Terms
Paradigms
Assessments
Anxiety Disorders
Somatiform Disorders
100
The main publication currently used to provide diagnostic criteria for specific mental disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)?
100
This approach focuses on the origins of mental illnesses from past experiences and unconscious processing.
What is the psychoanalytic approach?
100
This form of assessment attempts to provide a complete history of the individual from birthing difficulty to present problems.
What is the clinical interview?
100
A type of panic attack which occurs immediately on exposure to or in anticipation of a situational trigger.
What is a situationally bound (cued) panic attack?
100
A type of somatiform disorder characterized by a preoccupation with fears of having or the idea that one has a serious disease based on a misinterpretation of one or more signs or symptoms, which must last for six months and impair normal functioning.
What is hypochondriasis?
200
After observing the behaviors of another, this refers to the tendency to immitate those behaviors.
What is modeling?
200
This approach emphasizes the idea that mental illness is much like physical illness.
What is the biological approach?
200
This is a projective personality measure that consists of a series of black and white pictures depicting situations that a person is supposed to tell a story about.
What is the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
200
A type of anxiety disorder that is characterized by a marked and persistant fear of a very specific object or situation which evokes immediate anxiety.
What is specific phobia (simple phobia)?
200
A type of somatiform disorder where pain is the predominant focus of the clinical presentation, which causes significant impairment in life and functioning.
What is pain disorder?
300
These are chemical substances that transfer messages from one neuron to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
300
This approach suggests that abnormal behavior is learned and can therefore be unlearned.
What is the behavioral approach?
300
This is a personality inventory that consists of 566 true or false questions, which was created during the 1940s and revised during the 1980s.
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
300
A type of anxiety disorder characterized by the presence of recurrent, unexpected panic attacks that are not situationally triggered, followed by at least one month of persistent concern about having another panic attack.
What is panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia)?
300
A type of somatiform disorder characterized by a pattern of recurring, mulitple, clinically significant somatic complaints that interfear with one's ability to function, which cannot be explained by any known general medical condition or the use of any substance.
What is somatization disorder?
400
This is the study of frequency and distribution of disorders.
What is epidemiology?
400
This approach emphasizes the importance of free will and personal responsibility as the keys to health and well being.
What is the humanistic approach?
400
Thesre are types of personality measures that consist of presenting ambiguous stimuli that allow people to fill in the blanks from the feelings or emotions within.
What are projective measures?
400
A type of anxiety disorder that is characterized by a persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment may occur.
What is social phobia?
400
A type of somatiform disorder characterized by deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory function that suggests a neurological or medical condition.
What is conversion disorder?
500
This is an assesment of how useful certain criteria is by determining if it is measuring what it is supposed to be measuring.
What is validity?
500
This approach focuses on changing cognitions, emotions, and behaviors.
What is the cognitive behavioral approach?
500
This type of assessment can help measure a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills, but can be culturally biased.
What is intelligence testing?
500
A type of anxiety disorder that is characterized by excessive anxiety and worry, occuring more days than not for a period of at least six months, about a number of activities.
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
500
A type of somatiform disorder that is characterized by a preoccupation with a defect in appearance, which may be an imagined or slight physical anomaly.
What is body dismorphic disorder?
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