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?
This type of therapy is only used in extreme cases of severe depression in patients.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)?
This category of disorders, often triggered by trauma or stress, involves a detachment from memories, thoughts, feelings, or even one's sense of identity.
What are dissociative disorders?
Tom has accumulated piles of newspapers, old clothing, and broken furniture in his home over the years. Despite the clutter causing his living space to be unsafe and uncomfortable, he feels a strong attachment to these items and is unable to part with them, even when encouraged by family and friends. He has this disorder.
What is hoarding disorder?
Jenny experiences periods of feeling overly energetic and talkative, but these episodes are not severe enough to require hospitalization. At other times, she struggles with deep sadness, low energy, and a lack of interest in activities. These depressive episodes last for weeks. Jenny likely has this disorder:
What is bipolar II?
Exercising these, which include wisdom, courage, and humanity, leads to higher levels of happiness and well-being.
What are signature strengths?
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?
A negative symptom of schizophrenia
What is flat affect, anhedonia (lack of enjoyment), avolition (lack of motivation), reduced speech, or catatonic stupor?
A child has difficulty understanding social cues, such as interpreting facial expressions, and often engages in repetitive behaviors like lining up toys. They show a strong interest in specific topics, but struggle to communicate in social settings. This child likely struggles with this disorder:
What is autism spectrum disorder?
A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-V?
Maria has been feeling sad, hopeless, and fatigued for weeks. She has lost interest in activities she once enjoyed, and even basic tasks feel overwhelming. These feelings are affecting her ability to go to work and maintain relationships. She likely has this disorder:
What is major depressive disorder?
This coping strategy involves actively addressing the source of stress, seeking a solution until it is found.
What is problem-focused coping?
This is a benefit of group therapy over individual therapy
What is to see that others have similar problems?
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?
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?
This model explains the development of psychological disorders in terms of predispositions and exposure to significant events.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
The most common pharmaceutical for treating this disorder is Lithium
Bipolar Disorder
This condition, often linked to stress, can result in high blood pressure, chronic headaches, and a weakened immune system.
What is hypertension
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?
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 treatment approach is the most efficacious for schizophrenia
What are anti-psychotics
Neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by difficulty managing attention and executive function.
What is ADHD?
This therapy approach helps patients trapped in a negative cognitive triad of having negative thoughts about themselves, the world, and the future
What is cognitive therapy?
This term refers to stressors that can motivate us, leading to positive outcomes, as opposed to those that cause harm.
What is eustress?
Systematic desensitization is most effective at treating...
Phobias
This psychosurgical procedure that was designed to calm uncontrollably emotional and violent patients, and was frequently inflicted upon schizophrenia patients in the past.
What is a lobotomy?
Three positive symptoms of schizophrenia
What are delusions, hallucinations, catatonic excitement, and/or disorganized speech? (just need 3)
Symptoms of THIS have been reported by survivors of accidents, disasters, and violent and sexual assaults.
What is PTSD?
These 2 neurotransmitter systems play a role in mood disorders.
What are norepinephrine and serotonin?
This phase of the General Adaptation Syndrome occurs when the body’s resources are depleted after prolonged stress.
What is Exhaustion?
Susie chews on her hoodie strings. Her mother is seeking a way to stop this behavior, so she soaks the strings in Sriracha, knowing Susie is very sensitive to spices. Susie's mom is using this type of therapy.
What is aversion therapy?
Used for mood disorders, SSRIs do this action to meet this neurotransmission goal.
What is block serotonin reuptake to make serotonin more available in the synapse so it bonds with receptor sites more frequently.
This is the most troubling and heavily researched personality disorder, characterized by a lack of empathy and superficial charm.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Rates for this disorder, characterized by restrictive eating, increases for girls that play with Barbie dolls and in areas that consume more American media.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Depressed people tend to explain bad events in terms that are stable ("always going to happen"), global ("affects everything in my life"), and ________________.
What is internal? (“my fault”)
This stress response theory suggests that, particularly in women, individuals may cope with stress by nurturing others and seeking social connections rather than using the fight-or-flight response.
What is the tend-and-befriend theory?