Title: Identify common mental health disorders.
Course: Medical Terminology (14154-II) > Section: Understanding Mental Health

Identification should include

- listing the most common disorders (i.e., anxiety, dissociative, eating, mood, psychotic, developmental, personality, sexual and gender, cognitive, somatoform, and substance-related)
- listing common defense mechanisms and their purposes
- describing each disorder, using medical terminology.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does an anxiety disorder differ from a depressive disorder? How is it similar?
- What is an example of a defense mechanism? In what situation might this defense mechanism be used?
- How might overuse of a defense mechanism contribute to the development of a mental illness?