Definition Patterns of behaviour and thought that are atypical viewed as undesirable maladaptive and that usually causes the persons who experience them considerable distress Psychological disorders involve biological psychological social and cultural factors ID: 251577
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Psychological DisordersSlide2
Definition
Patterns of behaviour and thought that are atypical, viewed as undesirable, maladaptive and that usually
causes
the persons who experience them considerable distress.
Psychological disorders involve biological, psychological, social and cultural factors.
Approximately 20% of the population experience some form of psychological disorder over the course of their life span.Slide3
How Psychologist study psychological disorders
Assessment interviews
Personality measures
Assessment of Brain Disorders
Behavioural AssessmentSlide4
Mood Disorders
Major symptoms of depression include:
Negative mood
Reduced energy
Feelings of hopelessness or despair
Loss of interest in previously satisfying activities and difficulties in sleepingSlide5
Bipolar disorders involve wide swings in mood between deep depression and maniaSlide6
Mood disorders are influenced by genetic factors and by disturbances in brain activity.Slide7
Anxiety disorders
These are disorders involving increased arousal accompanied by intense, persistent, generalized feelings of fear or apprehensionSlide8
Panic Attacks
Involve symptoms of arousal coupled with intense fear-often of losing control is some specific situationSlide9
Phobias
Excessive fears focused on specific objects or situationsSlide10
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
This is a disorder in which individuals have repetitious thoughts and engage in repetitious behaviours they can’t seem to control.Slide11
Somatoform disorders
These are disorders in which individuals have symptoms typically associated with physical diseases or conditions, but in which no known organic or physiological basis for the symptoms can be found.Slide12
Eating Disorders
In anorexia nervosa, individuals literally starve themselves until their body weight falls to dangerously low levels.
In bulimia, individuals maintain normal weight but they engaged in repeated cycles of binge eating and purging.Slide13
Personality Disorders
A continuing, inflexible, maladaptive pattern of inner experience and behaviour that causes a great distress or impaired functioning and differs significantly from the patterns expected in the person’s culture.Slide14
Anti-social personality
Person shows callous disregard for the rights and feelings of others; is manipulative, impulsive, selfish, aggressive, irresponsible, reckless; is willing to break the law, lie, cheat or exploit others for personal gain, without remorse; fails to hold a job.Slide15
Paranoid
Highly suspicious, untrusting,
guarded, hypersensitive, easily slighted, lacking in emotion; holds grudgesSlide16
Histrionic
Individual seeks attention and approval; is overly dramatic, self-centered, shallow, is demanding , manipulative easily bored, craves excitementSlide17
Narcissistic
Individual has exaggerated sense of self-importance and entitlement and is self-centered, arrogant, demanding, exploitive, envious; craves admiration and attention and lacks empathySlide18
Borderline
Individual is unstable in mood,
behaviour
, self-image and social relationships; has intense fear of abandonment; exhibits impulsive and reckless
behaviour
; inappropriate anger, often self-mutilates