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    Unit 6: Health & Adjustment Ch 18 Psychological Disorders

    Section 1: What Are Psychological Disorders?

    Psychologists believe that it is important to have a widely agreed upon classification of


    psychological disorders

    It is important to classify psychological disorders so that individuals can be correctly


    ______________ and ______________

    Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity, p. 412

    Section 2: ANXIETY DISORDERS

    Feeling anxious all or most of the time or having anxiety that is ___________________ to the
    situation provoking it

    Anxiety that ______________ with effective ______________, the achievement of desired goals, life
    satisfaction, and emotional comfort

    Section 3: Dissociative Disorders

    FOUR DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS

    Dissociative ______________ characterized by a sudden loss of memory usually following a


    particularly stressful or traumatic event

    Dissociative ______________ characterized not only by forgetting personal information and past
    events but also by suddenly relocating from home or work and taking on a new identity

    Dissociative ______________ involves the existence of two or more personalities within a single
    individual

    ______________ ______________ feeling of detachment from ones mental processes or body

    Section 4: Somatoform Disorders

    DIFFERENCES IN SOMATOFORM DISORDERS

    ______________ disorder is characterized by a sudden and severe loss of physical functioning that
    has no medical explanation.

    ______________ is the unhealthy fear of having a serious disorder

    Section 5: Mood Disorders

    PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATION OF MOOD DISORDERS

    Some people are prone to depression because they ______________ a real or imagined loss of a
    loved object or person in childhood

    Some believe that ________________ makes people prone to depression (dog experiment, p. 424+)
    Others believe that some people are prone to depression because of their
    _______________________________

    Section 6: Schizophrenia

    SUBTYPES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA

    ______________ Schizophrenia delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations relating to a single


    theme

    ______________ Schizophrenia incoherent in their thoughts and speech and disorganized in their
    behavior

    ______________ Schizophrenia disturbance of movement

    Section 7: PERSONALITY DISORDERS

    A personality disorder is part of an individuals makeup influencing virtually all


    _____________________________

    Other psychological disorders tend to be discrete ______________ of illness than can be


    distinguished from the individuals usual behavior

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