Chapter 13
A way of understanding what makes people healthy by recognizing that biology, psychology, and social context all combine to shape health outcomes
What is the biopsychosocial model?
What profession prescribes medication in the mental health field?
Who is a psychiatrist?
A sense of conflict between people’s attitudes and actions that motivates efforts to restore cognitive consistency
What is cognitive dissonance?
This is the scientific study of psychological disorders.
What is psychopathology?
The patterns of behavior, traditions, and preferences that are approved by a given culture or subculture
What are social norms?
An anxiety disorder characterized by extreme fear of being watched, evaluated or judged by others coupled with extreme avoidance of the situation.
What is social anxiety disorder?
This woman was a passionate advocate for appropriate treatment for those suffering with a psychological disorder.
Who is Dorthea Dix?
Ideas, feelings, or opinions about something or someone especially one formed without conscious thought or on the basis of little evidence.
What is an impression?
A biological treatment, mostly used for cases of severe depression, in which a brief electric current is passed through the brain to produce a convulsive seizure
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
This diagnosis is characterized by a wide range of developmental problems including persistent deficits in social communication/interaction and restricted or repetitive patterns of interest or behavior.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Clinically significant disturbances in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that is usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, and other important activities.
What is a psychological disorder?
What was Sigmund Freud's talk therapy named?
What is Classical Psychoanalysis
This tactic is used when an individual is given a small amount of guilt for declining a large request so that they will be more likely to follow through with a smaller one.
What is the door in the face technique?
Medications that control, or at least moderate, the symptoms of some psychological disorders.
What are psychotropic medications?
A standardized clinical assessment tool that consists of a fixed set of questions that a patient answers.
What is a self-report measure?
This disorder is characterized by sadness, emptiness, anhedonia (loss of interest or pleasure), reduced motivation, increased tiredness.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
In early treatment this procedure was done by cutting a hole in the skill so that the “demons” could leave the brain.
What is trephination?
The tendency to assume that people’s actions are more the result of their internal disposition that of the situational context
What is the fundamental attribution error?
A method in psychoanalytic therapy in which a patient says anything that comes to mind, no matter how apparently trivial, embarrassing or disagreeable
What is Free Association?
A conception of a psychopathology that distinguishes the factors that create a risk of illness (diathesis) from the factors that turn the risk into a problem (stress).
What is the diathesis stress model?
This diagnosis is characterized by a loss of contact with reality and a breakdown of the normal functions of the mind, leading to bizarre perceptions
What is Schizophrenia?
A family of therapeutic approaches based on the idea that maladaptive behaviors arise due to errors in thinking.
What is the cognitive approach?
A tendency for people in a group to assume that someone else is in a better position to act or has already acted
What is the Diffusion of Responsibility?
The tendency to treat one person as if they possess the traits or characteristics of another more familiar person.
What is transference?
This disorder is typically diagnosed in young children that involves a wide range of symptoms, including blurting out answers in class, fidgeting, difficulty switching task, difficulty with attentional focus
What is ADHD?