Theoretical Models
This is an interdisciplinary model that looks at the interconnection between biology, psychology, and socio-environmental factors.
The duration of this diagnosis typically is 3 days to 1 month after trauma exposure.
What is acute stress disorder?
This disorder is defined by developmentally inappropriate and excessive fear or anxiety concerning separation from those whom the individual is attached.
What is separation anxiety disorder?
This disorder is a disorder with onset during the developmental period that includes both intellectual and adaptive functioning deficits in conceptual, social, and practical domains.
What is intellectual developmental disorder?
This is a distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and abnormally and persistently increased activity or energy, lasting at least 1 week.
What is a manic episode?
This model is based on the belief that thought distortions and maladaptive behaviors play a role in development and maintenance of many psychological disorders.
What is the cognitive behavioral model?
A person with this disorder would typically experience the following symptoms: directly witnessing the traumatic event, avoidance, hypervigilance, hyperarousal, sleep disturbance, irritability, difficulty with concentration, and intrusive memories or thoughts.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder?
This is the repetitive and persistent thoughts, images, or urges.
What are obsessions?
This disorder includes a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
What is ADHD?
This disorder is characterized by a clinical course of recurring mood episodes consistent of one or more major depressive episodes and at least one hypomanic episode.
What is bipolar II disorder?
This model emphasizes the importance of human choices and decisions and feelings of awe toward life. It looks at abnormal behaviors as a disturbance in one's ability to grow to their full potential.
What is the existential-humanistic model?
This disorder develops in response to an identifiable stressor occurring within 3 months of the onset of the stressor(s).
What is adjustment disorders?
This disorder is characterized by recurrent unexpected panic attacks
This disorder is a disturbances in the normal fluency and time patterning of speech that are inappropriate for the individual's age and language skills.
What is childhood-onset fluency disorder (stuttering)?
This is one of the most common features of bipolar disorder.
What is decreased need for sleep?
This theory states that events that occur in our childhood have a great influence on our adult lives and these events remain in the unconscious and cause problems for adults.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
What is prolonged grief disorder?
Individuals with this disorder purposefully save possessions and experience distress when facing the prospect of discarding them.
What is hoarding disorder?
This disorder only includes persistent difficulties in the social use of verbal and nonverbal communication.
What is social (pragmatic) communication disorder?
This is a common feature of bipolar II disorder, which can contribute to suicide attempts and substance use disorders.
This model examines human behavior and experiences within complex systems.
What is systems theory?
This disorder is characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which involves marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency and related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and sensory-motor functioning. This disorder has been speculated to be the result of severe trauma.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
This disorder can lead to harmful medical consequences, including infections, scarring, and trichobezoars.
This disorder only exhibits repetitive, seeminly driven, and apparently purposeless motor behaviors that interfere with social, academic, or other activities. Sometimes it may result in self-injury.
What is stereotypic movement disorders?
What is bipolar I disorder?