Strategies

• Types of mental disorders

  • Anxiety disorders
  • Affective disorders
  • Psychotic disorders
• Anxiety disorders


  Induce a continuous feeling of fear that has a negative impact on daily life
• Anxiety disorders


  • Phobia - an intense, irrational, and persistent fear of a particular object or situation
• Affective disorders


  Induce significant changes in mood, such as feelings of sadness or emptiness
• Affective disorders


  • Major depressive disorder - feelings of severe sadness and irritability which negatively impact how one thinks, feels, and acts
• Psychotic disorders


  Induce a loss of touch with reality
• Psychotic disorders


  • Schizophrenia - a chronic disorder where patients are unable to distinguish between what is real and what is not