Anxiety Disorders and Mood Disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. It was formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
Charlie’s grandfather has recently been having delusions and hallucinations, as well as having disorganized speech patterns. What psychotic disorder is Charlie’s grandfather displaying?
What is schizophrenia?
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth.
What is client-centered therapy?
Significant binge eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa.
What is binge eating disorder?
This anxiety disorder is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
A mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, two or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.
What is major depressive disorder?
A personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. Antisocial personality disorder may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A type of therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting. This type of therapy is based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
What is cognitive therapy?
A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found.
What is conversion disorder?
Jennifer has been recently been needing things orderly and symmetrical, and has also been having aggressive thoughts about losing control and harming herself or others. What anxiety disorder is she displaying?
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
This was the former name for dissociative identity disorder (DID).
What is multiple personality disorder?
Anna has an inflated sense of her own importance, a deep need for excessive attention, troubled relationships, and a lack of empathy for others. What personality disorder is she displaying?
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid.
What is exposure therapy?
A psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a bodily form without apparent physical cause.
What is somatoform disorder?
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.
What is mania?
A condition in which a person cannot remember important information about their. This forgetting may be limited to certain specific areas, or may include much of the person's life history and identity
What is dissociative amnesia?
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder often feel distressed by the nature of their behaviors or thoughts, even if they are unable to control them. People with this disorder, however, typically believe that their actions have an aim and purpose.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD)?
A type of therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.
What is behavioral therapy?
A widely used system to classify psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
An anxiety disorder marked by unpredictable minute long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.
What is panic disorder?
When a person, following a traumatic event, takeson a whole new life and personality with no memory of the previous one.
What is dissociative fugue?
A mental health disorder that impacts the way people think and feel about themselves and others, causing problems functioning in everyday life. It includes self-image issues, difficulty managing emotions and behavior, and a pattern of unstable relationships.
What is borderline personality disorder?
An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
What is token economy?
This 1973 study was an experiment conducted to determine the validity of a psychiatric diagnosis.
What is the Rosenhan Study?