CHAPTER 13: Psychological Disorders
TERMS							
The Medical Model of Mental Illness		Dissociative Disorders
	etiology					Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue
	diagnosis					Dissociative Fugue
	prognosis					Multiple personality disorder
Thomas Szasz					Mood Disorders
deviance						Depressive disorders
maladaptive behavior					Bipolar disorders
personal distress					Mania
cultural bounds of normality			Concordance Rates
Psychodiagnosis				Selective Seratonin Reuptake Inhibitor
	DSM-IV				Paxil, Prozac
	Axis I					Attributional Style
	Axis II					Rumination
Anxiety Disorders				Schizophrenia
	Generalized Anxiety Disorders		delusional thinking
	Phobic Disorder				hallucinations
	Panic Disorder					communication deviance
Somatoform Disorders				relativistic view of psychopathology
	somatization disorder			pancultural view of psychopathology
	conversion disorder			koro
	hypocondriasis				windigo
						anorexia nervosa
Chapter Fourteen’s Dead Give-Away Question
Name three examples of mental illness that are unique to the culture in which they occur (“culture bound phenomena”).

Review Questions:
1.	Why was approaching mental illness using the medical model of illness a “step up” from previous conceptualization of abnormal behavior?
2.	Thomas Szasz has pointed out that the medical model of illness (despite its advantages) has serious disadvantages when applied to mental illness.  What are they?
3.	Explain the meanings of the terms "etiology", "diagnosis", and "prognosis".  Why might knowledge of each of these be useful in the treatment of mental illness?
4.	What are three factors typically used to define whether one is suffering from mental illness?
5.	How is our definition of “normal and abnormal behavior” inextricably lined to the culture of the time?  Give an example of behavior that is normal in our world today that would have been thought to be abnormal at another point in time, or in another culture.
6.	What is the difference between a phobic disorder generalized anxiety disorder and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia).
7.	What are common characteristics of somatoform disorders?  How do somatization disorders, conversion disorders, and hypocondriasis differ?
8.	Name and differentiate the three forms of dissociative disorders.  Which of these is frequently accompanying by a childhood history of severe physical or sexual abuse?
9.	Name 5 behavioral/cognitive characteristics of unipolar depressive disorders.
10.	How does a bipolar mood disorder differ from a unipolar mood disorder?
11.	What is convincing evidence to scientists cite to suggest mood disorders are strongly related to genetic make-up?
12.	Currently the most popular medications for depression are called selective seratonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).  What are two of the most popular brands of this medication and what do the do (on the neural level) that may lessen depression for those medicated?
13.	What is an “attributional style”.  How what are three characteristics of depressives attributional style which may exacerbate their depression?  What is rumination, and what is its effect on maintaining depressive states?
14.	How do delusions and hallucinations relate to schizophrenia?  What do scientists believe the relationship is between dopamine and schizophrenia?
15.	Briefly, what evidence is there for the pancultual view of mental illness?  What evidence is there for the relativistic view of mental illness?