Mental Disorders

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Lecture 8

• Mental Disorders

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Outline

• Introduction
• Categorization and Diagnosis of Mental Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders
• Mood Disorders
• Psychoactive Substance-Use Disorders
• Dissociative Disorders
• Schizophrenia

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Defining Mental Disorders

• Clinically significant detriment
• Internal source
• Involuntary manifestation

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Perspectives on Mental Disorders

• Biological Perspective
• Psychodynamic, Cognitive, and Behavioral
  Perspectives
• Sociocultural Perspective

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Multiple Causation

• Predisposing causes
• Precipitating causes
• Maintaining causes

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Anxiety Disorders

• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Phobias
• Obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Panic disorder
• Posttraumatic stress disorder

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Mood Disorders

• Depression
• Bipolar disorders

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Psychoactive Substance-Use Disorders

• Biological perspective
• Intoxicating effects
• Withdrawal effects
• Permanent effects
• Cognitive and behavioral perspectives
• Sociocultural perspective

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Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociation a process by which a persons life
  becomes separated from the rest of consciousness
  in such a way that it cannot be recalled or can
  be recalled only under special conditions.

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Schizophrenia

• Symptoms
• Delusions
• Hallucinations
• Disorganized speech
• Grossly disorganized behavior
• Negative symptoms

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Schizophrenia, continued

• Biological perspective
• Heredity
• Brain chemistry
• Brain structure
• Sociocultural perspective