Disorders 1
Disorders arriving in early childhood that deal with abnormalities in the CNS functioning during the developmental period.
Neurodevelopmental disorders. what are the 2 you need to know?
Strong obsessions (thoughts) create compulsions (behaviors) to reduce the anxiety the thoughts cause.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. What is obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
Stressing the therapist to act as a mirror to allow the client to "hear" themselves as the therapist follows active listening. Makes the client reach the solution themselves through insight (insight therapy).
What is person-centered therapy or humanistic therapy?
What happens in psychoanalytic therapy where you just blurt out what comes to mind with no filter as the therapist tries to see the unconscious slip up.
What is free association?
The manual used in the US versus the one used internationally.
DSM 5 vs ICD. diagnostic statistical manual vs international classification of diseases.
Categorized by intense periods of major depressions and mania with a cycling of sorts between the 2 extremes.
Bipolar disorder. Difference between 1 and 2?
A personality disorder dealing with wanting to be the center of attention, overly dramatic, and attention-seeking.
What is Histrionic Personality disorder?
Inducing seizures to patients while they are under anesthesia in order to calm severe depressive symptoms.
What is Electroconvulsive therapy?
5 psychological ethical principles.
Beneficence, Fidelity, Integrity, Justice, Respect for people's rights and dignity.
Both types of stress?
What is Eustress and Distress. 3 parts of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS).
Disorder commonly associated with psychopaths. personality disorder that makes a person lack empathy and guilt.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
Name the 5 symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking, disorganized motor control, negative symptoms like emotionally flat (flat affect)? name the difference between positive and negative symptoms.
The use of a "monetary" system to use the principle of positive reinforcement to teach people correct behaviors through simulated monetary rewards. Sometimes used in schools, institutions, or workplaces.
What are token economies?
What is the dopamine hypothesis?
The sea that after trauma the person can experience positive psychological changes and growth.
What is PTG, post traumatic growth?
Type of personality disorder dealing with eccentric thinking, magical thinking, odd behaviors.
What is schizotypal personality disorder?
Disorder characterized by binge eating and self-induced purging, vomiting, or taking laxatives to "empty" yourself. overly stressing body image.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Moving up a fear hierarchy to "scarier" objects or situations while continuing to practice relaxation techniques. (2 possible answers either works its a type of therapy but also a type of process used in the therapy).
What is exposure therapy or systematic desensitization?
Solutions to problems when it feels you are in control of the situation and can change the circumstances. Changing the stressor.
What is problem-focused coping?
6 signature strengths.
Transcendence, wisdom, humanity, justice, temperance, courage.
Common disorder in Japan and Korea that deals with an intense fear of offending others, embarrassing, or displeasing them.
What is taijin kyofusho?
Loss of memory after a traumatic event to not remember it. If combined with fugue a person may flee and forget (memory) of their past.
Dissociative amnesia? what are the 3 types of amnesia that can occur? What is the other big Dissociative disorder other than Dissociative amnesia with fugue?
Confrontational therapy that takes irrational thoughts and directly challenges them, proves them wrong, and replaces them with more rational and correct ideas that are helpful. Uses cognitive restructuring.
What is Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy REBT?
Types of psychoactive medications. list the 5.
Anti-anxiety, antidepressants, antipsychotic, stimulants, and mood stabilizers.
traumatic events that occur during childhood and can have lasting negative effects on a person’s physical and mental health.
Adverse childhood Experiences. What theory states women have the tendency to stay around others and protect the weaker.