Module 47-51 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
Psychological disorder
A psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perception.
Psychosis
The concept that diseases , in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases,cured, often through treatment in a hospital
Medical model
A personality disorder in which person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
Antisocial personality disorder
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and audience of a specific object, activity, or situation.
Phobia
An eating disorder in which a person (usually andolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight
Anorexia nervosa
Significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but w/o the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.
Binge eating disorder
A group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions and inappropriate emotions and behaviors.
Schizophrenia
The American Psychiatric association’s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition, with an updated ‘text revision’ a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
DSM-IV-TR
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociative) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
Dissociative disorders
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
Mania
An eating disorder in which a person alternates binge eating with purging, fasting, or excessive exercise.
Bulimia nervosa
Unrealistic body images, extreme body ideal, a desire to control food and the body when one’s situation can’t be controlled, cycles of depression, and health problems
Characteristics in eating disorders
What are the two opposite moods of bipolar disorder?
Depression and mania
Deceitfulness, aggressiveness, lack of remorse, and irritability are all characteristics of what?
Antisocial personality disorder
Repeated intrusive recall of those memories, nightmare and other re-experiencing, social withdrawal or phobic avoidance, and jumpy anxiety or hypervigilance are all characteristics of what disorder?
PTSD
When there is an uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid the object or situation. What is that characteristics of?
Specific phobias
The characteristics are worrying, having anxious feeling and thoughts about many subjects and sometimes “free floating anxiety” with no attachment to any subject. As well as autonomic arousal, trembling, sweating, fidgeting, agitation, and sleep disruption.
Generalized Anxiety disorder aka GAD