Vocabulary
An immediate, excessive, and persistent fear of something specific
What is a phobia?
A pattern of intrusive, unwanted, anxiety provoking thoughts and fears that lead to repeated, ritualistic behaviors intended to reduce anxiety or prevent "something bad" from happening
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Clients experience the actual anxiety-producing stimulus in a harmless, controlled simulation that they cannot escape
What is flooding?
Mental illness marked by periods of great excitement, euphoria, delusions, and overactivity
What is mania?
-The classification of mental disorders
-Primarily used in the United States
-Certain codes used for diagnosis and treatment
What is the DSM-5?
An intense fear of situations where escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or help may not be available if panic begins
What is agoraphobia?
A nondirective approach, meaning the client steers the direction of therapy and the therapist is a sounding board, not an advice giver
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
Verbal interactions with a therapist intended to enhance a patient's self-awareness and uncover underlying causes of their mental illness, then use of the self-awareness to resolve psychological problems and promote changes
What is insight therapy?
-Anxiety
-Impacts part of the personality
-Person has insight
-Actions are viewed as an exaggeration of normal behavior
What is neurosis?
Travel or confused wandering coupled with amnesia, very rare
What is Dissociative Fugue?
Secondary reinforcers are earned as a reward for appropriate behaviors, the secondary reinforcers can then be traded in for primary reinforcers
What is Token Economy?
A class of drugs that remove norepinephrine, serotonin, and dopamine from the brain
What are MAO Inhibitors?
A condition characterized by abnormal sexual desires, typically involving extreme or dangerous activities
What is paraphilia?
A mood disorder in children characterized by chronic and severe irratibility and anger with temper outbursts
What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?
A form of brain stimulation in which a brief pulsing electric current is used to induce a controlled seizure
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?
A compulsive desire to pull out one's hair
What is Trichotillomania?
An extreme form of negativism which encompasses a host of symptoms that reflect an active or passive refusual to interact with people and objects
What is Catatonic Stupor?
Attempts to decieve others by appearing sick, by purposefully getting sick, or by self injury
What is Functional Neurological Disorder (Coversion Disorder)?
A small collection of people who meet to create self-awareness and social sensitivity, to change behavior through interpersonal confrontation, self disclosure, and emotional expression.
What are Encounter Groups?
A defendant is not guilty by reason of insanity if, at the time of the crime, the person did not know the nature or quality of the actions were wrong
What is the M'naghten Rule?