Ch. 18 - Mental Disorders Vocab

a pattern of behavior or a mental process that causes serious personal suffering and interferes with a person's ability to cope with everyday life.

• catatonic stupor

• bipolar disorder

• post traumatic stress disorder

• psychological disorders

an immobile, expressionless, coma-like state associated with schizophrenia

• mania

• Catatonic Stupor

• compulsions

• obsessions

clusters of symptoms that define or describe an illness in a particular culture

• panic attack

• culture bound syndromes

• somatization

• dissociation

a group of severe psychotic disorders characterized by distortions in thinking, perception, emotion and behavior

• schizophrenia

• panic attack

• social phobia

• depression

a psychological state characterized by tension and apprehension, foreboding and dread

• agoraphobia

• depression

• mania

• anxiety

a mood characterized by extreme elation and hyperactivity

• mania

• dissociation

• compulsions

• panic attack

an excessive, irrational fear out of proportion to the actual danger

• mania

• phobia

• psychological disorders

• catatonic stupor

a disorder in which a person's mood inappropriately alternated between extremes of elation and depression

• bipolar disorder

• schizophrenia

• post traumatic disorder

• compulsions

an anxiety disorder characterized by a persistent. irrational fear of a specific object of situation

• phobia

• social phobia

• agoraphobia

• simple phobia

an irrational fear of social situations in which one might be exposed to the close scrutiny of others

• social phobia

• agoraphobia

• simple phobia

• phobia