1. Food for Thought:
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that Faith is his twin brother.
---Anon.

2. Dissociative Disorders

3. Introduction to Disorders
Psychological Disorder – a harmful dysfunction in which behaviors are:
Maladaptive – Destruction to oneself or others; normal life
Unjustified – No rational basis
Disturbing – Troublesome to others
Atypical – violation of the norm
---Must be all four, consistent behaviors over time

4. History 4000 years ago Treatment – experimentation
Religious – demonic possessions
Mentally ill
Philippe Pinel
Dorothea Dix (US)

5. Medical Model
Mental illness has physical causes and symptoms can be treated
Medicines
Example: Depressed? Take Anti-depressants

6. Bio-Psycho-Social Model
Biological
Psychological
Social
Nature and Nurture approach
Example: How do you handle a break-up?
Causes

7. DSM-IV-TR DSM – Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
IV - Fourth
TR – Text Revised
---- Book of Psychological Disorders
17 major categories
Descriptions and estimates

8. Psychological Disorder Facts
We all have symptoms!
Remember, M U D A.
Don’t overreact.
“Psychology Student’s Disease”

9. Essential Questions
Can you identify different psychological disorders and their symptoms?
What are the major types of disorders?
What are the biological and social-cognitive factors of disorders?

10. Psychological Disorder Activity
Anxiety Disorders (5)
Mood Disorders (3)
Dissociative Disorders (3)
Somatoform Disorders (3)
Schizophrenia Disorders (4)
Personality Disorders (6)

11. Review What does DSM-IV-TR stand for?
MUDA is a mnemonic device for _____?
Historically, what happened to mental patients?
What are Phillipe Pinel and Dorothea Dix most noted for?

12. Document Analysis
ADHD – Page 641
DOCUMENT INFORMATION (There are many possible ways to answer A-E.)
A. List three things the author said that you think are important:
B. Why do you think this document was written?
C. What evidence in the document helps you know why it was written? Quote from the document.
D. List two things the document tells you about life in the United States at the time it was written:
E. Write a question to the author that is left unanswered by the document:

13. Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety – a vague feeling of apprehension and nervousness
Generalized anxiety disorder:
Panic disorder:
Phobia:
Obsessive-compulsive disorder:
Posttraumatic stress disorder:
Apprehension
and tenseness
Anxiety creates sudden, intense panic
Anxiety becomes irrational fear
Repetitive
and compul-
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Reliving a traumatic event

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39. Mood Disorders Disturbances of emotions Mania and depression
Major depressive disorder:
Dysthymic disorder:
Bipolar disorder:
Depressed mood
lasting 2 or more
weeks
Less severe and shorter time
Alternating periods of mania and
depression

40. Dissociative Disorders
Inability to make connections
Broken away from sense of self
Rare; result of overwhelming stress
Dissociative amnesia:
Dissociative fugue:
Dissociative identity disorder:
Memory loss of a traumatic
event
Loss of identity in a new location
2 or more
personalities

41. Somatoform Disorders Physical problems occur for psychological reasons
Hypochondriasis:
Conversion disorder:
Psychophysiological disorder:
Imagined illness
Anxiety produces a loss of
physical function
Medical condition produced by psychological factors
such as stress

42. Homework Schizophrenia - Paranoid: Catatonic: Disorganized:
Undifferentiated:
Personality -
Avoidant personality disorder:
Dependent personality disorder:
Paranoid personality disorder:
Schizoid personality disorder:
Borderline personality disorder:
Antisocial personality disorder:
Pages

43. Schizophrenia Disorders
Most frightening and misunderstood disorder
Not one disorder; series of related disorders
4 symptoms: Delusions, Hallucinations, Inappropriate emotions, Inappropriate behavior
Not split personality
1% of the population
Late adolescence or early adulthood

44. Types of Schizophrenia
Paranoid:
Catatonic:
Disorganized:
Undifferentiated:
Delusions of persecution
Excitement and stupor phases
Bizarre behavior, delusions, hallucinations
Various symptoms

45. Personality Disorders
Lasting, rigid patterns of behavior that impairs social functioning
Avoidant:
Dependent:
Paranoid:
Schizoid:
Borderline:
Antisocial:
Personal relationships are difficult; rejection
Clingy, submissive behavior
Related to Anxiety
Odd Behaviors
Dramatic/Impulsive
Behaviors
Deep distrust of people
Detached from social events; loners
Instable emotions, self-image, behavior
Psychopathic/Sociopathic; total disregard
of others

46. Causes of Disorders Biological Factors Genetic predisposition Heredity
Brain functions –Amygdala (phobias) and Dopamine (Schizophrenia)
Social-Cognitive Factors
Learned helplessness
Attributions
Conditioning and Reinforcement

47. Fairy Tales
Due 10/16/09 and 10/19
Typed – 1 inch margins, 12 pt. Font, Times New Roman
Choose a Fairy Tale (first come/first serve) and give the main character a psychological disorder discussed in class/text.
Keep it PG rated.
Skit – 3 to 5 minutes.