belief that the person is being deliberately interfered with, discriminated against, plotted against, or threatened.
Thought insertion.
Believe that thoughts are being placed in one’s head.
Delusions of grandeur.
Involved the belief that the person is remarkable in some significant ways, such as being an inventor, historical figure, or religious icon.
Thought broadcasting.
Believes that once thoughts are broadcasted directly from one to head to the external world.
Thought withdrawal.
Believe that thought are being removed from one’s head.
Disorganized thought.
Characterized by loosening of associations. This may be exhibited a speech in which ideas shift from one subject to another in such a way that a listener would be unable to follow the train of thought.
Catatonia
Refers to certain motor behaviors characteristic of some people with schizophrenia.
Hallucinations.
Perceptions are not due to external stimuli, but which nevertheless seem real to the person perceiving them. Hallucinations is Auditory involves voices that are perceived as coming from inside or outside the patient’s head.
Disorganized behavior.
Inability to carry out activities of daily living such as paying bills, maintaining hygiene and keeping appointments.
Neologism
Person with schizophrenia may even invent new words.
Word salad.
Words thrown together incomprehensibly.
Echolalia
Repeating in others words.
Echopraxia
Imitating another’s actions.
What are the negative symptoms of psychotic syndrome?
Disturbances in affect and avolition.
Affect
Refers to the experience and display of emotion, So disturbance of affect is any disruption to disabilities.
Blunting.
Severe reduction in intensity of affect expression.
Emotional Flattering.
There are virtually no signs of emotional expression.
Schizophrenia.
Characterized by a break between an individual and reality. In fact, the term schizophrenia literally means “split mind”
Inappropriate affect.
Affect is clearly discordant with the content of the individual speech.
Avolution
Marked by decreased engagement in purpose, goal, directed actions.
phases of schizophrenia.
Prodromal phase: Patient often goes through a phase characterized by poor judgment, Before schizophrenia diagnosed. It is a simplified by clear evidence of deterioration, social withdrawal, role functioning impairment, peculiar behavior, inappropriate effect and unusual experience.
Active phase: Pronounce psychotic symptoms are displayed.
Residual phase, Also called recovery phase: Occurs after an active Episode. It is characterized by mental clarity, often resulting in concern.
Schizotypal personality disorder.
Include both personality disorder and psychotic symptoms, with the personality symptoms having been already established before psychotic symptoms present.
Delusion disorder.
Psychiatric symptoms are limited to delusions that are present for at least a month.
Brief Psychotic disorder.
Positive psychotic symptoms are present for at least a day but less than a month.
Schizophreniform disorder.
Same diagnosis criteria as schizophrenia except in duration; The required duration for this diagnosis only one month.
Schizoaffective disorder.
Major mood episodes while also presenting psychotic symptoms.
Depressive Disorders.
Conditions characterized by feelings of sadness there are severe enough in both magnitude and duration to meet specific diagnostic criteria.
9 depressive symptoms.
Sadness: Depressive mood, feeling of sadness and emptiness.
Sleep: insomnia or hypersomnia.
Interest: lots of interest in pleasure, in activities that previously sparked joy, termed, anhedonia
Guilt: feeling of inappropriate guilt or worthlessness.
Energy: lower levels of energy throughout the day.
Concentration: decrease in ability to concentrate.
Appetite: pronounced change in appetite.
Psychomotor symptoms: psychomotor retardation, and psychomotor agitation.
Suicidal thoughts: Recurrent suicidal thoughts.
How do you classify depressive disorders?
Based on duration, timing and cause of depressive symptoms.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Is the presence of major depressive episodes. A major depressive episode is defined as a two week. In which 5. Of the 9 defined, depressive symptoms are encountered and must include either depressed mood or anhedonia. It has to be severe enough to impair once daily social or work related activities.
Persistent depressive disorder (PDD) also known as dysthymia
Given when an individual experienced a period lasting at least two years in which they experienced had depressed mood on the majority of the days. A person can receive both PDD and MDD diagnosed if they met both the duration and severity requirements of both disorders.
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Typically diagnosed between the ages of 6 and 10 and has the key diagnosed feature of persistent and requiring emotional irritability in multiple environments.
Premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Characterized by mood changes, often depressed mood occurring a few days before menses and resolving after menses onset.
Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
The dark winter months are believed to be the source of depressive symptoms, and thus the disorder is best characterized as major depressive disorders with seasonal onset. It is often treated with bright light therapy where the patient is exposed to a bright light.
Postpartum depression.
Rapid changes in hormone levels just after giving birth is the cause of depressive symptoms.