Douglas Place Jeopardy

Therapy

100

This therapy focuses on challenging and changing thinking distortions and behaviors and the development of personal coping strategies that target solving current problems.

CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

200

This psychotherapy began with efforts to treat borderline personality disorder. This therapy is useful in treating mood disorders, suicidal ideation, and for change in emotional regulation and behavioral patterns such as self-harm and substance abuse.

DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy)

300

This is a practice where an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state. 

Meditation

400

This therapy is based on the idea that negative thoughts, feelings and behaviors are the result of unprocessed memories. The treatment involves standardized procedures that include focusing simultaneously on (a) spontaneous associations of traumatic images, thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations and (b) bilateral stimulation that is most commonly in the form of repeated eye movements.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing)

500

This therapy is a technique in behavior therapy to treat anxiety and phobia disorders. This therapy involves showing the patient the anxiety source or its context without the intention to cause any danger. Doing so is thought to help them desensitize their anxiety or distress. 

Exposure Therapy 

Mental Health Disorders

100

Symptoms: 

• Behavioral: aggression, excitability, fidgeting, hyperactivity, impulsivity, irritability, lack of restraint, or persistent repetition of words or actions

  Cognitive: absent-mindedness, difficulty focusing, forgetfulness, problem paying attention, or short attention span

  Mood: anger, anxiety, boredom, excitement, or mood swings

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)

200

Depressive episodes may include symptoms such as low energy, low motivation, and loss of interest in daily activities. Mood episodes last days to months at a time and may also be associated with suicidal thoughts. Manic episodes may include symptoms such as high energy, reduced need for sleep, and loss of touch with reality.

Bipolar Disorder 

300

Symptoms:

• Hallucinations.
• Delusions.
• Disorganized speech.
• Disorganized or catatonic behavior.
• Negative symptoms (emotional flatness, apathy, lack of speech)
• Symptoms last for more than 6 months 

Schizophrenia

400

These symptoms may include nightmares or unwanted memories of the trauma, avoidance of situations that bring back memories of the trauma, heightened reactions, anxiety, or depressed mood.

PTSD (Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) 

500

Symptoms: 

Meets the criteria for Schizophrenia along with experiencing major depressive or manic episodes

Schizoaffective Disorder 

Personality Disorders

100

Symptoms include an excessive need for admiration, disregard for others' feelings, an inability to handle any criticism, and a sense of entitlement.

Along with grandiosity, callous and unemotional traits, disregard for others' feelings, excessive need for admiration, or social isolation. 

Narcissistic Personality Disorder 

200

Symptoms include a tendency to lie, break laws, act impulsively, and lack regard for their own safety or the safety of others. Symptoms may lessen with age.

Behavioral: deceitfulness, hostility, irresponsibility, manipulativeness, risk taking behaviors, aggression, impulsivity, irritability, or lack of restraint

Mood: anger, boredom, or general discontent

Antisocial Personality Disorder 

300

1. Fear of abandonment. 
2. Unstable relationships. 
3. Unclear or shifting self-image. 
4. Impulsive, self-destructive behaviors.
5. Self-harm or suicidal threats.
6. Extreme emotional swings. 
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness. 
8. Explosive anger.
9. Feeling suspicious or out of touch with reality. 

Borderline Personality Disorder 

400

Symptoms: 

• perfectionism to the point that it impairs the ability to finish tasks
• stiff, formal, or rigid mannerisms
• being extremely frugal with money
• an overwhelming need to be punctual
• extreme attention to detail
• excessive devotion to work at the expense of family or social relationships
• hoarding worn or useless items
• an inability to share or delegate work because of a fear it won’t be done right
• a fixation with lists
• a rigid adherence to rules and regulations
• an overwhelming need for order
• a sense of righteousness about the way things should be done
• a rigid adherence to moral and ethical codes

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder 

500

Symptoms: 

• The individual has a hard time making everyday decisions without an abundance of advice and reassurance from others.
• The individual needs someone else to take over major areas of his or her life.
• The individual has a difficult time disagreeing with others due to his or her fear or losing support and/or approval.
• The individual has trouble doing anything on his or her own, due to a lack of self-confidence in their capabilities.
• The individual does whatever it takes to receive support and nurturance from other.
• The individual feels uncomfortable alone because he or she fears an inability to take care of himself or herself.
• The individual searches for another relationship for care when a close one ends.
• The individual unrealistically fears being abandoned to care for himself or herself.

Dependent Personality Disorder

The 12 Steps

100

In this step we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Step 4

200

In this step we admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

Step 1

300

In this step we admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Step 5

400

In this step we have had a spiritual awakening as the result of the Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

Step 12

500

In this step we made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

Step 8

Anxiety Disorders

100

Symptoms: 

• Feeling restless, wound-up, or on-edge
• Being easily fatigued
• Having difficulty concentrating; mind going blank
• Being irritable
• Having muscle tension
• Difficulty controlling feelings of worry
• Having sleep problems, such as difficulty falling or staying asleep, restlessness, or unsatisfying sleep

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

200

Physical symptoms during an attack, such as a pounding or racing heart, sweating, chills, trembling, breathing problems, weakness or dizziness, tingly or numb hands, chest pain, stomach pain, and nausea. An intense worry or impeding doom about when the next attack will happen.

Panic Disorder 

300

Specific Types:

• fear of heights.
• fear of flying.
• fear of spiders.
• fear of thunder and lightning.
• fear of being alone.
• fear of confined or crowded spaces.
• fear of blood.
•  fear of water.

Phobias 

400

Symptoms:

Everyday social interactions cause irrational anxiety, fear, self-consciousness, and embarrassment.

Symptoms may include excess fear of situations in which one may be judged, worry about embarrassment or humiliation, or concern about offending someone.

Social Anxiety Disorder 

500

Fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.

Symptoms include fear and avoidance of places and situations that might cause feelings of panic, entrapment, helplessness, or embarrassment. Can lead to a person being confined to their household with the fear of leaving.

Agoraphobia