Mental Disorders 1
a pattern of unwanted thoughts and fears that lead you to do repetitive behaviors.
Obessive Compulsive Disorder
A mental health disorder characterized by persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life.
Clinial Depression
a professional who diagnoses and treats emotional and behavioral disorders with counseling.
Clinical Psychologist
the use of certain medications to treat and reduce the symptoms of a mental disorder.
Drug Therapy
a prolonged feeling of helplessness, and sadness.
Depression
a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, series of events or set of circumstances. An individual may experience this as emotionally or physically harmful or life-threatening and may affect mental, physical, social, and/or spiritual well-being.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
A serious developmental disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact.
Autism
specializes is assessment of learning, emotional and behavioral problems of students.
School Psychologist
a treatment process that focuses on changing unwanted behaviors through rewards and reinforcements. (anger-management)
Behavior Therapy
the condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen.
Anxiety
A serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Often experience hallucinations and dellusions.
Schizophrenia
A general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life.
Dementia
a physician who specializes in physical disorders of the brain and nervous system.
Neurologist
ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional
Psychotherapy
a lack of strong feeling, interest, or concern.
Apathy
causes extreme mood swings that include emotional highs (mania or hypomania) and lows .
Bipolar Disorder
any of a range of mental conditions in which there is a persistent disturbance of eating behavior and impairment of physical or mental health.
Eating Disorders
a professional who handles personal and educational matters.
Counselor
treating a group of people who have similar problems. Usually done regularly with a trained counselor.
Group therapy
an illness of the mind that can affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of a person.
Mental Disorder
A chronic condition including attention difficulty, hyperactivity, and impulsiveness.
ADHD
A condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control.
Anxiety Disorder
a physician who diagnoses and treats mental disorders and can prescribe medicine.
Psychiatrist
designed to identify and correct distorted thinking patterns that can lead to feelings and behaviors that may be troublesome or self-destructive.
Cognitive Therapy
the feeling of being isolated and separated from everyone else.
Alienation