BEHAVIORAL

DISTURBANCES
PRESENTED BY: JOSHUA E.
GULMATICO, RSW
 Objectives
• To understand the behavioral
disturbances
• To know the different personality
disorders.
• To learn from this topic enable to
apply in reality.
What is Behavioral Disturbances?
•Any persistent and repetitive pattern
of behavior that violates societal
norms or rules, seriously impairs a
person's functioning, or creates
distress in others. The term is used in
a very general sense to cover a wide
range of disorders or syndromes.
Also called behavioral disorder.
RETROGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
- the person returns to modes
of behaviour as in early
childhood where he may cry or
seek parental cares.
PRIMITIVATION - The
behaviour is primitive resulting
to first fighting or hair-pulling.
 ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
•A neurosis or a psychoneurosis- a benign mental disorder
characterized by:
A. Incomplete insight into the nature of the
difficulty
B. Conflicts
C. Anxiety reactions
D. Partial impairment of personality
E. Presence of phobias, digestive disturbances and
F. Obsessive-compulsive behavior
 ANXIETY REACTION
- The person is continually uneasy, with
secondary complaints like insomnia, inability
to concentrate.
- The person cannot identify the object source
of the apprehension.
Example: The person senses an impending
danger without being able to specify its
nature. This requires sedation or considerable.
 Common anxiety signs and symptoms
include:
• Feeling nervous, restless or • Feeling weak or tired
tense
• Trouble concentrating or
• Having a sense of impending thinking about anything other
danger, panic or doom than the present worry
• Having an increased heart • Having trouble sleeping
rate Experiencing gastrointestinal
(GI) problems
• Breathing rapidly
(hyperventilation) • Having difficulty controlling
worry
• Sweating
• Having the urge to avoid
• Trembling
things that trigger anxiety
• Feeling weak or tired
 Agoraphobia
• is
a type of anxiety disorder in which you fear
and often avoid places or situations that might
cause you to panic and make you feel trapped,
helpless or embarrassed.

• Anxiety disorder due to a medical condition

includes symptoms of intense anxiety or panic
that are directlycaused by a physical health
problem.
 PANIC DISORDER
•Involves repeated episodes of sudden feelings
of intense anxiety and fear or terror that
reach a peak within minutes (panic attacks).
You may have feelings of impending doom,
shortness of breath, chest pain, or a rapid,
fluttering or pounding heart (heart
palpitations). These panic attacks may lead to
worrying about them happening again or
avoiding situations in which they've occurred.
•Selective mutism is a consistent failure of
children to speak in certain situations, such as
school, even when they can speak in other
situations, such as at home with close family
members. This can interfere with school, work
and social functioning.

•Separation anxiety disorder is a childhood

disorder characterized by anxiety that's
excessive for the child's developmental level
and related to separation from parents or
others who have parental roles.
• Social anxiety disorder (social phobia)
involves high levels of anxiety, fear and avoidance
of social situations due to feelings of
embarrassment, self-consciousness and concern
about being judged or viewed negatively by others.
Specific phobias are characterized by major
anxiety when you're exposed to a specific object or
situation and a desire to avoid it. Phobias provoke
panic attacks in some people.
• Substance-induced anxiety disorder is
characterized by symptoms of intense anxiety or
panic that are a direct result of misusing drugs,
taking medications, being exposed to a toxic
substance or withdrawal from drugs.
 NEURASTHENIA
• -early
classification of anxiety reaction characterized
physical and mental fatigue as well as anxiety.
• Example:
•- The person has difficulty concentrating is easily
distracted and does not have the sufficient energy
to carry on the ordinary tasks of life.
•- The person sleeps a great deal but still remains
chronically tired especially in the morning when he
has to face the tasks of the day.
 NEURASTHENIA
• He ample energy for the pleasant and interesting
things like playing but extremely fatigued with the
boring and conflicting tasks he has to perform.
• Frequentlycomplaining of headaches, indigestion,
pain and dizziness, all of no organic origin.
• Thus, the person is able to escape from life’s
failures on these grounds as well as to escape
from threatening situations.
 HYPOCHONDRIASIS
•Anxiety about peculiar organic
symptoms or sensations. A
person is fearful that he may
die or be serious ill.
- Example: aging parents
complaining related to health
 DISSOCIATIVE REACTIONS
•- This includes amnesias, multiple
personalities, figures and
somnambulism
•- Common quality is a dissociation
of distributing memories of
thoughts, from the rest of the
personality.
 AMNESIA
•a person cannot recall certain
past experiences of life no brain
damage because the person can
not cope with this threatening
material or information, there is
repression so it can be eliminated
from consciousness.
 Multiple Personalities
•-parts of personalities have not been
successfully integrated so that they
become separated or dissociated from
each other and the person frequently
salts from one to the other.
•-when one personality is free and
impulsive another is inhibited and
responsible.
 SOMNAMBULISM
•certain thoughts become so
strong during sleep a to
determine the person's behavior.
The person uses and carries out
some act. Nothing is remembered
during the waking state.
 Conversion Reaction
•-The person suffers from physical
symptoms with not organic basis. There
is loss of sensitivity of some body parts
where the person does not feel any part
of sensation in the part of the body.
•Ex. blindness deafness, convulsions or
inability to talk of swallow
 Phobias
•-reactions characterized by intense and
chronic fear of something.
•- The fear is irrational and interferes with
everyday activities.
•- The person is aware of the irrationality
but could not resolve it or remove
himself from the situation.
 Phobias
• Claustrophobia- fear of enclosed spaces
• Acrophobia - fear of high places
• Hydrophobia - fear of water
• Misophobia - fear of germs
• Thanatophobia- fear of death
• Algophobia: Fear of pain
• Androphobia: Fear of men
• Autonomanophobia: Fear of human-like figures
 Phobias
• Bibliophobia: Fear of books
• Chronophobia: Fear of time
• Daemonophobia: Fear of demons
• Erotophobia: Fear of sex
• Glossophobia: Fear of speaking in public
• Sociophobia: Fear of social evaluation
• Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners
• Pathophobia: Fear of disease
 Obsessive Compulsive
Reactions
•-a
useless or irrational thoughts that persist
The thinking of certain thoughts keeps other
more terrible thoughts from being expressed.
•Such thoughts can involve the expression
frequently in disguise form hostile
•Can also be an act which one is impelled to
carry out
•Ex. hand washing
 VOYEUISM
•-isa paraphilia in which a person
finds sexual pleasure by
watching or peeping men naked,
undressing, or having sex. These
disorders occur in males and that
the object is usually a stranger.
 ZOOPHILIA
•-isa term that describes sexual
feelings or behaviors involving
animals. Zoophilia sexual feelings
with people might focus on
domestic animals like dogs, or
farm animals such as sheep or
goats.
 NECROPHILIA
•-is a term that
describes sexual
feelings or behaviors
involving the body.