Disorders
What disorder is characterized by extreme sadness and a lack of interest in daily activities?
What is Depression?
This symptom involves repeated thoughts that a person cannot control.
What are Obsessions?
This type of therapy helps people change negative thinking patterns and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavior Thearpy?
This disorder, often seen in children, involves difficulties with social interaction and communication.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
What is our next Unit?
A) Personality, Assessment and Stress.
B) Psychological Thinking
C) Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Behavior
What is: Personality, Assessment and Stress?
This disorder involves excessive worry and fear about various aspects of life, often without a clear cause.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A person who hears voices or sees things that aren’t real is experiencing this.
What are Hallucinations?
A medication often prescribed to help treat ADHD disorder?
What is Adderall or Vyvanse?
This disorder is marked by a person’s persistent inability to control eating, often resulting in binge eating episodes.
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
Name a Phobia by its correct name / term.
Arachnophobia – Fear of spiders.
Ophidiophobia – Fear of snakes.
Acrophobia – Fear of heights.
Cynophobia – Fear of dogs.
Astraphobia – Fear of thunder and lightning.
Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces.
Nyctophobia – Fear of the dark.
Agoraphobia – Fear of open or public spaces, or situations where escape may be difficult.
Social Phobia (Social Anxiety Disorder) – Fear of social situations and being judged by others.
Mysophobia – Fear of germs or dirt.
This disorder involves alternating periods of extreme high energy (mania) and deep depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
This symptom involves the need to perform certain behaviors repeatedly to reduce anxiety.
What is a Compulsion?
This type of therapy is used to help people work through traumatic experiences and develop coping skills.
What is Exposure Therapy?
A person with this disorder might show a persistent disregard for others' rights and laws.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
What is body dysmorphia?
Body dysmorphia: increasing cognitive misperception of being overweight despite evidence to the contrary.
A person with this disorder experiences panic attacks, sudden and intense feelings of fear, often without warning.
What is Panic Disorder?
Someone with this disorder may experience extreme mood swings from euphoria to depression.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
Type of medication - This type of medication is commonly used to treat depression by balancing mood-regulating chemicals in the brain.
Antidepressants
Anxiety disorder marked by recurrent and unpredictable panic attacks
Panic Disorder
What is a stigma?
In the world of mental health, stigma refers to the negative attitudes, beliefs, and stereotypes that society holds about people with mental health conditions. It often leads to discrimination, shame, and social exclusion, making it harder for individuals to seek help, talk openly about their struggles, or feel accepted.
There are two main types of stigma related to mental health:
Public Stigma – The negative perceptions and stereotypes that society holds about people with mental health conditions. For example, people might believe that individuals with mental illnesses are violent, unstable, or incapable of leading successful lives.
Self-Stigma – When individuals with mental health conditions internalize these negative stereotypes and begin to feel shame or guilt about their condition. This can prevent them from seeking treatment or disclosing their struggles to others.
An intense, persistent, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity. The fear is often out of proportion to the actual danger posed by the feared object or situation.
What is a Phobia?
A person who constantly feels nervous or uneasy in social situations likely has this.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This therapy involves talking to a mental health professional about emotions and behaviors to improve mental health.
Psychotherapy
The mean age of onset of this disorder is a strikingly young age of 11 years old.
Anxiety Disorder
What disorder is Ted Bundy known for?
Antisocial Personality Disorder?