https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3 en-us 2017-03-16 15:41:44 UTC 2026-01-24 00:31:43 UTC hello@padlet.com meganden6357 https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/160584559 Psychological Disorder: syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individuals  cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior
   -Unjustifiable
   -Maladaptive
   -Atypical
   -Disturbing

The biopsychosocial model:
--Biological influences- evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistry
--Psychological- stress, trauma, learned helplessness
--Social cultural- roles, expectations

--Biological- hereditary, inactivity of left frontal lobe, lack of norepinepherine and serotonin (prozac vs. lithium)
--Psychosocial- poor self concept, faulty thinking, disturbed interpersonal relationships
Cognitive- negative thought patters- Stable, global, internal

DSM-5:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders: lists diagnosis and symptoms
-Changed how we think about disorders- Some disorders een as defense mechanisms- we chose a disorder to deal with our environment/problems

Labeling advantages
-Appropriate treatment given
- Stimulates research on the disorder
- payment of insurance since the person sees a professional

Diathesis Stress Model
-Psychological disorders develop due to a combination of genetic vulnerability and risk factors in the environment
--Diatheses
   -Genetic factors, biological characteristics, psychological traits
--Stressors
   -Traumatic life events, Negative family life, economic     
     disadvantages

]]> 2017-03-16 16:10:53 UTC https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/160584559 meganden6357 https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/161219659 Axiety disorders:
-Somatoform Disorder- physical symptoms with no physical cause
-Hypochondriasis- you think you hsve a disease or sickness
- Conversion hysteria- have it with no cause
-OCD Cycle- obsessions--anxiety--compulsions---relief--repeat

Neurosis and Psychosis: 
Neurosis- emotional disturbance but you can still function
Psychosis- emotional disturbance but you cannot cope in real world

Eating Disorders:
- Anorexia- excessive desire to not eat, low calorie intake, excessive exercise 
- Bulimia- purging after eating a lot of food
- Binge eating- reoccurring episodes of eating large amounts of food and feeling shame during or after, feeling disgust with oneself, occurs at least once a week for three months

Anxiety disorders:
Rapid breathing, perspiration, shaking, passing out

Phobias:
Irrational itense fear of something, interferes with normal life
-Specific Phobia
-Social Phobia

Panic Disorder:
-Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
-Obsessions (thoughts)
-Compulsion (actions)

Mood Disorders:
Depression 
- Major depressive disorder- intense sadness months- forever
- Dysthymia- less intense sadness for 2 or more years
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)- Depression that occurs at certain times of the year with less sunlight
-Bipolar Disorder/ manic disorder- involves both depressed and manic epidsodes]]> 2017-03-20 15:31:32 UTC https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/161219659 meganden6357 https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/161845115 Dissociative Disorders:
- Amnesia two- spychogenic- memory loss

-Dissociative Identity Disorder- personality "breaks", usually due to severe trauma/abuse

-Fugue- 

Schizophrenia : psychotic disorder
-disordered thoughts, gentic, excessive dopamine
Hallucinations and delusions
Types of schizophrenia:
Paranoid-
Disorganized- disorganized speech or behavior
Catatonic- excessive purposeless movement
Undifferntiated- anything else]]> 2017-03-22 14:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/161845115 meganden6357 https://padlet.com/meganden6357/4gnlarx39ti3/wish/162161816 Personality Disorders: Inflexible, exaggerated, and maladaptive ways of thinking, consistant in EVERY setting and situatikon

Cluster A: a person seem odd or eccentic
Schizoid personality- socially withdrawn, lacks feelings for others
Schizotyoucal Personality Disorder- Odd thought
Paranoid Personality Disorder- innapropriateley suspicious and mistrustful of others

Cluster B: person seems dramatic, emotional, or erratic
Borderline Personality Disorder- act impulsively, self destructive, unstable mood, mostly women
Antisocial Personality- violent, criminal, or unethical behavior, feels no effection for others, no remorse for actions
Narcissistic Personality Disorder- Grandiose view of themsekves, contant attention and admiration
Histrionic Personality Disorder- Very dramatic, attention seeking, needs praise and reasurance

Cluster C: anxious and fearful 
Dependent personality- doesnt like being alone at all, can't live independently
Avoidant Personality Disorder- fear of rejection, leads to isolation
Osessive- Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)- needs orderliness, personal control, rules, schedules, perfectionism
Social Communication Disorder- Unable to adjust voice level, difficulty responding to people, using words, keeping friends

Treating Personality Disorders:
Counter conditioning- taking an unpleasant conditioned response and replacing it with a good one
Systematic Desensitization- relaxing, slowly facing fears
In Vivo Densitization- confronting fear right away
Implosive therapy- Imagine the worst 
Aversive Conditioning- pair a habit with an unpleasant stimulus

Drugs and Physical therapy:
Barbituates
relaxing
massages

Illogical thinking (depression)
 Arbitrary Interference- even if it is not true they feel like the worst person in the world for example
Selective Abstraction- they blame themself even if it wasnt their fault
Overgeneralization- Making a conclusion abou themself because of a single event
Magnification and Minimization- Focusing only on the negative things and disregarding the positive things

Treating depression
Biological perspective
Antidepressant medication

Lithium for bipolar
Electroconversion therapy (ECT)- shock treatment, induces seizures, alters brain chemisry
Psychodynamic Perspective- talking to someone 
Client centered approach- Humanism- Carl Rogers, lead the patient to help themself
 
Behaviorist persopective- operant conditioning, based on rewards

Cognitive perspective- Aaron Beck- cognitive traid, learned helpless ness

Rational emotive therapy- albert ellis, direct approach, persuasion, challenge argument
Sociocultural, change environment

Treating Dissociative disorders
Thorazine, Haldol, block receptors for dopamine

Eclective therapy- all perspectives joined together

-10% children suffer from mental illness, 25% of adults suffer from mental illness

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