Terms
What is used by clinicians and psychiatrists to diagnose psychiatric illnesses?
What is the DSM - V
When conscious awareness seems to become separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are Dissociative Disorders
Characterized by emotional extremes
What is a Mood Disorder
Only classified as a psychological disorder when it becomes distressing or persistent.
What is an Anxiety Disorder
Characterized by disordered movement patterns, sometimes immobile stupor, or frenzied and excited behaviors.
What is catatonia?
What is Mania
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
A rare dissociation disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Think of Sybil.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
Mood disorders come in two principal forms: _____________ and ____________
What is major depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
When Jim feels persistent and uncontrollable apprehension and feelings of being tense but for no reason at all is called ____________.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder
False beliefs that are maintained even when compelling evidence to the contrary is evident.
What are delusions?
Psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without a physical cause.
What is a somatic symptom disorder?
Daniel has lost the memory of his personal identity and he has traveled away from home. What is this called?
What is Dissociative Fugue
It is called the "common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is Depression
Sarah has persistent and repetitive thoughts and actions. What is this psychological disorder called?
What is Obsessive Compulsive disorder
What is Schizophrenia
This means split mind
What is the Medical Model
The concept that psychological disorders can be diagnosed, treated, and cured.
Formerly Known as Multiple Personality Disorder.
What is DID
Feelings of worthlessness, lethargy, loss of interest in family and friends, which last two or more weeks is called
What is Major Depressive Disorder
Kyle has an irrational fear of a rabbits. This is called a ________.
What is a Phobia
Delusions, hallucinations, and inappropriate effect are all what kind of symptom
What is a positive symptom?
Deviant and distressful behaviors and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
What is Psychological Disorder
Traumatic Events in which a person _________ and experiences a sudden loss of memory or change in identity. It's a defense mechanism.
What is dissociates
Emily is a 27 year old women who experiences the highs of extreme mania and the lethargy of depression. She is said to have _________.
What is Bipolar I Disorder
What psychoanalytic psychologist viewed anxiety disorders as the manifestation of mental energy associated with the discharge of repressed impulses.
Who is Freud
These are seeing, feeling, tasting, or smelling things that are not there.
What are hallucinations?