Types of Disorders
Characterized by excessive, exaggerated anxiety and worry about everyday life events.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
In this disorder, a person may experience persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in once pleasurable activities.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
A biological treatment method that involves electrically inducing seizures in anesthetized patients to treat depression.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
This model suggests that a person may be predisposed for a psychological disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
Strongly held false beliefs that are not based in reality.
What are delusions?
A mood disorder characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This symptom is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized speech.
What are positive symptoms of Schizophrenia?
A confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions, "Challenge irrational beliefs".
What is Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
This theory posits that psychological disorders are the result of learned, maladaptive behaviors.
What is the Behavioral Theory?
Abnormal or erratic movements, such as excessive agitation, bizarre postures, significantly impacting daily functioning.
What are Disorganized Motor Behaviors?
A disorder that involves persistent, intrusive, and unwanted thoughts followed by actions intended to decrease anxiety.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
A disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by significant deficiencies in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
A common medication type used to treat depression by increasing serotonin levels in the brain.
What are SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors)?
According to this theory, the causes of behavior, including disorders, are found in the interaction of genetic, neural, biochemical, and physiological processes.
What is the Biological Theory?
Severe reduction in emotional expressiveness, where the individual shows little or no facial expression, voice tone, or emotional reaction.
What is Flat Affect?
A disorder often developed after exposure to a terrifying event or ordeal in which grave physical harm occurred or was threatened.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This therapy style involves helping individuals recognize distortions in their thinking and reorient their thinking to a more realistic and positive approach.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
This model is based on the idea that psychological disorders are influenced by societal conditions.
What is the Sociocultural Model?
Suggests an imbalance in the neurotransmitter dopamine plays a key role in the development of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, with excessive dopamine activity contributing to symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations.
What is Dopamine Hypothesis?
This disorder is marked by a lack of responsiveness to other people, coupled with a limited range of expression and behavior.
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?
This diagnostic manual is used by clinicians to diagnose and classify mental disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)?
The release of individuals from psychiatric hospitals into community settings, a movement that began in the mid-20th century, "Hospital to home".
What is Deinstitutionalization?
This theory emphasizes the integration of biological, psychological, and social factors in dealing with mental disorders.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
Involves an ongoing process of self-reflection and learning about clients' cultural backgrounds, recognizing and addressing power imbalances, and fostering respectful, culturally sensitive therapeutic relationships.
What is Cultural Humility?