Psychological Disorders

Question 1

What is the schizophrenia?

Answer 1

Psychosis- loss of contact with reality

Question 2

What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 2

Adds unwanted symptoms that increase psychosis

Question 3

Name the symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 3

Loose associations
Thought disturbance
Random thoughts
Neologisms (make up words) 
Delusions
Hallucinations
"Splitting of the self"

Question 4

What are delusions?

Answer 4

False beliefs that includes psychosis

Ex: someone was there

Question 5

What are hallucinations?

Answer 5

False sensations: auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations

Question 6

What is the bio part of the etiology of schizophrenia?

Answer 6

• Genetics (run in families)
• Excess levels of dopamine
• Viral hypothesis: Neurons in hippocampus gets

Question 7

What is the psycho part of the etiology os schizophrenia?

Answer 7

• Drug use (correlated with schizophrenia)
• Schizophrenogenic mother
• Families with high levels pr negative expressed emotions are more likely into the illness

Question 8

What is the social part of etiology?

Answer 8

• Poverty (15% are affected) homelessness
• Deinstitutionalization movement
• downward drift theory

Question 9

What is the typical and atypical antipsychotic medications?

Answer 9

• Typical: Less used because they have a side effect of movement( Tarolire Dyskensia)
• Atypical : used more

Question 10

Additionally

Answer 10

Delusion of Persecution
Delusion of grandeur
Thought Insertion
Idea (delusion) of reference

Question 11

Premorbid adjustment means:

Answer 11

Morbid: means resilent (practico, flexible con las personas)

Coping, high level of functioning, socially supportive, relationships

Question 12

What is the continuum of the compulsive disorder (OCD)?

Answer 12

Normal health—————-> Unhealthy

Question 13

What are the obsessions in the OCD?

Answer 13

• Intrusive unwelcomed thoughts
  1. Fear of death of self violence
  2. Fear of death of others via violence
  3. Fear of contamination of infection

Question 14

What are the compulsions in the OCD?

Answer 14

Rituals that reduce the possibility the obsession would come through.

Question 15

What are the 3c’s of compulsive in OCD?

Answer 15

1. Checking
2. Counting
3. Cleaning

Question 16

What are the anxiety disorders?

Answer 16

• Specific Phobias- Treatment
• Social Anxiety Disorder (fear of being judged by others and humiliation)- Social interactions- group therapy
• Panic Disorder
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Question 17

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?

Answer 17

• They worry more than they don’t
• Metaworry: The person worry about how much they worry
• High intolerance , they are strong
  Ex: Overwhelmed at school and work, normal people relax but people with GAD do not relax they keep thinking about it

Question 18

How is the panic disorder works?

Answer 18

• Characterized recurrent, unprovoked panic attacks
• Avoidant/ fear of having another panic attack.
• Agoraphobia: fear of being separated from safe place or person.
• Treatment: Medicines, and …

Question 19

What is Agoraphobia in the Panic disorder?

Answer 19

Fear of being separated from safe place or person.

Question 20

How does a panic attack occurs?

Answer 20

They feel a “sense of doom” (something is not okay) for 2 min, then it activates really fast a 100% the amygdala is normal and then alerts you and activates the thalamus to activate the panic

Question 21

How long it takes to calm down a panic attack?

Answer 21

Is going to take 20 to 24 hours to calm down

Question 22

How are the psychologists therapies for panic attacks?

Answer 22

They last like 3 months so that you can avoid to activate the panic attack

Question 23

What are the dissociative disorders?

Answer 23

Is in a continuum

1. We all dissociate, we do highway hypnosis (break in memory) (normal)
2. To people that has dissociative amnesia (trauma) (fuguestate), longer period than the normal
3. The most extreme is the Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Question 24

What is highway hypnosis?

Answer 24

Cuando uno como se pierde por unos minutos y luego como que despierta y se da cuenta que ya ha pasado un tiempo sin estar consientes pero funcionando como un robot.
Most known as a break in your memory

Question 25

What is fuguestate and dissociative fugue “flee” travel?

Answer 25

• Fuguestate: Time they lose and they are still functional
• Dissociative Fugue “flee” travel: they drive across the country and just do it for a long time (rare). They can’t remember anything before the fuguestate , they do not remember their names or anything. When they get conscious after months they don’t remember the fugestates period

Question 26

What is the dissociative identity disorder?

Answer 26

Multiple personalities

Question 27

Define psychopatology

Answer 27

Deviation resulting from an abnormality of the body

Question 28

What is abnormal?

Answer 28

Is determined when the phenomenon is deemed to be statistically rare

Question 29

What is the purpose of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?

Answer 29

The standard classification system for making a clinical diagnosis.
Avoids etiology( avoids the cause)

Question 30

What os anxiety?

Answer 30

Is a natural part of life that helps us to function at our best