Health Psychology
Model that emphasizes Biology, Psychology, and Social factors playing a role in disease development
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
The Four D's of Psychopathology
What is Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction and Dangerousness?
Things that can cause mood disorders like Chronic stress and stressful life events
What are environmental stressors?
Biological vulnerabilities, Psychological Vulnerabilities, and Specific Vulnerabilities, for example
What are causes of anxiety disorders?
Two categories of therapy
What is Psychotherapy and Biomedical Therapy?
The "good stress" or the right amount of stress for good health
What is Eustress?
Model saying that abnormality is the result of learned behaviors
What is the Behavioral Model?
Episode with a duration of 2 weeks, a depressed mood, loss of energy
What is a Major Depressive Episode?
Irrational and persistent fear of something
What is a phobia?
Founder of Humanistic & Person-Centered Therapy
Who was Carl Rogers?
Three stages to General Adaptation Syndrome
What is Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion?
When Psychology students think they have a psychological disorder
What is Psychology Student's Syndrome?
Commonly prescribed psych meds that block the re absorption of serotonin
What are SSRIs?
Takes at least 3 specific symptoms to diagnose, lasts at least 6 months, and is excessive worrying
What is a Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Founders of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Who was Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis?
Coping strategy that has best impact on long term mental health
What is Problem Focused Coping?
Legal term that could be used to argue someone wasn't in the right frame of mind to understand what they were doing to be convicted of a crime
What is insane?
Two medications that can help treat Bi-Polar Disorder
What are Lithium and Anticonvulsants?
Fear of going outside to unfamiliar places, this is an anxiety disorder
What is Agoraphobia?
Black or white thoughts where everything is all good or all bad -- this is a cognitive distortion
What is all-or-nothing thinking?
Coping strategy that can feel the best in the moment
What is Emotion Focused Coping?
This resource has over 100,000 medical index terms
What is the International Classification of Diseases?
Cyclothymic Disorder symptoms occur at least this much
What is 50% of the time and no more than 2 months without symptoms?
Treatment where patients identify problems and gradually work them into their life
What is Exposure CBT?
Asking open-ended questions to promote deep thinking and encourage reflection
What is Socratic Questioning?