Mood & Anxiety Disorders
A moderate form of depression that lasts for at least two years.
Persistent Depressive Disorder
An eating disorder marked by binge eating, followed by methods to avoid weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting, excessive use of laxatives, or excessive exercise.
Bulimia Nervosa
Personality Disorder with a distrust and suspicion of others
Paranoid Personality Disorder
A method in psychoanalytic therapy originated by Freud in which the patient says whatever comes to mind
Free Association
A form of behavior modification designed to increase desirable behavior and decrease undesirable behavior with the use of tokens.
Token Economies
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A developmental disorder characterized by difficulties with social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior, interests, or activities.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
A personality disorder with disregard for and violation of the rights of others.
Antisocial Personality Disorder
According to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.
Unconditional Positive Regard
A process through which the patient learns to control bodily states by monitoring the states to be controlled.
Biofeedback
Disorders characterized by persistent, uncontrollable thoughts and the need to perform certain rituals in an attempt to control anxiety.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
A disorder characterized by failure to recover after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
False beliefs based on incorrect inferences about reality.
Delusions
A therapeutic process aimed at challenging and changing unhealthy thought patterns.
Cognitive Restructuring
The removal or destruction of part of the brain.
Lesioning
Fear of places or situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
Agoraphobia
A disorder associated with episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs.
Bipolar Disorder
Personality Disorder with excessive emotionality and attention seeking
Histrionic Personality Disorder
A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
Systematic Desensitization
The three-stage process that describes the physiological changes the body goes through when under stress: alarm, resistance, exhaustion.
General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)
A cultural syndrome most commonly found in Japan, characterized by an intense fear that one's body, body parts, or bodily functions are displeasing, embarrassing, or offensive to other people.
Taijin Kyofusho
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A state of unresponsiveness to one's environment, including a lack of motor skills or interaction with others.
Catatonia
Potentially traumatic events that occur during childhood
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Specific treatment/drug used to treat Bipolar disorder
Lithium