Disorders
Psychological Disorders
ch 19
Anxiety Disorders!
VOCAB!
100
Behavior patterns or mental process that causes serious personal suffering or interferes with a persons ability to cope with everyday life.
What is the actual definition of a Psychological Disorder ?
100
a general state of dread or uneasiness that occurs in response to a vague or imagned danger.
What is anxiety?
100
most widley used biological treatment for psych. disorders.
What is drug therapy ?
100
A general state of uneasiness that occurs in response to a vague or imagined danger
What is anxiety?
100
a person who is deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns has this disorder.
What is a psychological disorder?
200
The fraction of the number of adults in the United States that have expierenced some sort of psychological disorder.
1/3
200
behavioral patterns or mental processes that cause serious personal suffering
What is psychological disorders?
200
developed by Albert Ellis based on Ellis' belief that people are basically logical in their thinking and actions
What is rational emotinal therapy?
200
These symptoms: Worried, Trembling, Sweating, Heart Rate increase indicate this disorder.
What are the sympotoms of a Anxiety Disorder?
200
anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
What is a phobia?
300
the manual is published by the American Psychiatric Association and covers all mental health disorders for both children and adults. It also lists known causes of these disorders, statistics in terms of gender, age at onset, and prognosis as well as some research concerning the optimal treatment approaches.
What is DSM IV is used?
300
the degree to which a behavior is average, or typical of the behavior of the majority of people.
What is tipicality?
300
Also called behavior modification, used to help people develop a more adaptive behavior to a something unwanted.
What is behavior therapy?
300
Unwanted thoughts, ideas, images occuring over and over again.
What is OCD?
300
an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
What is PSTD?
400
This type of mood may have a Inflated self esteem Inability to sit still Pressure to keep talking and switching from topic to topic Racing thoughts Diffuculty concentrating
What are examples of manic moods?
400
a mood disorder that tipically involves feelings of helplessness and sadness
What is depression?
400
Developed by Portuguese neurologist Antino Egas Moniz this is used to open nerve pathways between the prefrontal lobe and the thalamus.
What is a prefontal lobotmy?
400
a person suffers from brief attacks of intense terror and apprehension, often marked by trembling, shaking, confusion, dizziness, nausea, difficulty breathing. These panic attacks, defined by the APA as fear or discomfort that abruptly arises and peaks in less than ten minutes, can last for several hours and can be triggered by stress, fear, or even exercise; although the specific cause is not always apparent.
What are the results of having a Panic Disorder?
400
a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
500
Substance abuse agressinon withdrawl suicide defense mechanisms Are all ways of coping with this
What are the five ways of coping with stress?
500
an imobile, expressionless, comalike state
What is a catatonic stupor?
500
a drug used to reduce agitation,delusions,and hallucinations.
What is a Antipsychotic Drug?
500
specific anxiety about being in a place or situation where escape is difficult or embarrassing or where help may be unavailable...... strongly linked with panic disorder and is often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack
What is Agoraphobia?
500
the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, with an updated "text revision"; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
What does DSM-IV-TR stand for ?
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