Intro to Psychological Disorders & Psychopathology
A psychologist is mainly different from a psychiatrist and that is because
What is they cannot prescribe medication?
What is General Anxiety Disorder?
A disorder marked by wild mood swings, unhealthy dependence tendencies, and intense relationships
What is Borderline PD?
Hearing auditory hallucinations is a common _________ symptom of Schizophrenia.
What is positive?
A historical technique that involved drilling holes into the skull to help treat mental health deficiencies
What is Trephination? What is Trephining? What is Trepanning? What is Trepanation?
Over 500 disorders are defined and categorized in this document providing specifications and symptoms
What is the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [Fifth edition]?
Sam is intensely and irrationally afraid of a collection of holes near each other. This is what Sam is suffering from.
What is a Specific Phobia?
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder? What is Autism?
Schizophrenia literally means...
What is Split Mind?
The name used in the sixteenth century for the site in which the mentally ill were cared for, which later became decommissioned in the mid-1900s.
What is an Asylum?
The DSM-V define abnormal behavior using these three main parameters
What are Deviant, Distressing, and Dysfunctional? Also Dangerous
This disorder may have you repetitively completing an action, dwelling on an unwanted and persistent thought, or experiencing both.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This is the most fatal mental health disorder because it involved actual self-harm.
What is Anorexia Nervosa?
What are Delusions of Grandeur?
Neurologist known for developing the psychoanalytic theories and guiding patients into uncovering their subconscious.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Using this approach, an individual and their mental health can be looked at using multiple factors such as genetics, environment, and social relationships
What is the Eclectic Model? What is the biopsychosocial model?
A person who has shown considerable weight change, lack of motivation, frequent crying, and increased sleepiness/fatigue for 3 weeks is experiencing
What is Major Depressive Disorder? What is Clinical Depression?
Jewls is extremely stressed from her divorce. Over the past few weeks, she has experienced a numbness in her legs that eventually developed into full paralysis.
What is Conversion Disorder?
A key model that states that Schizophrenia already has an inherited predisposition and environmental stressors can increase the likelihood of developing the disorder.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
This large portion of people suffering from mental health disorders who have been displaced from institutions.
Who are Homeless People? What is the Homeless?
The legal term used to describe a person's inability to determine right from wrong when they have committed a crime
What is Insanity?
Jenny suffers from a mood disorder, so today she woke up feeling incredibly optimistic about life and spent all her rent money buying shoes to impress a guy. Jenny is experiencing
What is mania? What is a manic episode?
Nina experienced her mother and father fist fighting in the house when she was seven years old. Now in college, she sometimes finds herself waking up in strange cities or states with men she doesn't recognize.
What is Dissociative Fugue? What is Dissociative Amnesia?
Chase is struggling in his college classes because he cannot concentrate, and believes the professor and dean of the university are writing notes in his notebook and implanting thoughts in his head.
What is Paranoid Schizophrenia? What is Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder?
Therapy developed by Aaron Beck that helps a patient develop skills that treat/change thinking patterns.
What is Cognitive-Behavior Therapy? What is CBT?