This is what is ironic about the medication for ADHD.
What is giving stimulants to calm down and focus?
100
This is the main symptom identifying schizophrenia.
What is psychosis?
100
The type of thinking that requires analysis, unbiased judgement, and even examines how we think.
What is critical thinking?
100
A newer type of class of medication to treat depression.
What are SSRI's?
100
Doing repeated behaviors to curb intrusive repeated thoughts.
What is OCD?
200
ADHD does not affect everything in a person's life. But, in school and other areas of life, it does affect a person's ability to do anything requiring this.
What is "sustained mental effort"?
200
There are many symptoms for schizophrenia. This group of symptoms are "added on" to the patient's experience.
What are positive symptoms.
200
To get past client resistance, a counsellor must differentiate these, many of which do not belong to the client at all.
What are "agendas"?
200
A medication used to treat narcotic or opiate overdose.
What is Narcan or Naloxone?
200
This particular fear is strongly linked with panic disorder.
What is agoraphobia?
300
This form of discipline typically doesn't work for parents of an ADHD child.
What is punishment?
300
Loss of interest in daily activities, lack of energy, and loss of interest in people are all examples of this type of symptom.
What are negative symptoms?
300
This fallacy involves drawing attention away from the issue at hand by diversion or raising other issues.
What is the red herring fallacy?
300
A specific antidepressant medication that is useful in treating smoking addiction.
What is Zyban or Wellbutrin.
300
The disorder that has been called an "allergy to uncertainty" when the person seeks excessive reassurance.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
400
A symptom of this other mental health disorder can be confused with ADHD. Investigating sleep patterns can help differentiate ADHD from this other disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
(The symptom is mania, the disorder is bipolar disorder)
400
An idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality.
What is a delusion?
400
This fallacy involves creating a phony image of something or someone and then attacking the phony image – which is not based on fact but on misrepresentation.
What is the "straw man" fallacy?
400
A medication used to prevent alcohol use.
What is Antabuse?
400
An anxiety disorder which results from a traumatic experience such as combat, rape, hostage situations, or even serious accident.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
500
Other than medication for ADHD, this is another approach that is effective for parents in managing the behaviours of their ADHD child.
What is behaviour management (or token economy - rewarding desired behaviour)?
500
This is the model which posits that people with schizophrenia have an increased vulnerability to addictive substances due to their schizophrenia.
What is the "super sensitivity" model?
500
This fallacy presumes that there are only two possibilities for a certain condition when in fact there may be many.
What is a "false dichotomy" fallacy?
500
A medication used for obesity and Binge Eating Disorder
What is Meridia?
500
Anxiety disorders are often comorbid with other mental disorders, particularly this disorder which may occur in as many as 60% of people with anxiety disorders.