Terms : Hide Images
| 126854330 | psychological disorder | deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors | |
| 126854331 | attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder | a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity | |
| 126862677 | 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 | |
| 126862679 | DSM-IV-TR | the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Fourth Edition, updated as a 2000 "text revision"; widely used system for classifying psychological disorders | |
| 126919925 | anxiety disorders | psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety | |
| 126919926 | generalized anxiety disorder | an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal | |
| 126919927 | 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 | |
| 126919928 | phobia | an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation | |
| 126919929 | obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) | |
| 126996314 | Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after traumatic experience | |
| 126996315 | post-traumatic growth | positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises | |
| 127000273 | somatoform disorder | psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause | |
| 127000274 | conversion disorder | a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found | |
| 127000275 | hypochondriases | a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease | |
| 127000276 | dissociative disorders | disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings | |
| 127012838 | dissociative identity disorder (DID) | a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Formerly called multiple personality disorder | |
| 127012839 | mood disorders | psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes. see major depressive disorder, mania, and bipolar disorder | |
| 127024318 | major depressive disorder | a mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most acitivities | |
| 127024319 | mania | a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state | |
| 127024320 | bipolar disorder | a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania (formerly called manic-depressive disorder.) | |
| 127134263 | schizophrenia | a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions | |
| 127134264 | delusions | false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders | |
| 127142314 | personality disorders | psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning | |
| 127142315 | antisocial personality disorder | a personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. |
