Diagnosing mental disorders
Interviewing someone about history of symptoms
A disorder involving disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness) behavior (loss of interest in one's usual activities) cognition( thoughts of hopelessness) and nobody function (fatigue and loss of appetite)
What is Major depression
A disorder in which a person who has experienced a traumatic or life threatening event has symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks, insomnia, intrusive memories, and increased physiological arousal.
A personality disorder characterized by a lifelong pattern of irresponsible antisocial behavior such as law breaking violence, and other impulsive, reckless acts
What is antisocial personality disorder (APD)
A psychotic disorder marked by delusions hallucinations disorganized and incoherent speech inappropriate behavior and cognitive impairments
A disturbance in thinking, emotion, or behavior that causes a person to suffer, is self-destructive, seriously impairs a person's ability to work or get along with others or makes a person unable to control the impulse to endanger others
What is a mental disorder
Approaches that emphasize how individual vulnerabilities interact with external stresses or circumstances to produce specific mental disorders, such as depression
An anxiety disorder in which a person feels trapped in repetitive pwesistent thoughts (obsessions) and repetitive ritualized behaviors or mental acts (compulsions)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
A set of personality characteristics that can accompany antisocial personality disorder and is marked by fearlessness lack of empathy guilt and remorse the use of deceit and cold-heartedness
What is psychopathy
An extreme mental disturbance involving distorted perceptions of realty irrational behavior and an inability to function
What is psychosis
Psychological tests used to infer a person's motives, conflicts, and unconscious dynamics on the basis of the person's interpretations of ambiguous stimuli
What is projective tests
Periods of depression and periods of abnormally-elevated mood that last from days to weeks each
What is bipolar disorder
A deeply distressing or disturbing experience
What is Trauma
A controversial disorder marked by the appatent appearance within one person of two or more distinct personalities each with its own name and traits formerly known as multiple personality disorder
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)
THree main contributors to schizophrenia
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders
What is DSM
A continuous state of a anxiety marked bu feelings of worry, apprehension, difficulties in concentration, and signs of motor tension.
What is generalized anxiety disorder
Set of actions performed according to an established sequence, mainly for their symbolic value.
what is Ritual
State characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences
Addiction
The state of being seriously mentally ill; madness
What is insanity
Questions about an individuals behavior
What is a self-report questionnaire
An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences recurring panic attacks, periods of intense fear and feelings of impending doom or death, accompanied by physiological symptoms such as rapid heart rate and dizziness.
Panic disorder
Unwanted and persistent thoughts, mental images or urges
What is Obsessions
Class fo mental disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition and inner experience exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individuals culture
What is Personality disorder
Behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning
Mental disorder