Anxiety Disorders
Characterized by unfocused, out-of-control, agitated feelings marked by excessive and uncontrollable worry that persists for six months or more.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinctive and alternating personalities
What is Dissociative Disorder?
What is Multiple Personality Disorder?
A common symptom of schizophrenia that causes false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur.
What is Delusion?
A type of therapy that focuses on the here and now. They focus on the conscious rather than the unconscious. They help the client take responsibility for their own thoughts, feelings, and actions.
What is Humanistic therapy?
You see a single negative event as a never-ending pattern of defeat. This is known as...
What is overgeneralization?
Anxiety Disorder that escalates into a terrifying minutes-long episode of intense fear that something horrible is about to happen. Characterized by irregular heartbeat, chest pains, shortness of breath, choking, trembling, or dizziness.
What is Panic Disorder?
A person who has a strong need to be admired, and has a grandiose sense of self-importance, and demonstrates a lack of insight into other people's feelings.
What is a Narcissist?
A mood disorder marked by a hyperactive widly optimistic state.
What is Mania?
A type of therapy that includes all the individuals in a system and assumes that in order for individual change to occur, the system must be addressed.
What is Family therapy?
A type of cognitive distortion in which someone focuses only on the negative aspects of a situation, filtering out the positive ones.
Mental Filter
A disorder consisting of thoughts that are unwanted and seemingly unending, with compulsive responses to those thoughts.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
A technique that allows you to slow down and experience the emotions and sensations that are occuring. You become an objective observer of the inner thoughts and feelings you have.
What is Mindfulness?
Psychological Disorders that are characterized by emotional extremes.
What is Mood Disorders?
A type of therapy where the work of a therapist is to help explain significant meaning in the behaviors of the person or to promote insight.
Learning process where behaviors are modified through the association of stimuli with reinforcement or punishment.
What is operant conditioning?
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent irriational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
What is a Phobia?
Any 3 of the top ten fears for men and women combined.
What is snakes?, What is being buried alive?, What is heights?, What is being bound or tied up?, What is fear of drowning?, What is public speaking? What is hell? What is cancer?, What is tornadoes and hurricanes?, what is fire?
Instead of looking for a variety of answers, suicidal people see only two alternatives: A total solution or a total cessation. All other options have been driven out by pain. The goal of the rescuer is to broaden the view of the choices available. This situation describes which characteristic of suicide?
What is the constriction of options?
Approach to therapy where depending on the client's problems, different techniques from various schools of thoughts may be employed.
There is a correlation between this neurotransmitter and schizophrenia.
What is dopamine?
A type of conditioning where our fear response can become linked with formerly neutral objects and events.
What is Classical Conditioning?
A mood disorder in which the person alternates between hopelessness and lethargy of depression and an overexcited state of mania
What is Bipolar disorder?
A common characteristic of suicide where underneath all the shame, guilt and loss is a feeling of powerlessness. There is a feeling that no one can help and nothing can be done except to commit suicide.
What is helplessness?
What is hopelessness?
Classical Conditioning is associated with which type of therapy? Who is the founder of classical conditioning?
What is Behavioral Therapy?
What is Pavlov?
Genetically there is a high correlation between genetics and eventually having this disease.
What is schizophrenia?