Disorders
A mental health condition that primarily effects the persons emotional state.
What is a mood disorder?
Psychologist who is most known for psychoanalysis.
Who is Freud?
Treating mental illness by finding maladaptive and harmful thought patterns and replacing them with healthier ones
What is cognitive therapy?
Fixed beliefs that do not change, even when a person is presented with conflicting evidence.
What is delusion?
Feelings of fear, dread, and uneasiness that may occur as a reaction to stress.
What is anxiety?
Persistent and excessive worry that effects daily activities.
What is an anxiety disorder?
Psychologist most known for operant condition.
Who is Skinner?
Therapy that focuses on the unconscious mind and past experiences to understand current behaviors (laying on a couch)
What is psychodynamic therapy?
A false perception of objects or events involving your senses: sight, sound, smell, touch, and taste
What is hallucinations?
An uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity.
What is phobia?
A mental health condition where people have a lifelong pattern of seeing themselves and reacting to others in ways that cause problems.
What is a personality disorder?
Psychologist most known for humanistic psychology.
Who is C. Rogers?
The patient is in control of the session, and the therapist is there for support.
What is client-centered therapy?
A psychological condition that causes a person to experience unreasonable euphoria, very intense moods, hyperactivity, and delusions.
What is mania?
A mental disorder characterized by disruptions in thought processes, perceptions, emotional responsiveness, and social interactions.
What is schizophrenia?
A mental health conditions that involve experiencing a loss of connection between thoughts, memories, feelings, surroundings, behavior, and identity
What is a dissociative disorder?
Psychologist who improvised the conditions of the mentally ill and prisoners
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Treatments and techniques that are used to change a individual's maladaptive response to situations.
What is behavioral therapy?
A common mental health condition characterized by a low mood or loss of pleasure or interest in activities for long periods.
What is depression?
A long-lasting disorder in which a person experiences uncontrollable and recurring thoughts (obsessions), engages in repetitive behaviors (compulsions), or both.
What is OCD?
Physical symptoms suggest a physical disorder, but there are no demonstrable organic findings and there is strong evidence for a link to psychological factors or conflicts
What is a somatoform disorder?
Psychologist most known for exposure therapy
Who is Joseph Wolpe?
Psychological treatments such as medicines used to treat psychological disorders.
What is biomedical therapy?
The irrational and persistent feeling that people are 'out to get you' or that you are the subject of persistent, intrusive attention by others.
What is paranoia?
A mental health condition that causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows (depression).
What is Bipolar disorder?