DSM-5 Disorders
This disorder is characterized by persistent sadness, anhedonia, and changes in sleep and appetite.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This common form of talk therapy focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful thought patterns.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A hallmark symptom of panic attacks that include racing heart and shortness of breath.
What is physiological arousal?
A technique where clients are asked to record and challenge negative thoughts.
What is a thought log?
The ethical principle of doing no harm.
What is nonmaleficence?
This disorder involves excessive worry occurring more days than not for at least six months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A humanistic therapy that emphasizes unconditional positive regard and empathic listening.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
These episodes of extreme elevated mood are a key diagnostic feature of bipolar disorder.
What are manic episodes?
This grounding technique helps clients stay present by using their five senses.
What is the 5-4-3-2-1 method?
The legal and ethical duty to protect a client's personal information.
What is confidentiality?
Individuals with this Disorder have recurrent, intrusive thoughts and feel compelled to perform certain rituals.
What is Obsessive -Compulsive Disorder?
A structured, short-term therapy developed to treat borderline personality disorder.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
A cluster of symptoms including hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech.
What is schizophrenia?
A technique used in CBT where a client is gradually exposed to feared stimuli
What is systematic desensitization?
When a therapist had more than one relationship with a client.
What is a dual relationship?
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
This type of therapy is based on resolving unconscious conflicts from early life.
What is Psychodynamic Therapy?
This neurodevelopmental disorder often includes social deficits and restricted interests.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
Used in DBT, this skill helps clients tolerate distress without making it worse.
What is distress tolerance?
The duty to report when a client poses a serious risk to others.
What is the duty to warn?
This mood disorder features at least one manic episode, often alternating with depression.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
A therapy integrating elements of CBT with mindfulness, often used for trauma.
What is Trauma-Focused CBT?
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
A technique used to help clients reframe cognitive distortions.
What is cognitive restructuring?
A client must agree to treatment after receiving adequate information.
What is informed consent?