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Approximately 50%
The lifetime prevalence rate of all psychological disorders (a.k.a. percentage of people who will experience a psychological disorder over their lifetime).
Psychologist associated with psychoanalysis.
Freud
A = Activating Event
B = ?
C = Consequence
Belief
The experience of long-term, persistent anxiety and worry.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
She's afraid a gust of wind will blow the bus off the bridge
Specific phobia
Strong and irrational fears of certain objects or situations.
Phobia
Empathy, unconditional positive regard, and genuineness.
Necessary and sufficient conditions for change.
Lithium
Mood stabilizer used to treat Bipolar Disorder
Periods of immobility or excessive, purposeless movement
Catatonia
She's afraid she'll have a panic attack and won't be able to escape
Agoraphobia
A period of abnormally high emotion and activity.
Mania
Class of anti-anxiety drugs with greatest potential for addiction.
Benzodiazepines
Two or more disorders found in one person at the same time.
Comorbidity
Loss of attention, loss of speech, loss of affect (emotional expression), loss of social interaction.
Negative symptoms in schizophrenia
She is afraid others on the bus will stare at her.
Social Anxiety Disorder
This therapy centers around changing one's self-defeating thoughts.
Cognitive or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
In this type of therapy for a phobia or fear, the person decides to immerse themselves in the very thing they fear.
Exposure therapy
Internal, stable, and global
Depressive attributional style
1%
Lifetime prevalence rate of both Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia
She believes that the bus driver is using on-board technology to monitor and steal her thoughts.
Schizophrenia (or paranoid delusion)
While at school, Joel experiences an acute onset of anxiety. His heart rate increases, his blood pressure increases, and he feels jittery. Joel is probably experiencing this.
Panic attack
A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
The most effective form of psychotherapy.
It depends;
All appear effective in general due to the role/impact of common factors.
Andrea experiences extreme anxiety when approaching any lake. Her therapist suggests that her fear results from a traumatic boat accident she experienced as a child. The therapist's suggestion reflects a ________ perspective.
Psychoanalytic
She is afraid that if she takes the trip the bus may stall on the bridge and leave her stuck for hours, that her son will not do his homework and flunk out of school, that someone could break into her house, and that her boss may fire her for taking too many days off work.
Generalized anxiety disorder