Clinical Practice
Medications
Defense Mechanisms
Diagnoses
Developmental Theories
100

This intervention is commonly used for substance use and is based on the disease model.

What is 12 step program?

100
Celexa, Lexapro, Luvox are all medications commonly used for this diagnosis.

What is depressive disorders?

100

An individual returning to behaviors such as bed wetting or sucking their thumb 

What is regression?

100

Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, disorganized behavior and negative symptoms

What is schizophrenia?

100

The developmental theory based on the Id, Ego, and Super Ego

What is Freud's Psychosexual?

200

This type of therapy focuses on change of behavioral emotional and cognitive patterns associated with dysfunction with a lot of practice of mindfulness and utilizing the "wise mind."

What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?

200

Ritalin, Adderal, and Dexdrine are commonly used for this diagnosis

What is ADHD?

200

When a client refuses to let into awareness unacceptable impulses but remains unconsciously operative in behavior

What is repression?

200

Inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

What is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)?

200
Based on Mahler's Stages of development, this stage is when the child is 5-24 months old and develops understanding of the boundaries of self and mother

What is separation-individuation stage?

300

This theory observes and analyzes all the systems that contribute to a person's behavior and wellbeing

What is systems theory?

300

Haldol, Thorazine, Seroquel, Risperdal are commonly used to treat this diagnosis

What is schizophrenia? 

300

A person puts their unacceptable feelings on someone else

What is projection?

300

Aggressive behavior, destructive behavior, deceitful behavior, and violation of rules

What is conduct disorder?

300

A relationship between a stimulus and response is unlearned or prewired, and the antecedents are emphasized 

What is classical model of conditioning?

400

This type of therapy focuses on the here and now and uses the empty chair technique

What is Gestalt therapy?

400

The possible side effect from long-term use of medication used to treat schizophrenia.

What is Tardive Dyskinesia?

400

A person converts unwanted or dangerous thought and acts the opposite, overly compensating

What is reaction formation?

400

Being easily startled or frightened, always being on guard, self-destructive/risk-taking behavior, trouble sleeping, trouble concentrating, irritability, and overwhelming guilty or shame

What is PTSD?

400
According to Erikson's Stages of development, this stage developmental task is to develop a sense of competence by beginning school and learning to do things on their own.

What is industry v. inferiority?

500

With this type of family therapy, change occurs through remodeling the family's organization

What is structural family therapy?

500

The classification for medications typically used to treat anxiety.

What is benzodiazepines?

500

An individual channels unhelpful impulses into helpful impulses

What is sublimation?

500

Efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment, pattern of intense and unstable relationships, distorted and unstable self-image or sense of self, impulsive and often dangerous behaviors, intense and highly changeable moods

What is borderline personality disorder?

500

In Piaget's sensorimotor stage (birth-2 years), the child learns these three key concepts.

What are object permanence, cause and effect, and symbolic thought?