Diagnosing
This is what APA stands for.
American Psychological Association
Apprehension, avoidance, and cautiousness regarding a potential threat, danger, or other negative content.
Anxiety
A type of depression that applies to women who experience major depressive symptoms during or in the four weeks after a pregnancy.
Peripartum Depression (Post-partum)
Perceptual experience that occurs in the absence of external stimulation
Hallucination
Characterized as an individual becoming split off, or dissociated, from their core sense of self - Memory and identity become disturbed.
Dissociative Disorders
This manual categorizes and describes behavioral health disorders.
DSM-5
Characterized by intense fear, anxiety, and avoidance of situations in which it might be difficult to escape or receive help if one experiences a panic attack. These situations include public transportation, crowds, being outside the home alone.
Agoraphobia
Distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and abnormally and persistently increased activity or energy lasting at least one week.
Manic episode (mania)
Beliefs that are contrary to reality.
Delusions
Characterized by complete lack of regard for other people’s rights or feelings.
Anti-social Personality
The co-occurrence of two disorders.
Co-morbidity
Characterized by extreme and persistent fear or anxiety and avoidance of social situations in which the person could potentially be evaluated negatively by others, leading to serious impairments in life.
Social Anxiety Disorder
When a person experiences the symptoms of major depressive disorder only during a particular time of year
Seasonal Pattern
What 2 things would someone with schizophrenia experience?
Delusions and hallucinations
Inability to recall important personal information
Dissociative Amnesia
This is what DSM stands for.
Diagnostic Statistical Manual
Symptoms of a panic attack
Fainting, dizziness, chest pain, SOB, N/V, tachycardia, sweating, trembling, feelings of faintness, or a fear of losing control, among other symptoms.
Involves mood states that fluctuate between depression and mania
Bipolar
Condition characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Psychological Disorder
Individual exhibits two or more separate personalities or identities.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
This is another term for the cause of the disorder
Etiology
One would experience thoughts and urges that are intrusive and unwanted and/or the need to engage in repetitive behaviors or mental acts.
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Perspective of psychological disorders attributed symptoms of such ailments to forces that were beyond scientific understanding, such as black magic or evil spirits.
Supernatural
Approach to psychology suggesting that psychological disorders may be best explained by looking at genetic factors, chemical imbalances, and brain abnormalities is the ________ perspective.
Biological
A common characteristic of all dissociative disorders
Becoming split off, or separated, from one’s core sense of self