Intro to Psych Flashcards
DSM-5?
Fifth iteration of the dx and statistical manual
A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s ____, _____, ____ that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning.
Cogntion, emotion regulation, or behavior
What are mental disorders usually associated with?
Significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or important activites
Specifiers?
Address the severity and/or chronicity of the disorder
Trauma and stressor releated disorders (DSM-5)?
Adjustment disorders, bereavement, demoralization, PTSD, Acute Stress disorder
Piaget development?
Intellectual development
Freud development?
Psychosexual development
Erickson development?
Psychosocial development
Kohlberg development?
Moral development
Prime cause or contributing factor, for many dzs including mental illness?
Stress
Adjustment disorder?
- Emotional or behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor, occurring within 3 months of the onset of the stressor
- Marked distress and/or significant impairment
- When stress is gone, symptoms don’t linger for more than 6 months
- Not due to another mental disorder
- Not due to normal bereavement
What is not considered normal bereavement/grief?
Suicidal intent, marked self-neglect, persistent feelings of worthlessness, and intense unreasonable guilt
Acute stress disorder?
Start not later than 3 days after the trauma, last up to one month, and cause significant distress and impairment
Acute stress disorder is common in?
First responders and victims of disaster
Symptoms of acute stress disorders?
Intrusive thoughts, intense anxiety, angry outbursts, nightmares, flashbacks, and re-living the events
Guild is not uncommon neither are panic attacks
