Chapter 22: Psychiatric Disorders

Question 1

psychiatry

Answer 1

treatment of the mind

Question 2

psychotherapy

Answer 2

techniques for treating mental disorders

Question 3

psychopharmacology

Answer 3

study of drug therapy for the mind

Question 4

psychologist (specialist who studies the mind)

Answer 4

non-medical professional who is trained to test, conduct psychotherapy, analysis, and research
+ cannot prescribe medication
+ cannot admit someone to the hospital

Question 5

Rorschach test

Answer 5

Ink-block test

+ an impression that ask people their thoughts about an ink-block.

Question 6

amnesia (clinical symptoms)

Answer 6

loss of memory.

Question 7

anxiety (clinical symptoms)

Answer 7

varying degrees of uneasiness, apprehension, or dread often accompanied by palpitations, tightness in the chest, breathlessness, and choking sensations.

Question 8

apathy (clinical symptoms)

Answer 8

absence of emotions; lack of interest, emotional involvement, or motivation.

Question 9

compulsion (clinical symptoms)

Answer 9

uncontrollable urge to perform an act repeatedly in an attempt to reduce anxiety.
+ circulatory compulsion occurs in the hypothalamus

Question 10

conversion (clinical symptoms)

Answer 10

anxiety becomes a bodily symptoms, such as blindness, deafness, or paralysis, that does not have a physical basis.

Question 11

delusion (clinical symptoms)

Answer 11

fixed, fasle belief

Question 12

dissociation (clinical symptoms)

Answer 12

uncomfortable thoughts are split off from the person’s conscious awareness to avoid mental distress. In extremes cases, dissociation can lead to multiple personalities.

Question 13

dysphoria (clinical symptoms)

Answer 13

intense feelings of depression, discontent, and generalized dissatisfaction with life.

Question 14

euphoria (clinical symptoms)

Answer 14

intense feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, excitement, and joy.

Question 15

hallucination (clinical symptoms)

Answer 15

false or unreal sensory perception as, for example, hearing voices when non are present. An illusion is a misperception of an actual sensory stimulus, such as hearing voices in the sound of rustling leaves.

Question 16

labile (clinical symptoms)

Answer 16

rapid emotional change

Question 17

mania (clinical symptoms)

Answer 17

elevated, expansive state with talkativeness, hyperactivity, and racing thoughts.

Question 18

mutism (clinical symptoms)

Answer 18

no, or very little, ability to speak

Question 19

obsession (clinical symptoms)

Answer 19

involuntary, persistent idea or emotion; the suffix mania indicates a strong obsession with something (e.g., pyromania an obsession with fire).

Question 20

paranoia (clinical symptoms)

Answer 20

overly suspicious system of thinking; delusion that one is being harassed, persecuted, unfairly treated.

Question 21

anxiety disorder

Answer 21

characterized by unpleasant tension, distress, avoidance, behavior

Question 22

bipolar disorder

Answer 22

alternating periods of mania and depression

Question 23

depressive disorders

Answer 23

chronic sadness, lord of energy, hopelessness, worry

Question 24

dissociative disorders

Answer 24

breakdown of memory, identity, perception

Question 25

eating disorders

Answer 25

bingeing, purging, body image disturbance

Question 26

neurodevelopmental disorder

Answer 26

childhood disorders characterized by delays in socialization, communication

Question 27

personality disorders

Answer 27

lifelong personality patterns which are inflexible, impaired social functions

Question 28

schizophrenia spectrum/psychotic disorders

Answer 28

chronic psychotic diorders | + may have hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, flat affect and lack of initiative

Question 29

schizophrenia spectrum/psychotic disorders

Answer 29

chronic psychotic diorders | + may have hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, flat affect and lack of initiative

Question 30

sexual dysfunction

Answer 30

inability of person to respond sexually or to experience sexual pleasure

Question 31

somatic disorders

Answer 31

presence of physical symptoms that can't be explained physical/mental disorders

Question 32

substance and addiction disorders

Answer 32

regular obese of dependence on psychoactive substance

Question 33

ECT (treatment)

Answer 33

electrical current used to induce convulsion and loss of consciousness

Question 34

drug treatment

Answer 34

will be covered in the chapter on pharmacy

Question 35

anxi/o

Answer 35

uneasy, anxious, distressed

Question 36

aut/o

Answer 36

self

Question 37

hallucin/o

Answer 37

to wander in the mind (a hallucination is a sensory perception in absence of many external stimuli. +An illusion is perception in which sensory stimuli are present, but correct interpret )

Question 38

hypn/o

Answer 38

sleep

Question 39

iatr/o

Answer 39

treatment, physician

Question 40

ment/o | psych/o

Answer 40

mind

Question 41

neur/o

Answer 41

nerve

Question 42

phil/o

Answer 42

attraction to, love

Question 43

phren/o

Answer 43

mind

Question 44

somat/o

Answer 44

body

Question 45

schiz/o

Answer 45

splits

Question 46

somatic

Answer 46

body

Question 47

-genic

Answer 47

pertaining to producing

Question 48

-leptic

Answer 48

to seize hold of

Question 49

-mania

Answer 49

obsessive preoccupation

Question 50

-phobia

Answer 50

fear

Question 51

-phoria

Answer 51

feeling, hearing

Question 52

-thymia

Answer 52

mind

Question 53

a- | an-

Answer 53

no, not, without

Question 54

cata-

Answer 54

up

Question 55

hypo-

Answer 55

deficient, below, under

Question 56

para-

Answer 56

abnormal

Question 57

iatrogenic

Answer 57

pertaining to originating/produced by the physician or treatment

Question 58

psychosis

Answer 58

abnormal condition of the mind (with delusions and hallucinations)

Question 59

psychogenic

Answer 59

pertaining to originating in the mind