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Overview & History
Assessment & Treatment
Dissociative & Somatic
Anxiety, OCD & Trauma
Depression & Bipolar
100
This historic treatment involved drilling holes in the skull.
What is trephining?
100
This term is now preferred over patient for someone seeking psychological services.
What is client?
100
This disorder was formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder.
What is DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder)?
100
The time consuming repetitive act done by someone with OCD.
What is a compulsion?
100
This term refers to the length of time symptoms are being actively displayed.
What is an episode?
200
This act involved releasing hundreds of thousands of patients from mental hospitals in the 1960's.
What is the deinstitutionalization movement?
200
This book classifies nearly 300 disorders into 22 categories.
What is the DSM 5?
200
A person suffering from this disorder misinterprets and over exaggerates normal bodily symptoms as a sign of serious illness.
What is illness anxiety disorder (formerly hypochondriasis)?
200
This disorder is best explained as someone panicking about having a panic attack in public.
What is agoraphobia?
200
Clinicians use the word to describe feelings of sadness and hopelessness. 
What is dysphoria?
300
This clinician is also a medical doctor.
What is a psychiatrist?
300
This term means that two or more diagnoses may occur simultaneously in the same individual.
What is comorbid?
300
This method of dealin with stress involves changing your attitude about the stressor.
 What is emotion-focused coping?
300
This disorder involves pulling out ones own hair to relieve anxiety.
What is trichotillomania?
300
SSRI's work by blocking the reuptake by sending neurons of this neurotransmitter.
What is serotonin?
400
This criterion for a disorder involves finding a measurable degree of impairment in the behavior being observed.
What is clinical significance?
400
This term indicates that a test contains clear instructions for administering and scoring.
What is standardization?
400
This term is used to identify the various other personalities within an individual with DID.
What are alters?
400
Children who withdraw rather than seek comfort from a caregiver when distressed may have this disorder.
What is reactive attachment disorder?
400
This effective non-medical treatment is useful for individuals with bipolar disorder.
What is IPSRT (interpersonal social rhythm therapy)?
500
This research method keeps both the experimenter and the participants from knowing who is receiving treatment or the placebo.
What is a double-blind procedure?
500
This well know self-report inventory containing 567 items can be used several different disorders and conditions.
What is the MMPI (Minnesota Multi-Phasic Personality Inventory)?
500
This term describes the feeling as if you are outside your own body sometimes sometimes experienced by individuals with dissociative disorders.
What is depersonalization?
500
Believing that you will be contaminated every time you touch a public door handle is an example of this.
What is an obsession?
500
This disorder is a chronic, less intense form of bipolar disorder.
What is cyclothymia?