Introducing Abnormality
One of the D's of abnormality that assesses the level of harm an individual places on themselves or others.
What is danger?
An assessment tool that measures heart rate, brain waves, and perspiration.
What is a physiological measure?
Marked by excessive and unrealistic fear of a specific object such as blood.
What is a specific phobia?
Any situation, object, or person that causes a stress response.
What is a stressor?
An clinical professional that can prescribe medications as a treatment for mental disorders.
What is a psychiatrist?
What is trephination?
An assessment tool that makes observations in a lab setting.
What is an analog observation?
Marked by a severe and persistent fear of social or performance situations in which embarrassment or humiliation might occur.
What is social anxiety disorder?
A disorder spawned from trauma that includes symptoms of hyper-alertness, intrusive thoughts, and dissociation that lasts longer than a month from the traumatic event.
What is posttraumatic stress disorder?
Positive Psychology
A system that releases hormones
What is the endocrine system?
A type of clinical interview with open-ended questions.
What is an unstructured clinical interview?
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
A disorder spawned from trauma that includes symptoms of hyper-alertness, intrusive thoughts, and dissociation that lasts less than a month.
What is acute stress disorder?
Institutions that treated individuals with mental disorders but eventually failed because of overcrowding and understaffing.
What are mental health asylums?
A sociocultural treatment that involves multiple people with similar experiences, usually led by someone who has also shares those experiences.
What is group therapy?
What is information required for a proper diagnosis?
What is a panic attack?
Marked by a split in personality into subpersonalities each with their own memories, behaviors, and interests.
What is dissociative identity disorder (DID)?
The release of thousands of individuals with mental illnesses from state mental health hospitals?
What is deinstitutionalization?
What is eclectic/integrative therapy?
A type of validity that measures how well an assessment tool can predict future behaviors.
What is predictive validity?
Marked by intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors that alleviate the intrusive thoughts. Behaviors can vary from person-to-person.
What is obsessive compulsive disorder?
Marked by extreme dissociation, feeling separate from one's body, and perceiving the world as distorted or unreal.
What is depersonalization-derealization disorder?