Treatment
Impaired communication, restricted interests, and
deficits in social interaction are the core symptoms of what?
What is autism spectrum dusorder?
An anxiety disorder that consists of sudden,
overwhelming attacks of terror
What is a panic disorder?
Side effects of doing this include heart disease, respiratory ailments, and various cancers.
What is smoking?
This occurs when someone compares themself with another person who is seen as more competent or in a better situation, which tends to confirm a person’s low self-esteem
What is an upward comparison?
This treatment occurs when a therapist works with clients to help them gain insight about how their unconscious processes may be causing inner conflict
What is psychodynamic theory?
This form of therapy, is used to treat borderline personality disorder.
What is dialectical behavior therapy?
This is an anxiety disorder marked by fear of being
in situations from which escape may be difficult or
impossible
What is Agoraphobia?
This is a consistent pattern of physical responses to stress that consists of three stages: Alarm, resistance and exhaustion
What is the general adaptation syndrome?
The tendency for people to take personal credit for success but blame failure on external factors (DD)
What is the self-serving bias?
This type of therapy can include social skills training to elicit desired behavior, such as appropriate ways to act in specific social situations
What is behavior therapy?
This is beneficial in treating both the positive symptoms of schizophrenia and some of the negative symptoms and can have severe side effects. (DD)
What are atypical antipsychotics?
Deficits in functioning, such as apathy, lack of emotion, and slowed speech are defined as what...
What is a negative symptom of schizophrenia?
This term describes a females’ tendency to respond to stressors by protecting and caring for their offspring and forming social alliances.
What is tend or befriend?
Personality tests that examine unconscious processes by having people interpret ambiguous stimuli
What is a projective measure?
Individuals with APD apparently have diminished
cortical arousal, so stimulants have been prescribed to
normalize arousal levels
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This may be very effective for some people who are severely depressed and do not respond to conventional treatments.
What is ECT?
This disorder is characterized by disturbances in identity, in moods, and in impulse control
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
This occurs when positive emotions prompt people to consider novel solutions to their problems.
What is the broaden and build theory?
This theory proposes that personality traits had two major dimensions: How outgoing people are and whether their emotions tended to be stable or unstable
What is Esynyck's trait theory?
This term is an involuntary movement of body
parts—is another devastating side effect of these
medications and is irreversible once it appears (DD)
What is tardive dyskenisia?
The best practice is to use psychotropic medications, especially the mood stabilizer lithium.
What is Bi-polar disorder?
This is the rarest and most extreme form of dissociative amnesia.
What is dissociative fugue?
Men who exhibit these traits are much more likely to develop heart disease.
What is type A characteristics?
This social cognitive approach refers to people’s perception of whether they control the rewards and punishments they experience
What is a locus of control?
2 techniques of this type of therapy include free association and dream analysis
What is psychoanalysis?