This disorder involves extreme anxiety that causes significant disruptions in the person's cognitive, behavioral or interpersonal functioning. It has 3 features: it is irrational, uncontrollable & disruptive.
What is an Anxiety disorder?
100
Also called neuroleptics, these prescription drugs are used to reduce psychotic symptoms & especially used to treat schizophrenia.
What are Anti-psychotic medications?
100
These are the broad categories of treatment for psychological disorders.
What are Psychotherapy and Biomedical therapies?
200
_______ _______ is the resources provided to us by other people in times of need; it improves our ability to cope with stress in many ways.
What is Social support?
200
When episodes of depression typically occur only in the fall or winter when there is a low amount of sunlight, a person is diagnosed with this mood disorder.
What is Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
200
An excessive, intense & irrational fear of a specific object, situation or activity that is actively avoided or endured with extreme anxiety.
What is a Specific phobia?
200
These type of drugs are used to help people deal with the symptoms of anxiety by increasing levels of GABA; examples would be Valium & Xanax.
What are Benzodiazepines?
200
The _________ describes the symptoms & diagnostic guidelines for over 300 psychological disorders.
What is the DSM (diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders)?
300
Which type of life events (positive or negative) have a STRONGER effect on your health?
What are Negative life events?
300
This disorder is described as chronic, low-grade depression that causes the individual discomfort but does not seriously impair their ability to function.
What is Dysthymic disorder?
300
These 3 criteria are characteristic of which disorder:
(1) frequently recalling the event
(2) avoiding situations that trigger memories of the event
(3) experiencing increased physical arousal & anxiety
What is Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
300
This is a naturally occurring substance that is used to treat bipolar disorder; levels of this drug must be closely monitored in your blood or it can become dangerous.
What is Lithium?
300
This type of biomedical therapy involves electrically inducing a brief brain seizure and is used to treat severe depression.
What is ECT (electroconvulsive therapy) or electroshock therapy?
400
This type of stress is associated with work; it is a stress response to when work stress is prolonged & becomes chronic. It involves exhaustion, cynicism & a sense of failure.
What is burnout?
400
An individual with this disorder experiences periods of extreme depression as well as periods of mania.
What is Bipolar disorder?
400
The fear of having a panic attack in a place where it would be difficult to escape, like crowds or elevators.
What is Agoraphobia?
400
These two types of antidepressant medications make up the 1st generation of antidepressants. They increase levels of norepinephrine & serotonin. They also have significant side effects; overdose can be fatal.
What are MAO Inhibitors and tricyclics?
400
These are the 4 general categories of specific phobias.
What are: fear of (1) situations (2) natural environment (3) injury/blood (4) animals/insects?
500
This explanatory style uses internal, stable & global explanations to account for negative situations; People with this style believe that no amount of personal effort can improve their situation. It is also linked with poor health.
What is Pessimistic explanatory style?
500
To be diagnosed with Major depression, symptoms must be present for _____ weeks or longer; for dythymic disorder, symptoms must be present for _____ years or longer.
What is 2 & 2?
500
These are the 4 most common compulsions associated with Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
What are: washing, checking, counting, and symmetry & precision?
500
These type of antidepressant medications make up the 3rd generation of antidepressants. Examples of _______ are Prozac, Zoloft & Paxil.
What are SSRI's (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors)?
500
Coping with stress is divided into 2 categories - The goal of _____________ is to change or manage a threatening stressor; the goal of _______________ is to change or manage the emotional impact of the stressful situation.
What is Problem-focused coping; Emotion-focused coping?