Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety disorder marked by recurrent and unpredictable panic attacks
Panic Disorder
episodes of hyperactive and wildly optimistic, impulsive behavior
mania
Psychotic disorder in which personal, social, and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions, and motor abnormalities
therapist listens to client paraphrasing what the client says, prevents advice or judgements
Active Listening
The process by which a patient projects or transfers unresolved conflicts and feelings onto the therapist
Transference
constant anxiety in which you do not know the cause
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Mood swings alternating between periods of major depression and mania
Bipolar Disorder
Recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors for the intake of food, such as purging
Bulimia
The founder of Psychoanalytic Theory
Freud
relentless, overgeneralized, self-blaming behavior
catastrophizing
Afraid to be in situations where escape might be difficult
Agoraphobia
Depression with mild symptoms but lasts a very long period of time
Persistent Depressive Disorder
eating disorder that involves intense fear of weight gain or becoming overweight, distorted perception of one’s weight/body shape, persistent restriction of caloric intake
Anorexia
Positively affirming the client without any sort of negative judging
Unconditional Positive Regard
The client spontaneously reports thoughts, feelings, and mental images that come to mind (no censorship)
Free Association
esult of some trauma experienced by the victim. Victims re-experience the traumatic event in nightmares about the event, or flashbacks in which they relieve the event
PTSD
Involves intense depressed mood, reduced interest or pleasure in activities, loss of energy, and problems in making decisions for a minimum of 2 weeks
Major Depressive Disorder
Characterized by physical symptoms including pain, and high anxiety in these individuals about having a disease
Somatic Symptom Disorder (SDD)
Pairing an undesirable behavior with an aversive stimulus in the hope that the unwanted behavior will eventually be reduced
Aversion Therapy
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing
anxiety- triggering stimuli
systematic desensitization
marked by persistent thoughts and ritualistic behaviors that are performed repeatedly
OCD
overthinking
Rumination
Characterized by loss of some bodily function without physical damage to the affected organs or their neural connections
Conversion Disorder
Therapies which assume that our thinking influences our feelings, and that the therapist’s role is to change clients’ self-defeating thinking by training them to perceive and interpret events in more constructive ways.
Cognitive Therapy
The most common therapy model in todays world
Cogntive-Behavioral Therapy