Stress and Positive Psychology
An event or condition in your surroundings that may trigger stress.
Stressor
This perspective emphasizes the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior and the importance of childhood experiences.
Psychodynamic Perspective
A branch of psychology that studies, assesses, and treats people with psychological disorders.
Clinical Psychology
The process, begun in the late twentieth century, of moving people with psychological disorders out of institutional facilities.
What is Deinstitutionalization?
A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs.
Bipolar Disorder
The three-stage process (alarm, resistance, exhaustion) that describes the physiological changes the body goes through when under stress.
General Adaptation Syndrome
This perspective focuses on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.
Cognitive Perspective
The study of psychological disorders, including their symptoms, etiology (i.e., their causes), and treatment.
Abnormal Psychology
Used for anxiety disorders, involves gradual exposure to feared situations to reduce anxiety.
What is exposure therapy?
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Positive stress which results from striving toward a challenging goal.
Eustress
This perspective focuses on the importance of being your true self in order to lead the most fulfilling life.
Humanistic Perspective
The updated manual that describes and categorizes mental disorders in order to improve diagnoses, treatment, and research.
DSM-5-TR
Focuses on identifying and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
An eating disorder characterized by binge eating followed by purging.
Bulimia Nervosa
Positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity and other challenges in order to rise to a higher level of functioning.
Posttraumatic Growth
The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect our immune system and resulting health.
What is psychoneuroimmunology?
A standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management, and clinical purposes. It is maintained by the World Health Organization (WHO) and covers a broad range of health conditions, including psychological conditions.
International Classification of Mental Disorders (ICD)
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder
Histrionic Personality Disorders
Narcissistic Personality Disorders
What are Cluster B Disorders?
A disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.
Dissociative Amnesia
You are feeling overwhelmed by your school workload, breaking it down into manageable steps with deadlines. What type of coping strategy is being taken to directly address and solve the root cause of a stressful situation.
What is Problem-focused coping?
A classification system to identify positive traits; organized into categories of wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence
What is character strengths and virtues?
The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent).
What is Transference?
This is a potential side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic medications, characterized by repetitive, involuntary movements, such as grimacing, tongue movements, and jerking of the limbs.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia?
Helps individuals manage intense emotions, cope with stress, and improve relationships, often used for borderline personality disorder.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)