Mental Disorders
Therapy terms and Interventions
Definitions
Facts
Cognitive Distortions
100

The apprehensive anticipation of future danger or misfortune accompanied by the feelings of worry, distress, and/or tension. 

Anxiety
100

A level of outpatient care providing non-residential treatment, multiple days a week, utilizing group-based psychotherapy, individual therapy, family counseling, and educational groups. 

Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)

100

The act of intentionally causing one's own death. 

Suicide

100

1-800-232-TALK

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 

100

You expect the worst outcome in any situation. You often find yourself thinking, “What if…?”

Catastrophizing 

200

Persistently depressed mood or loss of interest in activities, causing significant impairment in daily life

Depression

200

The methods a person uses to deal with stressful situations.

Coping skills

200

A subjective complaint of difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, or poor sleep quality 

Insomnia

200

What percentage of American adults will experience a mental illness within a given year?

20% (1 out of 5 Americans)

200

This kind of thinking deals in extremes. People and situations are either great or terrible. You don’t allow room for balanced perspectives or outcomes.

Black-and-white thinking

300

Episodes of mood swings ranging from depressive lows to manic highs

Bipolar Disorder

300

A psycho-therapeutic program for anger prevention and control

Anger Management 

300

A dissociative state during which aspects of a traumatic event are experienced as though they were occurring at the moment 

Flashback

300

This was listed among the top 9 leading causes of death for people ages 10-64

suicide 

300

You base your decisions not on what someone says or does, but on what you believe they’re thinking. 

Mind Reading

400

A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing/witnessing an event causing/threatening death, serious injury, or sexual violence to an individual, close family member, or friend. 

PTSD

400

Therapy that helps people learn how to identify and change destructive thought patterns that have a negative influence on behavior and emotions

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

400

Unwanted thoughts that occur without warning or control, often repetitive, and can cause emotional distress

Intrusive thoughts 

400

Anxiety, depression, and this disorder all are estimated to be approximately 20-45% inherited. 

OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder)

400

You view yourself, your life, and your future through a negative lens. You ignore anything positive.

Mental filtering

500

 Disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives their environment to be unsafe with no easy way to escape.

Agoraphobia 

500

An unconscious psychological operation that functions to protect a person from anxiety-producing thoughts and feelings related to internal conflicts and outer stressors

Defense Mechanisms

500

Features characterized by delusions, hallucinations, paranoia or formal thought disorder

Psychosis or Psychotic Features

500

The lifetime risk of suicide in individuals with bipolar disorder is estimated to be at least ___ times that of the general population.

15

500

You falsely believe that everything that someone says or does is a direct reaction to you. It can convince you that you are being targeted or excluded.

Personalization 

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