Module 65
a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior
Psychological Disorder
intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such.
psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes.
Mood disorders
false sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
hallucination
a psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause.
Somatic symptom disorder
psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured (in most cases)
Medical Model
unexplained and continual tense and uneasy
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
a mood disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
Bipolar Disorder
false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders.
delusions
interpret normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease
Hypochondriac
all behavior good, or bad is caused by interaction with environment; disorders and culture
Biopsychosocial approach
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/ or insomnia that lings for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
mania
A subtype of schizophrenia in which the individual has suffered an episode of schizophrenia but there are no longer any delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior
Residual Schizophrenic
a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder.
dissociative identity disorder (DID)
A child who by age 7 displays extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity may be diagnosed with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic.
Agoraphobia
A person who experiences two or more weeks of seriously depressed moods and feelings of worthlessness, and takes little interest in most activities may be diagnosed with
Major Depressive Disorder
An adult who experiences delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression may be diagnosed with
Schizophrenia
an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly (15 percent or more) underweight.
Anorexia Nervosa
irrationally and intensely afraid of a specific object/situation; often irrational
Phobia
compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes.
a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions.
psychosis
mental condition in which a person has blindness, paralysis, or other neurological symptoms not explained by medical evaluation
conversion disorder