Peronality & Emotions
The ability to accept yourself and others, adapt to and manage emotions, and deal with the demands and challenges you meet in life.
What is mental/emotional health?
The act of becoming aware through the senses.
What is perception?
Feelings of depression in response to a stressful event.
What is reactive depression?
This is an exaggerated fear of a specific object, situation or activity in which the fear is much greater than the threat.
What is a phobia?
This is a physician who specializes in mental disorders and can prescribe medications.
What is a psychiatrist?
This is the base of the pyramid for Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.
What is physiological needs?
Things like illnesses, disabilities or injuries are classified as this type of stressor.
What is a biological stressor?
This is the ability to adapt effectively and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis.
What is resiliency?
This is a condition that may develop after exposure to a terrifying event that threatened or caused physical harm.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This is a professional who diagnoses and treats mental disorders but cannot prescribe medications.
What is a clinical psychologist?
A complex set of characteristics that makes you unique. It’s what makes you different from everyone else and determines how you will react in certain situations.
What is personality?
These two major body systems are active during the body’s response to stressors.
What are the nervous system and endocrine system?
This is the condition of feeling uneasy or worried about what may happen.
What is anxiety?
This is marked by extreme mood changes, energy levels and behavior. It is also known as manic depressive disorder.
What is bipolar disorder?
This is a professional who specializes in assessments of learning, emotional and behavioral problems of school aged children.
What is a school psychologist?
A chemical secreted by your glands that regulates the activities of different body cells. They may cause you to swing quickly between extreme emotions such as elation and depression.
What are hormones?
This is stress associated with long-term problems that are beyond a person’s control.
What is chronic stress?
This is a prolonged feeling of helplessness, hopelessness and sadness.
What is depression?
Children and adolescents who act out their impulses towards others in destructive ways may have this disorder. It involves a pattern of behavior in which the rights of others or basic social rules are violated.
What is a conduct disorder?
This type of therapy involves an ongoing dialogue between a patient and a mental health professional.
What is psychotherapy?
These are mental processes that protect individuals from strong or stressful emotions and situations. Examples may include repression, suppression, rationalization, regression, denial, compensation, projection, idealization.
What are defense mechanisms?
There are 3 stages of the stress response. This stage is also known as the "flight or fight response."
What is alarm?
This is a condition in which real or imagined fears are difficult to control. It is characterized by chronic fear.
What is an anxiety disorder?
This is a severe mental disorder in which a person loses contact with reality.
What is schizophrenia?
This type of therapy involves a treatment method designed to identify and correct distorted thinking patterns.
What is cognitive therapy?