Psychological problems

Cards (20)

  • Mental health problems - diagnosable conditions in which a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are changed and they are less able to function
  • International Classification of Diseases (ICD) - lists of symptoms and other features of different physical and mental health problems which also provide the criteria for diagnosing them.
  • Stigma - situations, people or characteristics that are disapproved of and seen as shameful by much of society.
  • Society - A group of people living together in an area or country with common values, laws and customs.
  • Bipolar depression - A mood disorder that causes an individual’s mood, and activity levels to change from one extreme to another.
  • Sadness - a normal emotional response to an unpleasant, painful or unhappy situation or experience.
  • Attributions - the ways people explain situations and behaviour.
  • Antidepressants - a type of medication used to treat depression.
  • Holistic - the view that the parts of something are all connected and understandable only by studying things as a whole
  • Reductionist - understanding complex things like human behaviour by simplifying it to its most fundamental and basic parts.
  • What is understanding complex things like human behaviour by simplifying it to its most fundamental and basic parts?
    Reductionist
  • What is the view that the parts of something are all connected and understandable only by studying things as a whole?
    Holistic
  • What is a type of medication used to treat depression?
    Antidepressants
  • What is a normal emotional response to an unpleasant, painful or unhappy situation or experience?
    Sadness
  • What is a mood disorder that causes an individual's mood and activity levels to change from one extreme to another?
    Bipolar depression
  • What is a group of people living together in an area or country with common values, laws and customs?
    Society
  • What is situations, people or characteristics that are disapproved ofand seen as shameful for much of society?
    Stigma
  • What is lists of symptoms and other features of different physical and mental health problems which also provide the criteria for diagnosing them?
    International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
  • What are diagnosable conditions in which a person's thoughts, feeling and behaviours are changed and they are less able to function?

    Mental health problems
  • What is the ways people explain situations and behaviour?
    Attributions