| A | B |
|---|
| psychological disorders | condition where person's thoughts feeling, or behavior is judged to be dysfunctional |
| normal | common accepted behavior, predicted |
| abnormal | uncommon, unaccepted, inappropriate, rare |
| medical model | belive caused by biological conditions and can be treated through medica introversions |
| Szasz' view | believes no such thing as mental illness, problems in living exist- some more sever than others |
| psychological model | perspective that mental disorders are caused and maintained by ones life experiences |
| social culture model | something in society causing the disorder |
| DSM 4 | diagnostic and statistical manual- therapist bible |
| anxiety disorders | sense that somthing bad will happen- overall sense of uneasiness- will continue if gone untreated |
| generalized anxiety disorders | psychological disorder characterized by a constant state of anxiety not linked to an identifiable source |
| panic disorder | disorder characterized by sudden and intense rush of anxiety w/o apparant reason |
| phobias | disorder characterized by intense and irritational fear (out of proportion to real danger) |
| simple | phobia to a specific thing |
| social | intense fear of situations that invite public scrutany |
| agoraphobia | fear of open spaces |
| obsessive compulsive disorder | anxiety disorder defined by persistant thoughts and the need to repeat acts |
| cumpulsion acts | behaviors people have to repeat |
| common compulsions | handwashing, cleaning |
| somatoform disorders | mental disorder in which a person experienced bodily symptoms taht are psychological rather than medical |
| hypochondriasis | disorder characterized by unwanted preoccupation with one's physical health |
| conversion disorder | disorder where person temporary loses a bodily function in the absense of physical cause |
