Psychological Disorders

Question 1

Mental Disorders

Answer 1

The impairment of mental health so severe that it impedes

Question 2

Somatoform Disorders

Answer 2

A collision of psychiatric disorders present with unexplainable physical symptoms which is body dysmophia and OCD

Question 3

DSM-5-TR

Question 4

BDI-II

Answer 4

Beck Depression Inventory

Question 5

EDI-3

Answer 5

Eating Disorder Inventory-3

Question 6

SPAI

Answer 6

Social Phobia & Anxiety Inventory

Question 7

Syndrome

Question 8

Pros and Cons of Classification of Mental Disorders/Syndromes

Answer 8

-Communication between client and psychologist
-Psychologists and research
-Scientific-practitioner model
-Facilitates comparisons in time and geography

-Establishes dimensions that aren’t completely understood
-Pejorative terms
-Self-fulfillment
-Low reliablity
-Does not account for cultural differences

Question 9

Prevalence
Incidence
Comorbidity

Question 10

Aetiology of anixiety disorders

Answer 10

-Biological
-Neurochemical
-Genetic
-Diathesis stress model

Question 11

Anxiety through the perspectives- Aetiology

Answer 11

Psychodynamoc: Fixation developed from the anal stage

Behavioural: Conditioning, observational learning

Cognitive: Overestimation of perceived threat, excessive attention on threat, inability to cope, negative selective memory, vicious cycle of anxiety

Question 12

PTSD- Aetiology

Answer 12

-Personality
-Coping styles
-Intellectual functioning
-The use of avoidant strategies (best predictor)
-Suppression of emotion for high vigilance

Question 13

BPD- Aetiology

Answer 13

-Family history
-60-90%

Question 14

Depressive disorders- Aeitology

Answer 14

-HEritability 30-40%
-Neurobiological
-Environmental 90%

Question 15

Depressive and mood disorders through the perspectives- Aetiology

Answer 15

Cognitive:
-Learned helplessness theoy; hold interpretation of events as their fault (internal), stable (unchanging, and global (far-reaching)
-Becks Negative Triad; interprets events unfavourably, low regard for themselves, pessimistic.

Psychodynamic:
-Attachment

Question 16

Cognitive Distortion

Question 17

Schizophrenia

Answer 17

Disturbances in every form of psychology

-Delusions
-Hallucinations
-Loose associations

Question 18

Delusion

Answer 18

-Persecution
-Reference
-Grandeur
-Identity
-Guilt
-Control

Question 19

Schzoo- Aetiology

Answer 19

-Biology, dopamine and hereditary.
-Environement, adoption
-Expressed emotion
-Sexual or physical abuse as a child
-Birth complications
-Viruses
-Malnutrition
-Cultural

Question 20

Positive behaviours of Schzoo

Answer 20

Behaviours that were not seen before

-Hallucinations
-Loose associations
Delusions
Bizarre Behaviour

Question 21

Negative behaviours of Schzoo

Answer 21

uUnusual behaviour that disappears or is reduced

-Flat affect
-Social withdrawal
-Apathy
-Impoverished thought

Question 22

Aneroxia Nervosa

Answer 22

-Highest mortality rate of all psychiatric diseases

Question 23

Bulimia

Answer 23

-Lead to depression and loss of control

Question 24

Eating Disorder- Aetiology

Answer 24

-Family history
-Serotonin
-Criticism
-Environmental
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Question 25

Personality Disorders

Question 26

Personality Disorders

Answer 26

are patterns that are socially peculiar, inappropriate, and
relatively inflexible.

Answer 27

-Narssisstic
-Borderline
-Antisocial

Question 28

BPD

Answer 28

-Suicides carry about 30% of diagnosis for BPD