Abnormality
This book is a manual for describing psychological disorders
What is the DSM? (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
Franco hears voices and believes he is wanted by the CIA. He would most likely be diagnosed with this disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
Karen is afraid of heights. This fear inhibits her daily life. This is an example of ...
What is a phobia?
This disorder is more likely to be found in women than in men.
What is major depressive disorder?
Fred has no regard for the rights or privileges of others and consistently violates those rights with no remorse. Fred may suffer from this disorder.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This frame of thinking believes that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and cured
What is the medical model?
A person who suffers between periods of mania and depression would most likely be diagnosed with this disorder?
What is bipolar disorder?
People who report persistent irrational thoughts that produce tension and repetitive impulses to perform certain act that cause significant impairment, would most likely be diagnosed with this.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
When you are stuck focused on something that is bad.
What is rumination?
Waxy flexibility is a symptom most closely associated with this disorder.
What is schizophrenia?
This is how psychoanalysts would describe the main cause of abnormal behavior.
What is unresolved conflict from childhood traumatic repressed memories?
Jane wakes up one morning in a neighboring state and can't remember where she is from. She wanders around a local park for days. Eventually she starts a new identity. Jane is diagnosed with this disorder.
What is dissociative fugue?
While at school, Joel experiences an acute onset of anxiety. His heart rate increases, his blood pressure increases, and he feels jittery. Joel is probably experiencing this.
What is a panic attack?
Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder?
A person believing they are a famous person or divine being may reflect a delusion of this.
What is grandeur (delusion of grandeur)?
This theory says abnormal behavior is caused by inaccurate ways of thinking. For example, the mind may only see things negatively and may magnify or exaggerate events.
What is cognitive theory?
This type of somatoform disorder involves the actual loss of bodily function (e.g. paralysis, blindness) but cannot be traced to a physical problem.
What is conversion disorder?
This is the type of treatment a person with a phobia is most likely to be treated with.
What is systematic desensitization?
A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression may result.
What is Learned Helplessness?
When a patient with schizophrenia begins speaking less, they may suffer from this.
What is alogia?
This framework states that disorders can arise in the interaction between nature and nurture caused by biology, thoughts, and the sociocultural environment.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
Susan is a 40 year old mother of three. In times of stress, an alter ego appears, that of a ten year old boy. Susan most likely may be diagnosed with this.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This disorder manifests itself in the avoidance of situations where escape seems difficult, especially a situation in which it is difficult to get help.
What is Agoraphobia?
This type of disorder has hypomanic, but not manic episodes.
What is Bipolar 2?
This personality disorder is characterized by grandiose ideas of one's own self-worth, constant need for admiration and approval. Derived from a tragic Greek mythical figure who fell in love with his own reflection and died.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?