Anxiety disorders
What is fear
Instant reaction to a threat
What is Acrophobia?
Fear of heights
Supernatural perspectives?
Psychological disorders attributed to a force beyond scientific understanding.
What is a proper diagnosis?
Appropriately identifying and labeling a set of defined symptoms
Dissociative Amnesia?
Unable to recall important personal information, usually following an extremely stressful or traumatic experience such as combat, natural disasters, or being the victim of violence.
What is anxiety
Avoidance or caution of potential danger
What is Aerophobia?
Fear of flying
Dancing Mania?
Epidemic in Western Europe in which groups of people would suddenly being to dance with wild abandon.
What is comorbidity?
The co-occurrence of two disorders.
Dissociative fugue?
They suddenly wander away from their home, experience confusion about their identity, and sometimes even adopt a new identity (Cardeña & Gleaves, 2006).
How much of the U.S population has experienced Anxiety?
What is Arachnophobia?
Fear of Spiders
Biological Perspectives.
View psychological disorders as linked to biological phenomena.
Wakefield (1992)
Proposed a more influential concept in which he defines psychological disorders as harmful dysfunction.
Depersonalization/derealization disorder?
Characterized by recurring episodes of depersonalization, derealization, or both.
What is Claustrophobia?
Fear of Enclosed spaces
Psychosocial perspective.
Views the cause of psychological disorders as a combination of biological and psychosocial factors.
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
A second classification system used by the United states
dissociative identity disorder?
exhibit two or more separate personality states, each distinct from one another in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning.
What is the most frequently occurring class of mental disorder
Anxiety disorder
What is Agoraphobia?
Fear of escaping or receiving help if you experience a panic attack
Diathesis-stress model?
Integrates biological and psychosocial factors to predict the likelihood of a disorder.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
The classification system that is used by most mental health professionals in the United States
Mania?
Intense and persistent sadness