Anxiety Disorders
Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
Depressive Disorders
Bipolar and Related Disorders
Theoretical Models
Assessment and Treatment
100

This disorder is characterized by excessive, uncontrollable worry about any number of events, such as work or school performance.

What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?

100

These are repetitive behaviours that adhere to rigid rules; they are intended to reduce distress or anxiety.

What are compulsions?

100

This possible symptom of a depressive episode refers to oversleeping.

What is hypersomnia?

100

Unlike Bipolar II, Bipolar I must include this.

What is a Manic Episode?

100

In the learned helplessness model, depression is conceptualized as having a lack of this.

What is control?

100

In SNRI, it's the N.

What is Norepinephrine?

200

Selective Mutism refers to a consistent failure to do what?

What is Speaking?

200

Hoarding Disorder refers to a difficulty discarding or parting with these.

What are possessions?
200

This is the other name for Persistent Depressive Disorder.

What is Dysthymia?

200

Unlike Bipolar II, Bipolar I doesn't necessarily require this symptom.

What is a Major Depressive Episode?

200

A Behavioural construct, depression can be seen as a form of this concept - it's the experience of no longer being given positive reinforcement.

What is extinction?

200

We don't know how it works, but we know it works: this extreme form of treatment for depression can cause memory loss and has been sensationalized in movies like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

What is Electroconvulsive Therapy?

300

A client who has marked anxiety about being in open spaces and using public transport is most likely to be exhibiting signs of what anxiety disorder?

What is Agoraphobia?

300

An individual would meet criteria for Body Dysmorphic Disorder only if their preoccupation is not better explained by this other body-related type of disorder?

What is an Eating Disorder?

300

This condition's symptoms occur specifically in the week before the onset of menses.

What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?

300

During a manic episode, a person may experience a decreased need for this.

What is sleep?

300

This hormone appears to be related to Depressive and Bipolar Disorders.

What is cortisol?

300

ACT is helpful for anxiety and mood disorders; it stands for this.

What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy?

400

A child who is exhibiting crying, tantrums, freezing, and clinging in response to a unique object or situation is likely demonstrating a symptom of what anxiety disorder?

What is Specific Phobia?

400

In the Obsessive-Compulsive cycle, it's the stage that comes after Obsessions and before Compulsions.

What is anxiety (or distress)?

400

This disorder is characterized by explosive tantrums and must be diagnosed between the ages of 6 and 18.

What is Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?

400

An episode is definitively Manic (as opposed to Hypomanic) if it involves psychotic features, or this other criterion.

What is hospitalization?

400

This theory of anxiety refers to anxiety as an adaptive trait that historically helped humans to survive.

What is the Evolutionary Model?

400

This treatment is unique to Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders, and is based on actively suppressing compulsive behaviour in the presence of triggering situations.

What is Exposure Response Prevention Therapy?

500

Panic Attacks can give people this feeling - it's the sense that the world around them is artificial.

What is Derealization?

500

Trichotillomania refers to compulsive hair-pulling; this other disorder refers to picking one's skin.

What is excoriation?

500

This is the minimum duration of a Major Depressive Episode.

What is two weeks?

500

In Cyclothymia, this is the minimum duration of the pattern of hypomanic and subclinical depressive symptoms.

What is two years?

500

This researcher's work on social learning influenced the psychosocial model of conceptualizing anxiety

Who is Bandura?

500

This emerging form of neurobiological treatment for depression, involving noninvasive brain stimulation, may be showing promising results, but it's too early to tell. 

What is Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation?