Unit 10 Padlet by Huda Khadri https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur Disorders en-us 2017-03-16 12:52:30 UTC 2025-12-22 03:17:42 UTC hello@padlet.com Learning Target 3-16 hudakha5930 https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/160507386 DSM-helps diagnose a mental illness, need to fulfill all symptoms to be actually diagnosed
Psychological disorder: syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior
  • unjustifiable
  • maladaptive
  • atypical
  • disturbing
Biopsychosocial model:
  • Biological influences:
    • evolution
    • individual genes
    • brain structure and chemistry
  • Psychological influences:
    • stress
    • trauma
    • learned helplessness
    • mood-related perceptions and memories
  • Social-cultural influences:
    • roles
    • expectations
    • definitions of normality and disorder
Biopsychosocial Model for Depression:
  • Biological: Hereditary, inactivity in left frontal lobe, lack of noreprinephrine and serotonin (prozac vs Lithium)
  • Psychosocial-poor self concept, faulty thinking, disturbed interpersonal relationships
  • Cognitive: negative thought patterns- stable, global, internal
  • SAD: seasonal affected disorder
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders: DSM-5
  • lists all disorders for possible diagnosis and inclused criteria for diagnosing each one
Completely changed how we think about disorders
  • disorders seen as defense mechanisms-we choose 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

Disadvantages:
Rosenhan's study: 
  • labeling leads to the self-fulfilling prophecies of not being able to fit in fully with the rest of society
Diathesis Stress Model:
psychological disorders develop due to a combination of genetic vulnerability and risk factors in the environment
]]> 2017-03-16 12:53:09 UTC https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/160507386 Learning Target 3-20 hudakha5930 https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/161150533 Eating Disorders: 
Anorexia Nervosa:
undereating or overexercising
-extreme weight loss
-thin appearance
-insomnia
-preoccupation with food
-refusal to eat

Biological cause: possible, not proven genetic componenet

Psychological: young women wiht ocd personality make it easier to stick with 
1%-4.2% of women in their lifetime
5-15% of anorexia patients are male

Bulimia Nervosa:
binge eating and vomiting
caused by:

Binge Eating disorder:
severe life-threatening overeating of food, purgeing or overexercising sometimes, 


Anxiety disorders: neurosis
SYptomes:rapid breathing. perspiration, shaking, passing out
Phobia:
irrational, intense fear of someothining interferes wiht normal life, specific, social

Panic Disorder:
OCD: Obsessions -thoughts
Compulsions-actions
somatoform disorder:
people complain of physical symptoms wiht no physical cause

hypochondriasis: thinking you have an illness when you don't
conversion hysteria: have an illness with no cause


]]> 2017-03-20 12:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/161150533 Learning Target 3-21 hudakha5930 https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/161782774 Amnesia: two--->
Psychogenic:
Memory loss for both distant and recent past 
lose personal identity
Usually ends within hours or days
Organic: 
Memory loss for recent past only
Lose personal and general knowledge
Memory may return, may not

Dissociative Identity Disorder:
-MPD-multiple personality disorder
-Personality "breaks"
-Usually due to severe trauma/abuse

FUGUE:
Reversible amnesia for personal identity
includes forgetting memories, personality and other identifying characteristics of individuality
hours to days
usually involves unplanned travel or wandering

Schizophrenia
pychotic disorder
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]]> 2017-03-22 12:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/161782774 Learning Target 3-23 hudakha5930 https://padlet.com/hudakha5930/rblf0l4pcpur/wish/162095767 Cluster A: odd
Schizoid Personality Disorder-withdrawn and lacks feelings for othes
few relationships
Schizotypal Perosonality disorder
odd thought, speech and emotional reactions
impaired social functioning
Cluster B: antisocial
antisocial personality disorder
pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical behavior
inability to feel affection for others
no remorse for actions mostly men
histrionic
dramatic, attentionseeking
Narcissistic
grandiose view of themselves
constant attention and admiration
Cluster C: anxious or fearful
Dependent
inability to make decisions on their own
cnat live independently, cant tolerate being alone

Avoidant personality disorders
fear of rejection, leads to isolation

obsessive compulsive personality disorder
needs orderliness, personal control, rules, schedules

social communication disorder
diagnosed in children
unable to adjust voice level
inability to have conversations and communicate with others

1. Why do you have so much trouble talking?
2. Why

Illogical thinking:
Arbitrary Interference
Sweeping conclusion about self despite evidence to the contrary
I am the most awful human in the world 
Selective Abstraction
Sweeping conclusion based on only one of the numerous factors influencing a situation
The accident is all my fault, I am so horrible
Overgeneralization
Sweeping conclusion based on a single event
I lost the contract because I am worthless
Magnification & Minimization
Magnify difficulties & failures while minimizing accomplishments and successes
Who cares that I support myself, I still forgot to get to the meeting

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