Chapter 1-3
The 4 D's
This disorder is marked by excessive anxiety or worry for most days (for at least 6 months) about personal health, work, social interactions, and daily routines.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This often includes behaviors such as repeated and extensive hand washing, cleaning, checking and ordering.
What are compulsions?
These are characterized by an individual becoming split off, or dissociated, from their core sense of self. Memory and identity become disturbed; these disturbances have a psychological rather than physical cause.
What are dissociative disorders?
This is a set of negative attitudes and
beliefs that motivate individuals to fear, reject,
avoid, and discriminate against people with
mental illness.
What is public stigma?
This disorder causes a person to experiences excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation (such as animals, enclosed spaces, elevators, or flying)
What are specific phobias?
This involves being preoccupied with a perceived flaw in one's physical appearance that is either nonexistent or barely noticeable to other people.
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
This may make someone believe their thoughts and feelings are not their own.
What is depersonalization?
This is the number of new cases occurring during a specific period of time
What is incidence rate?
This is thought to be an inherited trait, and it is characterized by a consistent tendency to show fear and restraint when presented with unfamiliar people or situations.
What is behavioral inhibition?
This is an obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorder that is characterized by the repeated urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin to the extent that either psychological or physical damage is caused.
What is excoriation disorder?
This disorder cause someone to experience two or
more distinct identities that recurrently take control over one’s behavior.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
This model helps us understand why one person might develop a disorder, or why two people from similar backgrounds might develop different disorders.
What is the Diathesis Stress Model?
This is an anxiety disorder in which a
person normally capable of speech cannot speak in specific situations or to specific people if triggered.
What is selective mutism?
These involve brief focal events that sometimes continue to be experienced as overwhelming well after the event has ended, such as falling on an icy sidewalk and breaking your leg.
What are acute stressors?
This is a condition in which a person, without a malingering motive, acts as if they have an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating
symptoms, purely to attain (for themselves or for another) a patient's role.
What is factitious disorder?
Instead of the medical model that emphasizes mental illness as disease, this model strives for a more holistic approach by recognizing that each patient has their own thoughts, feelings, and history.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
This is based on the idea of reciprocal inhibition proposing that two opposite emotions can not co-exist (e.g. fear and relaxation are mutually exclusive).
What is systematic desensitization?
This is similar to PTSD, but describes a disorder that lasts between 3 days and 1 month of a traumatic event.
What is acute stress disorder?
This is a type of somatic disorder that is sometimes applied to patients who present neurological symptoms, such as numbness, blindness, paralysis, or fits, which are not consistent with a well-established organic cause, cause significant distress, and can be traced back to a psychological trigger.
What is Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder?