Modules 27-29 Flashcards
Maladaptive behavior
Destructive to oneself
Psychological disorder
Harmful dysfunction in which behaviors are maladaptive,unjustifiable, disturbing and atypical
Unjustifiable behavior
Without rational basis
Disturbing behavior
Troublesome to others
Atypical behavior
Different from norm
DSM-IV-TR
book that classifies psychological disorders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Apprehension and tenseness
OCD
anxiety controlled by repetitive thoughts and behaviors
Phobia
Anxiety becomes a focused fear
PSD
Recurrent memories and dreams of traumatic event
Anxiety
Feeling of apprehension and nervousness
Panic attack
Anxiety escalated to overwhelming pain
Agoraphobia
Fear of leaving ones home
Bipolar disorder
Alternating periods of mania and depression
Dissociative disorder
Sense of self has become separated from previous memories,thoughts or feelings
Dissociative amnesia
Loss of memory in reaction to a traumatic event
Dissociative fugue
Loss of identity and travel to new location
Dissociative Identity disorder
Rare and controversial disorder that an individual experiences two distinct alternating personalities
Conversion disorder
Converting a physchological disorder to a physical cause
Schizophrenia
Group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking. The three types are paranoid, cataonic. Disorganized
Delusions(types)
Grandeur, persecution, sin or guilt , influece
Hallucinations (types)
Auditory, visual, tactile
Paranoid schizophrenia
Delusions and hallucinations with grandeur and persecution, auditory and others that support delusions
Personality disorders
Pyscological disorders Rigid and lasting behavior patterns
Antisocial personality disorder
Personality disorder in which s person shows a lack of consciousness for wrongdoing
Bio-pyscho social perspective
Interaction with nature and nurture
