CATEGORY 1
Therapy in which the goal is to improve not only from the interventions of the therapist, but also from observing and receiving feedback/support from other members.
Group
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as anorexia, bulimia and binge eating.
Eating Disorders
Disorder characterized by the chronic, exaggerated worry about everyday life with no identifiable stressor.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Disorder marked by an ongoing pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development.
ADHD
Disorder marked by thoughts and behaviors that drive a person to do something over and over.
OCD
Disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by means of self-starvation.
Anorexia
Phobia
Disorder in which a person has persistent symptoms (nightmares, flashbacks, anger, irritability, etc…) that occur after experiencing a traumatic event such as war, rape, child abuse, natural disasters, or being taken hostage.
PTSD
Medical condition that causes people to lose pleasure from daily life. It can occur to anyone, at any age, and to people of any race/ethnic group.
Depression
In order to completely form a memory, these process must be completed
encoding, storage, and retrieval
Illness involving one or more episodes of serious mania and depression.
Bipolar
Part of the nervous system that alerts us to danger
Sympathetic Nervous System
Psychologist who developed Psychosocial stages of development
Erikson
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as OCD, PTSD and phobias.
Anxiety Disorders
Therapy type that is client-centered and focuses on providing empathetic positive feedback to increase self awareness and acceptance
Humanistic therapy
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as clinical depression and bipolar.
Mood Disorders
Psychologist who developed the Psychosexual stages of development
Freud
Disorder characterized by gaps in memory, history of severe trauma in childhood, and distinct personalities forming other than the self
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Serious brain disorder characterized by a profound disruption in cognition and emotion that affects all aspects of language, thought, and perception.
Schizophrenia
Irrational thoughts that are associated with psychotic disorders like schizophrenia
Delusions
Neurodevelopmental Disorder marked by impairments in social interaction, communication and forming relationships.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Short-term, goal-oriented therapy that takes a hands-on, practical approach in problem-solving to change patterns of thinking and/or behavior.
Cognitive-Behavioral
Category of mental illness that includes disorders such as Antisocial and Narcissistic Disorders.
Personality Disorders
Psychologist who developed Cognitive stages of development including sensorimotor and preoperational stages
Piaget
Experiencing sensations that are not observable to others or experiencing them in a distorted way
Hallucinations