1. Mental and Emotion Problems
Ch. 9

2. Mental Disorders
Mental disorder: is an illness of the mind that can effect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person, preventing him or her from leading a happy, healthful, and productive life

3. Types of Mental Disorders
Organic or functional
Organic- caused by physical illness or an injury that affects the brain
Functional- has a psychological cause and does not involve brain damage

4. Mental Disorders Mood disorder: organic Clinical depression:
Anxiety disorder: real or imagined fears are difficult to control
Phobia: irrational fear of something specific
Obsessive compulsive disorder: trapped in pattern of repeated thoughts
Panic disorder: sudden unexplained feelings of terror
Post-Traumatic Stress disorder: developed after exposure to a terrfying event
Mood disorder: organic
Clinical depression:
19 million people effected
Bipolar disorder: extreme mood changes “highs”, “Lows”
Eating disorders
Conduct disorders
Schizophrenia: people loses contact with reality

5. Personality Disorders
Antisocial
-tend to be irritable, aggressive, impulsive, and violent.
Borderline personality
- Experience series of troubled relationships, engage in high risk activities, many have poor self esteem
Passive aggressive personality
- Uncooperative they resent being told what to do, yet they rely on others for direction. Anger over issue of control

6. Suicide Prevention Recognize the signs to prevent Helping others
Show support
Initiate meaningful conversations
Persuade to seek help

7. Therapy Methods Psychotherapy Behavior Therapy Cognitive therapy
Group therapy
Biomedical therapy

8. Behavior Therapies
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
The behaviors are the problems- so we must change the behaviors.

9. Cognitive Therapy
Cognitive Therapists try to teach people new, more constructive ways of thinking.
Is .300 a good or bad batting average?

10. Group Therapies
Treating a group of people who have similar problems and who meet regularly with trained counselor

11. The Grieving Process