Mood Disorders
The Difference between Bipolar I & Bipolar II
Bipolar I requires one diagnosis of mania
Bipolar II requires both hypomania and depression
Borderline Personality Disorder
After having repeated panic attacks someone may begin to develop the far of having another one which may lead to
Panic Disorder
Mental health is conceptualized through 5 areas
Seeing Hearing and Feeling Things that others cannot
What is hallucination
What are three symptoms of Mania
a. Irritability
b. Elevated mood feeling on top of the world
c. Flight of ideas
Psychopathy, sociopathy and severe presentations of callous unemotional traits fall under which dagnostic label?
Anti-social personality disorder?
Cluster Symptoms of PTSD include
hypervigilance, cognitive/mood symptoms, avoidance, intrusion
The idea that two disorders can overlap
Comorbidity
Characterized by frequent incoherent speech
Thought disorder/disorganized speech
What is the difference between persistent depressive disorder and major depressive disorder
Persistent depressive disorder is more persistent than major depressive disorder. It has similar symptoms but lasts longer at least 2 years). In
comparison someone who has major depressive disorder will experience episodes on and off. They may have months of feeling down but also
months of feeling happy
You need ___ possible symptoms to be diagnosed with BPD. What is that number and Name as many as you can.
1. Strong fear of real or imagined abandonment,
frantic efforts to avoid it
2. Unstable and intense personal relationships
3. Identity Disturbance: Unstable image or sense of
self
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially
self-damaging
5. Suicidal Behavior/thoughts
Define OCD and the symptoms that we look for
A mental health disorder characterized by the experience of obsessions and or compulsions. Obsessions are repetitive thoughts that create anxiety. Compulsions are behaviors that are done to ease the anxiety created by obsessions
the difference between a mood and an emotion?
A mood lasts longer, is less intense and may not be associated with a stimulus
Describe the difference between positive and negative symptoms
Positive symptoms are ones where we can see the persons affect.
Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech.
b. Negative symptoms are ones where we cannot tell the persons affect. Catatonic behavior, Flat affect.
All humans fall into these and impact our feelings, and behaviors. Name 3
Thinking traps.
catastrophizing
Filtering
MindReading
Define Dissociation, Derealization, and Depersonalization
Dissociation = Disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions, and identity.
Depersonalization = feeling detached from oneself, as though in a dream or movie
Derealization = feeling that the world is strange or not real
Treatment of some anxiety disorder will require this type of gradual plan
Systematic desensitization + challenging unhelpful cognitive patterns + new behavioral patterns to calm and regulate oneself.
What defines abnormal behavior in our class as it relates to psychopathology?
Abnormal behavior is not defined in a vacuum. It is defined within the
structure of a society that has certain expectations and traditions, and
within social relationships with varying level of tolerance
To be diagnosed with Schizophrenia you need to have what following criteria?
The presence of Hallucinations, delusions or disorganized speech
b. Cationic behavior, flat affect are also symptoms that come and go.
You need at least 2 symptoms and at least one symptom needs to be hallucinations, delusions or disorganized speech
Define learned helplessness and the study involved to develop this idea
a. Learned Helplessness is a phenomenon that occurs when a series of negative outcomes or stressors cause someone to believe that the outcomes of life are out of one’s control.
b. If a person learns that their behavior makes no difference to their aversive environment, they may stop trying to escape from aversive stimuli even
when escape is possible.
c. Martin Seligman and Steven F. Maier first identified learned helplessness as a phenomenon in the 1960s. These psychologists conducted experiments on dogs, finding that, when exposed to repeated shocks that
they could not control, the animals refrained from taking action even when they could prevent the shocks.
The Sociocognitive Model of Dissociative Identity Disorder
The idea that beliefs shaped by cultural influences or therapeutic procedures
3 Models Explaining the Development of Anxiety Disorders
What are two criticisms of the DSM
The fact that the DSM relies on a categorical vs dimensional model
b. A high level of comorbidity exists between disorders such as anxiety and
depression
List 5 Possible Risk factors to developing Schizophrenia
Exposure to viral infections while in the womb
genetics/frontal lobe differences
Poor nutrition while in the womb
Maternal Diabetes
Stressful life environment
Older paternal age
lead exposure