Which Disorder (Symptoms)
The patient is having difficulty with decision-making and concentration and has a lower energy level.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
This category of disorders are characterized by extreme fear and related maladaptive behaviors, where patients may experience palpitations, sweating, terrors, and ANS arousal as a response to a variety of situations.
Anxiety Disorders
The patient wants to try person-centered therapy but is unsure/uneasy about how it works.
Active Listening - Non-directive Therapy
This antidepressant increases serotonin levels by blocking reuptake and includes drugs like Prozac and Zoloft.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)
Because identical twins share all of their genetic information, this is true about the co-twin when one has a psychological disorder.
The co-twin has an increased risk of developing/having the disorder
The patient has an impaired ability to communicate, interact with others, and perform necessary tasks
Motor Disorder
This is a subcategory of disorders where people experience chronic difficulties processing and perceiving information.
Specific learning disorders
Therapist employ this type of therapy when they use 3 different psychotherapies as part of their regimen to treat their patient.
Eclectic Approach
This drug class treats schizophrenia by blocking dopamine receptors.
Antipsychotics (neuroleptics)
Pressure from their parents and imposed expectations to be perfect is a cause of this category of disorders.
Eating disorders
The patient is facing fear of situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
Agoraphobia
This category of disorders is characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts which the person responds to by repeating specific anxiety-regulating behaviors.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
A person with a fear of heights begins their therapy by exposing themselves to looking at photos of tall buildings.
Systematic Desensitization
This mood stabilizer is commonly used to treat bipolar disorder and reduced manic episodes.
Lithium
These three models are the main models that explain mental disorders
The diathesis-stress model (genetics + life stress), the biopsychosocial model, and the medical model
The patient’s speech is making no sense, is exhibiting inappropriate rage, and has a rigid body.
Schizophrenia
This category of disorders occurs when a person’s conscious awareness separates in response to painful thoughts, memories, or feelings.
Dissociative Disorders
A therapist utilizes a confrontational approach by challenging the person’s illogical attitudes. (answer with the full name!)
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)
An example of a medication that slows the central nervous system activity and is used to treat anxiety. (Give an example of the drug that would be prescribed)
Xanax or Valium (depressant)
These four risk factors predict Autism Spectrum Disorder. Name two
(Any of the following two) Fewer than normal neural fiber tracks in the brain; exposure to infection in the womb; external pressure; vaccinations
The patient is facing severely alternating states of lethargy and mania.
Bipolar 1 Disorder
This category of disorders includes Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, caused primarily due to abnormalities in the central nervous system that start in childhood and impair behavioral development.
Neurodivergent Disorders
Cognitive/Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
A child with ADHD is prescribed methylphenidate. This medication works primarily by:
Increasing dopamine and norepinephrine
Studies show that Schizophrenia is largely related to egregious dopamine levels and this other cause that combines biological vulnerabilities with genetics ones
Prenatal Environmental risks (such as low birth weight, oxygen deprivation during birth, exposure to viruses, etc)