Treatment
This type of incentive could be used for persons with severe disorders to encourage them to make their beds every morning
What is token economy?
A psychologist treats phobias by using a hierarchy in which the person experiences a small amount of stimulation and increases as the person becomes more comfortable.
What is a exposure therapy
Two negative symptoms of schizophrenia
What is flat affect or catatonia?
This common symptom of this disorder is hyperawareness of events around you and cause a person to often sit in corners to see their surroundings
What is PTSD
Mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is bipolar?
A type of stress that is considered motivating and positive in accomplishing tasks at hand.
What is Eustress
Type of therapy used by 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?
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?
Some people diagnosed with schizophrenia have abnormally high levels of this neurotransmitter in their limbic system
What is dopamine?
A person with this disorder may be preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
A psychology recommends a mixture of medicine, exposure therapy, and changes in social interactions to treat your disorder. What approach is he recommending?
What is biopsychosocial
This is a benefit of this therapy is to help realize that other people are experiencing the same issues as you
What is group therapy?
The historically most common pharmaceutical for treating this disorder is Lithium.
Bipolar Disorder
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?
In this disorder, you stress about a multitude of things ranging from finances to relationships to work
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This culturally-bound syndrome includes symptoms like uncontrollable shouting, crying, trembling, and fainting in response to extreme stress.
What is ataque de nervios?
Neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty managing attention and executive function.
What is ADHD?
Noah told his teacher 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 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 does this demonstrate?
What is active listening?
You struggle with social interactions, showing appropriate emotions, and demonstrations of compassion
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings.
What are dissociative?
Individuals with this disorder often experience intense, unstable relationships and a fear of abandonment.
What is borderline personality disorder?
If fear is intense enough, it may become THIS, which is the fear or avoidance of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes.
What is agoraphobia?
This type of therapy encourages clients to challenge irrational beliefs and replace them with more realistic thoughts.
What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
Used for mood disorders such as depression, to block the reuptake process of serotonin and force the passage of serotonin through neurons.
What is an SSRI
Three positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Delusion, hallucination, and disorganized speech
This personality disorder includes extreme discomfort in social settings and odd beliefs or magical thinking.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
What is serotonin
Rates for this disorder, characterized by restrictive eating, increase for girls that play with Barbie dolls and in areas that consume more American media.
What is anorexia nervosa?
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?
A patient with schizophrenia may be prescribed this type of medication, which works as an __________ on this specific neurotransmitter (3 parts: type of medication, how it works, on which neurotransmitter)
What is an antipsychotic, working as an antagonist for dopamine?
This is the most troubling and heavily researched personality disorder, characterized by a lack of empathy and superficial charm.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
In this disorder, the person believes they are the most important person in the world and are preoccupied with their own importance.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
This type of therapy is only used in extreme cases of severe depression in patients.
What is electroconvulsive therapy?
This model explains the development of psychological disorders in terms of predispositions and exposure to significant events.
What is the diathesis stress model?