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U14 Disorders
U14 Disorders
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Introduction Psychological Disorders
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
Personality Disorders
Dissociative Disorders
Somotoform Disorders
Psychotic Disorders
Introduction to Psychological
Disorders
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• Psychological Disorder
– A harmful dysfunction in which behavior is
judged to be
• Atypical
• Disturbing
• Maladaptive
• and Unjustifiable
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Causes
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Historical Perspective
• Perceived Causes
– Movements of the sun or moon.
• Full moon == lunacy
– Evil spirits
• Ancient Treatments
– Exorcism, caged like animals, beaten, burned,
castrated, mutilated, blood replaced with
animal’s blood.
Biological Perspective
• “The Medical Model”
– Mental disorders as physical
– Brain abnormalities
– Chemical imbalances
– Birth difficulties
– High heritability
Psychodynamic perspective
• Sigmund Freud
• Unconscious conflicts and drives
• Early childhood trauma
• Therapy helps person become aware of
underlying conflicts
• Cognitive Perspective • Behavioral
Perspective
– Conscious thoughts
– Learned maladaptive
– Learned maladaptive patterns of behavior
thought patterns cause cause mental disorder
mental disorders
Socio-Cultural Perspective
• Larger culture important to development of
mental disorders
Psychological disorder
Multiple-Causation
• Predisposing causes • Precipitating causes
– In place before onset – Immediate events that
– Make person bring on the disorder
susceptible – Loss
– Inherited characteristics – Perceived threat
– Learned beliefs – When predisposition
– Sociocultural beliefs high, precipitating event
may be small
• Maintaining causes
– Consequences of the disorder keep disorder going once it begins
• Sometimes positive consequences, like extra attention from friends,
family & care professionals
• Sometimes negative consequences, like loss of friends, stigma, etc
Classifying Disorders
• DSM-IV
– Neurotic disorders
• Disorders that are distressing, but still allow one to
function in society
– Psychotic disorders
• A person loses contact with reality, experiencing
irrational ideas and distorted perceptions
Rates of Psychological Disorders
• 2.1 million inpatient admissions to US
hospitals and psychiatric units.
• Another 2.4 million have sought outpatient
care.
• 15% of Americans are judged by health care
professionals as needing some psychiatric
help in the course of a year.
Rates of Psychological Disorders
• No known culture is free of schizophrenia
and depression.
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• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
– A person is continually tense, apprehensive,
and in a state of autonomic nervous system
arousal
anxiety
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• Panic Disorder
– Anxiety disorder marked by minutes-long
episode of intense dread in which a person
experiences terror and accompanying chest
pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
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• Phobias
– A persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a
specific object or situation.
phobias
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Percentage 90
of people 80
surveyed 70
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Snakes Being Mice Flying Being Spiders Thunder Being Dogs Driving Being Cats
in high, on an closed in, and and alone a car In a
exposed airplane in a insects lightning In a crowd
places small house of people
place at night
– Reinforcement – Physiology
– amygdala
Dissociative and Personality
Disorders
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Personality Disorders
• Disorders characterized by inflexible and
enduring behavior patterns that impair
social functioning.
– Histrionic Personality Disorder
– Narcissistic Personality Disorder
– Borderline Personality Disorder
– Antisocial Personality Disorder
• Histrionic Personality Disorder
– characterized by a pattern of excessive
emotionality and attention-seeking, including
an excessive need for approval and
inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning
in early adulthood.
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• Narcissistic Personality Disorder
– "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for
admiration, and a lack of empathy."
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• Borderline Personality Disorder
– "a pervasive pattern of instability of
interpersonal relationships, self-image and
affects, as well as marked impulsivity,
beginning by early adulthood and present in a
variety of contexts."
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• Antisocial Personality Disorder
– "The essential feature for the diagnosis is a
pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation
of, the rights of others that begins in childhood
or early adolescence and continues into
adulthood."
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Dissociative Disorders
• Dissociative Amnesia
– Loss of memory.
– Selective memory loss often brought on by
extreme stress
• Dissociative Fugue
– Flight from one’s home & identity accompanies
amnesia
• Skeptics wonder if it’s strategic
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Dissociative Disorders
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
– Person exhibits two or more distinct and
alternating personalities (dba. Multiple-Personality
Disorder)
– Supporting evidence
• Distinct brain & body states, handedness changes, different
vision
– Contrary evidence
• Increasing diagnoses, increasing personalities
Somotoform Disorders
• Physical disorders which have
psychological causes.
– Hypochondria
– Conversion Reactions
hypochondria
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Mood Disorders
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Suicide
• More than 32,000 suicides a year;
425,000 self-inflicted injuries per year
• 40-50% of college students have thought about
suicide.
15% have attempted suicide.
• 1 out of 80 college students is the survivor of a
loved one’s suicide.
• 78% of all suicides are by men
– Firearms are most common for men; poison for women
• 17% of high school students have thought about suicide
• 2nd leading cause of death for 25-34 year-olds;
3rd leading cause of death for 15-24 year-olds
Common Characteristics
1. Unendurable 5. An attempt to end
psychological pain consciousness
2. Frustrated 6. Constrictions of
psychological need options
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Psychotic Disorders
• Schizophrenia
– Symptoms
• Disorganized thinking
• Disturbed perceptions
• Inappropriate emotions and actions
– Types
• Positive & Negative
• Chronic & Acute
Compare to Infantile Autism
• Social isolation
• Stereotyped behaviors
• Resistance to any change
• Abnormal responses to sensory stimuli
• Insensitivity to pain
• Inappropriate emotional expression
• Disturbances of movement
• Poor development of speech
• Specific, limited intellectual problems
Psychotic Disorders
Schizophrenia
Subtypes of Schizophrenia