DISORDERS AND TREATMENTCYPA PSYCH

Spring 2014

Class 10

April 20, 2014

PSYCHOLOGICALDISORDERS

Defining “Disorder”• Ongoing• Pattern• Thoughts, feeling, actions• Deviant• Distressful• Dysfunctional

Classifying “Disorder”• DSV-V • Power of Labels • Necessary for Insurance

Types of Disorders• Anxiety• Somatoform• Dissociative• Mood• Schizophrenia • Personality

Anxiety • Generalized• Panic• Phobias • Obsessive-compulsive (OCD) • Post traumatic stress disorder (Posttraumatic Growth)

Phobias Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost.Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease.Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of everything.Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.Papyrophobia- Fear of paper.Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites.Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th.Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.Pathophobia- Fear of disease.Patroiophobia- Fear of heredity.Parturiphobia- Fear of childbirth.Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.Pedophobia- Fear of children.Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.

Somatoform • Soma means body • Conversion • Hypochondriasis

Dissociative • Awareness becomes separated from experience • Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder)

Mood Disorders• Major depressive disorder• Bipolar disorder (manic-depressive disorder) • Explanatory styles

Schizophrenia • Symptoms

• Disorganized thinking• Disturbed perceptions• Inappropriate emotions or actions

• Subtypes

Personality Disorders • Antisocial personality disorder ( psychopath/ sociopath)

TREATMENT

Approaches to Treatment• Psychoanalysis (psychodynamic)

• Humanistic (client centered active listening, unconditional positive regard)

• Behavior (counter conditioning, exposure, aversive conditioning)

• Cognitive (cognitive-behavioral therapy)

• Biomedical (drug therapies, brain stimulation, psychosurgery)

• Alternative