Psychological Disorders (Abnormal)

What is the definition?

TypicalityMaladaptivity

Emotional DiscomfortSocially Unacceptable Behavior

Psychological Disorder Areas• Anxiety-

– Ex.• Dissociative-

– Ex.• Somatoform-

– Ex.• Mood-

– Ex.• Schizophrenia (Psychotic)-

– Ex.• Personality-

– Ex.

Anxiety Disorders• CAUSES• A. Psychological

-Psychoanalytical Theorists (repressed childhood urges)-Learning Theorists (phobias are conditioned/learned)-Cognitive Theorists (make ourselves feel anxious by

responding negatively to most situations)• B. Biological (heredity…twin studies)• C. Interaction of Factors

…anxiety disorders may reflect the interaction of psychological and biological factors.

Ex. Panic Disorder = Physical Symptoms…causes fear and leads to even more intense panic symptoms.

Dissociative Disorders

• Definition-

• Examples…

Dissociative disorders

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Definition

• The separation of certain personality components or mental process from conscious thought.– Dissociative amnesia– Dissociative fugue – Dissociative identity disorder– Depersonalization disorder

Dissociative Amnesia

• Sudden loss of memory, usually following a particularly stressful or traumatic event.– Amnesia or fugue, the person forgets disturbing

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Dissociative Fugue

• Forgetting personal information and past events, and suddenly relocating form home or work and talking on a new identity.– Amnesia or fugue, the person forgets disturbing

images.

Dissociative identity Disorder

• Existence of 2 or more personalities within a single individual.– The person undesirable urges by developing other

personalities that can take reasonability for them.

Depersonalization disorder

• Feelings of detachment from one’s mental process or body. They feel as if they are outside their body.– The person goes outside the self, away from the

turmoil within.

Somatoform Disorders

Somatoform

Somatoform disorder is a mental

disorder characterized by physical

symptoms that mimic physical

disease or injury for which there is

no identifiable physical cause

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Definition

Example

Causes

• Family stress – believed to be one of the most common causes of

somatoform disorders in children and adolescents.

• Biological Factors– Certain people are more likely to get somatoform

based on family history

Mood Disorders

Mood

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Mood

• Mood disorder is a mental illness that mainly affects a person's mood.– Depression– Bi-polar– Manic Depression

Causes

• What causes mood disorders / mental illness?

• Researchers believe most serious mental illnesses are caused by complex imbalances in the brain's chemical activity. They also believe environmental factors can play a part in triggering, or cushioning against, the onset of mental illness.

Schizophrenia (Psychosis)

Schizophrenia

Definition: Schizophrenia is considered one of the most serious of the physiological disorders. It is characterized by

loss of contact with reality, the symptoms include, hallucinations, delusions and thought disorders.

Examples: Paranoid schizophrenia, often hearing voices and delusions related to a single theme

Disorganized schizophrenia, incoherent thought and speech and though, disorganized.

Catatonic schizophrenia, disturbance of movement. Activity may slow to a stupor and suddenly switch to agitation.

CAUSES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

• #1 psychological viewpoint, the animalistic or id, overruns the ego.

• #2 biological viewpoint, the disease is a brain disorder involving brain size and smaller frontal lobe. Loss of synapses

• #3 Multifactoral viewpoint, is a combination of the latter.

Personality Disorders

Personality Disorders

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Personality Disorders

Definition: patterns of inflexible traits that disrupt social life or work and/or distress the affected individual.

Examples are…

Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal, Anti-social, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic, Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-compulsive

Causes of Personality Disorders

Biological View states that there are a lack of neurons in the frontal part of the brain than “normal” people.

Psychological View states that there is a problem in the development of the conscious and super ego.