Definitions 1
Etiology
Causes of Disorder.
Aromatherapy
Use of organic compounds (essential oils) to improve your mood, mental state, or health.
What's the Rosenhan Study?
A famous 1973 experiment that analyzed labeling by sending mentally healthy subjects to psychiatric hospitals by feigning hallucinations. They faked the disorder to get into the hospitals, but once they were in, they acted normal.
Bipolar Disorder
Alternating between depression and mania.
OCD
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours.
Danger
Abnormal behavior becomes dangerous to oneself or others.
Phobias
A disruptive fear of any specific source, varying widely.
What is DSM?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
PTSD
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Mental/emotional stress resulting from severely traumatic, threatening, or uncontrollable events.
ADHD
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
A disorder in which and individual shows both significant problems in focusing attention and physical activity.
Deviant
Behavior in one culture maybe considered normal while in others it's abnormal.
Psychogenic
Resulting from mental factors. A disorder that cannot be accounted for by any identifiable physical dysfunction and is believed to be due to psychological factors.
What's DSM used for?
It's designed to provide objective criteria and categories for diagnosing mental disorders.
Schizophrenia
Disorganized thinking, delusions, disturbed perceptions, hallucinations, uncontrollable emotions/actions.
Panic Disorder
A mixture of physiological and fear-based anxiety. It often includes unpredictable panic attacks with physical symptoms and terror.
Distress
Feeling pain or discomfort associated with emotions, thoughts, behaviors.
Somatogenic
Identify disturbances in physical functioning resulting from either illness, genetic inheritance, or brain damage or imbalance.
What are the 4 causes of abnormal behavior?
1. Biological
2. Psychodynamic
3. Behavioral
4. Cognitive
Neurocognitive Disorder
A decrease in mental functioning caused by a somatogenic cause.
Acute Anxiety Disorder
A disorder similar to PTSD but follows immediately after the event and last a shorter period.
Dysfunctional
Not preforming normally.
Agoraphobia
A type of anxiety disorder that involves a fear of being in situations where it might be difficult or embarrassing to escape or get help in the event of a panic attack.
What are the 2 types of Schizophrenia?
Acute and Chronic Schizophrenia.
Dysthymic Disorder
a milder, but long-lasting form of depression, also called persistent depressive disorder.
Dissociative Disorder
Separation of certain personality components or mental processes from conscious thought.