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?
According to modern psychologists (especially those who follow the trait theory), there are how many identifiable personality factors?
5
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 type of therapy focused on prescribing medications that alter mental functions to alleviate psychological symptoms
Drug Therapy/Biomedical Therapy
This type of therapy that can help people quit “bad” habits, such as smoking or nail biting, by having the client associate the habit with an unpleasant experience.
Aversive Conditioning
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?
The founder of psychoanalysis.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Are we allowed to diagnose other people now that we have taken a psychology course?
NO
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?
This type of therapy that helps people discover and change their habitually negative patterns of thinking
Cognitive Therapy for Depression
What was the year the DSM was first published?
1952
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?
Can you list all 5 personality factors (traits)?
(OCEAN)
Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism