Angela MacIsaac
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
What is a Psychological Disorder?
Psychological disorder:
a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an
individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
Medical Model:
the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical
causes that can be diagnosed, treated and in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a
hospital.
DSM-5
: the American Psychiatric Association’s
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders
, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
Anxiety Disorders, OCD and PTSD
Anxiety disorders
: psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or
maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.
Generalized anxiety disorder
: an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense,
apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
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