Disorders
This disorder involves profound disturbances in thought, perception, and behavior.
What is schizophrenia?
Sensory experiences that occur without an external stimulus.
What are hallucinations?
Fear of heights.
What is acrophobia?
Personality disorders are categorized into this many clusters in the DSM.
What is three?
The DSM stands for this.
What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
This disorder is characterized by consistent feelings of sadness or emptiness that occur within 2 weeks.
What is major depressive disorder?
Recurrent unwanted thoughts that cause significant distress.
What are obsessions?
Fear of places or situations that might induce panic and make escape difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
People with this disorder often engage in deceitful and manipulative behavior for personal gain and show no remorse.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This model emphasizes the role of thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors in shaping emotional responses.
What is the cognitive-behavioral model?
This disorder is characterized by the presence of obsessions and compulsions.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
False beliefs based on incorrect inferences about reality.
What are delusions?
This phobia involves a fear of enclosed spaces.
What is claustrophobia?
This cluster of personality disorders includes anxious and fearful behaviors.
What is Cluster C?
This term refers to the study of mental disorders.
What is psychopathology?
This disorder involves chronic excessive worry about everyday things.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors are typical of this cluster of personality disorders.
What is Cluster B?
This term describes a fear of germs and contamination.
What is mysophobia?
This disorder involves alternating periods of hypomanic episodes and depressive episodes.
What is bipolar II disorder?
The DSM employs this approach to classify mental disorders.
What is the categorical approach?
This disorder is characterized by severe episodes of depression alternating with periods of extremely elevated moods.
What is bipolar I disorder?
The presence of multiple disorders in one individual.
What is comorbidity?
This phobia is characterized by a fear of vomiting.
What is emetophobia?
This disorder involves a pattern of unstable relationships, self-image, and affects, along with marked impulsivity.
What is borderline personality disorder?
This disorder is more commonly diagnosed in women than in men.
What is depression?