Foundations of Mental Health
This term describes a behavior that is harmful or destructive to oneself or to others, such as refusing to leave the house due to a fear.
What is maladaptive behavior?
Unlike a temporary mood, a personality disorder is a chronic, enduring, and this kind of pattern of relating to the world.
What is inflexible (or maladaptive)?
This disorder is characterized by persistent, constant anxiety that has no specific root cause or situational trigger.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
To be diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, a person must experience at least five symptoms for a minimum of this long.
What is two weeks?
Rather than a split personality, Schizophrenia is a severe group of disorders characterized by a split from this.
What is reality?
Mental health professionals look for the "Three D's"—deviance, distress, and this—to judge whether a behavior is abnormal.
What is dysfunction?
People with personality disorders often have "alloplastic thinking," meaning they blame this rather than themselves for their problems.
What is society?
These sudden episodes of intense fear cause severe physical symptoms like a pounding heart or shaking, even when there is no real danger.
What is a panic attack?
In this disorder, a person alternates back and forth between the depths of depression and the over-excited state of mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
These false sensory experiences are a classic symptom of severe psychopathology and schizophrenia.
What are hallucinations?
This popular framework looks at how biological, psychological, and social factors all combine to cause a disorder
What is the Bio-Psycho-Social Model?
The DSM-5 organizes the 10 specific personality disorders into this many categories, known as clusters.
What is three?
In OCD, these are the repetitive, unwanted thoughts, while compulsions are the repetitive actions used to stop them.
What are obsessions?
Who are Indigenous peoples?
n these kinds of disorders, a person's identity or personality becomes detached or fragmented.
What are dissociative disorders?
This historical approach treats mental illnesses as physical diseases of the mind that can be diagnosed, treated, and often cured.
What is the Medical Model?
This cluster of personality disorders is broadly characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors.
What is Cluster B?
This disorder involves a person reliving a highly upsetting or traumatizing life event through unwanted, recurring dreams and memories.
What is PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder)?
Martin Seligman describes this concept as a state where depression-prone individuals feel completely helpless to change their conditions.
What is learned helplessness?
This specific disorder involves multiple unique identities or personalities coexisting within one individual.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
This official book is used by licensed psychological professionals to classify, describe, and diagnose mental disorders based on specific criteria.
What is the DSM-5?
Cluster A disorders are labeled as odd or eccentric, but the slides explicitly state they are not the same as this severe psychotic disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
This general term describes an irrational, disruptive fear focused on a specific object or situation, such as spiders or heights.
What is a phobia?
Aaron Beck's "Cognitive Triad" states that depression is fueled by a pattern of negative automatic thoughts about the world, the future, and this.
What is the self?
These disorders occur when a person has real physical complaints or bodily weakness, but doctors can find no physical cause for them.
What are somatoform?