KNES 350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, National Comorbidity Survey, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
13 Aug 2016
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Mental health: a state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with other people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope with adversity. Mental illness: term used to refer collectively to all diagnosable mental disorders. Mental disorders: health conditions that are characterized by alterations in thinking, mood, or behavior (or some combination thereof) associated with distress and/or impaired functioning. Anxiety: pathological counterpart of normal fear, manifest by disturbances of mood, as well as of thinking, behavior, and physiological activity. Clinical anxiety: behavior and cognitive changes, when it occurs without some eliciting event, and when the response is disproportionate and unmanageable. Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent of the mental disorders. Compulsions may be behaviors or thoughts: post traumatic stress disorder: an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety and behavioral disturbances that persist for more than 1 month, following exposure to extreme trauma (e. g. , combat, physical assault)
