When identifying behavior, deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger act as criteria to classify behavior as this type.
What is ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR (p.443)?
100
This disorder involves fear and worries that are NOT focused on any one specific threat.
What is GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER (GAD)? (p.450)
100
This all-encompassing term defines things used to treat psychological disorders and improve psychological function and adjustment to life.
What is PSYCHOTHERAPY? (p.477)
100
Used especially for phobias, this process involved exposing a client to gradually increasing the amount of feared stimuli, while the client remains relaxed.
What is Systematic Desensitization (p.485)?
100
This negative symptom of schizophrenia results in the client having almost no emotional response of any kind.
What is FLATTENED AFFECT (459)?
200
This term defines when two or more disorders are occuring simultaneously, as when a person suffers from both anxiety and a specific phobia.
What is COMORBIDITY (p.446)?
200
When assessing the contributing elements to anxiety disorders, this model is frequently used to take into account three major factors that may lead to the development of an anxiety disorder.
What is THE BIOPSYCHOSOCIAL MODEL? (p.451)
200
When categorizing types of therapies, most psychologists will separate them into these THREE groups.
What is TALK, BEHAVIOR, and BIOMEDICAL (476)?
200
When evaluating behavior therapies like Systematic Desensitization, critics argue that these therapies do not apply well in the real world, also known as this.
What is GENERALIZABILITY (p. 487)?
200
When comparing group therapy and self-help groups, the therapeutic outcomes are similar, except that self-help groups are usually not operated by these types of individuals
What are PROFESSIONALS (495)?
300
This is the number of major perspectives that are used to emphasize different factors believed to contribute to abnormal behavior.
What is SEVEN (p.445)
(Be able to describe a context for each perspective)
300
When comparing Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder, they can be seen as quite similar, with the exception of Major Depression lacking this.
What is MANIA/MANIC EPISODES? (p.454)
300
The idea of Client-Centered Therapy, emphasizing the client's natural tendency to become healthy, was developed by this humanistic psychologist.
Who is Carl Rogers (p.479)?
300
In cognitive therapy, this is the process of identifying, disputing, and changing irrational or maladaptive thought patterns.
What is COGNITIVE RESTRUCTURING (481)?
300
Researchers have theorized that the rates of major depression in women may be higher because women tend to do this to their emotions more often.
What is INTERNALIZE/RUMINATE (p.466)
400
This piece of literature, developed by the American Psychiatric Association, is used to classify and describe abnormal behaviors.
What is THE DIAGNOSTIC and STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS (DSM)? (p.445)
400
In schizophrenia, symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions are categorized as this type.
What are POSITIVE SYMPTOMS? (459)
400
Developed by Aaron Beck, this therapy was created to address irrational and self-destructing thoughts, as well as encouraging clients to confront and change behaviors associated with them.
What is Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (p.483)?
400
In humanistic psychology, this is the term for loving and accepting another individual with no strings attached.
What is UNCONDITIONAL POSITIVE REGARD (p.480)?
400
This science is the study of the effect of drugs on behavior and mental processes.
What is PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY (p. 488)?
500
This diagnostic perspective states that mental illness has physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and possibly cured.
What is THE MEDICAL MODEL (p.444)?
500
When using the diathesis-stress model to explain the development of disorders, these two different factors form the two "theses" of the model.
What are BIOLOGICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL/SOCIAL FACTORS? (p.461)
500
If a therapist showed an inspirational video of someone who had overcome addiction to their client, they may employing this kind of behavior therapy.
What is MODELING THERAPY (p.486)?
500
If a therapist was to present a client with a word, and tell them to immediately state what came to mind, they may be employing this therapeutic technique.
What is FREE ASSOCIATION (p.477)?
500
While Electroconvulsive Therapy was used more liberally in the past, ECT is almost exclusively used today to treat this disorder.