Psych Disorders Flashcards
ADHD
Marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
Medical model
Concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital
DSM-5
The American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
Anxiety disorders
Characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
Generalized anxiety disorder
In which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal
Panic disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
Phobia
Anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation
Social anxiety disorder
Intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such
Agoraphobia
Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic
OCD
Disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and or actions
PTSD
Disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
Post traumatic growth
Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises
Mood disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
Major repressive disorder
Mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, atleast one of which must be either, depressed or loss of interest
Mania
Mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
Bipolar disorder
A mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
Rumination
Compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes
Schizophrenia
Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression
Psychosis
In which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
Delusions
False beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
Hallucination
False sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
Somatic symptom disorder
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic form without apparent physical cause
Conversion disorder
In which a person’s experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found
Illness anxiety disorder
In which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
