Psychological Disorders Flashcards
Determining abnormality
• Behavior is unusual
• Behavior is socially unacceptable or violates social norms
• Perception of reality is faulty
• The person is in significant personal distress
• Behavior is maladaptive or self-defeating
• Behavior is dangerous
Risk factors to psychological health
• age, •
education,
• childhood traumas,
• current stress, •
life events,
• social supports,
• gender,
physical health.
Costliest health conditions in Canada
Morbidity and mortality issues, poor mental health
Demonological model
Explanation of abnormal behaviour as a result of supernatural or divine causes
Anxiety disorders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Panic disorder
Phobias
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Persistent feeling of anxiety
Free floating
Chronic worries
GAD symptoms
Trembling palpitations sweating dizziness nausea
Panic disorder
Recurring panic attacks
Overwhelming anxiety fear or terror
Panic disorder symptoms
a pounding heart, uncontrollable trembling or shaking, and a feeling of being choked or smothered
Fear they will die or go crazy
Agoraphobia
fear of places and situations from which it might be difficult or embracing to escape in the event of panicky symptoms or of situations in which help, may be unavailable if such problems occur.
Social anxiety disorder
Irritation also fear for social or performance situations in which they might embarrass or humiliate themselves in front of others
1/3 given a speech
Phobias
experience a persistent, irrational fear of some specific object, situation, or activity that poses no threat or danger (or whose danger is grossly blown out of proportion).
Types of phobias
Situational phobia (example: fear of elevators, airplanes etc)
Fear of the natural environment (storms, water etc)
Animal phobias (fear of dogs, snakes etc.)
Blood-injection-injury phobia (fear of seeing blood or an injury, or of receiving an
injection)
Causes of phobias
Heredity
Learning
Observational learning
OCD
common, chronic and long-
lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions) that he or she feels the urge to repeat over and over.
Obsessions
Fear of germs
Unwanted forbidden or taboo thoughts
Agressive thoughts
Symmetry
Compulsions
• Excessive cleaning and/or handwashing
• Ordering and arranging things in a particular, precise way
• Repeatedly checking on things, such as repeatedly checking
to see if the door is locked or that the oven is off
• Compulsive counting
Adjustment disorder
is a maladaptive reaction to an identified stressor that develops within a few months of the onset of the stressor.
Post traumatic stress disorder
the traumatic event involves either actual or threatened death or serious physical injury or threat to one’s own or another’s physical safety.
PTSD cases
Soldier
Rape survivor
Motor vehicle acciderngyt
Witnessed destruction of their homes