This is my presentation for class on psychological disorders. I compelted many hours of research on this topic as well as studying mental illness on my own time.

1. Psychological disorders Classification, characteristics, and causal factors By: Michelle Pavlick

2. The DSM IV uses an assessment to diagnose psychological disorders including information about the difficulties affecting the diagnosis, treatments, and outcomes. Clinical syndromes Personality disorders General medical conditions Psychosocial & environmental problems Global assessment of functioning The role of the DSM IV

3. Anxiety Disorders

4. Anxiety Disorders

5. “People with dissociative disorders have learned to redirect their thinking away from troubling memories of disturbing impulses in order to avoid feelings of anxiety, guilt, and shame” by dissociating themselves into other states of mind or create other identities. Dissociative disorders

6. Somatoform disorders

7. Mood disorders

9. “The causes of schizophrenia remain elusive, but most researchers believe that schizophrenia is a brain disorder that arises from a combination of factors, including heredity, abnormal brain development, and stressful life experiences” (Nevid and Rathus, 2005, p. 283). Abnormalities in the structural parts of the brain may develop during prenatal development and problems with the nervous system may arise.Schizophrenia

10. Personality disorders

11. Nevid, J.S. & Rathus, S.A. (2005). Psychology and the challenges of life: Adjustment in the new millennium. (9thed). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley References