Psychological Disorders I
a disorder marked by alternating or intermixed periods of mania and depression
What is bipolar disorder?
intense fear of animals, spiders, insects or other specific objects or situations
What are Specific Phobias?
These theorists view abnormal behavior as an illness brought about by malfunctioning parts of the organism, particularly brain anatomy, brain chemistry and brain circuitry.
What is Biological?
Benzodiazapines are used mostly to treat this disorder.
What is anxiety?
Excess symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions in people with schizophrenia.
What is positive symptoms?
A disorder marked by persistent and excessive feelings of anxiety and worry about numerous events and activities
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
a disorder in which a person develops two or more distinct personalities
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
These theorists believe that a person's behavior is determined largely by underlying psychological forces or which he or she is not consciously aware
What is psychodynamic?
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors or SSRIs are typically used to treat this disorder.
What is depression?
Two or more distinct personalities found in individuals suffering with dissociative identity disorder.
What are subpersonalities?
a disorder marked by the pursuit of extreme thinness and by extreme weight loss
What is anorexia nervosa?
disorders of obsessive-like concerns drive people to repeatedly and excessively perform certain abnormal patterns of behavior
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This model on abnormality focuses on the behaviors people display and the thoughts they have
What is Cognitive-Behavioral?
This systematic and medically supervised withdrawal from a drug is used to treat substance abuse disorder.
What is detoxification?
This is a process of learning in which two events that repeatedly occur close together in time become tied together is a person's mind and so produce the same response.
What is Classical Conditioning?
What is excoriation disorder (or skin-picking disorder)?
What is binge-eating disorder?
This theory views abnormal behavior in light of the social and environmental forces, including family structure and cultural background.
What is sociocultural model?
Gender reassignment surgery and hormone administration is an option for transgender individuals who may also suffer from this disorder.
What is gender dysphoria?
This is a suicide attempt that does not result in death.
What is parasuicide?
Disorders marked by major changes in memory that do not have clear physical causes
What are Dissociative disorders?
A psychotic disorder in which functioning deteriorates as a result of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions and motor abnormalities
What is Schizophrenia?
What is Developmental Psychopathology?
A treatment for severe depression that produces brain seizures.
The 4 D's of Abnormal behavior.
What is deviance, distress, dysfunction and danger?