Clinical Psych Flashcards
(50 cards)
Deviant
Harmful
Distressful
Upsetting
Dysfunction
Not being able to do normal tasks.
Medical Model
Biological causes Drugs can help the disorders
Biopsychosocial
Combo of biological and behavioal/cultural
Diathesis stress Model
Mental disorders develops when you have the genetic predisposition and then experience certain triggering life events.
DSM-V
A book of every mental disorder and the symptoms needed to be diagnosed.
Rosenhan Study
Pseudo-patients tried and succeed in being admitted into a mental hospital the had to get back out.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Wide Range, Constantly tense, severe fear but can not pinpoint the cause.
Phobic Disorder
A very specific fear of a thing.
Agoraphobia
Fear of panic attacks.
Social anxiety
Fear of social interaction
Panic disorder
Panic attacks, feels like a heart attack.
OCD
Having repetitive thought and actions
Obsessions: Thoughts
Compulsion: Behaviors
Hoarding and Body Dysphoria
Part of OCD.
Hording: HAs to keep things is mission out is they don’ have it.
Body dysphoria: Has one thing wrong and can not see past it (Not true)
PTSD
After a traumatic. event usually have anxiety, night terrors.
Post Traumatic Growth
Positive psychological changes resulting from struggle.
Somatic Symptom disorder
Constantly searching for treatments for something. (have a mole believes it is cancer searchs out treatment for cancer.
Conversion Disorder.
You believe that 1 specific thing is wrong. But not actually. (Usually something to do with can’t walk)
Illness Anxiety Disorder
The fear of getting sick.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
2-3 personalities that recurrently take control, usually hard time remembering personal information.
Fugue state
After a traumatic event you walk away and start a new life.
Bipolar
Bipolar 1
Manic/hypomanic with depressive episodes.
Bipolar 2
hypomanic and depressive episodes
organic disorders
Brain disorders actually connected to physical decline
- Alzheimer’s
- Huntington’s