Types of Treatment
This type of treatment uses medication to help manage symptoms.
Psychopharmacology
This manual is used by psychologists and psychiatrists to classify mental disorders.
DSM-5
Simba witnesses a family tragedy. Following the tragedy, he leaves home (avoidance), has nightmares about the tragedy, and can't focus in Lion School. Even his friend Pumba can't cheer him up.
PTSD
Feeling nervous before a test means you have an anxiety disorder.
False!
Tommy has tried all other forms of talking treatment, but is still suffering from depression. He thinks his brain might just be functioning incorrectly.
Psychopharmacology
This therapy uses exposure and learning principles to help reduce fears and unwanted behaviors.
Behavioral Therapy
One benefit of diagnosing someone with a psychological disorder.
Aiden avoids school because he's convinced classmates are laughing at him, even though there's little evidence that anyone is paying attention to him. He struggles to talk to his classmates.
Every time he has to give a class presentation, his heart races, he starts sweating, and he worries everyone will think he's embarrassing himself. He even skipped school on presentation day.
Which disorder?
Social Anxiety Disorder
Depression is when you feel sad for a day or two.
False!
Gracie's parents have just divorced. When she spends time at her mom's house, they argue all the time. Additionally, she gets into physical fights with her step-siblings. She feels like her biological dad doesn't have her back as much as he used to, and notices that her dad is sad.
What therapy are you using to help her?
Group therapy! Family therapy!
This therapy offers a supportive environment where people can connect over shared experiences. These sessions provide a space for mutual support, insight, and learning.
Group therapy
One potential downside of giving someone a psychological label.
Olivia spends hours every night arranging the items on her desk until everything feels "exactly right." If someone moves even one pencil, she feels intense anxiety and has to start over.
Before leaving the house each morning, she checks that she unplugged her hair straightener over and over.
She also keeps having unwanted thoughts that his family will get hurt unless she taps her locker exactly five times before class.
Which disorder?
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Not everyone who experiences trauma develops PTSD.
True!
Alex is a five-sport athlete and needs to get her health clearance forms filled out to play her sports. The form requires that she have a particular immunization, but Alex has a severe phobia of needles. She can't even think about the needle without crying and won't go to the doctor's office.
What therapy are you using and how does it work?
Behavioral therapy...
This therapy teaches people to identify and challenge unhealthy thoughts.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
True or False:
A diagnosis defines a person's identity
False!!
Jackson washes his hands before eating lunch every day and also after he uses the restroom.
What disorder is this?
Not a disorder! Hopefully, a habit that everyone has!
People with schizophrenia have multiple personalities.
False!
Tony comes into for CBT therapy. This is what he tells you.
Situation: He's in an intro psych class that he doesn't want to be in.
Thought: He thinks that he hates school and is being punished by having to take the class
Emotion: He feels angry and disengaged
Behavior: He sits in class but has both airpods in and plays music very loudly.
How can you help him?
Situation: He's in an intro psych class, and he hates it so much.
Thought:
Emotion:
Behavior:
Ryan is struggling with depression. What treatment would you use and why?
Depends on how you defended it!
(Hopefully you got it right, idk)
This type of language is preferred because it emphasizes the individual before the diagnosis.
Person-first language
Over the past year, Chloe's emotions have changed dramatically from day to day, her friendships are extremely unstable, and she fears that everyone she cares about will leave her. Small disagreements often feel catastrophic to her.
What disorder?
Personality Disorder BUT we would need more information
Is this true?
Bipolar 1 is extreme mania and depression, while Bipolar 2 is less extreme mania and less extreme depression.
False!
Bipolar 1 is extreme mania and depression (TRUE)
while Bipolar 2 is less extreme mania (TRUE)
and less extreme depression (FALSE)
Quintin comes into for CBT therapy. This is what he tells you.
Situation: Seeing his girlfriend at school is wonderful, but at the end of the school day, when they have to separate, and she takes a while to respond, he spirals.
Thought: He begins to think that she hates him and wants a different boyfriend.
Emotion: He feels anxious, sad, and jealous
Behavior: He calls and calls until she picks up the phone
How can you help him?
Depends on what you said!