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Bernice Medrano Prof Mcclean November 26, 2011 Personal Development 40 Using the SQ3R Method I used the

SQ3R Method and Surveyed the first 5 pages on Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders in my Exploring Psychology book. I first looked at the headlines that were in bold and the first major headline was named Perspectives on Psychological Disorders. The sub headings were as follows: Defining Psychological Disorders, Understanding Psychological Disorders, The Medical Model, The Biopsychosocial Approach, Classifying Psychological Disorder, How are Psychological Disorders Diagnosed?, and Labeling Psychological Disorders. The next main heading was Anxiety Disorders. Following the second main headline were the following sub headings: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, and Phobias. I then Questioned the headings before I Read the passages and found the answers to my questions. Q: Who has different perspectives in Psychological Disorders? A: People have different perspectives in saying or recognizing people. Q: What is a Psychological Disorder? A: Psychological Disorders are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions. Q: How does one know one differs from a psychological disorder from being normal? A: One has to be deviant and the deviance usually causes distress and are more likely to be considered disordered when also judged to be a harmful dysfunction. Q: How can I understand psychological disorders? A: The perspectives that can help me understand the psychological disorder is by using the medical model and the Biopsychosocial approach. Q: What is a Medical Model? A: The Medical Model is the search for physical causes of mental disorders and using treatments that would cure a person. Q: How does the biopsychosocial approach help in identifying a disorder?

A: It makes us look at three different perspectives such as the biological, psychological, and social-cultural factors that interacts to produce a specific psychological disorder. Q: Are there different ways in classifying Psychological Disorders? A: The only current scheme for classifying disorders is called the DSM-IV-TR (The American Psychiatric Association Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and is widely used. Q: How and why do clinicians classify disorders? A: They use it to communicate the causes to comprehend, underline causes, and to apply proper treatment. Q: Why do psychologists criticize the use of diagnostic labels? A: Some believe that they are worst to solve judgement mascarading as science. Once a person has a label others may view that person differently. The second main heading was Anxiety Disorders. Q: What are anxiety disorders? A: Anxiety disorders are psychological disorders that are characterized by distress. Q: Where do you draw the line from anxiety disorders from worries and fears? A: When one has a maladaptive behavior in order to reduce the anxiety. Q: What is the generalized Anxiety Disorder passage about? A: Its about someone that has a Generalized Psychological disorder that one has due to being tense and then has trouble with his autonomic system. Q: What are the symptoms to G.A.D.? A: Symptoms are being jittery, sleep-deprived, having twitches, having trouble concentrating, trembling, and perspiration. Q: What is a panic disorder? A: It is a really bad anxiety attack one feels that they might even die depending on how terrifying the attack may be. Q: What does one with a panic disorder feel like when they are having a panic attack? A: They feel heart palpitations shortness of breath, choking sensations, trembling or dizziness. It can feel like having a heart attack or another fatal attack.

Q: What are phobias? A: Phobias are anxiety disorders in which an irrational fear causes the person to avoid an object, activity, or situation. Recite: Key Terms: 1. Psychological disorders- deviant distressful and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, and actions 2. 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 3. DSM-IV-TR- A widely used system of classifying a disorder 4. Anxiety Disorder- psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety 5. Generalized anxiety disorder- an anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in state of autonomic system arousal. 6. Panic Disorder- an anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread when one experiences frightening sensations. 7. Phobias- an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent fear of something and then later avoids it. After writing the key terms I went to the Rehearse it box in the textbook and started to answer them the questions, some were as follows: 1. Although some psychological disorders are culture bound, others are universal. For example, in every known culture some people have Schizophrenia 2. If a lawyer washes his hand 100 times a day for no apparent reason and has no time left to meet with his clients , it would be labeled as a disorder because it is among other things Distressing and dysfunctional Review: Psychological disorders are dysfunctional patterns of thoughts. Its definition can always change depending on the culture and time. Psychologists can use the medical model or the biopsychosocial approach to help us understand psychological disorders. Clinicians use something called the DSM-IT-TR which is a manual filled with many disorders and can help label a disorder that a patient has. Many psychologists criticize the manual because it can change the way they view a patient. Anxiety disorders are disorders that occur when one is distressed and shows maladaptive behaviors to reduce anxieties. Examples of anxiety disorders are panic disorders, obsessive compulsive disorders, post-traumatic stress

disorders, and generalized anxiety disorders. Today there are still questions on if someone with a psychological disorder that has committed a serious crime should be sent to prison or to a mental facility.

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