PSYCHOLOGICAL
DISORDERS/ABNORMAL
UNIT
Schizophrenic Disorders
A mental illness characterized by incoherent or illogical thoughts, bizarre behavior and speech and delusions or hallucinations such as hearing voices.
Catatonia
Clang Associations
Flat Effect
Inappropriate Effect
Neologisms
Hallucinations
Delusions
Depressive Disorders
Is a medical illness that negatively affects how you feel. And it is also treatable.
Bipolar Disorder is a chronically recurring condition involving moods that swing between the highs of mania and the lows of depression.
Seasonal Affective disorder is a type of depression that is related to changes in the season. Most people show symptoms in the winter and as the season change, so does their mood.
Major depressive disorder is characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest.
Trauma and Stressor-Related
Disorders
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder is a mental health condition that's triggered by a terrifying event.
ALL RESPONSES SHOULD BE IN
DIFFERENT COLOR THAN
BACKGROUND
Causes
Biomedical
Factors that try to reduce symptoms related to Psychological disorders. Ex: Drug Therapy
Sociocultural
Seeks to understand human behavior and personality by using the rules of the social groups and subgroups
Cognitive
Refers to the mind and how we think. Ex: When a person studies the attention span of a 4 year old.
Behavioral
A theory that all behavior are acquired through conditioning. Ex: When a teacher rewards his/hers students
Humanistic
Relating or supporting the principles of a humanist
Psychoanalytical
Relating or involving psychoanalysis
Personality Disorders
A pattern of Behavior that deviates from the norms of generally accepted behavior.
Histrionic Personality Disorder (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
(DEFINE & 2 CHARACTERISTICS):
Paranoid Personality Disorder (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):
Dependent Personality Disorder (DEFINE &
2 CHARACTERISTICS):
Antisocial Personality Disorder (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):
Paraphilias
Fetishism (DEFINE & 2 CHARACTERISTICS)
Zoophilia (DEFINE & 2 CHARACTERISTICS):
Pedophilia (DEFINE & 2 CHARACTERISTICS):
Substance-related and Addictive
Disorders
Feeding and Eating Disorders
Bulimia is an emotional disorder that a person feels and it causes them to become obsessed with loosing weight. It's followed by depression then vomiting of the daily intake of food.
Anorexia Nervosa is the lack of appetite for food.
Anxiety Disorders
differs from a normal response to stress it is when someone has excessive fear or nervousness.
Panic Disorder
A Panic attack is when a person has a sudden feeling of acute and disabling anxiety.
A General Anxiety Disorder is when a person has excessive, ongoing anxiety and that worry can affect daily activities.
Phobias
A group of anxiety symptoms brought on by certain situations.
Agoraphobia is an extreme fear of going in open crowded spaces where it's hard to escape.
Arachnophobia is an extreme irrational fear of spiders.
Claustrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of confined spaces
Dissociative Disorders
Are conditions that cause disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception.
Psychogenic Amnesia is a memory disorder that causes sudden or rapid memory loss and it can can happen at anytime fro years to hours.
Dissociative Identity Disorder is when a person has two or more distinct identities. When someone lets an alternately take control of the mind and thought process.
Definition
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Somatic Symptom
and Related Disorders
(DEFINE & 2 CHARACTERISTICS):
Conversion Disorder (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
(OCD) (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):
Neurocognitive Disorders
Alzheimer's Disease (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):
Neurodevelopment Disorders
Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(ADHD) (DEFINE & 2 CHARACTERISTICS):
Autism Spectrum Disorder (DEFINE & 2
CHARACTERISTICS):
