vocab
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
What is the DSM?
A mental disorder causing an individual to have frequent intrusive thoughts and commit compulsive actions.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Drugs that affect mental processes
What is psychotropic medication?
A professional who practices classic Freudian psychotherapy
What is a psychoanalyst?
Therapy with an emphasis on observable behavior.
What is behavioral therapy?
False sensory perceptions experienced without an external source
What are hallucinations?
A sudden, overwhelming attack of terror in which the body has a seemingly uncontrollable physical response
What is a panic attack?
A class of psychotropic meds used to treat schizophrenia and other disorders involving psychosis
What are anti-psychotics
A professional who has a license to practice psychotherapy and helps clients/patients cope with and find solutions to their issues
What is a counseling psychologist?
A type of therapy with an emphasis on maladaptive thought patterns.
What is cognitive therapy?
Occurs when a powerful electric current produces a magnetic field, inducing an electrical current in the brain and interrupting neural functioning in that region
What is Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
A mental disorder where an individual presents 2 distinct identities.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Psychosurgery in which connections in the prefrontal cortex are severed
What is a lobotomy?
A professional who helps individuals cope with issues in everyday lives (often a government work)
What is a clinical social worker?
A type of therapy involved repeated (but controlled) interactions with anxiety-provoking stimuli/situations.
What is exposure therapy? (within umbrella of behavioral therapy)
A type of schizophrenic delusion in which a person believes that others are persecuting, spying on, or trying to harm them
What is a persecutory delusion?
A mental disorder in which the individual experiences alterations in thoughts, perceptions, or consciousness resulting in psychosis.
What is schizophrenia?
What are anti-depressants?
A professional is licensed to practice medicine, can prescribe medication, and is trained to give psychotherapy
What is a psychiatrist?
A type of therapy with an emphasis on insight on the unconscious, featuring free association, interpretation, resistance / transference.
What is psychodynamic therapy (psychoanalysis)?
A treatment used to treat depression in which parts of the brain tissue are physically removed or altered
What is mechanical treatment?
The type of Bipolar Disorder in which the individual has extremely elevated moods during manic episodes and depressive episodes
What is Bipolar I?
These prevent seizures and stabilize moods
A professional who must complete research training, dissertation, and an internship, and must be licensed by the state (does NOT prescribe medication)
What is a psychologist?
A type of therapy in which the therapist acts as a teacher, explaining the client's errors in thinking and demonstrating more adaptive ways to think and behave.
What is rational-emotive therapy? (within umbrella of cognitive therapy)