Seeking help
Psychological Disorders
Diagnosis
Treatments
Anything goes
100
This is the point in a person's life when they decide to seek help for a mental illness or disorder. (It's not vocab...it's logic).
What is a crisis?
100
In this disorder, the person believes they are the most important person in the world and are preoccupied with their own importance.
What is narcissism?
100
Patients with this disorder vascilate between extreme highs in a manic phase, and extreme lows, during a depressed phase.
What is bipolar disorder?
100
Allie was in a car with her brother, Aaron, when they were in a terrible crash. Aaron died in the accident and Allie was left with tremendous guilt. She sought a counselor to help her process her thoughts/feelings and to help alleviate the guilt of surviving through this type of therapy.
What is cognitive therapy?
100
If a child receives a spanking at unpredictable times from the same parent (without a clear reason), and then becomes afraid of that parent. This child has learned a response through this type of conditioning.
What is classical conditioning?
200
This would be the area of study where a clinical psychologist who follows the ideas of Freud and seeks to help patients by analyzing their childhoods especially focusing on conflicts that existed between the child and parent.
What is psychoanalysis?
200
This is a type of anxiety disorder in which you fear and avoid places or situations that might cause you to panic and make you feel trapped, helpless or embarrassed.
What is agoraphobia?
200
Samuel, a student at Antelope, taking 4 AP classes, often feels nervous or anxious but doesn't know why. Occasionally and without warning, he will have heart palpitations, get sweaty palms and feel nauseous. His Dr. has diagnosed him with this illness.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
200
Susie chews on her hoodie strings. Her mother is seeking a way to stop this behavior, so she soaks the strings in Siracha sauce, knowing Susie is very sensitive to spices. Susie's mom is using this type of therapy.
What is aversion/aversive conditioning?
200
This drug has provided the most help for patients with schizophrenia especially with auditory hallucinations.
What is Thorazine?
300
If a psychiatrist prescribes a tranquilizer for a person who is incredibly nervous to fly, then this professional believes is this type of therapy.
What is biomedical therapy.
300
An example of this is believing you see a green monster peeking out from your closet.
What is a hallucination?
300
During one of his therapy appointments, John is asked to relive a traumatic experience. Suddenly he begins to stutter and cannot clearly articulate his story. Psychoanalysts (especially Freud) would interpret this as an example of this.
What is resistance?
300
This type of therapy is only used in extreme cases of severe depression in patients.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
300
This is a type of behavior therapy where the patient is systematically desensitized to a specific trigger.
What is counter-conditioning?
400
This is the most common reason people seek mental health services.
What is depression?
400
An example of this is believing you are a unicorn who could fly off the top floor and gracefully sail to the ground below.
What is a delusion?
400
An example of this occurs in this scenario: Paulo was convinced he had cancer. Every week he saw a Dr. complaining about swollen glands, heart palpitations, constipation or some other physical symptom. Drs have ruled out cancer and explained he was very healthy. However, Paulo continued to fixate (obsess) about these symptoms, so the Dr. explained this obsession is what is causing him to actually have distress and problems functioning.

What are somatic symptoms?

Formerly known as hypochondriasis.

400
Xanax and Ativan are these types of drugs.
What are anti-anxiety?
400
In this treatment scenario, neither the patient nor the Dr. know if the subject was given a medicine or a placebo.
What is double-blind procedure/study?
500
An example of this occurs when Noah approached his teacher to explain why his homework wasn't done. He explained that first his dog ate his homework, then out of fear, his dog ran away. Noah spent the whole night looking for the dog, who had hid behind a cactus bush and was covered with stickers that then Noah had to spend the remaining morning hours removing. The teacher responded, "so what I hear you saying is you need more time for your homework, am I right?"
What is active listening?
500
This resource identifies the classification and information related to a wide-variety of psychological disorders and is very useful for providing guidelines for diagnosing mental disorders...however it does NOT explain the cause of the disorder.
What is the DSM-V?
500
The most effective pharmaceutical for treating this disorder is Lithium.
What is mania in Bi-Polar Disorder patients?
500
Selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors (SSRIs) are often prescribed for this type of illness.
What is depression?
500
This is a psychosurgical procedure that was designed to calm uncontrollably emotional and violent patients.
What is a lobotomy?
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