Personality Disorders
This disorder is characterized by a sense of self-importance and inflated self-esteem.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
This is an Irrational Fear of an object or situation.
What is a Specific Phobia?
This disorder is marked by manic episodes with intermittent periods of depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This is the most common of all of the psychotic disorders and affects about 1% of the population.
What is schizophrenia?
This paradigm believes that early childhood experiences and unresolved conflicts festering in our unconscious cause abnormality.
What is the Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Perspective?
This disorder is characterized by a complete disregard for and violation of the rights of others.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This disorders is characterized by frequent feelings of anxiousness and excessive worry, accompanied with insomnia and restlessness.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This disorder is commonly viewed as depression in children.
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
What are delusions?
This paradigm believes THINKING causes BEHAVIOR.
What is the Cognitive Paradigm?
This disorder is characterized by deep mistrust of others and concern that you will be taken advantage of.
What is Paranoid Personality Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by reoccurring thoughts that lead to ritualistic actions.
These are the two somatic symptoms of Major Depression.
What are sleeping and eating disturbances.
This type of Schizophrenia involves incoherent speech, thought processes and odd behaviors.
What is Disorganized Schizophrenia?
This paradigm argues that learning through interactions with our environment cause abnormality.
What is the Behavioral Paradigm?
These two disorders are similar in that both avoid social situations and intimacy...but for different reasons.
What are the Schizoid Personality Disorder and the Avoidant Personality Disorder.
This perspective states that anxiety is learned through classical condition, operant conditioning and modeling.
What is the Behavioral Perspective.
This is the treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder.
What is Light Therapy?
The type of schizophrenia in which the patient is waxily, flexible and imobile for periods of time.
What is Catatonic Schizophrenia.
This paradigm attributes faulty brain chemistry as the cause of abnormality.
What is the Biological Paradigm?
Name all 3 of the Cluster C personality disorders.
What are Avoidant Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.
This disorder is characterized by persistent urge or impulse to pick at one's own skin to the extent that physical damage is caused.
What is Excoriation?
Dysthymia is to Major Depression as ________ is to Bipolar Disorder.
What is Cyclothymia?
This is the stage leading up to an acute psychotic episode and symptoms start to intensify.
What is the Prodromal Stage?
This paradigm believes that change comes about in therapy by providing unconditional positive regard and empathy to the client.
What is the Humanistic Paradigm?