Theories/Diagnosis
To be diagnosed as a disorder, the behaviors have to interfere with a person's, or in other words, they have to be ______________.
What is maladaptive?
This disorder is characterized by a sense of unease or worry that persists for 6 months or more that is not connected to a specific stimulus.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
Delusions and hallucinations are considered this kind of symptom of schizophrenia.
What is positive?
Sustained depressed mood, lost of interest and pleasure in activities, fatigue, and insomnia are symptoms of this disorder.
What is major depressive disorder?
This personality disorder is marked by an unwarranted sense of self-importance.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
This approach assumes disorders are caused by irrational or illogical belief, ideas, and thought processes.
What is the cognitive approach?
A person who experiences intense anxiety when asked to speak in front of a group of people would most likely be diagnosed with this disorder.
What is social anxiety disorder?
The absence of motion and diminished emotional expression are considered this kind of symptom of schizophrenia.
What is negative?
Alternating between episodes of intense depression and episodes of extreme euphoria is characteristic of this disorder.
What is bipolar disorder (I)?
This eating disorder is characterized by a cycle of consuming large quantities of food in one sitting and purging by vomiting or taking laxatives.
What is bulimia nervosa?
This perspective believes that disorders are caused by unresolved childhood issues that have been repressed into the unconscious.
What is the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic approach?
An individual has recurring unwarranted thoughts about doing harm to their family. This is consistent with a diagnosis of this disorder.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
This is the most common type of hallucination reported by people with schizophrenia.
What is auditory?
Rapid speech, excessive excitement, and a lack of sleep is associated with this phase of bipolar disorder.
What is mania?
This disorder is characterized in a lack of empathy or guilt and a disregard for social norms.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This approach assumes that disorders occur when a person is prevented from reaching their full potential or from being their authentic self.
What is the humanistic approach?
This disorder is associated with intense anxiety revolving being out in public or in environments where a person has already experienced intense episodes of panic.
What is agoraphobia?
Severely impaired interpersonal communication is a characteristic of this neurodevelopmental disorder.
What is autism spectrum disorder?
This disorder is diagnosed when depressive symptoms such as depressed mood, lost of interest or pleasure, fatigue, and poor appetite have been experienced for at least two years or more.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
This personality disorder is marked by dramatic and attention seeking behaviors.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
This approach believes disorders are a result of genetic predispositions triggered by environmental factors.
What is the diathesis-stress approach?
The difference between obsession and compulsions is that obsessions are the ________________ and the compulsions are the _________________.
What is obsessions are the thoughts and compulsions are the behaviors?
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia are linked to the excess of this neurotransmitter.
What is dopamine?
Depression is considered a whole body disorder because it is impacted by these three aspects.
What is biology, cognition, and the environment?
Memory loss that is a result of trauma, not physical brain damage, is referred to as this.
What is dissociative amnesia?