What is PTSD?
Official name for depression
What is major depressive disorder?
Self-starvation
What is anorexia nervosa?
Involves validating, paraphrasing, and verifying
What is active listening?
Book used to standardize psych diagnoses - on edition 5
What is the DSM?
Repeated behaviors done to relieve worries
What are compulsions?
State of excessive mood and energy
What is mania?
Names for false perceptions; false sensations (both positive symptoms)
What are hallucinations? Delusions?
Letting a person talk randomly about whatever they want
What is free association?
Describes psychological disorders as diseases, symptoms, and treatments rather than socially impacted events
Fear of crowds or other situations where one has a loss of control
Lack of caring
What is apathy?
Forgetting associated with shifting personalities
What is dissociative amnesia?
Involves anxiety hierarchy and progressive muscle relaxation
What is systematic desensitization?
Describes relationship between stress, vulnerability, and emergence of mental disorders
What is the diathesis-stress model?
Type of therapy that rewards anxious kids with a sticker every day they come to school, and larger stickers after 10 days
What is token economy? (Behavioral)
Drugs such as lexapro that alter neurotransmitter levels
What are SSRIs?
Abnormal movement/behavior/reaction patterns and lack of pleasure (specific symptom names)
What is catatonia? What is anhedonia?
Aims to gently reverse catastrophizing
A hyperactive, innattentive, and impulsive person who also struggles with social cues, specified interests, and sensory sensitivity may have these two oft-confused disorders
ADHD; ASD
What is GABA?
Cognitive attribution style (3 words) associated with depression
What is global, stable, and external?
What is tardive dyskinesia?
2 words: The unwillingness of psychoanalytic patients to reveal information and subsequently place conflicts onto psychologists rather than original subjects
What is resistance? What is transference?
Elemental medication not fully understood
What is lithium?