Psych Disorders I
This disorder usually results from a traumatic event and significant poorer long-term functioning involving re-experiencing, avoidance, arousal / reactivity, and cognitive/mood impairments for more than a month post-event.
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
Carla’s therapist is teaching her how to not bite and pick are her fingernails using various learning techniques, including classical and operant conditioning. Her therapist is using which type of psychotherapy? (Think Perspective)
behavioral therapy
The CURRENT Medical Book used by Phycologist/Psychiatrist to diagnose abnormal behaviors and disorders.
What is the DSM V (Diagnostic Statistical Manual)?
The term used to describe the statistical likelihood of a disorder (or any trait) being passed down genetically.
What is Heritability?
This disorder was formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
The Type of therapy that would emphasize the importance of active listening in the process of psychotherapy including unconditional positive regard (Rogers)
humanistic therapy (client-centered therapy)
What is the term for a false perception (seeing/hearing things not there)?
hallucination (the term for a false belief is delusion)
Intense fear of social situations and the unknown. Subjects usually do not leave their house or apartment because of fear of the outside world.
What is Agoraphobia?
Julie spends all day cleaning her house because she can’t stop thinking about germs and dirt. Identify the the compulsion.
cleaning the house all day
One suspected cause of schizophrenia is the abnormal increase of which neurotransmitters in the brain?
dopamine
Freud Therapy
What is Psychodynamic?
A form of psychotherapy that integrates theories of cognition and learning with treatment techniques
What is Cognitive Behavior Therapy/CBT?
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is most effective for severe depression and is considered useful in which perspective.
What is Biological/Neuro Approach?
Roger has been extremely anxious for much of the past year, but can’t explain why. He is probably experiencing:
generalized anxiety disorder
For which disorder might a psychiatrist prescribe a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor such as Prozac® or Zoloft®
Major Depressive Disorder
In Biopsychosocial approach to treatment, medicine refers to which morpheme.
What is Bio (or Biological/Neuro Approach)
A symptom of Bipolar disorder when a person experiences a time period of extreme euphoria, inflated self-esteem, optimism, and hyperactivity.
What is a Manic Episode/Mania?
a somatoform (physiological body form) disorder in which patients present with one or more physical symptoms but for which there is instead evidence of psychological involvement.
What is Conversion Disorder?
Conversion disorder and hypochondriasis are classified as SOMATOFORM disorders. What does the morpheme somato mean? (or..soma?)
morpheme somato: relating to the human or animal body
Antipsychotic drugs are most commonly prescribed for the treatment of:
schizophrenia
Phobias can be treated best with which type of behavioral therapy but one must be careful not to traumatize with too much flooding!
systematic desensitization (exposure therapy)
Therapy based on the concept that an individual’s self-defeating (often irrational) beliefs influence and cause negative feelings and undesirable behaviors
What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy REBT?
During a group project George, Grace and Greg did not work as hard as they would have if they were working alone. His behavior exemplifies:
What is Social Loafing?