QMHA - Mental Disorders
smelling, or feelings that others cannot. Disorganized speech that involves difficulty
organizing thoughts, thought-blocking, and making up nonsensical words. Grossly
disorganized or catatonic behavior.
Schizophrenic negative symptoms - ✔️✔️flat affect, disillusionment with daily life,
isolating behavior, lack of motivation, and infrequent speaking.
PTSD - ✔️✔️characterized as the development of debilitating symptoms following
exposure to a traumatic or dangerous event.
Pre-traumatic factors - ✔️✔️childhood emotional problems by age 6, lower
socioeconomic status, lower education, prior exposure to trauma, childhood adversity,
lower intelligence, minority racial/ethnic status, and a family psychiatric history.
Peri-traumatic factors - ✔️✔️severity of the trauma, perceived life threat, personal
injury, interpersonal violence, and dissociation during the trauma that persists
afterwards.
Post-traumatic factors - ✔️✔️negative appraisals, ineffective coping strategies,
subsequent exposure to distressing reminders, subsequent adverse life events, and
other trauma-related losses.
Symptoms of PTSD - ✔️✔️avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event,
negative changes in cognition and mood corresponding with the traumatic event,
changes in arousal, hyper vigilance, distractibility, exaggerated startle response, irritable
or self-destructive behavior.
Bipolar I - ✔️✔️having at least one manic episode in a person's life.
Bipolar II - ✔️✔️having been a more regular occurrence of depressive episodes along
with a hypomanic episode, but not a full-blown manic episode.
Cyclothymic disorder or cyclothymia - ✔️✔️a diagnosis used for a mild form of bipolar
disorder.
Depressive disorders - ✔️✔️characterized by a sad, hopeless, empty, or irritable mood,
and somatic and cognitive changes that significantly interfere with daily life.
Major depressive disorder - ✔️✔️defined as having a depressed mood for most of the
day and a marked loss of interest or pleasure, among other symptoms present nearly
every day for at least two-weeks. May appear as more irritable than a sad disposition.
, MDD causes - ✔️✔️genetic, biological, and environmental factors.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder - ✔️✔️children who display a frequent and persistent
pattern of angry or irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness.
Symptoms of ODD - ✔️✔️angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or
vindictiveness. Frequently resentful, or easily annoyed.
Conduct Disorder - ✔️✔️persistent pattern of disruptive and violent behaviors that
violate the basic rights of others or age-appropriate social norms or rules, and causes
significant impairment in the child or family's daily life.
Conduct disorder temperamental risk factors - ✔️✔️difficulties in infancy and below-
average intelligence. Having other disorders including ADHD, learning disabilities, and
depression.
Conduct disorder environmental risk factors - ✔️✔️harsh or inconsistent child-rearing
practices and or child maltreatment. Parental criminality, frequent changes of
caregivers, large family size, familial psychopathology, and early institutional living.
Conduct disorder community risk factors - ✔️✔️neighborhood exposure to violence,
peer rejection, association with a delinquent peer group.
Symptoms of conduct disorder - ✔️✔️aggression to people and animals, destruction of
property, deceitfulness or theft, serious violations of rules.
OCD - ✔️✔️defined by the presence of persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are
intrusive and unwanted (obsessions), or repetitive and ritualistic behaviors that a person
feels are necessary in order to control obsessions (compulsions).
OCD causes - ✔️✔️runs in family, associated with environmental risk factors, such as
child maltreatment or traumatic childhood events.
ADHD - ✔️✔️persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity.
Sub-types of ADHD - ✔️✔️Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive, predominantly
inattentive, combined hyperactive/inattentive
Bipolar or related disorders - ✔️✔️atypical, dramatic swings in mood, and activity levels
that go from periods of feeling intensely happy, irritable, and impulsive to periods of
intense sadness and feelings of hopelessness.
smelling, or feelings that others cannot. Disorganized speech that involves difficulty
organizing thoughts, thought-blocking, and making up nonsensical words. Grossly
disorganized or catatonic behavior.
Schizophrenic negative symptoms - ✔️✔️flat affect, disillusionment with daily life,
isolating behavior, lack of motivation, and infrequent speaking.
PTSD - ✔️✔️characterized as the development of debilitating symptoms following
exposure to a traumatic or dangerous event.
Pre-traumatic factors - ✔️✔️childhood emotional problems by age 6, lower
socioeconomic status, lower education, prior exposure to trauma, childhood adversity,
lower intelligence, minority racial/ethnic status, and a family psychiatric history.
Peri-traumatic factors - ✔️✔️severity of the trauma, perceived life threat, personal
injury, interpersonal violence, and dissociation during the trauma that persists
afterwards.
Post-traumatic factors - ✔️✔️negative appraisals, ineffective coping strategies,
subsequent exposure to distressing reminders, subsequent adverse life events, and
other trauma-related losses.
Symptoms of PTSD - ✔️✔️avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event,
negative changes in cognition and mood corresponding with the traumatic event,
changes in arousal, hyper vigilance, distractibility, exaggerated startle response, irritable
or self-destructive behavior.
Bipolar I - ✔️✔️having at least one manic episode in a person's life.
Bipolar II - ✔️✔️having been a more regular occurrence of depressive episodes along
with a hypomanic episode, but not a full-blown manic episode.
Cyclothymic disorder or cyclothymia - ✔️✔️a diagnosis used for a mild form of bipolar
disorder.
Depressive disorders - ✔️✔️characterized by a sad, hopeless, empty, or irritable mood,
and somatic and cognitive changes that significantly interfere with daily life.
Major depressive disorder - ✔️✔️defined as having a depressed mood for most of the
day and a marked loss of interest or pleasure, among other symptoms present nearly
every day for at least two-weeks. May appear as more irritable than a sad disposition.
, MDD causes - ✔️✔️genetic, biological, and environmental factors.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder - ✔️✔️children who display a frequent and persistent
pattern of angry or irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness.
Symptoms of ODD - ✔️✔️angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or
vindictiveness. Frequently resentful, or easily annoyed.
Conduct Disorder - ✔️✔️persistent pattern of disruptive and violent behaviors that
violate the basic rights of others or age-appropriate social norms or rules, and causes
significant impairment in the child or family's daily life.
Conduct disorder temperamental risk factors - ✔️✔️difficulties in infancy and below-
average intelligence. Having other disorders including ADHD, learning disabilities, and
depression.
Conduct disorder environmental risk factors - ✔️✔️harsh or inconsistent child-rearing
practices and or child maltreatment. Parental criminality, frequent changes of
caregivers, large family size, familial psychopathology, and early institutional living.
Conduct disorder community risk factors - ✔️✔️neighborhood exposure to violence,
peer rejection, association with a delinquent peer group.
Symptoms of conduct disorder - ✔️✔️aggression to people and animals, destruction of
property, deceitfulness or theft, serious violations of rules.
OCD - ✔️✔️defined by the presence of persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are
intrusive and unwanted (obsessions), or repetitive and ritualistic behaviors that a person
feels are necessary in order to control obsessions (compulsions).
OCD causes - ✔️✔️runs in family, associated with environmental risk factors, such as
child maltreatment or traumatic childhood events.
ADHD - ✔️✔️persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity.
Sub-types of ADHD - ✔️✔️Predominantly hyperactive/impulsive, predominantly
inattentive, combined hyperactive/inattentive
Bipolar or related disorders - ✔️✔️atypical, dramatic swings in mood, and activity levels
that go from periods of feeling intensely happy, irritable, and impulsive to periods of
intense sadness and feelings of hopelessness.
