PSY 2301 Mental Disorders

Module 12: Psychological Disorders Exam Review Topics

Psychological Disorders (reading and lecture)

1.    What is abnormal behavior?

2.    How do we diagnose disorders?  What is the DSM-5?

3.    What is the diathesis-stress model?

4.    Please know the symptoms of:

a.    Anxiety Disorders

·   Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

·   Panic Disorder vs. panic attack

·   Phobias

·   Agoraphobia

·   Social Phobia/Social Anxiety disorder

·   OCD and related disorders

1.    Body dysmorphic disorder

2.    Hoarding Disorder

·   PTSD

b.    Mood Disorders

·   Major Depressive Disorder and its subtypes:

1.    Seasonal pattern

2.    Peripartum onset

·   Dysthymic Disorder/Persistent Depressive Disorder

·   Bipolar Disorder

·   Cyclothymic Disorder

c.     Personality Disorders

·   Paranoid Personality Disorder

·   Antisocial Personality Disorder

·   Narcissistic Personality Disorder

·   Borderline Personality Disorder

d.    Dissociative Disorders

·   Dissociative Amnesia

·   Dissociative Fugue

·   Dissociative Identity Disorder

e.    Schizophrenia

5.    What are the causes/explanations for each of these disorders?

6.    Which neurotransmitters are involved in the different disorders?