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Psychological Disorders: A pattern of behavior that causes significant…
Psychological Disorders: A pattern of behavior that causes significant distress and causes them to harm others
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Models of abnormality: explanations for disordered thinking or behavior depend on theoretical model used to explain personality in general
Psychological model: propose that disorders are the result of various forms of emotional, behavioral, or thought related malfunctioning
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Sociocultural perspective: thinking and behavior are the products of family, social, and cultural influences, what is normal in one culture can be abnormal in another
Biological model: proposes that psychological disorders have a biological or medical cause, the medical model also influences approaches to diagnosis, treatment, and possible outcomes for a given disorder
Biopsychosocial perspective: incorporates biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors
Paraphilia: any intense and persistent sexual interest other than sexual interest in genital stimulation or preparatory fondling with phenotypically normal, physically mature, consenting partners
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Fetishistic disorder: using nonliving objects or having a highly specific focus on nongenital body parts
Anxiety disorders: disorders in which the main symptom is excessive or unrealistic worry and fearfulness
Panic disorder: panic attacks occur frequently enough to cause the person difficulty in adjusting to daily life
Panic attack: sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying
Generalized anxiety disorder: excessive anxieties and worries occus more days than not for least 6 months
Phobic disorder
Social phobia: fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to negative evaluation
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Specific phobia: fear of objects or specific situation or event ex; claustrophobia fear of being in small spaces
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD): consists of recurring anxiety provoking thoughts or obsessions that are only relieved through ritualistic or repetitive behaviors or mental events
Causes
Biological: anxiety is due to dysfunction in several neurotransmitter systems or difference in brain activation
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Cognitive: anxiety is result of illogical, irrational thought processes
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Schizophrenia: long lasting psychotic disorder, person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, and hallucinations
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Eating disorders
Bulimia nervosa: involves cycles of binging and use of unhealthy methods to avoid weight gain, tend to maintain a normal body weight
Binge eating disorder: involves binge eating similar to builimia but individuals do not purge afterwards, weight gain and related issues may result
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