This document provides an overview of various psychological disorders including: anxiety disorders like generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder; somatoform disorders like hypochondriasis and conversion disorder; dissociative disorders like amnesia and dissociative identity disorder; mood disorders like depression; schizophrenic disorders; and personality disorders like borderline personality disorder. For each disorder, key symptoms and findings from related studies are described. The document also discusses models of abnormality, diagnosis of disorders, and comorbidity between disorders.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that usually appears in late adolescence or early adulthood. Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and other cognitive difficulties, schizophrenia can often be a lifelong struggle. In this article, we will cover the causes, symptoms, and treatment of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that usually appears in late adolescence or early adulthood. Characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and other cognitive difficulties, schizophrenia can often be a lifelong struggle. In this article, we will cover the causes, symptoms, and treatment of schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a group of severe brain disorders in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behaviour.
Contrary to some popular belief, schizophrenia is not split personality or multiple personality. The word “schizophrenia” does mean “split mind,” but it refers to a disruption of the usual balance of emotions and thinking (Mayo, 2013).
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition, requiring lifelong treatment.
Presentation on Mood Disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I Disorder, etc.
Presentation for doctoral program class at Saybrook University, San Francisco. Fall 2009
This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content please email the teacher Chris Jocham: jocham@fultonschools.org
Schizophrenia is a group of severe brain disorders in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behaviour.
Contrary to some popular belief, schizophrenia is not split personality or multiple personality. The word “schizophrenia” does mean “split mind,” but it refers to a disruption of the usual balance of emotions and thinking (Mayo, 2013).
Schizophrenia is a chronic condition, requiring lifelong treatment.
Presentation on Mood Disorders: Major Depressive Disorder, Bipolar I Disorder, etc.
Presentation for doctoral program class at Saybrook University, San Francisco. Fall 2009
This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content please email the teacher Chris Jocham: jocham@fultonschools.org
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Presentation at the Workshop on Municipal Fiber Networks, October 24th 2011 in Ghent, Belgium. The workshop was organised by Ghent University - IBCN / IBBT. More information about this event can be found at http://http://events.ibbt.be/en/workshop-municipal-fiber-networks.
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Date: 18.8.11
Venue: PGIM, Colombo
This powerpoint presentation represents definition of the Somatoform disorder, its subtypes, etiology in perspective of theories along differential diagnosis in an attempt to shed light on the disorder adequately
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The cornerstone of someone's mental health is how they think, feel, and behave. Mental health specialists can help people with disorders like addiction, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety.
Mental health can have an effect on daily life, interpersonal connections, and physical health.
This connection, nevertheless, also functions the opposite way around. Personal circumstances, social ties, and physical ailments can all have an impact on mental illness. Maintaining
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Psychological Disorders
Essentials of Psychology : Psychological
Disorders
Lesson 5 Overview
The objective of this lesson
is to give you an overview
of psychological disorders
and approaches to their
treatment. It isn’t meant to
make you a clinical
psychologist. Two
points should be stressed
from the very beginning. First, the labels that have been applied to
mental disorders have changed over the years. For example, at one
time, excessive masturbation was considered pathological in males,
and it was sufficient to have a woman confined to an asylum.
Homosexuality was finally eliminated from the official manual
of mental disorders in only the past couple of decades.
Second, mental disorders and approaches to their treatment are, to
some extent, social products. As societies change over time, so do
ideas about mental disorders. For that matter, as society changes,
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different kinds of mental disorders are likely to become more common.
For example, eating disorders, which certainly have psychological
components, were all but unknown in the sixteenth century. Getting
enough to eat was a sufficient problem for most people. Conclusion:
One should apply labels to people with extreme caution. Just as
personalities vary, every disorder has commonalities and differences.
5.1 Differentiate a healthy personality from a disordered
personality in the context of mental health and stress
management
Psychological Disorders
READING ASSIGNMENT
Read this assignment. Then read Chapter 10 in your textbook.
Normal versus Abnormal
Let’s say that you’re among an isolated tribe of people in the
Venezuelan rain forest. In your society, it’s normal for males to prize
shrunken heads as trophies with great power. Headhunting is normal
for these people. Let’s say you’re a sociologist studying American
divorce statistics. You find that for every two marriages, one will end in
divorce. Does that make divorce normal or abnormal? For a
psychologist, statistical normality simply refers to the distribution of
some variable in a population. For example, 100 is the mean score on
an IQ test, and normal or average ranges from about 80 to 120. On
the other hand, when someone says that Justin’s compulsion to wash
his hands 40 or 50 times a day “isn’t normal,” you may agree with that
observation. Yet, you should keep in mind that in social worlds, when
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people refer to normal behavior they’re often simply making a
judgment about behavior that they prefer.
Psychologists must use some approach other than “normal” versus
“abnormal” to identify abnormal behavior. For psychologists, behavior
is considered abnormal if people experience distress and if that
distress prevents them from functioning in their daily life. Given that
general definition, it’s also best to think of normal and abnormal as two
ends of a continuum. Thu ...
1. PsychologicalIllness Dr Rikaz Sheriff MBBS Senior Medical Officer, Western Hospital Transplant & Employee Counselor PGIM Trainee MSc in Biomedical Informatics PGIM Trainee Certificate in Medical Education
2. Outline Psychological Disorders: A General Outlook Anxiety Disorders Somatoform Disorders Dissociative Disorders Mood Disorders Schizophrenic Disorders Personality Disorders
11. Diagnosis: A Necessary Step Diagnosis The process of identifying and grouping mental disorders with similar symptoms DSM-IV Acronym for the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Edition)
13. Anxiety Disorders Generalized Anxiety Disorder Characterized by a constant state of anxiety not linked to an identifiable source Panic Disorder Characterized by sudden and intense rushes of anxiety without an apparent reason Phobic Disorder Characterized by intense and irrational fear Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Defined by persistent thoughts and the need to perform repetitive acts
14. Frequency of the Most Prevalent Simple Phobias a simple phobia is an intense, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Arachnophobia Altophobia Hydrophobia Claustrophobia
15. Reactions of People with Social Phobias Social Phobia An intense fear of situations that invite public scrutiny Experiment: Socially phobic and non-phobic adults prepared a speech. Both groups showed increased heart rate in anticipation of the speech. The socially phobic had a higher heart rate than non-phobic
16. Reactions of People with Social Phobias However, only those with social phobia reported feeling more anxious.
17. Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear, or worry, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by a combination of such thoughts (obsessions) and behaviors (compulsions)
18. What Happens to Peoplewith OCD A study of untreated OCD patients found that about 66% improved after 10 years. And, 80% improved within 40 years. However, very few became symptom-free and some became worse.
20. Cultural Influences on Anxiety Disorders Three findings from cross-cultural comparisons are: Anxiety is universal and is exhibited by the same bodily reactions. Culture influences the cognitive component of anxiety, i.e., what people worry about and their beliefs about the causes of it. Treatment needs to acknowledge cultural diversity.
22. Somatoform Disorders Somatoform Disorder Mental disorder in which a person experiences bodily symptoms that are psychological rather than medical in nature Hypochondriasis A disorder characterized by an unwarranted preoccupation with one’s physical health Conversion Disorder A disorder in which a person temporarily loses a bodily function in the absence of a physical cause
23. Sensitivity in People with Hypochondriasis Experiment: Both hypochondriacs and controls put their foot into tub of ice water. Heart rate and hand temperature were recorded. Hypochondriacs removed their foot sooner rated cold as more unpleasant Hypochondriacs show more physiological reactivity to stimulation.
25. Glove Anesthesia: A Conversion Disorder In “Glove Anesthesia” (shown), the person reports numbness in the hand but sensation in the arm. However, four different nerve tracts provide sensation to both the hand and lower arm. The physical symptoms do not match the physiological reality.
27. Dissociative Disorders Amnesia A dissociative disorder involving a partial or complete loss of memory Fugue State A form of amnesia in which a person “forgets” his or her identity, wanders from home, and starts a new life Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): A condition in which an individual develops two or more distinct identities Formerly known as “Multiple Personality Disorder.”
29. Mood Disorders Depression Characterized by sadness, despair, feelings of worthlessness, and low self-esteem Depression is universal. Depression rates are on the rise. Women are twice as likely to seek treatment for it. Some people get depressed on a seasonal basis. Depressive episodes often last only a few weeks.
30. Depression: Ages of First Onset Depression is seldom identified before adolescence. Rates of depression increase through adulthood. It is most commonly diagnosed in middle age. First onset of depression is rare among the elderly.
32. Depression 101 Characterized by sadness, despair, feelings of worthlessness, and low self-esteem Depression is universal. Depression rates are on the rise. Women are twice as likely to seek treatment for it. Some people get depressed on a seasonal basis. Depressive episodes often last only a few weeks.
33. Theories of DepressionExplanatory Styles & Depression Explanatory styles among first-year college students were assessed. Two years later, those with a negative style (tendency to attribute negative events to factors that are internal, stable, and global) were more likely to experience a major or minor depressive disorder.
41. Is There a Connection between Creativity and Mental Illness? The rate of mental illness (in general) is slightly higher among those in the arts than those in other professions.
44. The Symptoms of Schizophrenia Incoherent Thinking Delusions False beliefs Hallucinations Sensory experiences that occur in the absence of actual stimulation Disturbance of Affect Bizarre Behavior
45. Positive & Negative Symptoms Positive Symptoms include cognitive, emotional, and behavioral excesses. Examples of positive symptoms are hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders, and bizarre behaviors. Negative symptoms include cognitive, emotional, and behavioral deficits. Examples of negative symptoms are apathy, flattened affect, social withdrawal, inattention, and slowed speech or no speech.
49. Personality Disorders Personality Disorders Characterized by a personality that is highly inflexible an maladaptive Borderline Personality Disorder Characterized by instability in one’s self-image, mood, and social relationships and lack of clear identity Antisocial Personality Disorder Involves a chronic pattern of self-centered, manipulative, and destructive behavior toward others
50. Comorbidity of Disorders The tendency for people diagnosed with one mental disorder to exhibit symptoms of other disorders as well