Psychological Disorders: Definitions 1
This refers to when one's thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are dysfunctional and interfere with their day to day routine.
What is Psychological Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a person who lacks consciousness of wrongdoing, can be aggressive, and is usually male.
*This disorder is often misused to describe people who are introverted or keep to them selves.
What is Antisocial Disorder?
This concept was introduced in the 1800s and stated that psychological disorders had biological causes and therefore could be treated in a diagnosed and treated.
What is Medical Model?
This treatment involves psychological techniques, consists of interactions between trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties.
What is Psychotherapy?
This therapy aims to teach clients new ways of thinking and processing events and emotions they may experience.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
The founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
This is a rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more alternating personalities that controls one's behaviors at different times.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This perspective believes that people's assumptions and expectations influence what they perceive and feel.
What is Social-Cognitive Perspective?
This therapy involves prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology?
What is Biomedical Therapy?
This therapy was developed by Albert Ellis and confronts clients' illogical thinking by pointing out the "absurdity" of their thinking.
What is Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
This psychiatrist believed that changing people's thinking can changed their functioning. Also known as the father of cognitive therapy.
Who is Aaron T. Beck?
This is a disorder in which a person's psychological symptoms take a somatic form without physical cause.
What is Somatic Symptom Disorder?
This approach believes that the mind and body are inseparable in terms of mental health and physical/genetic health.
What is Biophysical Approach?
This form of therapy will use a blend of therapies such as humanistic approaches and cognitive approaches.
What is Eclectic?
Xanax and Ativan treat this disorder.
What is Anxiety?
(Antianxiety Drugs)
This form of treatment/therapy aims to treat psychological disorders through medications/drugs.
What is The Biomedical Therapies?
This disorder is characterized by repetitive, and sometimes unwanted, thoughts that lead to compulsive behaviors. It is often incorrectly used to describe tidy people.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
A psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity.
What is Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADHD)?
This perspective states that mental illness is a "whole-body disorder" and involves genetic predispositions as well as biochemical imbalances.
What is The Biological Perspective?
This refers to when patients begin to feel strong negative or positive emotions and reactions towards their therapist due to a resurfacing of the patient's personal relationship patterns/issues.
What is Transference?
Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are most commonly prescribed to treat this disorder.
What is Depression?
This perspective emphasizes people's innate potential for self-fulfillment by helping them grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance. Therapists using this perspective view those in therapy as "clients" as opposed to "patients."
What is Humanistic Perspective?
This disorder consists of high highs and low lows.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
When a depressive episode ends this euphoric, overly talkative, poor judgment, wildly energetic, and optimistic state follows.
What is Mania?
This concept explains that although some people may engage in self-harm, it is not fatal nor does it have intentions to be fatal.
What is Nonsuicidal Self-Injury (NSSI)?
This therapy was designed by Carl Rogers and uses techniques such as active listening.
What is Client-Centered Therapy?
This is a psychosurgical procedure that was once sued to calm uncontrollable emotional or violent patients and cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
What is Lobotomy?
____ often gives priority to a client's/patient's personal desires and identity while ____ perspective is more mindful of social and familial responsibilities that are often prioritized in some non-western cultures.
What are Individualism and Collectivism?