Personality Disorders
Many of this disorder's features overlap with "Type A" personality characteristics: people with this disorder base their self-esteem on their productivity and on meeting unreasonably high goals, and are preoccupied with rules, details, order, and are perfectionistic.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
Children with this disorder are more likely to belong to families that experience frequent disruptions and in which the parents are prone to aggressive and hostile behavior and substance abuse.
What is ADHD?
Kelis is in the 7th grade. She often loses her temper, argues with authority figures, actively defies rules, deliberately annoys others and often blames others for her mistakes. What disorder is she most likely to have?
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
The name for the study of the impact of reinforcements and punishments on behavior.
What is behaviorism?
The name for biochemicals that act as messengers carrying impulses from one neuron, or nerve cell, to another in the brain and in other parts of the nervous system.
What are neurotransmitters?
The person with this disorder exhibits a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness, interpreting the behaviors of others as being sinister and malevolent.
What is paranoid personality disorder?
Approximately 50% of children with _________ do not develop useful speech, and sometimes echo what he has heard from others known as _____________.
What is autism and echolalia?
Adam lacks remorse for having hurt others, has difficulty maintaining employment, is impulsive and frequently lies. We would assume he has this disorder based on these symptoms.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
The name of the term used to describe the shaping of behaviors by providing a reward for desired behaviors and providing punishments for undesired behaviors.
What is operant conditioning?
The name for the type of therapists that specialize in helping families, couples, and children overcome problems that are interfering with their wellbeing.
What are marriage and family therapists?
Dramatic-emotional personality disorders fall into this category, tending to be manipulative, volatile, and uncaring in social relationships.
What is cluster B?
At this level of intellectual disability, individuals often don't develop conceptual skills beyond simple matching of concrete physical features to objects.
What is profound level of intellectual disability?
Children with this disorder tend to process information about social interactions in ways that promote aggressive behaviors.
What is conduct disorder?
People with these disorders may experience significant physical symptoms for which there is no apparent organic cause, but instead seems to be the result of psychological factors.
What are somatic symptom disorders?
This approach argues that we should analyze the larger social and cultural forces that may influence people's behavior.
What is the sociocultural approach?
Some family history studies have found this personality disorder to be more common in families with schizophrenia, suggesting it may be part of the schizophrenia spectrum of disorders
What is paranoid personality disorder?
These two cultures are less likely to institutionalize children with disabilities, possibly partly due to financial resources, and partly due to these cultures placing stronger emphasis on caring for ill or disabled family members.
What are African American and Latino cultures?
What is psychopathy?
The name for a serious side effect caused by antipsychotic medications, whose symptoms include involuntary movements of the tongue, face, mouth or jaw.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
This is the name of the prevention approach that is focused on detecting a disorder at its earliest stages, thereby preventing the development of the full-blown disorder.
What is Secondary Prevention?
Based on his symptoms, we would say Arun has this disorder: impulsivity, depression/anger/anxiety, out of control emotions, self-destructive behaviors, fears of abandonment, unstable interpersonal relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
Alzheimers is an example of what type of disorder?
What is Neurocognitive?
The quality of parenting that children receive, particularly children with vulnerability to conduct disturbances, is strongly related to whether they develop the full syndrome of this disorder.
What is conduct disorder?
People with this disorder simultaneously experience psychotic symptoms and also prominent mood symptoms meeting criteria for a major depressive or manic episode.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
This type of therapy is an enhancement of interpersonal therapy designed specifically for people with bipolar disorder.
What is Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (ISRT)?