psy
This term means the cause and development of a disorder.
What is Etiology?
Children with mania may be mistakenly diagnosed with this.
What is ADHD?
This was once called Manic-Depressive Disorder.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This code states that human subjects must be treated with care and respect.
What is the Nuremberg Code?
This means disturbances in motor function.
What is catatonia?
The duty to warn of an imminent threat is called the __________ Decision.
What is Tarasoff?
This is the view that mental illness has a biological cause.
What is the organic view?
This model of mental illness suggests that a perfect storm of genetics, environment, and stress combine to produce mental illness.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
Somatic symptom disorders were originally known as this.
What is Prognosis?
This term refers to a belief that is not grounded in reality.
What is Delusion?
These are false sensations as if there was something just beneath the skin.
What are tactile hallucinations?
This is the inability to feel joy, happiness, or pleasure.
What is anhedonia?
Within one week of attempting suicide most teenagers exhibit this symptom.
What is a sleep disturbance?
This is the lack of feeling or numbness in an area of the hand and wrist.
What is glove anesthesia?
Out of body experiences might be a sign of this disorder.
What is Depersonalization Disorder?
This is a rare condition where one is convinced that they are dead and can be risky as they may try to prove to others that they are a corpse and cannot be harmed.
What is Cotard's Delusion?
These type of disorders involve certain altered states of consciousness and disruptions of memory and identity.
What are Dissociative Disorders?
This has the same symptoms as Schizophrenia but it has lasted less than six months.
What is Schizophreniform?
This is the term for removing the mentally ill from hospitals.
What is deinstitutionalization?
This was once called Munchausen's by Proxy.
What is Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another?