Trauma
This term describes trauma that begins early in life, often involves interpersonal harm by caregivers, and has long-lasting developmental effects.
What is complex trauma?
Misophonia is not currently included in this major diagnostic manual for psychiatric disorders.
What is the DSM-5-TR?
This societal barrier often prevents underrepresented minority groups from openly discussing or seeking help for mental health issues.
What is mental health stigma?
The Rorschach and Thematic Apperception Test are examples of this type of psychological test.
What is a projective test?
An abrupt and overwhelming episode of intense fear is known as this.
What is a panic attack?
This evidence-based adult treatment for PTSD helps individuals process “stuck points” and modify unhelpful beliefs in about 12 sessions.
What is Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)?
This primary emotion distinguishes misophonia from other sound tolerance disorders such as tinnitus, phonophobia, or hyperacusis.
What is anger?
This term describes the systematic removal of people with severe mental illness or intellectual disability from institutions like psychiatric hospitals.
What is deinstitutionalization?
This term refers to the biological, psychological, and social mechanisms by which individuals develop and maintain a psychiatric disorder.
What is pathology?
This phase of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) is characterized by chronic stress and permanent damage.
What is Phase 3 or exhaustion?
Developed as a public health tool, this questionnaire highlighted the prevalence of early adversity but does not account for trauma severity, resilience, or all types of adversity.
What is the ACEs questionnaire?
This component of the transdiagnostic framework refers to heart rate increases and muscle tension during misophonic responses.
What are somatic processes?
These laws specify when an individual can be placed in a hospital, against their will, to manage their mental illness.
What are civil commitment laws?
This term refers to the causal factors which contribute to the development of mental health disorders.
What is etiology?
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder often display difficulties in this area, which involves understanding and interpreting others' thoughts, feelings, and intentions.
What is social communication or social interaction?
This type of trauma is defined by a single, time-limited event that still causes significant psychological and physiological reactions.
What is acute trauma?
According to the 2024 Dixon et al. study, this percentage of U.S. adults meet criteria for clinically elevated levels of misophonia.
What is 4.6%?
This defense argues that a defendant should not be held criminally responsible for their actions due to a mental illness.
What is the insanity defense?
This type of study design examines the extent to which certain variables fluctuate together, without manipulating an independent variable.
What is correlational design?
In some eating disorders, individuals engage in this type of compensatory behavior.
What is purging?
This stressor-related disorder is less severe than PTSD or acute stress disorder, often triggered by life transitions like moving, divorce, or a new job.
What is an adjustment disorder?
This brain region involved in threat detection and salience shows altered activity in people with misophonia, based on fMRI research.
What is the amygdala or salience network?
This clinical approach involves modifying interventions to align with the cultural norms, values, and lived experiences of minoritized populations.
What is cultural adaptation of interventions?
This term refers to the phenomenon where different early experiences or pathways can lead to the same psychological outcome.
What is equifinality?
In treating OCD, this evidence-based method involves preventing ritual responses while exposing individuals to their obsessions.
What is exposure and response prevention (ERP)?