Disorders
Treatment
Treatment 2
Disorders 2
Psychopharmacology
100
Identifying and grouping mental disorders with similar symptoms.
What is Diagnosis?
100
Produces convulsions to treat severe depression
What is Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)?
100
Using medications to treat mental disorders.
What is Psychopharmacology?
100
Alternating between depression and mania.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
100

Also known as tranquilizers. 

What is anti anxiety medication?  

200
Intense irrational fear of a specific object.
What is a Phobia?
200
Therapy that emphasizes recognizing and changing negative thoughts.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
200
Gradually reduce psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions.
What are Antipsychotic drugs?
200
Perceiving stimuli that aren't there.
What is Hallucinations?
200

Used to avoid highs of mania and lows of depression.

What is mood stabilizers?

300
Intense feeling of anticipation of a future threat.
What is Anxiety?
300
A technique that teaches people to control physiological responses, such as heartbeat and breathing.
What is Biofeedback?
300
Systematic desensitization is based on ____________.
What is Classical Conditioning?
300
The fear of going into public places.
What is Agoraphobia?
300

Antidepressants help increase these 2 neurotransmitters. 

What is serotonin and norepinephrine?

400
Frequent and sudden intense rushes of anxiety without any reason.
What is Panic Attack?
400
When a client displaces feelings onto their therapist.
What is Transference?
400
Social Skills Training is a form of this.
What is operant conditioning?
400
The loss of a bodily function without a physical cause.
What is Conversion Disorder?
400

First antipsychotic drug to treat schizophrenia. 

What is Thorazine (Chlorpromazine)?

500
Characterized by persistent thoughts and rituals to alleviate the anxiety of these thoughts.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
500
Law of diminishing returns states this.
What is after about 26 sessions of therapy people don't keep improving?
500
Albert Ellis developed this type of therapy. The 3 three specifics to this therapy are these.
What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy? A- Activating Events. B- Beliefs, and C - Emotional Consequences.
500
A person with this disorder has more than one distinct personality or identity.
What is What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
500

When a patient gets better just because they expect to improve. 

What is placebo effect?

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