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Mental Disorders
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Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
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Excessive anxiety or worry for a least 6 months

Difficulty controlling worry

Restless, easily fatigued, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance. 

Anxiety Disorder

100

Behavior that is not typical of the majority of the population.

Atypical behavior

100
The largest single group of people suffering from this are women who were sexually assaulted and who were abuse victims.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
100
The two different types of depression.
What is major depressive disorder and seasonal affective disorder?
100
Personality disorder characterized by egocentrism, lack of conscience, impulsive behavior, and manipulation of others.
What is Antisocial Personality?
200

a 45 year old female who is married and has three children. She has been seeing a psychiatrist because she worries about everything. She cannot control her worrisome thoughts about finances, her children’s health, caring for her home, dinner, shopping, and her friendships. She has been experiencing irritability, muscle tension, and difficulty falling asleep for the past year.
What diagnosis do you expect to see on Cindy’s chart?

Anxiety Disorder

200

Behavior or thinking that makes it difficult to function, adapt to the environment, and to meet life demands.

Maladaptive behavior

200
People with this disorder may find that they occasionally check stove burners, count steps, clean homes and offices past the point of normal standards, and wash their hands multiple times in order for it to be "clean."
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
200
unipolar (depressive) and bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders are the two types of ____.
What are mood disorders?
200
The co-occurence of two or more disorders in the same person at the same time, as when a person suffers from both depression and alcoholism.
What is co-morbidity?
300

a 23 year old active duty male who was admitted to the psychiatric hospital after he was talking incoherently and claiming that his unit was devising a plan to implant spiders in his brain. He also has diminished emotional expression.
What diagnosis do you expect to see on John’s chart?

Schizophrenia

300

Disobeying societal standards for destructive behaviors. 

Violation of Social Norms

300
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
300
Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.
What is bipolar disorder?
300
The DSM-IV-TR describes individuals with inflexible, maladaptive personality traits; the best known type is the anti-social personality.
What are personality disorders?
400

This Tx utilizes the following four main parts: learning about symptoms, becoming aware of thoughts and feelings, learning skills, and understanding changes in beliefs.

Cognitive Processing

400

GENERAL RISK and PROGNOTIC FACTORS:

Poverty, homelessness, overcrowding, stressful living conditions.

Sociocultural and Socioeconomic Conditions.

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Fear or discomfort that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less.
What is a panic attack?
400
A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results.
What is Learned Helplessness?
400
The most commonly diagnosed personality disorder
What is Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
500

Difficulty initiating sleep

Difficulty maintaining sleep

Early-morning awakening with inability to return to sleep

Insomnia

500

GENERAL RISK and PROGNOTIC FACTORS: 

Immature, mentally ill, abusive, or criminal parents; poor child discipline, severe marital or relationship problems, poor social support. 

Family Factors

500
A common chronic problem that affects twice as many women as men and leads to considerable impairment.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
500
Significant change in a teen's eating or sleeping patterns, decline in school performance, dramatic change in personality or appearance, drug or alcohol abuse, obsession with death, withdrawal from friends, family and regular activities, profound guilt or hopelessness, "cleaning house" by giving away favorite possessions are all warning signs of this.
What is suicide?
500
This personality disorder was named after an individual from a Greek myth, in which he fell in love with his reflection.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?