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Psych Disorders
Psychological Disorders Chap. 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) | characterized by a pervasive and excessive state of anxiety lasting at least 6 months |
| Panic attacks | episodes of extreme anxiety associated with perceptions of threat and occurring because of the fear of danger, inability to escape, embarrassment, or specific objects |
| Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | triggered by exposure to a catastrophic or horrifying event that poses serious harm or threat/ causes shrunken hippocampus |
| Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) | pronounced fear of humiliation in the presence of others |
| Obsession | unwanted and intrusive thoughts, words, phrases, or images that persistently and repeatedly comes into a person's mind and causes distress |
| Compulsion | repetitive behavior performed in response to uncontrollable urges or according to a ritualistic set of rules (negative reinforcement) |
| Disruptive mood disorder | frequent outburst & chronic irritability |
| Major depressive disorder | characterized by pervasive low mood, low energy, lack of motivation for at least two weeks |
| Persistent depressive disorder | milder than major depressive disorder but lasts longer |
| Psychotic disorders | disorders of thought and perception, characterized by the inability to distinguish between real and imagined perceptions |
| Schizophrenia | characterized by significant disturbances in thought and emotion, specifically problems with perception, including hallucinations |
| Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) | development of at least two distinct personalities, each with its own memories, thoughts, behaviors, and emotions |
| Somatic Symptom Disorder | multiple physical ailments affecting several different body parts and systems |
| Illness Anxiety Disorder | preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness |
| Factitious Disorder | falsified symptoms or psychological symptoms or self inflicted injury or disease with intent to deceive |
| Schizoid Personality Disorder | wants a solitary life, disinterested in close, social relationships, humorless |
| Schizotypal Personality Disorder | Isolated and asocial and has very odd thoughts and beliefs EX. might think stories in the newspaper are written directly about them |
| Paranoid Personality Disorder | extremely suspicious and mistrustful of other people in ways that are both unwarranted and not adaptive |
| Histrionic Personality Disorder | wants to be the center of attention, emotional, intense, dramatic, seductive, flamboyant |
| Borderline Personality Disorder | out of control emotions, fear of abandonment, likely to hurt themselves or suffer from eating and or substance abuse disorders |
| Narcissistic Personality Disorder | extremely positive and arrogant self image and attention is self focused |
| Antisocial Personality Disorder | impulsive, deceptive, violent, ruthless behavior, engage in criminal behavior |
| Avoidant Personality Disorder | afraid of being criticized, avoid interacting with others, become socially isolated, have low self esteem |
| Dependent Personality Disorder | fear being rejected, strong need to be cared for, feel safe only in relationships |
| Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder | very rigid in habits, extremely perfectionistic, more general than obsessive compulsive disorder |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) | inability to focus attention for more than a few minutes, to remain still and quiet, to do careful work |
| Autism | characterized by severe language and social impairment along with repetitive habits and inward focused behaviors |
| High functioning Autism | impaired social interest and skills and restricted interests but not delayed or deficient in language |
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