Mental Health

Question 1

Name some psychological disorders?

Answer 1

1. Anxiety disorder
2. Mood disorder
3. Personality disorder
4. Psychotic disorder
5. Dissociative disorder
6. Eating disorder
7. Sleep disorder
8. Substance disorder

Question 2

What is an anxiety disorder?

Answer 2

1. an emotional state of unpleasant physical and mental arousal

Question 3

What is separation anxiety disorder?

Answer 3

Fear or anxiety about separation from attachment figures, that is developmentally inappropriate

Question 4

What is selective mutism?

Answer 4

Failure to speak in social situations

Question 5

What is specific phobia

Answer 5

unreasonable fear of a certain object or situation

Question 6

What is social anxiety disorder?

Answer 6

Fear or avoidance of social interactions or situations

Question 7

What is panic disorder?

Answer 7

Abrupt surges of fear or discomfort

Question 8

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 8

fearful of public open spaces or being enclosed

Question 9

What is generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 9

persistent and excessive anxiety

Question 10

What is substance/medication induced disorder?

Answer 10

anxiety linked to substance or intoxication withdrawal

Question 11

What is a somatoform disorder?

Answer 11

A psychological disorder characterized primarily by physical symptoms

Question 12

What is the criteria for diagnosing a somatic symptom disorder?

Answer 12

1. One or more of the somatic symptom disorders include one or more somatic symptoms that are distressing.
2. Excessive thoughts, feelings or behaviors related to somatic symptoms.

Question 13

How many types of somatic disorders are there?

Answer 13

7

Question 14

What is a conversion disorder?

Answer 14

1. individuals experience a change in sensory or motor function with no apparent physiological cause and are affected by psychological factors.
   More common women, convert distressing event

Question 15

Define illness anxiety disorder

Answer 15

Individuals are excessively preoccupied and worried about the possibility of having or getting a serious illness.

Question 16

What is Factitious disorder?

Answer 16

1. Individuals pretend to have or produce physical or physiological symptoms for no apparent reason.

Question 17

Define psychological factors affecting medical conditions?

Answer 17

1. These factors are diagnosed when attitudes or behaviors have a negative effect on a medical disorder that a person has

Question 18

Mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand reality

Answer 18

Schizophrenia

Question 19

What is a positive symptoms of psychosis.

Answer 19

Adding something that is not there

Question 20

What is negative psychosis

Answer 20

removing something

Question 21

Delusions
Disordered thoughts and speech
Hallucinations are all signs of what type of psychosis

Answer 21

positive

Question 22

Removal of normal emotional responses:
Flat affect
Reduced quantity or fluency of speech is what type of psychosis

Answer 22

negative

Question 23

Loss of contact with reality

Answer 23

psychosis

Question 24

What are contributing factors to schizophrenia?

Answer 24

1. Hereditary

2. Environmental factors

Question 25

How is schizophrenia treated

Answer 25

1. antipsychotic drugs 2. training programs 3. community support 4. psychotherapy 5. family education

Question 26

What two criterion are required for a diagnosis of schizophrenia?

Answer 26

1. Hallucinations 2. Delusions 3. Disorganized speech

Question 27

False beliefs that usually involve misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences

Answer 27

Delusions

Question 28

Involves hearing, seeing, tasting, or physically feeling things that no one else does auditory, hallucinations are most common

Answer 28

hallucinations

Question 29

Characterized by collection of speech abnormalities that can make persons verbal communication difficult or impossible to comprehend

Answer 29

Disorganized speech

Question 30

Bizarre or inappropriate behavior, actions or gestures and inappropriate affect such as exhibiting incorrect emotional responses for a given context

Answer 30

Disorganized or catatonic behavior

Question 31

Blunted or flat affect (emotional inexpressive and apparent unresponsiveness) alogia (poverty of speech) a sociality (apparent lack of desire for the company of others) anhedonia (apparent inability to show or feel pleasure) and a volition of will spontaneity and initiative

Answer 31

negative symptoms

Question 32

at least 1 psychotic symptom for less than 1 month

Answer 32

brief psychotic disorder

Question 33

displays symptoms of schizophrenia for 1-6 months usually transition to schizophrenia

Answer 33

schizophreniform disorder

Question 34

symptoms of schizophrenia and a major depressive, manic, or mixed episode, major mood episode must be present for the majority of the illness

Answer 34

schizoaffective disorder

Question 35

Disorder characterized by a persistent pattern of abnormal mood

Answer 35

mood disorder

Question 36

sustained internal emotion that reflects a person's view of life

Answer 36

mood

Question 37

refers to an individuals visible emotion in the moment

Answer 37

affect

Question 38

What are the two categories of mood disorders?

Answer 38

1. Depressive and related disorders | 2. Bipolar related disorders