Therapeutic Types
This type of therapy is especially effective for people who have difficulty managing and regulating their emotions. It focuses on helping people accept the reality of their lives and their behaviors, as well as helping them learn to change their lives, including their unhelpful behaviors.
What is Dialectical Behavioral Therapy ?
Consists of the Brain, Spinal Cord, and Brain Stem.
What is the Central Nervous System ?
A stimulant, this drug has the potential for both a psychological and physiological dependence. This drug boosts mental alertness, reduces the need for sleep, induces a pleasurable rush, and causes a loss of appetite.
What is an amphetamine?
According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, this level must be fulfilled before an individual can achieve esteem needs.
What is Love and Belonging needs?
People with high _____ are optimistic about their own ability to get things done, whereas people with low _____ feel a sense of powerlessness.
What is self-efficacy ?
This type of therapy is based on improving your relationships with others to relieve mental health symptoms.
The part of the brain that controls temperature, sexual arousal, hunger, thirst, and the endocrine system.
The Hypothalamus
Fluoxetine, Sertraline, Paroxetine, and Fluvoxamine are examples of this class of drugs.
What are Selective-Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI's)?
In the context of developmental psychology, this theory posits that children actively construct their understanding of the world through their experiences and interactions.
What is Piaget's stages of cognitive development ?
Instead of using our experience to perceive an object, we use only the features of the object itself to build a complete perception.
What is Bottom-Up Processing ?
encourages the acceptance of negative thoughts and emotions while fostering a commitment to personal values.
The neural center located in the limbo system that helps process explicit memories for storage
What is the Hippocampus ?
These work by altering brain chemistry to help reduce symptoms like hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking.
What are Antipsychotics?
The theory that our behavior is motivated by biological needs. A need is one of our requirements for survival, such as food, water, or shelter.
What is Drive-Reduction theory?
This involves a break or separation from memories and thoughts or even a sense of who the person is.
What is Dissociation ?
recognizes and intentionally responds to the lasting adverse effects of experiencing traumatic events, through several principles such as safety, peer support, and empowerment.
What is Trauma-Informed Therapy ?
Carries signals from the CNS to muscles and glands
What is the Efferent Division ?
The three major categories of psychoactive drugs. Note: To get full credit, you need all three!
What are depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens?
This theory hypothesizes that we have three types of cones in the retina and that each type detects a different primary color of light: blue, red, or green.
What is the trichromatic theory ?
This term is used to describe a mental state where an individual is unable to reconcile new information with existing beliefs, leading to discomfort?
What is Cognitive dissonance ?
When the patient is taught to recognize and then control various physiological responses such as breathing, heart rate, or even brain activity without medication.
What is Biofeedback ?
They contribute to the maintenance of homeostasis, help form myelin, and provide support and protection for neurons
What are Glial cells ?
Typically used to help manage anxiety and depression, this drug also has antihistaminic effects
What is Hydroxyzine ?
This theory of emotion would suggest that physiological arousal and the emotional experience occur simultaneously.
What is the Cannon-Bard Theory?
In psychological research, this term is used to describe a detailed analysis of a single individual, group, event, or situation.
What is a Case-Study ?