Disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences unexplained, continual anxiety.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
The category of disorders in which one has a disconnection between their thoughts, feelings, memories, actions, or sense of self.
What are dissociative disoders?
The cluster of personality disorders most characterized by fearful and anxious tendencies
What is Cluster C?
Bonus: what is an example of a Cluster C disorder?
This type of therapy uses free association and considers the roles of resistance and transference.
What is psychoanalysis?
Name 3 ethics of therapy.
What are nonmaleficence, fidelity, integrity, respect for rights and dignity.
A mood disorder in which a person experiences feelings of worthlessness, rumination about problems, or loss of interest and/or pleasure, but often followed by periods of stability
What is Major Depressive Disorder
Person who habitually check the door many times to make sure it is locked is likely to have this symptom of OCD
What is a compulsion?
A disorder characterized by fluctuations between hypomanic and depressive states
What is Bipolar II
Often used as an option for treating depression after other alternatives haven't worked, this treatment utilizes brain stimulation technology
What is ECT?
Who are the 4 D's: Deviant, Dysfunctional, Distressing, Dangerous
A personality disorder in which one has an unwarranted sense of self-importance.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
The underlying view of mental health that suggests that alarm, resistance, and exhaustion follow a stressor and explain someone's ability to cope with stress.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
Tardive dyskinesia is a side effect of a medication that is often used to treat this disorder, also characterized by positive and negative symptoms
What is schizophrenia?
Bonus: what is a positive and negative symptom of schizophrenia?
A distorted pattern of thinking characteristic of depression that would likely be targeted by a cognitive psychologist ; negative thoughts of the self, world, and future.
What is the cognitive triad?
What is ataque de nervios?
Give two symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Reduction in communication / echoing
Social awkwardness
Fixation on specific interests
This type of therapist uses reinforcement or punishment via conditioning and might utilize a token economy.
What is Behavioral Therapy?
A psychologist of a biological etiology may explain that someone with increased anxiety has an enlarged _____?
What is the amygdala
An excess amount of _______ (neurotransmitter) receptors were found in the brains of schizophrenia patients. This leads scientists to believe that this neurotransmitter leads to positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
What is Dopamine?
Fear of places or situations which that could cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
What is Agoraphobia
This therapeutic technique stresses that therapy should be unique to a client and should center around congruence and empathy
What is person-centered therapy?
The famous experiment on the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by admitting a group of researchers to hospitals with pretend symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is the Rosenhan Study?