Anxiety Disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition, 2+ weeks with 5+ symptoms (at least one of which must be [1] depressed mood or [2] loss of interest or pleasure).
What is (major) depressive disorder?
A serious brain disorder that causes people to have an abnormal interpretation of reality. It's characterized by recurring episodes of psychosis.
What is schizophrenia?
Mrs. Smith that this year to incentivize good behavior in her classroom. When students exhibit a desired behavior, they are given a token in the form of a Smith Buck. This then can later be exchanged for a reward at the class auction. What system is this?
What is a token economy?
This APA quote describes it, "An abrupt surge of intense fear or intense discomfort that reaches a peak within minutes” (APA, 2013).
What is panic disorder?
A hyperactive, wildly optimistic state in which dangerously poor judgement is common.
What is mania?
Delusions and hallucinations in schizophrenia.
Hint: What kind of symptoms?
What are positive symptoms?
A behavioral therapy that helps people gradually reduce anxiety symptoms. This therapy practice is especially used in treatment of phobias.
What is systematic desensitization?
A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks after the initial event.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
A disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
What is bipolar disorder?
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind (no matter how trivial or embarrassing).
What is free association?
Persistent object-centered anxieties that can be treated with systematic desensitization.
What are phobias?
Susan went to her doctor's office reporting lower mood states, social withdrawal, lack of appetite, oversleeping, and more. Though she told her doctor that she only experiences this feeling in fall and winter months. What disorder could Susan potentially have?
What is seasonal affective disorder?
Give me an example of a negative symptom in schizophrenia.
- Loss of motivation and interest
- Loss of expressive functions
- Reduced social interactions and initiative
- Decreased expression of emotion
Unconditional Positive Regard (a caring, non-judging attitude from the therapist) is an essential part in this kind of therapy.
What is client/person-centered therapy?
What are obsessions?
Name one environmental and one genetic influence to depression.
Hint for genetic: Imbalance of what neurotransmitter
Environmental - traumatic event, loss of loved one, learned helplessness
Genetic - serotonin levels, imbalance of chemicals
A rare psychiatric disorder that involves memory loss and unexpected travel.
What is psychogenic fugue?
Therapy system known as a collection of several practices.
What is eclectic therapy?