Psychological Disorders and Perspectives
Psychological disorders can also be known as?
Mental disorders
These disorders are the most frequently occurring class of mental disorders.
Anxiety disorders.
Characterized by severe disturbances in mood and emotions is know as what group of disorder?
Mood disorders.
This type of personality disorder is often referred to as describing a sociopath and psychopath.
Anti-social personality disorder.
When is schizophrenia typically first diagnosed?
Early adulthood.
Labeling behaviors, thoughts, and inner experiences that deviate from the norm as ________ may be a sign of a disorder.
Atypical.
Someone who experiences excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation can be diagnosed with____.
Specific Phobia.
If someone if withdrawn from social activities, has changes in appetite, and goes through insomnia they are more than likely suffering from what disorder?
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD).
When someone suddenly wanders away from their home or experiences confusion about their identity they are experiencing what?
Dissociative fugue or a fugue state.
Name the three positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
Delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thoughts speech and behavior.
What book do mental health professionals use to help diagnose psychological disorders?
The DSM-5.
Accelerated heart rate, sweating, trembling, choking sensations, hot flashes or chills, dizziness or lightheadedness, fears of losing control or going crazy, and fears of dying are all symptoms of a _________.
Panic Attack.
Episodes of depression in tune with the changing seasons is known as what subtype of depression?
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Gender differences are prevalent in personality disorders. Paranoid personality disorder is more common in ____ while borderline personality disorder is more common in______.
Men, women
What brain chemical has been linked to schizophrenia that may be a reason for the negative symptoms?
Dopamine.
The co-occurrence of two disorders.
Comorbidity
To be diagnosed with this disorder, they must be exposed to, witness, or experience the details of a traumatic experience. What is the disorder?
PTSD
A person with this disorder often experiences manic episodes that involves their mood changing from one emotional extreme to the other. What is this disorder?
Bipolar disorder.
Most cases of D.I.D is a result of what?
Trauma.
T/F Genes alone show the complete picture as to how one develops schizophrenia.
FALSE.
The_________ model suggests that people with an underlying predisposition for a disorder are more likely than others to develop a disorder when faced with adverse environmental or psychological events
Diathesis- Stress Model
Name a way that atypical anxiety differs from normal anxiety.
Heavy Influence or disruption to someone's everyday life.
Name two risk factors that are associated with major depressive disorder.
unemployment, earning less than $20,000 per year, living in urban areas; or being separated, divorced, or widowed
Most personality disorders have a common symptom/trait of what? (Hint: mostly found in people with antisocial and borderline personality disorders)
Impulsivity.
Schizophrenia has warning signs as it related to psychosis. What is one warning sign?
unusual thought content, paranoia, odd communication, delusions, problems at school or work, and a decline in social functioning