Psychological Disorders
These disorders are characterized by excessive and persistent fear and anxiety and effect around 25%-30% of the U.S. population at some point during their lifetime.
Anxiety Disorders
Children interact with toys instead of talking directly with the professional
Play Therapy
A person presents with difficulty concentrating on the world around them, loss of interest in things they previously enjoyed, feelings of guilt, weight gain, and extreme fatigue so much so that they sleep most of the day over a four week period.
Major Depressive Disorder
Mary Jones developed the first type of this therapy with the help of snacks, a rabbit, and a boy named Peter.
Exposure Therapy
Techniques such as active listening, unconditional positive regard, and empathy are at the heart of this kind of therapy.
Humanistic Therapy
Characterized by extreme and persistent fear of situations where a person is around others and may be negatively evaluated by them
Social anxiety disorder
Learned principles are applied to change undesirable behaviors.
Behavior Therapy
A person presents with little need for sleep, reckless behaviors, taking on to many responsibilities at once, and they are constantly talking despite being easily distracted.
Bipolar Disorder
Techniques for this types of treatment include dream analysis, transference, and free association.
Psychoanalysis
Type of therapy in which a therapist does not give advice or attempt to interpret things and instead works to understand feelings.
Non-directive therapy
A continuous state of excessive and pointless worry and apprehension
Generalized anxiety disorder
Increased awareness of thought processes leading to elimination of patterns causing distress.
Cognitive Therapy
A person presents with irritability, feelings of detachment from the people around them, proneness to lashing out, and intrusive, distressing memories of a past event.
PTSD
Techniques for this therapy include directive, nondirective, and sandtray in order to help prevent or resolve psychosocial difficulties in order to achieve growth.
Play Therapy
One of the first forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy founded by Albert Ellis.
Rational-Emotive Therapy
a preoccupation with perceived flaws in physical appearance that is nonexistent or hardly noticeable
Body dysmorphic disorder
Based on how childhood events and unconscious thoughts impact behavior and thoughts today.
Psychodynamic / Psychotherapy
A person presents with intense fear and anxiety of situations such as crowds, public transportation, and being outside alone for fear of experiencing a panic attack with no available help.
Agoraphobia
Techniques for this type of therapy involve aversive conditioning, exposure therapy, and counterconditioning.
Behavior Therapy
Overgeneralizing and polarized thinking are two of the things that therapists work to correct in this type of therapy.
Cognitive Therapy
This disorder is related to bipolar disorder and is characterized by extreme agitation and elation.
Mania
Working to change undesirable thoughts and behaviors.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Janice has come to see if she has a mental disorder because lately she has had reduced speech output, decreased reactivity to the environment around her, extremely disjointed thought processes, and an inability to experience pleasure. She says that she came because despite her neurologist saying that her ventricles are enlarged there is nothing physically wrong with her.
Schizophrenia
A patient is learning to talk about thoughts that prevent her from achieving her goals.
Humanistic Therapy
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is sometimes used to improve symptoms of this.
Depression