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How we feel emotionally and interact with others
Affective Domain
Mediates reality with the external world
Concerned with right and wrong
Source of instinctual drives for pleasure and satisfaction
Ego
Superego
Id
Exhibits alteration of thought, mood or behavior so that the individual has difficulty meeting daily living requirements
Mental Illness
This disorder can occur solely on genetics passed down from one's parents
Schizophrenia
Panic attacks typically reach their peak within how long?
10 minutes
Who is the Psychoanalytic Perspective closely identified with?
Feelings of threat, dread, or apprehension, or by a sense of impending disaster associated with varying degrees of arousal and uneasiness
Anxiety Disorders
The most common form of behavioral treatment for OCD
Exposure plus Response Prevention
Feelings of being outside one’s body
Chest pain
Dizziness, sweating, and trembling
Panic Disorder
Characterized by the sudden inability to recall important personal information.
Dissociative Amnesia
Learning determines behavior
Behavioristic Perspective
Discrete period of intense fear or discomfort
Panic Attack
More statistically probable for individuals who are brighter than average and middle to upper class
Usual age for onset is late adolescence or early adulthood
OCD
The four subtypes of specific phobias:
Animal type, Natural environment type, Blood-injection-injury type and Situational type
Flashbacks
Breaking into a cold sweat
Sleep disturbances
PTSD
Characterized by the presence of bodily symptoms that suggest a physical defect or dysfunction, but for which no physiological basis can be found
Somatoform Disorders
A cluster of fears centering around public places and being unable to escape or find help
Mostly women who begin to experience symptoms after the onset of puberty
Agoraphobia
Hypochondriasis
Conversion Disorder
Somatoform Pain Disorder
Somatoform Disorders
Community-based studies reveal lifetime prevalence for PTSD between ?% and ?%.
A specific symptom or set of symptoms is the focal point of the individual’s concerns.
Conversion Disorder
Focuses on people’s conscious experiences and perceptions – freeing them from self-limiting attitudes and assumptions so that they may develop their human potential and live fuller lives
Humanistic Perspective
What is the primary focus of treatment for somatoform disorders and why could this be so beneficial? (Short Answer)
The primary focus of treatment for somatoform disorders is the development of a trusting relationship between the patient and the caregiver, wherein the patient can begin to accept other explanations for his or her “symptom” and “illnesses.”
List two potential causes that may cause an individual to experience a dissociative fugue (Short Answer)
Unexpected death of a spouse or the sudden loss of a job
A conversion disorder that specifically involves pain not due to physical cause
Somatoform Pain Disorder
Sudden, unplanned travel away from home or customary workplace along with an assumption of new identity and confusion about one’s previous identity
Dissociative Fugue