Stress
Set of physical and psychological responses that help us fight a threat or flee from it
What is Flight-or-flight?
Short but intense periods during which people experience many symptoms of anxiety
Physical symptoms, for example, increased heart rate, sweating, chest pain
Psychological symptoms, for example, fear of dying or losing control
What is a panic attack?
Depression, Bipolar, Mania are examples of what?
What are mood disorders?
Also called functional neurological symptom disorder
Loss of neurologic functioning in a sensory or motor area of the body without physical cause
What is Conversion disorder?
Odd-Eccentric Personality Disorders
What is Cluster A?
The body's natural response to pressure, often triggered by perceived threats or changes, leading to physical and emotional changes
What is Stress?
Unreasonable or irrational fears of specific objects or situations
What is a Phobia?
Depressed mood out of proportion to any cause
Anhedonia—Lost interest in everything in life
Changes in appetite, sleep, and activity levels
Psychomotor retardation or agitation
Excessive worthlessness, guilt, hopelessness, or thoughts of suicide
Problems concentrating
Losing touch with reality, experiencing delusions, and hallucinations
What are the symptoms of depression?
Deliberate faking of an illness to gain attention
What is Factitious Disorder?
Dramatic-Emotional Personality Disorders
What is Cluster B?
Repeated reexperiencing of the traumatic event
Persistent avoidance of situations, thoughts, or memories associated with the trauma
Negative changes in thought and mood associated with the event
What is PTSD?
Persistent, uncontrollable worry about most things including minor everyday events
Worry is accompanied symptoms including:
Restlessness
Fatigue
Difficulty concentrating
Irritability
Muscle tension
Sleep disturbance
What is Generalized anxiety Disorder?
Four or more mood episodes that meet criteria for manic, hypomanic, or major depressive episode within 1 year
What is Bipolar disorder?
Faking a symptom or a disorder in order to avoid something or to gain something
What is malingering?
Anxious-Fearful Personality Disorders
Social Anxiety disorder, panic dicorder, OCD, and PTSD are triggered by this.
What is Stress?
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
Confront most common worries
Challenge catastrophizing thoughts
Develop coping strategies
Biological treatments
Benzodiazepine drugs
Tricyclic antidepressant imipramine and the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor paroxetine
What is treatment for Generalized anxiety disorder?
Death from injury, poisoning, or suffocation where there is evidence that the injury was self-inflicted
What is Suicide?
Inability to recall important autobiographical information, typically of a traumatic nature
What is Dissociative Amnesia?
The acronym for:
Negative emotionality versus emotional stability
Extraversion versus introversion
Openness versus closedness to experience
Agreeableness versus antagonism
Conscientiousness versus undependability
What is OCEAN?
Exposing clients to what they fear in order to extinguish that fear
Challenging distorted cognitions that contribute to symptoms
Helping clients reduce stress in their lives
What are treatments for PTSD?
Hair-pulling disorder (trichotillomania)
Skin-picking disorder
Body dysmorphic disorder
What are disorders related to OCD?
Hospitalization
Community-based crisis intervention programs
Drug therapy
Lithium
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Psychological therapies
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)—focuses on managing negative emotions and impulsive behaviors
What is Suicide Prevention?
Formerly called multiple personality disorder
Disruption of identity into two or more distinct personality states, referred to as alters
What is Dissociative identity Disorder?
Display a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotion
Experience of both positive and negative emotions is blunted
Person typically does not desire interpersonal closeness with others
What is Schizoid Personality Disorder?