PSY 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Bipolar Disorder, Eating Disorder, Dissociative Disorder
Document Summary
Chapter 14: psychological disorders: what is a psychological disorder. A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior: understanding psychological disorders, the medical model. The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital: the biopsychosocial approach, classifying disorders- and labeling people. Dsm-5 - the american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical. Manual of mental disorders, fifth edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Anxiety disorders- psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety: generalized anxiety disorder. An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal: panic disorder. An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain choking, or other frightening sensations.
