Ch. 12 Psych

Behavior that is deviant, maladaptive, or personally distressful

The scientific study of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders including abnormal or maladaptive behavior

Describes psychological disorders as medical diseases with a biological origin

• -Structural Views
• -Biochemical Views
• -Genetic Views

Arise from unconscious conflicts 

-Psychological Approach

Focus on rewards & punishments in the environment 

-Psychological Approach

Observational learning, expectancies, self efficacy, self-esteem, etc. 

-Psychological Approach

Emphasize inability to fulfill one's potential

-Psychological Approach

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

• Axis 1: All Categories Expect Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation
• Axis 2: Personality Disorders and Mental Retardation
• Axis 3: General Medical Conditions 
• Axis 4: Psychosocial and Environmental Problems
• Axis 5: Current Level of Functioning

• Focus on the medical/disease model
• Issue of Labeling

• Biological/Physical 
• Psychological
• Family
• Social Conditions

Psychosis- withdrawal from reality marked by hallucinations and delusions, disturbed thoughts and emotions, and by personality disorganization

• -Delusion
• -Hallucinations
• -Dementia
• -Alzheimer's Disease

Psychosis marked by severe delusions of grandeur, jealousy, persecution, or similar preoccupations

• -Erotomanic
• -Grandiose
• -Jealous
• -Persecutory
• -Somatic

·Paranoid Psychosis

A severe psychological disorder that is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, apathy and a "split" between thought and emotions

Involves incoherence, grossly disorganized behavior, bizarre thinking, and flat or grossly inappropriate emotion

marked by stupor, rigidity, unresponsiveness, posturing, mutism, and sometimes agitated purposeless behavior

Characterized by a preoccupation with delusions or by frequent auditory hallucinations related to a single theme, especially grandeur or persecution

Psychological disorder in which there is a primary disturbance in mood

Emotional disorders that primarily involves sadness, despondency and depression

A mood disorder in which a person has suffered one or more intense episodes of depression

Moderate depression that persists for 2 years or more

A mood disorder in which a person has episodes of mania and also periods of deep depression

A mood disorder in which a person is mostly depressed but has also had one or more episodes of mild mania

• Biological
• Psychological
• Sociocultural
•   -Ethni

Psychological disorders that include:

• -motor tension
• -hyperactivity 
• apprehensive expectations & thoughts

--Distress that appears greatly out of proportion to a person's circumstances

A chronic state of tension and worries about work, relationships, ability, or impending disaster

Recurrent sudden onset of intense apprehension, fear, or terror

A cluster of fears centered around public places and being unable to escape or to find help.

-Panic Disorder (with or without agoraphobia)

(Phobias)-- intense, irrational, overwhelming, and persistent fear of a specific objects, activities or situations

An intense fear of being observed, evaluated, embarrassed or humiliated or by others in social situations

Anxiety-provoking thoughts that will not go away (obsession) and/or urges to perform repetitive, ritualistic behaviors to prevent or produce some future situation (compulsion).

Psychological disturbance lasting up to 1 month following a traumatic event

Psychological disturbance lasting more than 1 month following a traumatic event

Disorders that involve sudden loss of memory or change in identity.

Extreme memory loss for important information related to personal identity caused by extensive psychological stress.

Involves sudden travel away from home, plus confusion about one's personal identity

The development of 2 or more distinct personalities

A preoccupation with fears of a having a serious disease

-Somatoform Disorders

Afflicted persons have numerous physical complaints

-Somatoform Disorders

Pain with no identifiable physical cause and appears to be of psychological origin

-Somatoform Disorders

A bodily symptom that mimic a physical disability but is actually caused by anxiety or emotional distress

Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns that are thoroughly integrated into the individual's personality

Lack of self-confidence and do not express their own personalities

Attention seeking and tend to overreact

Unrealistic sense of self-importance

Guiltless, law-breaking, explosive, self-indulgent, irresponsible. and intrusive

Obsessed with rules emotionally insensitive and oriented toward a lifestyle or productivity and efficiency.

Form no adequate social relationships

Shy and inhibited but desires interpersonal relationships

Erratic self-image, mood and impulses: highly sensitive to perceived criticism, rejection, or abandonment

Extreme lack of trust and suspiciousness

Loners who engage in extremely odd behavior and bizarre thought patterns

Involves the relentless pursuit of thinness through starvation

Involves consistently following a binge-and-purge eating pattern.