Disorders
General Vocab
Acronyms
Classical Conditioning Therapies
Modern Psychotherapies
100

A psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity

What is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?

100

A positive, manageable, and beneficial form of stress that boosts motivation, performance, and well-being

What is eustress? 

100

PTSD

What is posttraumatic stress disorder?

100
A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears
What is virtual reality exposure therapy? 
100

Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction 

What is group therapy? 

200

A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression 

What is schizophrenia? 

200

Often caused by chronic stress, the decreased effectiveness of the immune system to fight infection and disease

What is immune suppression?

200

DID

What is dissociative identity disorder?

200

Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

What are exposure therapies? 

200

Therapy that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences

What is psychodynamic therapy?

300
A disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania

What is bipolar disorder?

300

The personal strength that helps people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

What is resilience?

300

ECT

What is electroconvulsive therapy?

300

Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors 

What is counterconditioning? 

300

Therapy in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth 

What is client-centered therapy?

400

An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

What is generalized anxiety disorder?
400

Under stress, people often provide support to others and bond with and seek support from others

What is the tend-and-befriend theory?

400

REBT

What is rational-emotive behavior therapy?

400

A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior 

What is adversive conditioning? 

400

Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions 

What is cognitive therapy?

500

A disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts, actions, or both

What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?

500

The three-stage process the body goes through when exposed to chronic, prolonged stress: Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion

What is general adaptation syndrome?

500

DSM-5

What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders? 
500

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli

What is systematic desensitization? 

500

Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

What is behavior therapy?

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