Psy 1101 Ch. 12 Psychological Disorders

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Biological Model

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View that psychological disorders have a biochemical or psychological basis

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Psychoanalysis Model
(aka. Psychotrophic)

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View that psychological disorders result from unconscious internal conflicts.

Unconscious conflicts must be erased in order to overcome.

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Cognitive-Behavioral Model

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View that psychological disorders result from learning maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving.

*Most Popular & *Most Successful

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Diathesis-Stress Model

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View that people biologically predisposed to a mental disorder (those with certain diathesis) will tend to exhibit that disorder when particulary affected by stress.

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Diathesis

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Biological predisposition

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Systems Approach

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View that biological, psychological, and social risk factors combine to produce psychological disorders.

aka. the biopsychosocial model of psycholological disorders.

(Looks like a family tree)

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Insanity

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Legal term applied to defendants who do not know right from wrong or are unable to control their behavior

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Medical Student Syndrome

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Once learning about all the diseases, you start thinking that you have those symptoms.

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Abnormal

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You meet the criteria to be diagnosed with a disorder.

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DSM-IV-TR

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
(IV=fourth revision)
Describes and classifies various kinds of psychological disorders.

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Mood Disorders

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Disturbances in mood or prolonged emotional state

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Depression

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A mood disorder characterized by overwhelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and perhaps excessive guilt or feelings of worthiness

Clinical Depression=higher level of depression

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Major Depressive Disorder

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A depressive disorder characterized by an episode of intense sadness, depressed mood, or marked loss of interest or pleasure in nearly all activities

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Dysthymia

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A depressive disorder where the symptoms are generally less severe than for major depressive disorder, but are present most days and persist for at least 2 years.

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Mania

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A mood disorder charachterized by euphoric states, extreme physical activity, excessive talkativeness, distractedness, and sometimes grandiosity.

They think they are invincible, crazy, active, and don't sleep much.

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Bipolar Disorder

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A mood disorder in which periods of mania and depression alternate, sometimes with periods of normal mood intervening.

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Cognitive Distortions

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An illogical and maladaptive reponse to early negative life events that leads to feelings on incompetence and unworthiness that are reactivated whenever a new situation arises that resembles the original events

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Anxiety Disorder

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Disorders in which anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior.

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Specific Phobia

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Anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, paralyzing fear of something.

Unrealistic Fears.

The fear keeps you from doing what you need/want to do.

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Social Phobias

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Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive, inappropriate fears connected with social situations or performances in front of other people.

Can't stand in front of a group & speak.

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Agoraphobia

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An anxiety disorder that involves multiple, intense fears of crowds, public places, and other situations that require separation from a source of security such as the home.

Afraid of germs. So anxious/fearful that you stay home.

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Panic Disorder

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An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent panic attacks in which the person suddenly experiences intense fear or terror without any reasonable cause.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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An anxiety disorder characterized by prolonged vague but intense fears that are not attached to any particular object or circumstance.

Vague sense of doom.

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

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An anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts or to perform senseless rituals.

Obsessive=Thoughts you don't have control over
Compulsive=Behaviors
Such as hand washing and lock checking.

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Psychosomatic Disorder

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A disorder in which there is real physical illness that is largely caused by psychological factors such as stress and anxiety.

Psyche=Mind, Soma=Body
Body illness vs. the mind thinking you have an illness

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Somatoform Disorders

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Disorders in which there is a apparent physical illness for which there is no organic basis.

Believe they are physically ill, but medical exams find nothing wrong.

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Somatization Disorder

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A somatoform disorder characterized by recurrent vague somatic complaints without a physical cause.

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Conversion Disorders

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Somatoform disorders in which dramatic specific disability has no physical cause but instead seems related to phychological problems.

ex. not being responsible to dress left side of your body

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Hypochondriasis

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A somotaform disorder in which a person interprets insignificant symptoms as signs of serious illness in the absence of any organic evidence of such illness.

minor symptoms that are being exaggerated
person interprets minor symptoms as a sign of serious illness

(opposite is a Malingerer = Someone that lies about having a disorder)

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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A somatoform disorder in which a person becomes so preoccupied with his or her imagined ugliness that normal life is impossible.

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Dissociative Disorders

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Disorders in which some aspect of the personality seems separated from the rest.

Believed to be caused by childhood abuse and/or biological factors.

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Dissociative Amnesia

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A disorder characterized by loss of memory for past events without organic cause.

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Dissociative Fugue

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A disorder that involves flight from home and the assumption of a new identity with amnesia for past identity and events.

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Dissociative Identity Disorder

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(AKA Multiple Personality Disorder)
Disorder characterized by the separation of the personality into two or more distinct personalities.

Caused by the load of stress on the host personality, the personality bursts into several.

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Depersonalization Disorder

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A dissociative disorder whose essential feature is that the person suddenly feels changed or different in a strange way.

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Sexual Dysfunction

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Loss or impairment of the ordinary physical responses of sexual function.

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Erectile Disorder (or Erectile Dysfunction)

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The inability of a man to achieve or maintain an erection.

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Female Sexual Arousal Disorder

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The inability of a woman to become sexually aroused or to reach orgasm.

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Sexual Desire Disorder

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Disorders in which the person lacks sexual interest or has an active distaste for sex.

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Orgasmic Disorders

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Inability to reach orgasm in a person able to to experience sexual desire and maintain arousal.

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Premature Ejaculation

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Inability of man to inhibit orgasm as long as desired.

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Vaginismus

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Involuntary muscle spasms in the outer part of the vagina that make intercourse impossible.

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Paraphilias

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Sexusl disorders in which unconventional objects or situations cause sexual arousal.

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Fetishism

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A paraphilia in which a nonhuman object is the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.

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Voyeurism

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Desire to watch others having sexual relations or to spy on nude people.

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Exhibitionism

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Compulsion to expose one's genitals in public to achieve sexual arousal.

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Frotteurism

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Compulsion to achieve sexual arousal by touching or rubbing against a nonconsenting person in public situations.

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Transvestic Fetishism

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Wearing the clothes of the opposite sex to achieve sexual gratification.

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Sexual Sadism

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Obtaining sexual gradification from humiliating or physically harming a sexual partner.

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Sexual Masochism

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Inability to enjoy sex without accompanying emotional or physical pain.

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Pedophilia

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Desire to have sexual relations with children as the preferred or exclusive method of achieving sexual excitement.

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Gender-Indentity Disorders

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Disorders that involve the desire to become, or the insistence that one really is, a member of the other biological sex.

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Gender-Identity Disorder in Children

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Rejection of one's biological gender in childhood, along with the clothing and behavior that society considers appropriate to that gender.

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Personality Disorders

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Disorders in which inflexible and maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving learned early in life cause distress to the person or conflicts with others.

These people are intractable (untreatable.)

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder in which a person is withdrawn and lacks feelings for others.

(not associated with schizophrenia)

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder in which the person is inappropriately suspicious and mistrustful of others.

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Dependent Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder in which the person is unable to make choices and decisions independently and cannot tolerate being alone.

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder in which the person's fears of rejection by others lead to social isolation.

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder in which the person has an exaggerated sense of self-importance and needs constant admiration.

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder characterized by marked instability in self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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Personality disorder that involves a pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical and exploitive behavior and an inability to feel affection for others.

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Schizophrenic Disorders

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Severe disorders in which there are disturbances of thoughts, communications, and emotions, including delusions and hallucinations.

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Psychotic

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Behavior characterized by a loss of touch with reality.

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Hallucinations

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Sensory experiences in the absence of external stimulation.

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Delusions

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False beliefs about reality that have no basis in fact.

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Disorganized Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenic disorder in which bizarre and childlike behaviors are common.

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Catatonic Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenic disorder in which disturbed motor behavior is present.

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Paranoid Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenic disorder marked by extreme suspiciousness and complex, bizarre delusions.

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Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

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Schezophrenic disorder in which there are clear schizophrenic symptoms that do not meet the criteria for another subtype of the disorder.

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Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

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A childhood disorder characterized by inattention, impulsiveness, and hyperactivity.

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Psychostimulant

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Drugs that increase ability to focus attention in people with ADHD.

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Autistic Disorder

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A childhood disorder characterized by lack of social instincts and strange motor behavior.

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Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

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A range of disorders involving varying degrees of impairment in communication skills, social interactions, and restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior.