disorders
personality and disorder
Therapy
disorders and therapy
conflict
100
OCD
What is the acronym for the disorder that consist of persistent thoughts, impulses that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety of distress; it includes unwanted thoughts and repetitive behaviors (compulsive)
100
antisocial
What is a personality disorder where someone feels very little emotion and cannot empathize or understand others feelings.
100
ECT
What is the acronym for the type of therapy where electrical impulses are used to treat disorders such as depression.
100
DID
What is the acronym for dissociative disorder characterized be the appearance of multiple personalities in the same individual; may cause someone to suffer from "blackouts" when an alter is "out"
100
approach - approach
Type of conflict in which all the choices are positive.
200
Phobic disorder
What is a common anxiety disorder which includes irrational and unreasonable fear of something.
200
Type A
What is a personality type that refers to the people who are extremely active.
200
Person centered
It is also called client centered therapy; type of therapy that seeks to help the client become fully functioning in al areas of their life.
200
Psychoanalysis.
What is the therapy used to uncover the unconscious mind.
200
Avoidance - Avoidance
Type of conflict in which all the choices are negative.
300
Bipolar disorder
What is a type of depression where one's mood swings from activity to dejection.
300
type B
What is a personality type that refers to people who do not put a lot pf pressure on themselves and are often laid back.
300
Behavioral.
Therapies that might teach people methods of relaxation in situation that are anxiety provoking; therapies that might use token economy or positive reinforcement to reward a desireable behavior.
300
cognitive
Type of therapy that helps clients recognize and correct distorted patterns of thinking believed to underlie their emotional problems.
300
Approach - Avoidance
Type of conflict in which both positive and negative consequences come with a decision.
400
Schizophrenia
What is a phychotic disorder which includes loss of contact with reality and include hallucinations and delusions.
400
dissociative Identity disorder
What is a type of disorder which includes amnesia or multiple personalities
400
Systematic desensitization.
A type of therapy in which relaxation and gradual exposure t a feared object brings about a change in behavior.
400
conversion
A disorder that includes change in loss of physical functioning in a major part of the body for which there is not known medical explanation.
400
placebo
What is a substance that has no impact on humans or animals "sugar pill"
500
Hallucinations
What is a false sensory perception that occurs in the absence of any actual stimulus or a distorted perception of a stimulus.
500
Hypochondriasis
A person's unrealistic preoccupations with thoughts that they have serious diseases.
500
Aversive
Type of conditioning that involves associating pain and discomfort with a behavior.
500
disorganized Schizophrenia
What is a type of Schizophrenia which is characterized by incoherent thought, speech, and chaotic behavior.
500
Hypothalamus
What is the part of the brain that regulates hunger, thirst, and sexual desire.
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