Psychological Disorders
This is considered a legal term
What is insanity?
Loss of touch with reality
What is Psychosis
It identifies more than one cause for psychosis
What is the biopsychosocial model / theory
Symptoms can be base on a natural reaction to threat
What is anxiety?
This classification system is used to identify symptoms.
What is the DSM-IV?
This is more than a disruption in everyday living, it truly affects the person's life.
What is a disorder?
A belief in an ideation such as grandeur, or persecution
What is a delusion?
This unrealistic fear is difficult to control
What is a phobia?
This is an abrupt or acute attack of anxiety
What is a panic attack?
The presenting problem or clinical syndrome
What is Axis I?
Around 25% of the population will experience this in one year
What is a psychological disorder?
Hearing voices or seeing something that is not there
What is the definition of auditory and visual hallucinations?
A technical term for mental illness
What is psycho-pathology?
This phobia is connected to a fear of open spaces.
What is agoraphobia?
This is considered a suicide rating scale
What is Axis V?
This model of psych. disorders believe the illness has an identifiable biological cause
What is the medical model?
Most of these show themselves in adulthood
What is psychotic behavior or disorder?
This theory says that anxiety helps humans to survive
What is the evolutionary theory?
This type of phobia is connected situations like a fear of tight spaces
What is a specific phobia?
Axis-IV is based on the client's
What is homelife, environment, or environmental problems?
This neuro-chemical is often connected to schizophrenia
What is dopamine?
This disorder is based on not having enough serotonin
What is depression?
This professional person mainly uses the medical model to diagnose patients.
What is a psychiatrist?
Anxiety is connected to this branch of a person nervous system
What is sympathetic nervous system?
This classification is based on personality disorders
What is the Axis II?