Psychological disorders and Abnormality
He had the first recorded attempt to explain abnormal thinking or behavior as due to some biological process
Who is Hippocrates?
This is anxiety that is unrelated to any specific and known cause; it is often a symptom of an anxiety disorder.
What is Free-floating anxiety?
In this disorder the individual cannot remember personal information such as one’s own name or specific personal events
What is dissociative amnesia?
A person reduces eating to the point that their body weight is significantly low.
What is Anorexia Nervosa
This symptom is fake beliefs about the world that are held and tend to remain fixed and unshakable
What are delusions?
the emotional distress or emotional pain while engaging in a particular behavior or thought process
What is subjective discomfort?
The fear of being in a small, enclosed space.
What is claustrophobia?
In this disorder, a person seems to experience at least two or more distinct personalities existing in one body.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
People who suffer from this are impulsive, have an unstable sense of self, and are intensely fearful of abandonment
What is Borderline Personality disorder
Symptoms must be present for this long in order to get a diagnoses
What is two months?
This is anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stress and everyday demands of life.
What is Maladaptive?
The fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible.
What is Agoraphobia?
This is sometimes referred to as a unipolar disorder because the emotional problem exists at only one end, or “pole,” of the emotional range.
What is Major depressive disorder?
What is "purging"?
What is Flat affect?
a term that refers to the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which the person with a disorder was nurtured to be able to correctly diagnose and treat the disorder.
What is cultural relativity?
This is the sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying
What is a Panic Attack?
THis is when a person experiences periods of mood that can range from severe depression to manic episodes.
What is bipolar disorder?
People in this category of personality disorder are seen as odd or eccentric
What is category A?
This assumes that persons with the genetic “markers” for schizophrenia have a physical vulnerability to the disorder but will not develop schizophrenia unless they are exposed to environmental or emotional stress at critical times in development, such as puberty
What is The stress vulnerability model?
The perspective in which abnormal thinking or behavior is seen as the result of the combined and interacting forces of biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
A disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relieved by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior or mental act.
What is Obsessive-compulsive disorder?
This is what dissociative identity disorder was formerly known as.
What is multiple personality disorder?
This Eating Disorder is hard to detect because oftentimes the victim maintains a normal weight
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
An example of this would be “come into house, louse, mouse, mouse, and cheese, please, sneeze”
What is Clanging?