Aim: What are the types of Mental Disorders and what are their symptoms?

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Aim What are the types of Mental Disorders and
what are their symptoms?

• Do Now Take a look at page 109, how might you
  rate those stressors?
• Remember Guest Speaker Tomorrow
• HW due on Wednesday Read Text pgs 135-138.
  Create a chart in your notebooks with five
  columns titled Mood Disorders, Anxiety
  Disorders, Somatoform Disorders, Personality
  Disorders and Dissociative Disorders. In each
  column list the types of mental illnesses
  associated with each and write a one sentence
  description of the disorder.
• Slides have been posted for test. Check back for
  Wednesdays lesson which has not yet been posted!
• Test on Friday Emotions, Stress and Mental
  Disorders

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How To Evaluate Mental Health

• Difficult to assess because of differences among
  society However these are what psychologists
  have agreed on
• Perception of Reality
• Self Awareness
• Control over Behavior
• Self Acceptance
• Productive Attitude

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Aim What are the types of Mental Disorders and
what are their symptoms?

• Do Now What are the types of mental disorders?
• Take out HW chart
• Project 2 TBA
• Quiz on Mental Disorders and Suicide Prevention
  on Monday 10/20

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Types of Mental Disorders

• Organic Disorders Caused by a physical problem
  that impairs brain functions either permanently
  or temporarily
• Degenerative Disorders Progressive deterioration
  of tissue over several years
• Functional Disorders Develop as a result of a
  persons environment (childhood or stress)
• Symptoms include Personality or mood changes
• Caused by Chemical Imbalance (temporary or
  permanent)

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Degenerative Diseases
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Mood Disorders

• Depression

• Bipolar Disorder

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Aim What is Schizophrenia?

• Do Now What are the Anxiety Disorders?
• Project 2 TBA
• Quiz on Mental Disorders and Suicide Prevention
  on Monday 10/20

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Anxiety Disorders

• Generalized Anxiety and Panic Attacks
• Phobia
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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Somatoform Disorders

• How does hypochondria differ from psychosomatic
  illnesses?

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Other Mental Disorders

• Personality Disorder

• Dissociative Disorder

• Antisocial
• Paranoid
• Schizoid
• Compulsive
• Passive-Aggressive

• Amnesia
• Multiple Personalities (more commonly known as
  Disociative Identity Disorder)

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What is Schizophrenia?

• Brain Disorder
• Affects about 1.1 of US Population
• Linked to genetics
• Age of onset for females is 20s and 30s
• Age of onset for males is late teens
• Rarely seen in children
• Currently no cure only treatment options to
  alleviate symptoms

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The Schizophrenic Brain
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A Chemical Imbalance
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Aim What are the symptoms of schizophrenia?

• Do Now What type of disorder is schizophrenia
  categorized as?
• Project 2 TBA
• Quiz on Mental Disorders and Suicide prevention
  moved to Tuesday 10/21

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Symptoms

• Positive

• Negative

• Seen earlier on in development
• Alogia (poverty of speech)
• Blunted Affect
• Loss of interest in fun activities
• Catatonic Posture

• Seen later on in development
• Delusions
• Hallucinations (visual and auditory)
• Word Salad
• Disorganized Movements or behaviors

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Treatment Options

• Medications Clozapine, resperidone, olanzapine,
  quetiapine, ziprasidone
• Advantage Adequately stop symptoms
• Disadvantage Side effects including tardive
  dyskinesia

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Questions?