Psychopharmaceuticals
This category of medication is prescribed for individuals with symptoms including depressed mood, reduced motivation, isolation, and suicidal ideation.
What is Antidepressants.
This intervention does not require the therapist to speak much but can help a great deal when building rapport with the client.
This theory attributed to Bowen often looks at human behavior in relational context.
What is family systems theory.
This diagnosis may be appropriate if a client has stopped going to work after they experienced a traumatic event 21 days ago and persistent symptoms include nightmares, avoidance, negative beliefs about society, dissociation and fear.
What is Acute Stress Disorder.
This federal law established national standards for protecting clients' health information.
What is HIPAA.
This category of medication is prescribed for individuals with symptoms including mania, disorganized thought process, reduced sleep, and inflated sense of abilities.
What is mood stabilizers.
This intervention is used to help the client understand their symptoms, triggers, coping skills, and treatment options.
What is psychoeducation.
This theory attributed to John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth suggests that psychological safety and caregiver relationships influence a child's development and future relationships.
What is attachment theory.
This diagnosis may be appropriate if someone has had a life stressor within the last 6 months and they are struggling to adjust to the change leading to disproportionate levels of distress or significant impairment in functioning.
What is Adjustment Disorder.
This informational process is necessary to ensure that clients are informed and educated on topics including limits of confidentiality, licensure status, billing practices, services being provided, privacy practices, client's rights, and risks/benefits.
What is informed consent.
This category of medication is prescribed for individuals with symptoms including paranoia, delusions, disorganized thought process, and hallucinations.
What is antipsychotics.
This intervention encourages the client to increase engagement in meaningful activities to improve mood and reduce avoidance or isolation.
What is behavioral activation.
This theory attributed to Erik Erikson examines the relationship between individual psychological development and social interactions across the lifespan. It focuses on psychosocial stages marked by specific developmental tasks and conflicts from infancy to late adulthood.
What is Psychosocial Development Theory.
This diagnosis may or may not include hypomania but requires at least one manic episode and typically causes significant functional impairment.
What is Bipolar I Disorder.
This ethical principal emphasizes that a professional relationship should remain strictly professional.
What is dual relationships.
This class of medication has a reputation for being addictive and is prescribed for individuals with symptoms including restlessness, difficulty concentrating, and irritability.
What is Benzodiazepines.
This intervention is used to help clients identify strengths and practical steps to address their concerns.
This theorist explains human behavior through a hierarchy of needs, progressing from basic survival to self-actualization is attributed to this psychologist.
What is Abraham Maslow.
A client with this diagnosis may initially be overly nice and present with a history of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, an identity disturbance, efforts to avoid abandonment, impulsivity, difficulty controlling anger, and suicidal ideation.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder.
This ethical principal emphasizes respecting a client's right to make their own decisions about their life and their care absent any legal or ethical obligation to intervene.
What is autonomy.
Medications including Valbenazine (Ingrezza) and Deutetrabenazine (Austedo) are commonly prescribed for this neurological movement disorder often associated with long term use of antipsychotic medications.
What is Tardive Dyskinesia.
This intervention is commonly associated with clients reshaping their story and becoming the hero.
What is narrative therapy.
This theory attributed to B.F. Skinner focuses on understanding and modifying behavior through observable stimuli and responses. It emphasizes the role of environmental factors in shaping behavior, suggesting behavior can be learned and unlearned through reinforcement, punishment, and modeling.
What is Behavioral Theory.
This diagnosis may lead to interaction with law enforcement as early as age 15 due to symptoms including disregard for the safety of self or others, unlawful behavior, lack of remorse, impulsivity, and deceitfulness.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder.
When a therapist is unable to perform a specific intervention due to lack of experience or certification.
What is scope of competence.