Psychological Disorders: Understanding Anxiety, Mood, Personality, and Eating Disorders, Exams of Psychology

Download Psychological Disorders: Understanding Anxiety, Mood, Personality, and Eating Disorders and more Exams Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Psychological Disorders Final Exam When it interferes with a person's ability to cope with everyday life or causes serious personal suffering. - What makes something a disorder? Anxiety Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, Dissociation Disorders, Mood Disorders, Personality Disorders, and Eating Disorders. - 6 main categories of psychological disorders DSM-5 or DSM-V - The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition is the 2013 update to the American Psychiatric Association's classification and diagnostic tool.DSM-5 attempts to address the ways in which a person's gender, race, and ethnicity may affect the diagnosis of mental illness. anxiety - a vague, generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger Generalized Anxiety Disorder - Characterized by persistent and pervasive feelings of anxiety, without any external cause, becomes a disorder when it lasts for six months or longer. Panic Disorder - Strong physiological expression of anxiety that has no connection to present events. Unlike GAD, the victims are usually free of anxiety between attacks Phobias - A group of anxiety disorders involving a pathological (excessive) fears of a specific object or situation specific phobia - focused on almost anything, including high places (acrophobia), enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), and loud noises (phonophobia) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder - A condition characterized by patterns of persistent, unwanted thoughts and behaviors. Compulsions Repetitive, purposeful acts performed according to certain 'rules' in response to an obsession. Paranoid Personality Disorder - characterized by a distrust of others and a constant suspicion that people around you have sinister motives. -They are quick to challenge the loyalties of friends and loved ones and often appear cold and distant to others. They usually shift blame to others and tend to carry long grudges. Antisocial Personality Disorder - characterized by a lack of conscience. People with this disorder are prone to criminal behavior, believing that their victims are weak and deserving of being taken advantage of. They tend to lie and steal Borderline Personality Disorder - characterized by mood instability and poor self-image. They will take their anger out on themselves, causing themselves injury. Histrionic Personality Disorder - Constant attention seekers,They need to be the center of attention all the time, often interrupting others in order to dominate the conversation. Narcissistic Personality Disorder - characterized by being self-centered. They are generally uninterested in the feelings of others and may take advantage of them. An eating disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. Intense fear of weight gain, obsession with weight and persistent behavior to prevent weight gain. Bulimia - An eating disorder in which a large quantity of food is consumed in a short period of time, often followed by feelings of guilt or shame and self-induced purging/vomiting. Pica - an eating disorder typically defined as the persistent ingestion of non-nutritive substances for at least 1 month at an age for which this behavior is developmentally inappropriate. It may be benign or may have life-threatening consequences. schizophrenia - Psychotic disorder involing distortions in thought, perceptions and/or emotions Must inculde hallucinations and delusions symptoms lasting over 6 months. paranoid type schizophrenia - involves hallucinations and delusions, including grandeur: "I am the savior of my people"; or persecution: "Someone is always watching me." catatonic type schizophrenia - may remain motionless for long periods, exhibiting a waxy flexibility in which limbs in unusual positions may take a long time to return to a resting, relaxed position—exactly as if melting a wax statue. disorganized type schizophrenia - includes incoherent language, inappropriate emotions, giggling for no apparent reason, generally disorganized motor behavior, and hallucinations and delusions. remission type schizophrenia - This diagnostic label is applied to anyone whose symptoms are completely gone or still exist but are not severe enough to have earned a diagnosis of schizophrenia in the first place undifferentiated type schizophrenia - encompasses the basic symptoms of schizophrenia, such as deterioration of daily functioning, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate emotions, and thought disorders. Autism - Errors in the final stages of brain development affect the amygdala, limbic system, and possibly the cerebellum. These regions are related to language, information processing, and the emotional coloration of those processes.children with autism do not respond to other people. If you pick up an autistic child, he or she is stiff or limp; the child will not cling to you as normal children will. Second, an autistic child is very slow in developing language and communication skills. Asperger's Syndrome - characterized by impairment in communication skills, as well as restrictive patterns of thought and behavior. Unlike children with autism, children with AS retain their early language skills and do not withdraw from the world, although the limited interests and poor social skills associated with AS often result in isolation from other people. Hallucinations - perceptions that have no direct external cause Delusions - false beliefs that is resistant to confrontation with actual facts.