Abnormality
Clinical Assessment and Models
Anxiety Disorders
Mood Disorders
100

The four basic standards of identifying abnormal behavior.

What is deviant, distress, dysfunction, danger?

100
The perspective that abnormal behavior consists of maladaptive responses learned through reinforcement of the wrong kinds of behavior.
What is the behavioral approach?
100

This disorder is characterized by excessive acquisition of and an inability to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of a home.

What is Hoarding disorder?

100

This drug is very effective in treating Bipolar I disorders especially the mania

What is Lithium?

200

These are the 3 key components of treatment.

What is a sufferer, trained healer, and interaction between sufferer and healer.

200

This model focuses on maladaptive behaviors and/or cognitions in understanding and treating psychological abnormality.

What is the cognitive-behavioral model?

200
People with this disorder may find that they occasionally check stove burners, count steps, clean homes and offices past the point of normal standards, and wash their hands multiple times in order for it to be "clean."
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
200
unipolar (depressive) and bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders are the two types of ____.
What are mood disorders?
300

He was the first to believe that psychological dysfunction had a physical cause.

Who was hippocretes.

300

The classification system, developed by the American Psychiatric Association, used to describe abnormal behaviors; it is often abbreviated as DSM-5.

What is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?

300
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by intense, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a phobia?
300

Characterized by mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania, the two poles of emotions.

What is bipolar I disorder?

400

This surgical intervention to treat mental illness involved making an incision into the prefrontal cortex of the brain and severing the connections to the other lobes.

What is a lobotomy

400

One of the key components of this model is the basic human need for unconditional positive regard.

What is the Humanistic or Humanistic-Existential Model?

400
Fear or discomfort that arises abruptly and peaks in 10 minutes or less.
What is a panic attack?
400
A state of helplessness or resignation in which people or animals learn that escape from something painful is impossible and depression results.
What is Learned Helplessness?
500

This doctor argued that mental illness was just a metaphor for human problems in living

Who is Thomas Szasz?

500
The Biological Model of abnormality suggests that chemical imbalances in these two neurotransmitters can lead to psychological dysfunction (especially in depressions)

What are norepinephrine and serotonin?

500
A common chronic problem that affects twice as many women as men and leads to considerable impairment.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
500
Significant change in a teen's eating or sleeping patterns, decline in school performance, dramatic change in personality or appearance, drug or alcohol abuse, obsession with death, withdrawal from friends, family and regular activities, profound guilt or hopelessness, "cleaning house" by giving away favorite possessions are all warning signs of this.
What is suicide?
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