Abnormal Behavior I
Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. (Ex: DID)
What are dissociative disorders?
The tendency to overthink and focus on a negative aspect and is common in depression.
What is rumination?
The combined use of therapy and biological treatments by clinicians.
What is the eclectic approach?
Enhances therapy and help with other disorders that experience anxiety as a symptom. Like Xanax or Ativan.
What is d-cycloserine?
Developed by Carl Rogers and focuses on finding and fulfilling the needs of the individual and setting their lives in motion towards meaningful goals.
What is Client-Centered Therapy (CCP)?
Disorders that affect brain development and inhibit emotional regulation, learning ability, self-control, and memory. Like intellectual disability, autism spectrum disorder, communication or speech disorders, etc.
What are neurodevelopmental disorders?
A disorder in which physical symptoms affect the body but have no apparent physical causes—rather, they are psychological causes that impact one’s physical body.
What is somatic symptom disorder?
The use of classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.
What is counter-conditioning?
A therapeutic technique similar to REBT that views individuals as responding to underlying psychological issues, the only difference being that psychoanalysts believe unconscious forces are responsible for the psychological strife.
What is psychodynamic theory?
Empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies the message of the client.
What is active listening?
A defense by excuse in a criminal case, arguing that the defendant is not responsible for their actions due to an episodic or persistent psychiatric disease at the time of the criminal act.
What is the insanity defense?
A disorder in which a person has a deep fear or dread of illness each time they experience normal physical ailments. (Ex: hypochondriasis)
What is illness anxiety disorder?
Aaron Beck developed this to change behavior by identifying self-defeating thoughts that altered our perceptions of the world.
What is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)?
An evidence-based practice where the clinician makes use of the best available research with clinical experts, only prescribing treatments based on proven techniques support by extensive data or clinical studies.
What is therapy?
The concept that therapists must listen without judgement so as to allow the client to feel comfortable communicating genuinely.
What is unconditional positive regard?
False beliefs and perceptions that are often grand or persecutional. While there is no false sensory information, the problem is perceptual.
What are delusions?
A disorder where very specific neural malfunctions impair one’s senses, central nervous system, or motor movement, including, but not limited to, unexplained paralysis, deafness, blindness, or the inability to swallow. (Ex: shell shock)
What is conversion disorder?
This was developed by Joseph Wolpe to form relaxed associations with fearful stimuli or situations; you are essentially attempting to replace the stressors associated anxiety and stress with a state of relaxation.
What is systematic desensitization?
Personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity or even trauma.
What is resilience?
False sensory experiences, such as visual, touch, or auditory – that are drawn specifically from internal interpretation.
What are hallucinations?
A disorder that consists of a lack of conscience or wrongdoing, even towards family and friends. (Ex: psychopathy & sociopathy)
What is antisocial personality disorder?
A misunderstood mood disorder that alternates between a depressed and hyperactive, wildly-optimistic state.
What is manic-depression (bipolar disorder)?
Designed by Albert Ellis to challenge a person’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions in the hopes of making a positive change in one’s physiology by replacing self-defeating thoughts and attitudes with healthy or productive feelings.
What is rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)?
A procedure by Mary Lee Smith for combining the results of hundreds of different therapy studies in order to determine its effectiveness.
What is meta-analysis?
Developed by Joseph Wolpe and is utilized to associate an unpleasant state or experience with an unwanted behavior.
What is aversive conditioning?