Understanding
Anxiety/Mood disorders
Dissocative and Somatoform
Schizophrenia
Personality Disorders
100
The normality of a behaviour or a mental process that is often determined by the degree to which it is average.
What is Typicality
100
persistent excessive or irrational fear of a particular object or situation.
What is Phobia disorder
100
A change or loss of physical functioning in a major part of the body for which there is no known medical explanation.
What is Conversion disorder
100
this is usualy considerd the most sierious of the psychological disorders
What is Schizophrenia
100
are patterns of inflexible triats that disrupt social life or work and may distress the affected individual.
What is Personality Disorder
200
Culsters of symptoms that are considered recognizable disesases only within specific cultures or societies.
What is Culture-bound syndrome
200
Depression, Bipolar, mania
What is Mood Disorders
200
A persons unrealistic preoccupation with thoughts that he or she has a serious disease.
What is Hypochondriasis
200
an immobile, expressionless, comalike state.
What is Catatonic stupor
200
symptoms of this disorder include odd behaviors, unconventional beliefs, and a need for social isolation.
What is Schizotypal Personality Disorder
300
Are behaviour patterns or mental processes that are serious personal suffering or interfere with a persons ability to cope with everyday life.
What is psychological disorders
300
a relatively short period of intense fear or discomfort charaterized by shortness of breath, dizziness, rapid heart rate, trembling or shaking, sweating, choking, nausea, and other distressing physical symptoms.
What is A Panic Attack
300
When a person has both psychological symptoms and physical symptoms such as unexplained paralysis
What is Somatoform disorders
300
which century was schizophrenia was often viewed as witchcraft or possession by demons.
What is european middle ages
300
instability of mood, chaotic personal relationships, and a disturbed sense of self.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder
400
The behaviour impaires an individuals ability to function adequately in everyday life.
What is Maladaptivity
400
a disorder characterized by persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" feelings that interfere with daily living.
What is Major Depression
400
The seperation of certain personality componets or mental processes from conscious thought.
What is Dissociation
400
A type of schizophrenia where people have deluisions or frequent auditory hallucinations, all relating to a single theme.
What is paranoid schizophrenia
400
people with this disorder are overly emotional and dramatic and seek constant attention.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder
500
The percentage of American adults who suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.
What is 26.2%
500
OCD, Stress Disorder, PTSD, Phobia Disorder, Panic Disorder
What is Anxiety Disorders
500
Formerly called multiple personality disorder.
What is Dissociative identity disorder
500
a type of schizophrenia where people are incoherent in their thought and speech and disorganized in their behaviour.
What is Disorganized schizophrenia
500
Characterized by inflexibility and fixation on rules, procedures, and orderliness.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
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