Diagnoses
This diagnosis is characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, sleep disturbance, and feelings of worthlessness for at least two weeks.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This therapy focuses on identifying and restructuring distorted thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This ethical principle requires clients to understand risks, benefits, and alternatives before treatment begins.
What is informed consent?
This is considered the gold-standard behavioral treatment for OCD.
What is Exposure and Response Prevention?
This neurotransmitter is commonly associated with mood regulation and is often targeted by SSRIs.
What is serotonin?
This disorder is marked by excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least six months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Developed by Francine Shapiro, this modality uses bilateral stimulation for trauma processing.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing?
Sharing client information without permission violates this ethical and legal standard.
What is confidentiality?
This therapy combines trauma processing with cognitive restructuring for children and adolescents.
What is Trauma-Focused CBT?
This grounding technique commonly uses “5 things you see, 4 things you feel…”
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique?
Intrusive memories, nightmares, avoidance, and hypervigilance are hallmark symptoms of this disorder.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This modality emphasizes psychological flexibility, values-based living, and acceptance of internal experiences.
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?
When a clinician has both a therapeutic and personal relationship with a client, this is called a ______ relationship.
What is a dual relationship?
The PHQ-9 is primarily used to assess symptoms of this condition.
What is depression?
This famous hierarchy describes needs from physiological survival up to self-actualization.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
This personality disorder is often associated with fear of abandonment, emotional dysregulation, and unstable relationships.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This treatment approach emphasizes the therapeutic relationship and unconditional positive regard, developed by Carl Rogers.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
If a client expresses imminent intent and means to harm themselves, this ethical responsibility may override confidentiality.
What is duty to protect / duty to warn?
The PCL-5 is commonly used to assess symptoms related to this disorder.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This response occurs when the autonomic nervous system activates in response to threat.
What is fight-or-flight?
This diagnosis requires the presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both, that are time-consuming and distressing.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
This evidence-based treatment was specifically developed for individuals with chronic suicidality and emotion dysregulation.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
This federal law governs privacy and security of protected health information.
What is Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
This term refers to measurable symptom reduction demonstrated over time in treatment.
What is clinical outcome improvement / progress toward treatment goals?
This term describes emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced sense of accomplishment in clinicians.
What is burnout?