Psychological Disorders
The proposal that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.
What is the medical model?
Percent of the population that suffers from schizophrenia.
What is 1%?
Type of therapy that involves talking in order to increase a client's self-knowledge.
What is insight therapy?
A disorder marked by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly.
What is panic disorder?
Sensory experiences that occur in the absence of any real external stimulus.
What are hallucinations?
A type of behavior therapy typically used to address specific phobia, by reducing anxiety associated wth an object or event.
What is systematic desensitization?
A disorder marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Term used to refer to behavioral deficits, such as flattened emotions or social withdrawal.
What are negative symptoms?
A type of therapy that uses various strategies to change clients’ negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs.
What is cognitive therapy?
A disorder marked by a chronic high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
False beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality.
What are delusions?
Type of therapy that makes direct efforts to change problematic responses and habits.
What is behavior therapy?
A disorder typically marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods.
What is bipolar disorder?
Schizophrenia literally means this in English.
What is "split mind"?
Type of therapy that involves interventions for physiological functioning.
What is biomedical therapy?