Abnormal Psychology

Emotion of an immediate alarm reaction to present danger or life threatening emergencies

Mood state characterized by marked negative affect and bodily symptoms of tension in which a person apprehensively anticipates future danger or misfortune.

"Worries about everything"

Anxiety about being in places/situations from which escape might be difficult.

unreasonable fear of a specific object or situation that markedly interfers with daily life functioning.

Extreme, enduring irrational fear and avoidance of social or performance situations

Enduring, distressing emotional disorder that follows exposure to a severe helplessness- or fear inducing threat.

Anxiety disorder involving unwanted, perisistent intrusive thoughts and impulses, as well as repetitve actons intended to surpress them

Recurrent intrusive thoughts or impulses the client seeks to supress or neutralize while recognizing they are not imposed by outside forces

Repetitve, ritualistic, time consuming behavior or mental acts a person feels driven to perform

Pathological concern of indv. with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical conditions.

somatoform disorder incolving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause

involves extreme and long lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident

Physical malfunctioning, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but with no organic pathology to account for it

Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but for which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintence

Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance

Disorder in which individual feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and reality

Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity

Situation in which the indv. loses a sense of the reality of the external world

Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction

Group of disorders involving severe and enduring disturbances in emotionality ranging from elation to severe depression

Indv. find extreme pleasure in every activity

Characterized by depression OR mania but not both

Alteration of major depressive episodes with full manic episodes

Alteration of major depressive episodes with hypomanic episodes

Chronic (at least 2 yr) mood disorder characterized by alternating mood elevation and depression levels that are not as severe as manic or major depressive episodes

persistently depressed mood, with low self esteem, with drawal, pessimism, or despair, present for at least 2 yrs, with no absence of symptoms for more than 2 months

Mood disorder involving a cycling of episodes corresponding to the seasons of the year, typically depression occuring during the winter

biological treatment for severe, chronic depression involving application of electrical impulses through the brain to produce seizures

Devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucination), speech, emotion, and behavior

• -Paranoid
• -disorganized
• -Catatonic
• -Residual

-Psychotic symptoms of perceptual disturbance in which things are seen, heard, or otherwise sensed although they are not actually present.

Psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia.

Catogory for indv. who meet criteria for schizophrenia but not for one defined subtypes

Beliving you are famous/ someone important

Beleif that someone's out to get you

Thoughts

Prefrontal Cortex

High

Phobias

Stress Management and Coping

Show pictures of what you're afraid of , and then the real thing

• -Recurring intrusive recollection of the traumatic event
• -Persistent avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma or numbing of genral respnsiveness
• -Persistent

• -Medication
• -Behavorial Approaches
• -Cognitive Behavorial
• -Relaxation Training
• -Excersise, sleep, diet

Distortion is perception of reality

• -severe alterations or detachments
• -Affects identity, memory, or consciousness
• -Depresonalization
• -Derealization

• -Adoption of new identites
• -Identities display unique behaviors, voice, and posture

• -Irrational thoughts
• -Feel sad, guilty, and hopeless
• Disturbed sleep, eating
• apathetic, no energy

• 1. Monoamine Oxidase (block enzymes)
• 2. Serotenergic Reuptake Inhibitor

• -Lithium
• -Mood stabilizer
• -Depakote is most recent form*

• Psychodynamic: have to resolve anger and anxiety
• Interpersonal therapy: focus on social conflicts
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: beliefs and attributions
• Medications

• Incoherent speech
• hallucination
• bizzare behavior
• delusions

stupor or Extreme excitement

• -illogical delusions combined with hallucination
• -no incoherence

Those who suffer from a past episode of schrizophrenia but are currently free of symptoms

• -Delusion of grandeur
• -Delusion of persecution
• -Hallucination
• -Auditory Hallucination

Speech

• -Avoilation
• Alogia
• -Anhendonia
• -Affective Flattening

inability to intitiate and persist in activity

The relative absence in speech

presumed lack of pleasure

Inability to show emotion that would be normally expected