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Values, beliefs and practices that are shared by a specific community or group of people
What is culture
This profession works in the mental health field and has a medical degree.
What is a psychiatrist?
The presence of more than one condition within the same period of time
What is comorbidity
Short term therapy that focuses on making changes in the present and solid research support
What is interpersonal therapy?
Gradual exposure to an anxiety-producing stimulus paired with a relaxation technique.
Aversive condition
systematic desensitization
exposure treatments
What are classical conditioning treatments?
Therapy focuses on the family and its dynamics
What is family therapy?
What is group therapy?
Presents a description of the problem experienced by one particular person
What is a case study
Rod-shaped structures that contain all basic heredity information.
What are chromosomes?
Pushes threatening and unpleasant thoughts and impulses back into the unconscious
What is repression?
The alternative to the experimental hypothesis
What is a null hypothesis
Attempts to restructure a person's belief system into a more logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs.
Transfer of formal mental patients out of institutions and into the community
What is deinstitutionalization?
This professional will study the field of mental with an emphasis on social and cultural factors
What is a social worker?
Psychological techniques used to help a person overcome psychological difficulties
Psychotherapy
State of self fulfillment n which people realize their highest potentials in their own unique way
What is self-actualization?
This profession has a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
What is a clinical psychologist?
This approach has less emphasis on a patient's past history, concentrating instead on current relationships and specific complaints.
What is the contemporary psychodynamic approach?
Deliberately inducting a seizure by passing electricity through the brain
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)?
Teaches people to think in a more adaptive way by changing their dysfunctional cognition about the world and themselves
What is cognitive approach?
This approach makes use of the basic processes of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assumes that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned.
What is the behavioral approach
Teaches behavioral skills that help people behave more effectively and keep their emotions in check
What is dialectal behavior therapy
Any new prediction made by an researcher/investigator
What is a hypothesis