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Nancy Yates
Psychological Disorders Chapter 12
| term | definition |
|---|---|
| agoraphobia | an intense fear of being in a situation from which escape is not possible or in which help would not be available if one experienced overwhelming anxeity or panic attack |
| anxiety disorder | psychological disorder characterized by frequent fearful thoughts about what might happen in the future |
| bipolar disorder | mood disorder in which manic episodes alternate with periods of depression usually with relatively normal periods in between |
| catatonic schizophrenia | characterized by complete stillness or stupor or great excitement and agitation |
| compulsion | presistent,irresistable,and irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly |
| conversion disorder | somotoform disorder in which person suffers loss of motor or sensory functioning in some part of body |
| delusion | false belief not generally shared by others in a culture |
| delusion of grandeur | false belief that one is someone famous |
| delusion of persecution | false belief that some person or agency is trying to cause harm in some wat |
| disorganized schizophrenia | extreme social withdrawl,halluucinations, delusions, silliness, bizarre behavior |
| dissociative amnesia | dissaccoative disorder in which there is a complete or partial loss of ability to recall personal information or identify past experiences |
| dissociative disorder | disorder, under unbearable stress, conciousness becomes dissociated from a person's identity or memories of personal events |
| dissociative fugue | dissociative disorder in which one has complete loss of memory of one's entire identity, travels away from home and assumes anew identity |
| dissociative identy disorder | two or more distinct personalities occur in same person |
| DSM-IM-TR | manual published by APA, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders |
| gender identity disorder | sexual disorder characterized by a problem accepting ones identity as male or female |
| generalized anxiety disorder | anxiety disorder where people experience chronic, excessive worry for 6 months or more |
| hallucination | imaginary sensation |
| hypochondriasis | think you are sick but aren't |
| major depressive disorder | mood order marked by great sadness , dispair, and hopelessness |
| manic episode | A period of excessive euphoria, inflated self-esteem, wild opitmism, and hyperactivity, often accompanied by delusions of grandeur and by hostility if activity is blocked. |
| mood disorders | Extreme and unwarranted disturbances in emotion or mood. |
| obsession | A persistent, involuntary thought, image, or impulse that invades consciousness and causes great distress. |
| obsessive-compulsive disorder | An anxiety disorder in which a person suffers from recurrent obsessions and/or compulsions. |
| panic attack | Episode of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror. |
| panic disorder | Person experiences recurring, unpredictable episodes of overwhelming anxiety, fear, or terror |
| paranoid schizophrenia | Type characterized by delusions of grandeur or persecution. |
| paraphilias | Disorder in which recurrent sexual urges, fantasies, or behaior involve nonhuman objects. |
| personality disorder | A long-standing, inflexible maladaptive pattern of behaving and relating to others. |
| phobia | Fear of some specific object, situation, or activity that poses no real danger. |
| psychological disorders | Mental processes and/or behavior patterns that cause emmomtional distress and/or substantial impairment in functioning. |
| phychosis | Loss of contact with reality. |
| schizophrenia | A severe phychological disorder characterized by loss of contact with reality, hallucinations, delusions, inappropriate or flat affect, some disturbance in thinking, social withdrawal, and/or other bizarre behavior. |
| sexual disorders | Disorders with a sexual basis that are destructive, guilt-or anxiety-producing, compulsive, or a cause of discomfort or harm to one or both parties involved. |
| social phobia | Fear and avoidance of any social or performance situation that migh embarrass or humiliate oneself. |
| somatoform disorders | Physical sympthoms are present that are due to psychological causes rather th an any know medical conditions. |
| specific phobia | Fear of a specific object or situation; a general label for any phobia other than agoraphobia and social phobia. |
| undifferentiated schizophrenia | Schizophrenic symptoms either do not conform to the criteria of any one type of schizophrenia. |
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