Stress
Good stress
Eustress
What is Clinical Psychology
psychological specialty that provides continuing and
comprehensive mental and behavioral health care
DSM-5
widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
Internal, unconscious drives
Anxiety
flight or fight response
Bad Stress
Distress/ Debilitating
Is the word Insane used in Clinical Psychology
no
Rosenhan Experiment
biasing the power of labels
Humanistic
Failure to strive to one’s potential or being out of
touch with one’s feelings.
Generalized anxiety disorder
unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy
Traumatic Stress
singular distress event, or it can be a series of small events that build up over time
What defines a psychological disorder?
a behavior or feelings interfere with your quality of life
ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction across multiple contexts
Behavioral
Reinforcement history, the environment.
Panic disorder
sudden episodes of intense dread
Adverse Childhood Experiences
stress or trauma that can affect a person over their lifespan
Medical Model
Concept that diseases have physical
causes that can be diagnosed, treated,
and in most cases cured
ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Impairing levels of inattention, disorganization and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity
Cognitive
Irrational, dysfunctional thoughts or ways of
thinking.
Phobias
intense and irrational fear of a specific object or situation
Diathesis
The theory that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition for that illness (diathesis), combined with stressful conditions that play a facilitating role.
Biopsychosocial Model
Disorders are caused by a biological
predisposition, physiological state,
psychological dynamics, and social
circumstances
Neurocognitive Disorders
Symptoms related to complex attention,
executive function, learning, memory,
language, perceptual-motor, and social
cognition.
Biomedical/Neuroscience
Organic problems, biochemical imbalances, genetic
predispositions.
Selective Mutism
Individuals may fail to speak because of fear of negative evaluation