Anxiety & PTSD
What is systematic desensitization?
This disorder includes both "positive" and "negative" symptoms.
What is schizophrenia?
A group of disorders that begin in adolescence & include personality styles that differ markedly from society's expectations.
What are personality disorders?
Repetitive behaviors with the purpose of relieving anxiety.
What are compulsions?
A client falling in love with his therapist is an example of this.
What is transference?
A person who relives traumatic experiences through flashbacks may have this disorder.
What is PTSD?
What is body dysmorphic disorder?
This personality disorder includes grandiose self-image, sense of entitlement, poor empathy, and arrogant behaviors.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
Situation where a person has two or more disorders simultaneously.
What is comorbidity?
"Holding back" talking about something distressing in therapy is an example of this.
What is transference?
This disorder involves a continuous state of excessive, uncontrollable worry; affects about 6% of the population.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This region of the brain perceives the emotional value of a stimulus, and may become hyperactive when triggered by disorder.
What is the orbitofrontal cortex or OCD circuit?
This subgroup of personality disorders involves dramatic emotions, behaviors, thoughts, and overall concerning social behavior.
What are Cluster B personality disorders?
Intrusive, irrational, distressing thoughts.
What are obsessions?
This is an intervention or strategy used in Cognitive Behavior Therapy to identify and change distorted or irrational thoughts.
What is cognitive restructuring?
This event causes the amygdala to become overactive and the prefrontal cortex to shrink.
What is trauma?
A disorder that includes persistent sadness, hopelessness, sleep disturbance, and difficulty concentrating.
What is major depressive disorder?
This Cluster B disorder includes law breaking, lying/stealing, fighting, lack of remorse, and ability to act charming/persuasive.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
The proportion of a disorder that is due to genetics.
What is heritability?
This psychotherapy approach uses concepts such as active listening, empathy, and unconditional positive regard.
What is humanistic therapy?
Extreme, persistent fear and avoidance of social situations in which the person could potentially be evaluated negatively by others.
What is social anxiety disorder?
Major depression during pregnancy or in the four weeks following the birth of a child.
What is postpartum depression?
This cluster B disorder includes deep-seated fear of abandonment, impulsivity, unstable relationships, emptiness, and self-harming behaviors.
What is borderline personality disorder?
Feeling detached from one's body and surroundings, usually during stress.
What is dissociation?
The ability to understand what other people feel and/or see their perspective.
What is empathy?