Chp15-2ndHalfReverse Flashcards
A chronic, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of perceiving, thinking and behaving that seriously impairs an individual’s ability to function in social or other settings.
Personality Disorder?
A disorder defined by instability and intensity in personal relationships as well as turbulent emotions and impulsive behaviours.
Borderline Personality Disorder?
A disorder characterised by stable patterns of irresponsible or unlawful behaviour that violates social norms.
Antisocial personality disorder?
A disorder in which people have physical illnesses or complaints that cannot be fully explained by actual medical conditions.
Somatoform disorder?
A disorder in which individuals are preoccupied with having or getting physical ailments despite reasssurances that they are healthy.
Hypochondriasis?
A disorder characterised by unexplained physical complaints in several categories over many years.
Somatisation disorder?
A disorder in which psychological conflict or stress brings about loss of motor or sensory function.
Conversion disorder?
A personality disorder marked by a disturbance in the integration of identity, memory or consciousness.
Dissociative disorder?
The inability to remember important personal experiences, caused by psycholgoical factors in the absence of any organic dysfuunction.
Dissociative amnesia?
A disorder characterised by a flight from home or work accompanied by a loss of ability to recall the personal past.
Dissociative fugue
A dissociative mental disorder in which two or more distinct pesonalities exist within the same individual, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Indentity Disorder (DID)?
Severe form of psychopathology characterised by the breakdown of integrated personality functioning, withdrawal from reality, emotional distortions, and disturbed thought processes.
Psychopathology - study of mental disorder, mental distress, and abnormal/ maladaptive behavior
Schizophrenic disorder?
False or irrational belief maintained despite clear evidence to the contrary.
Delusion?
A hypothesis about the cause of certain disorders, such as schizophrenia, that suggests that genetic factors predispose an individual to a certain disorder but that environmental stress factors must impinge in order for the potential risk to manifest itself
Diathesis-stress hypothesis?
A disorder of childhood characterised by inattention and hyperacitvity-impulsivity.
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?
