Family Systems Theory
This is a term that, in family systems theory and therapy, describes a person's parents and siblings.
What is family of origin?
This is the psychologist behind Person Centered (or client-centered) theory/therapy.
This is a condition that involves recurrent periods of an irrepressible need to sleep, lapsing into sleep, or napping occurring within the same day. These must have been occurring at least three times per week over the past 3 months.
What is narcolepsy?
These are a type of symptoms (positive or negative) that include volitional (motivational) impairment manifesting as avolition, anhedonia, social withdrawal, and emotional disorders such as alogia and affective flattening. Negative symptoms worsen patients' quality of life and functioning.
What are negative symptoms?
This is a term that describes a variable with an effect upon dependent variables being studied. Experimenters change this in order to look at its causal or associated effect on other variables.
What is independent variable?
The type of attachment that Murray Bowen, who conceptualized Family Systems Theory, posited is the heart of the problem of significant family issues.
What is anxious attachment?
This term describes the goal of person centered therapy in which a person ultimately realizes their full potential and develops their full abilities.
What is self-actualization?
This is the term that describes recurrent episodes of abrupt terror arousals from sleep, usually beginning with a panicky scream. There is intense fear and signs of autonomic arousal, such as mydriasis, tachycardia, rapid breathing, and sweating, during each episode. There is relative unresponsiveness to efforts of others to comfort the individual during the episodes.
What are sleep terrors?
This is a term that describes when the client speaks very little without intentional resistance; also called "poverty of speech."
What is alogia?
This term describes a variable the changes of which are being studied; a response variable.
What is a dependent variable?
This is a term, in family systems and therapy, that describes when a release person is brought into conflict between two people.
What is triangulation?
This is a term in person centered therapy that describes a therapist's foundational acceptance and caring for the client but not necessarily their approval for all of the client's choices and/or behavior.
What is unconditional positive regard?
This is the minimum number of days per week that one must experience difficulty falling or staying asleep in order to diagnose insomnia.
What is 3?
These are the first 3 symptoms of the schizophrenia diagnostic criterion. It is mandatory that at least 1 of these are present.
What are:
1) delusions
2) hallucinations
3) disorganized speech
This term refers to how accurately a method measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
This is a schematic diagram of the family system that uses different visual representations to describe relationships and medical/mental health histories.
What is a genogram?
This is a term for the concept in person centered therapy that describes the most important attribute in a therapeutic relationship; implies that the therapist is real and/or genuine, open, integrated and authentic during their interactions with the client. This authenticity functions as a model of a human being struggling toward greater realness.
Persistent Insomnia is associated with the subsequent development of this mood disorder.
What is major depressive disorder?
This is the usual age range for first time psychotic breaks.
What is late teens-mid 20s?
This term describes the degree that the results of a given study can be repeated or replicated under the same conditions.
What is reliability?
What is fusion?
These are the three requirements, according to Carl Rogers, for effective person centered therapy.
What are: empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence (genuineness)
These are the two "specialized" forms of sleepwalking that the DSM identifies as part of Non Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Arousal Disorders.
What are: "sleep-related eating behavior" and "sleep-related sexual behavior" (sexsomnia)
This is the term that describes the earliest stage of schizophrenia when some symptoms begin but active psychotic symptoms have not emerged fully.
What is prodromal schizophrenia?
Selection of units in a population that are not necessarily random but easily accessible is called ____ sampling.
What is convenience?