Anxiety Disorders
The sudden occurrence of multiple psychological and physiological symptoms that contribute to a feeling of stark terror.
What is panic disorder?
What is the medical model?
A specific phobia involving a fear of public places.
What is agoraphobia?
Disorder characterized by a severely depressed mood and/or inability to experience pleasure that lasts two or more weeks and is accompanied by feelings of worthlessness, lethargy, and sleep or appetite disturbance.
What is major depressive disorder (MDD)?
A condition characterized by cycles of abnormal, persistent high mood and low mood.
n irrational fear of a particular object or situation that markedly interferes with an individual's ability to function.
What is a specific phobia?
The classification system that describes symptoms used to diagnose recognized mental disorders.
A disorder characterized by chronic excessive worry with 3 or more of: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
In this disorder the same cognitive and bodily problems are present as in a major depressive episode, but they are less severe and last longer, persisting for at least two years.
A period of persistent high mood.
What is a manic episode or mania?
The percentage of people in the US who will develop a specific phobia during their lifetime.
What is 12%?
What is the biopsychosocial perspective?
A disorder in which repetitive, intrusive thoughts and ritualistic behaviors designed to fend off those thoughts interfere significantly with an individual's functioning.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
A theory that individuals who are prone to depression automatically attribute negative experiences to cases that are internal (their own fault), stable (unlikely to change), and global (widespread).
What is helplessness theory?
A less severe form of mania in which an individual displays a state of increased energy, exhilaration, and irritability.
What is hypomania?
The theory that maintains that people are instinctively predisposed toward certain fears.
What is preparedness theory?
An initiative that aims to guide the classification and understanding of mental disorders by revealing the basic process that give rise to them.
A disorder characterized by chronic physiological arousal, recurrent unwanted thoughts or images of the trauma, and avoidance of things that call the traumatic event to mind.
Experiencing recurrent depressive episodes in a seasonal pattern.
What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
The perception of having seen, heard, touched, tasted, or smelled something that wasn't actually there. Sensory experiences that appear real but are created by your mind.
A disorder that involves an irrational fear of being publicly humiliated or embarrassed.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
An elevated state of constantly assessing potential threats around you.
What is hypervigilance?
The percentage of people in the US who meet criteria for depression at some point in their lifetimes.
What is 18%?
A measure of how much hostility, criticism, and emotional over involvement people communicate when speaking about a family member with a mental disorder.
What is expressed emotion?