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PowerPoint Lecture Notes Presentation Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders Paul J. Wellman Texas A&M University Psychology in Action, Fifth Edition by Karen Huffman, Mark Vernoy, and Judith Vernoy © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Lecture Overview • Issues in Identifying Psychological Disorders • Anxiety Disorders • Schizophrenia • Mood Disorders • Other Disorders © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Abnormal Behavior • Behavior is abnormal with regard to – Statistical infrequency: how does the frequency of the behavior compare to others in the culture? – Disability of dysfunction: Person is abnormal if their behavior interferes with their daily lives – Personal distress: Is the person unhappy about the behavior? – Violation of norms: Based on social norms © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Statistical Issues in Abnormality © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Culture-Bound Disorders • An issue is the extent to which mental disorders are similar across cultures • In some instances, there are culturespecific disorders – Running Amok: syndrome evident in Thai culture in which a person becomes wildly aggressive, thereby injuring others – Brain Fog: syndrome evident in West Africa in which schooling produces excessive mental and physical tiredness © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Culture-General Issues • Other issues are found across cultures: – Nervous – Feel apart, alone – Trouble sleeping – Can’t get along – Can’t do anything – Nothing turns out right © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Weak all over Worry all the time Personal worries Low spirits Restless Hot all over Explanations of Abnormality • Demonology assumes that evil spirits reside within a person – Trephining: open the skull to let the spirit out • Medical Model assumes that abnormal behaviors reflect mental or physical illness – Treatment of abnormality would take place in a hospital (mental) – Treatments would be by a physician (Psychiatrist) © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Diagnoses • Mental illness, like physical illness, will have different causes, have different symptoms, and should lead to different treatments • The medical model requires a diagnostic system to sort symptoms, arrive at a differential diagnosis – Psychiatry has devised the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Anxiety Disorders • Symptoms of anxiety include rapid breathing, dry mouth, and increased heart rate • Anxiety disorders include: – Generalized Anxiety Disorder refers to longlasting anxiety that is not focused on an object or situation (unspecific or free-floating) – Panic Disorder refers to brief but intense bouts of anxiety © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e – Phobias are strong irrational fears of objects or of situations • Specific phobias are tied to objects (knives) • Social phobias are tied to situations (stage fright) – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is characterized by diffuse anxiety related to recurring thoughts and images (obsessions). • Compulsions are impulses to exert some action (e.g. hand-washing) – Posttraumatic Stress Disorder refers to anxiety related to suffering a traumatic event (disaster, assault, war) © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Causes of Anxiety Disorders • Learning perspective argues that phobias are the result of – Classical conditioning • Specific objects are paired with a frightening event • The object can then elicit fear – Operant conditioning: the person reduces their anxiety by avoiding the feared object – Social learning (observation and modeling) © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e • Biological perspectives on anxiety disorders: – Evolutionary argument that we are predisposed to fear what our ancestors feared – Altered biochemistry in brain contributes to anxiety disorder • Cognitive processes: focus is on distortions of thinking © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Schizophrenia • Psychosis refers to a general lack of contact with reality • Schizophrenia is a form of psychosis involving perception, language, thought, emotion, and behavior – Prevalence of schizophrenia is 1 in 100 – Rarely emerges after age 45 – Schizophrenia is a severe disorder that accounts for half of all admissions to mental hospitals © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Schizophrenia Symptoms • Perceptual Symptoms – Sensory filtering and perception is impaired – Hallucinations are perceptions without sensations • Language and Thought Disturbance – Word salad: jumbled speech – Delusions are mistaken beliefs that are maintained despite contrary evidence • Paranoid: others are talking about the person • Persecution: others are out to get the person © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e • Emotional Disturbance – Emotional affect in schizophrenia can be enhanced or flattened (no affect) • Behavioral Disturbance – Unusual actions that meaning to the person • Shaking their head to clear out bad thoughts.. – Catalepsy refers to an immobile stance that can be held for hours (like a statue) – Refusal to communicate © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Classification of Schizophrenia • Positive symptoms involve distorted or excessive mental activity – Delusions, hallucinations,altered emotions, erratic behaviors – Occur during acute episodes • Negative symptoms involve behavioral and mental deficits – Flattened emotions, social withdrawal – Are chronic and do not respond well to drugs © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Biological Views of Schizophrenia • Genetics: identical twins are more similar in regard to schizophrenia (43 to 83 % concordance) – Much higher than siblings (9% concordance) • Neurotransmitters: Dopamine activity is excessive in the schizophrenic brain – Drugs that relieve schizophrenia block dopamine receptors • Brain damage: enlarged ventricles are evident in schizophrenia © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Mood Disorders • Mood Disorders are characterized by extreme disturbances in emotional states – Major Depressive Disorder refers to prolonged intensely reduced mood without an obvious cause • Interferes with ability to function and to enjoy life – Bipolar Disorder refers to alternating state of reduced mood (depression) and mania (increased mood) © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Causes of Mood Disorders • Biological: – Variations in brain transmitters norepinephrine and serotonin – Abnormal function in frontal cortex • Psychosocial: learned helplessness theory suggests that depression results from a history of being unable to control or escape from aversive events © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Myths of Suicide • People who talk about suicide are unlikely to commit suicide • Suicides usually do not warn others • Suicidal persons are fully committed to dying • Men and women are equally likely to commit suicide • Only depressed people commit suicide © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Huffman/Vernoy/Vernoy: Psychology in Action 5e Copyright Copyright 2000 by John Wiley and Sons, New York, NY. All rights reserved. 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