Diagnosis
This Diagnosis may be given when depressive episodes are present in the final week before onset of menses and improve within a few days after the onset of menses.
What is Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder?
This disorder causes individuals to fall asleep uncontrollably due to a deficiency in hypocretin.
What is Narcolepsy?
The specialty or zone of experience and training that all psychotherapist are legally bound to work within.
What is scope of Competence?
The demographic that is most like to succeed in taking their own life.
What are Men?
This man is well-known for his accomplishments in developing Psychodynamic Theory.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
An anxiety disorder, mainly seen in children, causes a consistent failure to speak in specific social situations in which there is an expectation to speak.
What is Selective Mutism?
This class of antidepressants which inhibit the reuptake of serotonin in the synapse.
What are Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
Unlike LCSWs, LPCCs, and LCPs, these licensees may have counted clinical hours collected during graduate school towards their required hours to qualify for licensure.
What are Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists?
Suicide in people Ages 15-19.
What is the third leading cause of death?
This woman is well-known for the invention of Dialect Behavioral Therapy during the 1970s.
Who is Marsha Linehan?
This diagnosis is given when criteria is met for schizophrenia for at least 6 months and a major mood episode is present concurrently with the psychotic symptoms of the active phase.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
This class of antipsychotics targets dopamine, like its predecessor, as well as serotonin.
What are a-typical antipsychotics?
These licensees have the legally protected title of "psychotherapist" but do not have a legally articulated right to diagnose in the state of California.
What are Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors and Licensed Clinical Social Workers.
An Involuntary hold for those in immediate and imminent risk of suicide.
What is a 5150?
This theory posits that maladaptive patterns of thinking and behavior are the cause of psychological distress, dysfunction, or deviance.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy or Cognitive Behavioral Theory?
This cluster of personality disorders is described as dramatic, emotional, and erratic; this cluster is home to Borderline Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder, and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
What is Cluster B?
This medication is known to be the most efficacious treatment, surpassing psychotherapy, for Bi-Polar I and II Disorder but may lead to toxicity in the blood.
What is Lithium?
These licensees are the only master level clinicians which may conduct assessments including clinical assessments and competency assessments, for the purpose of a court setting, within the context of a therapeutic relationship.
What are Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists?
37-38%
What is the percentage of patients that did not reveal their Suicidal Ideation to their health care professionals?
This theory suggests that psychological distress, dysfunction, or deviance are the result of the human condition and the four truths of the human existence.
What is Existentialism or Existential Theory?
What is Encopresis?
A genetic disease leading to deficiency in an enzyme which breaks down a fatty substance which threatens the life of neurons, leading to the progressive degeneration of the central nervous system and guaranteed death before the age of 5.
What is Tay-Sachs Disease?
This case from the University of California, Berkley, lead to the death of a university student and established the "duty to warn" for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists.
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
The inventor of the interpersonal theory of suicide.
Who is Thomas Joiner?
This theory believes that psychological distress, dysfunction, or deviance is manifested by the inability to fully integrate their experiences, emotions, and needs as a whole being, leading to a disconnection between their internal world and external reality.
What is Gestalt theory?