Disorders
An anxiety disorder in which a person experiences unexplained, continual anxiety.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
The category of disorders in which one has a disconnection between their thoughts, feelings, memories, actions, or sense of self.
What are dissociative disoders?
A mental health disorder usually triggered by a terrifying or traumatic experience.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
This type of therapy uses medication or other biological treatments to remedy a disorder.
Biochemical Therapy
A mood disorder in which a person experiences feelings of worthlessness, rumination about problems, or loss of interest and/or pleasure, but often followed by periods of stability
What is Major Depressive Disorder
Person who habitually check the door many times to make sure it is locked is likely to have this symptom of OCD
What is a compulsion?
A disorder characterized by fluctuations between hypomanic and depressive states
What is Bipolar II
Often used as an option for treating depression after other alternatives haven't worked, this treatment utilizes brain stimulation technology
What is ECT?
A personality disorder in which one has an unwarranted sense of self-importance.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
An anxiety disorder in which social interactions cause irrational anxiety.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder
What approach to therapy says that problems are learned and can be replaced.
Behavioral Approach
A psychological disorder in which one experiences general bodily symptoms (pain, soreness) with no apparent cause.
What is Somatoform Disorder
Give two symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Reduction in communication / echoing
Social awkwardness
Fixation on specific interests
This approach seeks to boost people's self-awareness and promoting personal growth as a way to cure a disorder
Humanistic approach
A psychological disorder in which one has specific sensory/nervous system symptoms (ex: blindness, paralysis) with no apparent cause.
What is Conversion Disorder
An excess amount of _______ (neurotransmitter) receptors were found in the brains of schizophrenia patients. This leads scientists to believe that this neurotransmitter leads to positive symptoms in schizophrenia.
What is the Dopamine?
Fear of places or situations which that could cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment.
What is Agoraphobia
This therapeutic technique stresses that therapy should be unique to a client and should center around congruence and empathy
What is person-centered therapy?