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Understanding Mental Health: Simple Look at Psychological Disorders

The biopsychosocial approach to mental health encompasses various psychological disorders and their complex manifestations in human behavior and cognition.

Key aspects include:

  • Understanding psychological disorders through multiple perspectives including medical, social, and psychological frameworks
  • Classification and diagnosis using standardized systems like the psychological disorders classification DSM-5
  • Recognition of both positive and negative symptoms in conditions like schizophrenia
  • Exploration of various disorders including anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and dissociative conditions
  • Emphasis on the role of biological, psychological, and social factors in mental health
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Unit 8 Part 1 Outline Abnormal Psychology Module 65 Introduction to Psychological Disorders 1. Defining Psychological Disorders ● Psychologi

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Classification and Understanding of Disorders

This section explores how mental health conditions are classified and understood in modern psychiatry.

Definition: The DSM-5 DiagnosticandStatisticalManualofMentalDisorders,FifthEditionDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition provides standardized diagnostic criteria and descriptions for mental health conditions.

Highlight: Classification serves multiple purposes including describing disorders, predicting outcomes, suggesting treatments, and facilitating research.

Quote: "Most violent criminals are not mentally ill and most mentally ill people are not violent."

The text emphasizes that disorder rates vary significantly across different countries and socioeconomic conditions, with poverty being a significant risk factor.

Unit 8 Part 1 Outline Abnormal Psychology Module 65 Introduction to Psychological Disorders 1. Defining Psychological Disorders ● Psychologi

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Anxiety Disorders and Related Conditions

This section details various anxiety-related disorders and their characteristics.

Definition: Anxiety disorders occur when feelings of unease and nervousness begin to dominate and control a person's life.

The text outlines three main types of anxiety disorders:

  1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder GADGAD
  2. Panic Disorder
  3. Phobias

Example: In Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCDOCD, someone obsessing about germs might compulsively wash their hands.

Vocabulary: PTSD PosttraumaticStressDisorderPosttraumatic Stress Disorder involves haunting memories, nightmares, and anxiety following trauma.

The understanding of these disorders involves:

  • Conditioning principles
  • Cognitive factors
  • Biological influences
Unit 8 Part 1 Outline Abnormal Psychology Module 65 Introduction to Psychological Disorders 1. Defining Psychological Disorders ● Psychologi

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Psychological and Biological Factors

This page delves into the various mechanisms underlying psychological disorders.

Vocabulary: Classical conditioning - a learning process where neutral stimuli become associated with specific responses.

Example: The "Little Albert" experiment demonstrated how fears can be learned through conditioning.

Highlight: People with anxiety disorders often display hypervigilance, showing increased attention to threatening stimuli.

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Biological and Social-Cognitive Perspectives

The text examines the biological and social-cognitive aspects of mental disorders.

Highlight: Physical changes in the brain, such as decreased myelinated axons and enlarged ventricles, are associated with bipolar disorder.

Definition: Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter that affects mood and arousal levels, playing a crucial role in depression and mania.

Unit 8 Part 1 Outline Abnormal Psychology Module 65 Introduction to Psychological Disorders 1. Defining Psychological Disorders ● Psychologi

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Understanding Schizophrenia

This section focuses on the characteristics and development of schizophrenia.

Definition: Schizophrenia symptoms are categorized as either positive presenceofinappropriatebehaviorspresence of inappropriate behaviors or negative absenceofappropriatebehaviorsabsence of appropriate behaviors.

Example: Positive symptoms include hallucinations and delusions, while negative symptoms include toneless voices and expressionless faces.

Unit 8 Part 1 Outline Abnormal Psychology Module 65 Introduction to Psychological Disorders 1. Defining Psychological Disorders ● Psychologi

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Dissociative and Related Disorders

The page explores various dissociative conditions and their manifestations.

Vocabulary: Conversion disorder - a condition where anxiety manifests as physical symptoms without medical basis.

Definition: Dissociative disorders involve a separation of conscious awareness from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.

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Key aspects include:

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Classification and Understanding of Disorders

This section explores how mental health conditions are classified and understood in modern psychiatry.

Definition: The DSM-5 DiagnosticandStatisticalManualofMentalDisorders,FifthEditionDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition provides standardized diagnostic criteria and descriptions for mental health conditions.

Highlight: Classification serves multiple purposes including describing disorders, predicting outcomes, suggesting treatments, and facilitating research.

Quote: "Most violent criminals are not mentally ill and most mentally ill people are not violent."

The text emphasizes that disorder rates vary significantly across different countries and socioeconomic conditions, with poverty being a significant risk factor.

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Anxiety Disorders and Related Conditions

This section details various anxiety-related disorders and their characteristics.

Definition: Anxiety disorders occur when feelings of unease and nervousness begin to dominate and control a person's life.

The text outlines three main types of anxiety disorders:

  1. Generalized Anxiety Disorder GADGAD
  2. Panic Disorder
  3. Phobias

Example: In Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCDOCD, someone obsessing about germs might compulsively wash their hands.

Vocabulary: PTSD PosttraumaticStressDisorderPosttraumatic Stress Disorder involves haunting memories, nightmares, and anxiety following trauma.

The understanding of these disorders involves:

  • Conditioning principles
  • Cognitive factors
  • Biological influences
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Psychological and Biological Factors

This page delves into the various mechanisms underlying psychological disorders.

Vocabulary: Classical conditioning - a learning process where neutral stimuli become associated with specific responses.

Example: The "Little Albert" experiment demonstrated how fears can be learned through conditioning.

Highlight: People with anxiety disorders often display hypervigilance, showing increased attention to threatening stimuli.

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Biological and Social-Cognitive Perspectives

The text examines the biological and social-cognitive aspects of mental disorders.

Highlight: Physical changes in the brain, such as decreased myelinated axons and enlarged ventricles, are associated with bipolar disorder.

Definition: Norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter that affects mood and arousal levels, playing a crucial role in depression and mania.

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Understanding Schizophrenia

This section focuses on the characteristics and development of schizophrenia.

Definition: Schizophrenia symptoms are categorized as either positive presenceofinappropriatebehaviorspresence of inappropriate behaviors or negative absenceofappropriatebehaviorsabsence of appropriate behaviors.

Example: Positive symptoms include hallucinations and delusions, while negative symptoms include toneless voices and expressionless faces.

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Dissociative and Related Disorders

The page explores various dissociative conditions and their manifestations.

Vocabulary: Conversion disorder - a condition where anxiety manifests as physical symptoms without medical basis.

Definition: Dissociative disorders involve a separation of conscious awareness from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.

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Introduction to Psychological Disorders

The opening section introduces fundamental concepts in abnormal psychology and approaches to understanding mental health conditions.

Definition: A psychological disorder is a syndrome or collection of symptoms representing harmful dysfunction in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are considered atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable.

Highlight: The medical model assumes psychological disorders are mental illnesses with physical causes that can be diagnosed and treated, similar to physical illnesses.

Example: Philippe Pinel, a French physician, pioneered humane treatment reforms for people with mental disorders.

The biopsychosocial approach emphasizes three key influence areas:

  • Biological: Evolution, genes, and brain chemistry
  • Psychological: Stress, trauma, and learned behaviors
  • Social-cultural: Social roles and cultural definitions of normality

Vocabulary: The diathesis-stress model suggests that individual characteristics interact with environmental stressors to influence disorder development.

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