Stressed is just desserts backwards
An event or condition in your surroundings that may trigger stress.
Stressor
The scientific study of human strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.
Positive Psychology
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
Clinical Psychology
This perspective focuses on how we learn observable responses and how the environment impacts those responses.
Behavioral Perspective
A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs.
Bipolar Disorder
An unpredictable, large-scale event that cause significant stress and alter the lives of many people.
Catastrophe
A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation, especially in response to someone doing something kind or helpful.
Gratitude
The study of psychological disorders, including their symptoms, etiology (i.e., their causes), and treatment.
Abnormal Psychology
This perspective emphasizes the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior and the importance of childhood experiences.
Psychodynamic Perspective
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Positive stress which results from striving toward a challenging goal.
Eustress
The ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis or to return to pre-crisis status quickly.
Resilience
A phenomenon where psychology students begin to believe they have the disorders they are studying.
Psychology Student Syndrome
This perspective focuses on the importance of being your true self in order to lead the most fulfilling life.
Humanistic Perspective
An eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.
Bulimia Nervosa
Negative stress that can make a person sick or keep a person from reaching a goal.
Distress
Positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity and other challenges in order to rise to a higher level of functioning.
Posttraumatic Growth
The updated manual that describes and categorizes mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research.
DSM-5-TR
This perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
Cognitive Perspective
A disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Dissociative Amnesia
The three-stage process (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) that describes the physiological changes the body goes through when under stress.
General Adaptation Syndrome
Character strengths and virtues that are personally fulfilling, intrinsic to one's identity, and contribute to the collective well-being.
Signature Strengths & Virtues
A standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management, and clinical purposes. It is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) and covers a broad range of health conditions, including psychological conditions.
International Classification of Mental Disorders (ICD)
This perspective examines how the social environments and cultural upbringing influence an individual's behavior and thoughts.
Sociocultural Perspective
A Japanese culture-specific syndrome characterized by an intense fear that one's body, body parts, or bodily functions give others a negative impression.
Taijin Kyofusho