Psychological Disorders

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Psychologic Disorders

A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

Medical Model

The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, that have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured often through hospital treatment

Diathesis-Stress Model

Posits that mental disorders arise from a combination of an individuals genetic or biological predisposition and environmental stressors

Epigenetics

the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

DSM-5-TR

The American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder; a wildly used system for classifying a psychological disorder

Anxiety Disorders

mental health conditions characterized by excessive and persistent fear, anxiety, or worry that significantly interferes with daily life

Social Anxiety Disorders

mental health condition characterized by a persistent and excessive fear of social situations where there is a potential for security for others

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

A person is continuingly tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal

Panic Disorder

Anxiety Disorder Marked by unpredictable, minute-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror, chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations

Specific Phobia

A marked fear of certain objects, stimuli, or situation

Obsessive COmpulsive Disorder(OCD)

Characterized by intrusive, unwanted thought(obsessions) and repetitive behaviors or mental acts(compulsions) aimed at reducing anxiety

Hoarding Disorder

difficulty discarding possessions, regardless of their value, leading to clutter and impairment in daily functioning

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

A mental condition that can develop after experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event

Trauma and Stress Related Disorder

mental health conditions that develop in response to experiencing a traumatic/stressful event

Depressive Disorders

characterized by persistent sadness and loss of interest

Bipolar Disorders

A mental health condition characterized by extreme mood swings, including periods of elevated mood and period of depressed moods

Major Depressive Disorder

when a person experiences 5 or more symptoms lasting 2 or more weeks, in the absence of drug use or a medical condition in which would be depressed mood or loss of interest

Persistent Depressive Disorder

A disorder in which people experience a depressed mood on more days than not for at least 2 years

Mania

A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement in common

Rumination

overthinking our problems and their causes

Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

A group of disorders characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking or speech or unusual motive behavior, and negative symptoms

Psychotic Disorders

A group of disorder marked by irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, ad a loss of contact with reality

Delusions

A false belief often of persecution or grandeur that may accompany psychotic disorder ?

Chronic and Acute Schizophrenia

Chronic- symptoms of schizophrenia by late adolescence or early adulthood

Acute-Symptoms happen at any age in response to an emotionally tragic event

Dissociative Disorder

Conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

A person exhibits 2 or more distinct and alternative personalities also called multiple personalities disorder

Dissociative Amnesia

When people with intact brains reportedly experience memory gaps

Personality Disorders

Disruptive, inflexible, and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

Antisocial Personality Disorder

lack of conscious for wrongdoing even toward friends and family members

Neuro Development Disorders

central nervous system abnormalities that start in childhood and alter thinking/behavior

Autism Spectrum Disorder

appears in childhood and is marked by limitation sin communication and social interaction and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behavior

Attention deficit/hyper activity disorder

A psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity