Mental Illness
Treatment
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In order to be diagnosed with this mental illness, it must have been present in childhood; it involves difficulty paying attention and controlling impulsive behaviours.

What is ADHD?

100

This person is a physician who treats mental illness and can prescribe medication.

What is a psychiatrist?

100
According to Freud, this is the part of the personality that maintains a balance between our impulses and our conscience. 

What is the ego?

100

He believed that studying dreams was the easiest road to understanding the unconscious activities of the mind.

Who is Freud?

100

A person who kills 3+ victims in 3+ separate events at 3+ separate locations with a cooling off period in between.

What is a serial killer?

200

This is a common, chronic and long-lasting disorder in which a person has uncontrollable, recurring thoughts or compulsions that they feel the need to repeat over and over.

What is OCD?

200

This treatment of fear involves directly facing your fear (i.e. a claustrophobic being locked in a cupboard for hours).

What is flooding?

200

Jung would describe people who are "outward-turning" and enjoy more frequent social interaction as this.

What is an extrovert?

200

This stage of sleep is when your heart rate slows and you experience muscle relaxation.

What is N2?

200

A person gets this because of their genetic traits and it is induced by trauma in childhood; this kind of person is detail-oriented, a meticulous planner and highly manipulative.

What is a psychopath?

300

This mental illness typically arises in adolescence or early adulthood and involves an abnormal perception of reality, hallucinations, delusions, often paranoia, and requires lifelong treatment. 

What is schizophrenia?

300

A treatment method based on Freud's theory of the unconscious; this method focuses on the belief that our behaviour is influenced by fears, desires and past guilt that lurks in our conscious. 

What is psychoanalysis?

300

This type of psychology involves the study of internal mental processes.

What is cognitive psychology?

300

This sleep stage is associated with dreaming and is not a restful stage.

What is REM?

300

This is a severe form of postpartum depression where a woman may end up experiencing delusions and hallucinations and mania.

What is postpartum psychosis?

400

16% of incarcerated people are diagnosed with this.

What is antisocial personality disorder?

400

This type of behaviour therapy involves building an anxiety hierarchy and training clients in relaxation techniques.

What is systematic desensitization?

400

This is a branch of psychology that studies how people grow and change throughout their lifespan.

What is developmental psychology?

400

This theory states that sleep offers the body an opportunity to repair.

What is restorative theory?

400

Intelligence is consistently linked to this.

What is nature (your genetics).

500

DAILY DOUBLE

Mood stabilizers are most often prescribed to someone with this mental illness.
500

This type of behavioural therapy is designed to improve interpersonal skills by using modelling and behaviour rehearsal.

What is social skills training?

500

This theory states that we behave the way we do because we have observed other people behaving in the same way.

What is social learning theory?

500

This theory states that sleep is necessary for neural reorganization and growth of the brain.

What is brain plasticity theory?

500

These people have the second highest similarity in IQs.

Who are identical twins reared apart?

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