Intro to Health
Motivating vs Distress
Eustress and Debilitating
Identify factors that lead to well-being and resilience.
Positive psychology
Provides mental and behavioral health care
Clinical Psychology
Generalized anxiety disorder vs panic disorder vs phobias
Unexplainable; sudden; irrational
Alternated between hopelessness and lethargy, and an over-excited manic state
Bipolar
What can affect a person over their lifespan?
Adverse childhood experiences
Hopeless and passive behavior that can be learned.
Learned helplessness
A disorder is classified when..
it interferes with your quality of life
Infant doesn't establish attachments
Reactive attachment disorder
Feelings aren't as intense as MDD, but last longer
Dysthymia Disorder (Persistent Depressive Disorder)
What are the stages of fight or flight? (in order)
Alarm, resistance, exhaustion
Personal strength
Resilience
Medical vs biopsychosocial
Physical causes vs biological predispositions
Avoidance of situations because help may not be available
Agoraphobia
Causes of bipolar disorder
Genetic, biological, environmental
Trying various solutions until the problem is solved
Problem-focused coping
People react to stress by tending to their own needs
Tend and befriend theory
Six types of perspectives/disorders
Psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, sociocultural, biomedical
Preoccupation with perceived defects of flaws in physical appearance
Body dysmorphic disorder
Negative - taking something away
Positive - adding a symptom
Positive experiences that happen after trauma
Posttraumatic growth
What types of coping are deep breathing and meditation?
Emotion-focused coping.
Mental and physical disorders develop from genetic predispositions.
Diathesis (stress)
Child approaches and interacts with unfamiliar adults
Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, undifferentiated, residual