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Psychological Disorders

Psychological Disorders. liudexiang. Overview . Perspectives on psychologcal disorders Mood disorders Anxiety disorders Psychosomatic and somatoform disorders Dissociative disorders. Perspectives on psychologcal disorders. Biological model Psychoanalytic model

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Psychological Disorders

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  1. Psychological Disorders liudexiang

  2. Overview • Perspectives on psychologcal disorders • Mood disorders • Anxiety disorders • Psychosomatic and somatoform disorders • Dissociative disorders

  3. Perspectives on psychologcal disorders • Biological model • Psychoanalytic model • Cognitive-behavioral model • Diathesis-stress model • Systems approach

  4. Biological model • Biological model : View that psychological disorders have a biochemical or physiological basis.

  5. Psychoanalytic model • Psychoanalytic model: View that pscychological disorders result from unconscious internal conflicts.

  6. Cognitive-behavioral model • Cognitive-behavioral model: View that psychological disorders result from learning maladaptive ways of thinking and behaving.

  7. Diathesis-stress model • Diathesis-stress model: View that people biologically predisposed to a mental disorder will tend to exhibit that disorder when particularly affected by stress.

  8. System approach • System approach: View that biological, psychological, and social risk factors combining to produce psychological disorders. Also known as the biopsychosocial model of psychological disorders.

  9. Mood disorders • Depression • Suicide • Mania and bipolar disorder

  10. Mood disorders • Mood disorders: Disturbance in mood or prolonged emotional state. • Depression: A mood disorder characterized by overwhelming feelings of sadness, lack of interest in activities, and perhaps excessive guilt or feelings of worthlessness.

  11. Mood disorders • Mania : A mood disorder characterized by euphoric states, extreme physical activity, excessive talkativeness, distractedness, and sometimes grandiosity.

  12. Mood disorder • Biopolar disorder: A mood disorder in which periods of mania and depression alternate, sometimes with periods of normal mood intervening.

  13. Anxiety disorders • Anxiety disorders: Disorders in which anxiety is a characteristic feature or the avoidance of anxiety seems to motivate abnormal behavior.

  14. Specific phobia • Specific phobia: Anxiety disorder characterized by an intense, paralyzing fear of something.

  15. Agoraphobia • An anxiety disorder that involves multiple, intense fears of crowds, public places, and other situations that require separation from a souce of security such as the home.

  16. Panic disorder • An anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent panic attacks in which the person suddenly experiences intense fear or terror without any reasonable cause.

  17. Generalized anxiety disorder • An anxiety disorder characterized by prolonged vague but intense fears that are not attached to any particular object or circumstance.

  18. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) • An anxiety disorder in which a person feels driven to think disturbing thoughts or to perform senseless rituals.

  19. Pcychosomatic disorders • Disorders in which there is real physical illness that is largely caused by psychological factors such as stress and anxiety.

  20. Somatoform disorders • Disorders in which there is an apparent physical illness for which there is no organic basis.

  21. Conversion disorders • Somatoform disorders in which a dramatic specific disability has no physical cause but instead seems related to psychological problems.

  22. Dissociative disorders • Disorders in which some aspect of the personality seems separated from the rest.

  23. Dissociative identity disorder • Also called multiple personality disorder which is characterized by the separation of the personality into two or more distinct personalities.

  24. Depersonalization disorder • A dissociative disorder whose essential feature is that the person suddenly feels changed or different in a strange way.

  25. Personality disorders • Disorders in which inflexible and maladptive ways of thinking and behaving learned early in life cause distress to the person or conflicts with others.

  26. Schizoid personaltiy disorder • Personality disorder in which a person is withdrawn and lacks feelings for others.

  27. Paranoid personality disorder • Personality disorder in which the person is inappropriately suspicious and mistrustful of others.

  28. Dependent personaltiy disorder • Personality disorder in which the person is unable to make choices and decisions independently and cannot tolerate being alone.

  29. Avoidant personality disorder • Personality disorder in which the person’s fears of rejection by others lead to social isolation.

  30. Narcissistic personality disorder • Personality disorder in which the person has an exaggerated sense of self-importance and needs constant admiration.

  31. Borderline personality disorder • Personality disorder characterized by marked instability in self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships.

  32. Antisocial personality disorder • Personality disorder that involves a pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical and exploitative behavior and an inability to feel affection for others.

  33. The End

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