Disorders Vocabulary

A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.

• medical model

• psychological disorder

• epigenetics

The concept that diseases, in the case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital.

• medical model

• psychological disorders

• epigenetics

The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change.

• medical model

• psychological disorders

• epigenetics

Widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.

• 3 D's

• epigenetics

• DSM-5

A psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention &/or hyperactivity & impulsivity.

• anxiety disorder

• mood disorders

• ADHD

Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.

• anxiety disorders

• social anxiety disorder

• generalized anxiety disorders

Intense fear and avoidance of social situations.

• anxiety disorders

• social anxiety disorder

• generalized anxiety disorder

An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.

• anxiety disorders

• generalized anxiety disorder

• social anxiety disorder

Disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person may experience terror and accompanying chest pain, choking or other frightening sensations.

• anxiety disorder

• generalized anxiety disorder

• social anxiety disorder

• panic disorder

Fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic.

• panic disorder

• agoraphobia

• social anxiety disorder

• generalized anxiety disorder