Definitions
Significant disturbances in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that significantly impair life
What are psychological disorders?
A group of disorders in which a person experiences excessive, persistent, and distressing fear and anxiety that interferes with normal functioning
What is Anxiety disorders?
Belief that mental disorders came from “divine forces or possession from spirits.
What is an ancient psychological disorder perspective?
A Greek word that means fear.
What is phobia?
Intrusive and distressing memories of an event, flashbacks.
What are symptoms of PTSD?
A term that refers to an intense and persistent sadness.
What is depression?
Disorders that involve intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors
what are obsessive-compulsive and related disorders?
Belief that psychological disorders stem from flawed biological processes.
What is the modern day, biological perspective?
An extreme and persistent fear and avoidance of social situations.
What is Social anxiety disorder ?
Includes episodes of profound sadness and loss of interest or pleasure in usual activities.
What are symptoms of depressive disorder?
A manual that details the symptoms, risk factors and prevalence of hundreds of psychological disorders
What is DSM-5?
A disorder in which the experience of a traumatic or profoundly stressful event, such as combat, sexual assault, or natural disaster, produces a constellation of symptoms that must last for one month or more
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
Belief that factors like stress and thoughts in combination with environmental factors in the development of psychological disorders.
What is the psychological perspective?
Experiencing recurring and unexpected panic attacks, and negative psychosocial effects regarding the attacks.
What is panic disorder?
A disorder characterized by mood states that vary between sadness and happiness.
What is bipolar disorder?
A severe disorder characterized by hallucinations and delusions, and extreme difficulty with emotional and behavioral regulation.
What is Schizophrenia?
Disorders in which the person experiences severe disturbances in mood and emotion.
What are mood disorders?
Belief that mental disorders as a combination of biological and psychosocial factors.
What is the psychosocial perspective?
A fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult.
What is agoraphobia?
A disorder characterized by a chronic state of sadness.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
This suggests that people with an underlying diathesis are more likely to develop the disorder when faced with stressful events than those without the diathesis.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
Disorders are characterized by one being dissociated from their sense of self, and leads to memory and identity disturbances.
What are dissociative disorders?
Daily Double: This epidemic swept western Europe in the 11th to 17th century, where groups of people would dance wildly.
What is dancing mania?
A relatively continuous state of excessive, uncontrollable, and pointless worry and apprehension.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
This suggests that negative thinking leads to a sense of hopelessness, which then leads to depression.
What is hopelessness theory?