Disorders and diagnosis
The study of psychological disorders
Psychopathology
Disturbances in behavior related to consistent and excessive fear and anxiety.
Anxiety disorders
A disorder caused by a traumatic event may include flashbacks from the event.
Post traumatic stress disorder PTSD
A psychological disorder that disturbs a person's thoughts, perception, emotion, and behavior.
Schizophrenia
The inability to recall personal information following a traumatic event.
Dissociative amnesia
The symptoms of psychological disorders
Etiology
Extreme and consistent fear of social situations.
Social anxiety
Disorder entailing extreme fluctuations of ones mood.
Mood disorders
A perception sensed from outward stimulus.
Hallucination
Recurring episodes of detachment from reality.
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
The book published by the APA that contains diagnostic information for mental disorders.
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)
A period of extreme fear that starts abruptly.
Panic attack
A mood disorder where mania is the defining symptom.
Bipolar disorder
Beliefs that don't affirm reality.
Delusions
Formerly called multiple personality disorder, where a person exhibits more than one distinct identities.
Dissociative identity disorder
Two mental disorders existing in one person.
Comorbidity
Intrusive thoughts that lead to compulsive, repetitive behavior.
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
A disorder where a person experiences feelings of depression and suicidal ideation for two or more weeks at a time.
Major depressive disorder
The hypothesis that schizophrenia is caused be the excess of dopamine production.
The dopamine hypothesis
Confusion about one's identity.
dissociative fugue
The model that evaluates how nature and nurture may predict the likelihood of a predisposition to mental disorders.
The diathesis-stress model
A disorder causing the inability to part from personal belongings.
Hoarding disorder
A cognitive theory of depression that's evoked from continuous negative thoughts.
Hopelessness theory
Early signs or a disorder.
Prodromal symptoms
The book and film about a woman with 16 different personalities that may have been the cause for an increase in DID diagnosis.
Sybil