Anxiety Disorders
characterized by excessive persistent worrying uneasiness, apprehension, and fear about the uncertain
What is anxiety?
interpret normal physical sensation as symptom of a disease
What is Hypochondriac
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished or inappropriate emotion expression
What is Schizophrenia?
treatment involving psychological techniques consists of interaction between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
What is psychotherapy treatment?
Lingering memories, nightmares from severely threatening events.
What is PTSD?
worry continually, often jittery, concentration is difficult attention switches from worry to worry
What is Generalized anxiety disorder
A mental condition when a person has blindness, paralysis, or neurological symptoms not explained by medical evaluation
What is Conversion disorder?
Memory loss that's more severe than normal forgetfulness and that can't be explained by a medical condition. You can't recall information about yourself or events and people in your life, especially from a traumatic time
What is dissociative amnesia?
Freud's technique. A system of psychological theory and therapy aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association
What is psychoanalysis?
Those with this condition may begin to show symptoms in childhood, but the condition can't be diagnosed until adolescence or adulthood. They tend to lie, break laws, act impulsively, and lack regard for their own safety or the safety of others. Symptoms may lessen with age
What is Antisocial personality disorder?
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive widely optimistic state
What is mania
A chronic pain experienced by patients in one or more areas is thought to be caused by psychological stress
What is Pain disorder
This disorder is characterized by "switching" to alternate identities. You may feel the presence of two or more people talking or living inside your head, and you may feel as though you're possessed by other identities.
What is Dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
What is resistance?
False sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus.
What are hallucinations?
The fear or avoidance of situations such as crowds or wide-open places where one has felt a loss of control or panic
What is agoraphobia
A mental illness involving obsessive focuses on a perceived flaw in appearance. A flaw may be minor or imagined.
What is body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)?
This involves an ongoing or episodic sense of detachment or being outside yourself — observing your actions, feelings, thoughts, and self from a distance as though watching a movie.
What is Depersonalization-derealization disorder?
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering, unwanted behavior included exposure therapies and aversive conditioning.
What is Counterconditioning?
A mental illness that causes repeated unwanted thoughts or sensations or the urge to do something over and over again.
What is OCD?
Compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and our causes
What is Rumination
Develops before age 30 and lasts for years; involves multiple symptoms, typically a combination of pain, gastrointestinal distress, neurological problems (such as numbness), and sexual dysfunction.
What is Somatization disorder?
An eating disorder characterized by abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted perception of weight.
What is Anorexia (nervosa)?
A humanistic therapy developed by Rogers in which a therapist uses techniques such as active listening with a genuine accepting empathic environment to facilitate clients growth.
What is Client-centered therapy?
The model/idea that
An evil spirit, "the devil" made me do it
Treatment included: Beatings, burnings, castration
What is the old-school model?