Exam 4 psych part 2

  1. Psychological disorder
    • A significant dysfunction/persistent/harmful in a person's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors.
    • deviant, destressful, dysfunctional, danger
  2. DSM
    • American Psychiatric Association
    • Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder
    • Widely used system for classifying psychology disorders
    • only describes symptoms
    • cannot cause or treatment
    • medical insurance #
  3. Mood Disorders
    Psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes/
  4. Major depressive
    • Mood disorder
    • 2 or more weeks of depressed moods
    • feeling of worthlessness "thoughts of suicide"
    • fatigue
    • not interest in most activities
  5. Mania
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Exam 4 psych part 2
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