Unit 7 (Disorders & Treatment) Flashcards
Anxiety Disorders
Psychology disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
Panic Disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minnutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pains, choking, or other frightening sensations
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal
Phobic Disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity or situation
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
An anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (Obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)
Somatoform Disorders
Psychological disorder are those that have some type of bodily symptom (soma = body) but don’t appear to have any physical cause
Hypochodriasis
A somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
Conversions Reactions
A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences a stressful event that manifests into a physical disorder
Schizophrenic Disorders
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
Irrational Thought
Often Distorted by false beliefs called delusions, disorganized thoughts result from a breakdown in selective attention
Deterioration of Adaptive Behavior
Have hallucinations, seeing, feeling, tasting, or smelling thing that are there. Routine function is being disturbed
Distorted Perception
Most often, hallucinations are auditory, frequently voices making insulting remarks or giving orders
Disturbed Emotion
Motor behavior becomes inappropriate. Perform senseless, compulsive acts. Catatonia: Remain motionless for hours
Paranoid
Preoccupations with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity
Catatonic
Immobility (or excessive, purposeless movement) extreme negativism, and/or parrot like repeating of another’s speech or movements
Disorganized
Disorganized speech or behavior; or flat or inappropriate emotion
Undifferentiated
Many and varied symptoms
Mood (Affective) Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
Depressive
A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities
Bipolar
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
Personality Disorders
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
Borderline Personality Disorder
Characterized by mood instability and poor self-image (prone to constant mood swings and bouts of anger). Take their anger out on themselves, quick to become angry when expectations aren’t met