Psychological Disorders Abnormal Psychology DSM The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by American Psychiatric Association offers a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders General Anxiety Disorder Generalized anxiety disorder GAD is a mental health the condition in which a person is often worried or anxious about many things and finds it hard to control this anxiety Panic Attack with agoraphobia Panic disorder is diagnosed in people who experience spontaneous seemingly out of the blue panic attacks and are preoccupied with the fear of a recurring attack Panic attacks occur unexpectedly sometimes even during sleep People will not return to a place that they previously had an attack for fear of another Panic Disorder Panic disorder is a type of anxiety disorder in which you have repeated attacks of intense fear that something bad will happen Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Post traumatic stress disorder PTSD is a type of anxiety disorder It can occur after you have gone through an extreme emotional trauma that involved the threat of injury or death Phobia In clinical psychology a phobia is a type of anxiety disorder usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding typically disproportional to the actual danger posed often being recognized as Irrational In the event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely the sufferer will endure the situation or object with marked distress and significant interference in social or occupational activities Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Obsessive compulsive disorder OCD is an anxiety disorder in which people have unwanted and repeated thoughts feelings ideas sensations obsessions or behaviors that make them feel driven to do something compulsions Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it hard to Tell the difference between what is real and not real Think clearly Have normal emotional responses Act normally in social situations Hallucinations Hallucinations involve sensing things while awake that appear to be real but instead have been created by the mind Delusions persecution reference grandeur somatic an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument typically a symptom of mental disorder Word Salad a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder The words may or may not be grammatically correct but semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them The term is often used in psychiatry as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgment by native speakers and in computer programming to describe textual randomization It has thus become used as a way of criticizing very incoherent or irrational statements by rival political leaders Neologisms the name for a newly coined term word or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use but that has not yet been accepted into mainstream language Positive Negative and Cognitive Symptoms of Schizophrenia Negative Lost Traits or behaviors Find little or no pleasure in life no emotions taking hard time focusing or paying attention no interent in success or care of yourself Positive Doesn t mean good new or added behaviors Hallucinations delusions act oddly show emotions not keep your thoughts straight Cognitive Affect thought process memory loss bad comprehension in situations What factors have to be present to merit a diagnosis What is the DSM Book that describes symptoms not causes of certain mental illnesses Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders What version is it currently on 5th How is this used on the diagnosis of disorders Provides a reliable measure of diagnostics or explains symptoms that can narrow down the disorder one has What does comorbid mean the presence of one or more additional disorders or diseases co occurring with a primary disease or disorder or the effect of such additional disorders or diseases The additional disorder may also be a behavioral or mental disorder What types of things does a person with GAD typically get anxious about About how much of the time do they spend worrying per day About 60 of the day worrying Upcoming meeting at work social event tests Know the difference between obsessions and compulsions Be able to identify OCD in an example Obsessions Unwanted thoughts impulses images Exceeds real life problems Attempts of suppression Recognizes the personal construction of Compulsions Repetitive behaviors Aim to prevent or reduce stress of a obsessions situation Familiarize yourself with the concept of the OCD cycle that we talked about in class and how this illustrates the inescapable nature of this disorder Know what a panic attack is and how it differs from GAD Intense fear or discomfort Symptoms Peak within 10 minutes Ends within 30 minutes GAD is when you are very fearful of something not related to the situation at hand and panic attack is a sudden onset of fear due to an overwhelming sensation of panic during a situation What is a another disorder that panic attack is frequently diagnosed with Panic Disorder which is when you have repeated Panic Attacks What is PTSD Post Traumatic Stress Disorder It can occur after you have gone through an extreme emotional trauma that involved the threat of injury or death What may bring about a flashback Loud noises similar scenarios dreams What brain areas appear to be important in PTSD Prefrontal Cortex The Medial Ventromedial Amyglada Who can get PTSD Anyone who was a victim Survivors of violent acts Car accidents disasters Combat veterans People that experienced a death Children who are abused Why is PTSD more of a concern now than it ever has been before School Shootings What is the difference between dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia Dissociative Identity Disorder multiple personalities People that are frequently changing their mind A hectic day Only found in psychiatric units What are some of the other misconceptions of schizophrenia including things that were once said to cause schizophrenia domineering mothers passive fathers bad parenting refrigerator mother poverty weakness of character sinful behavior Know that schizophrenia is a disorder of
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