Psychopharmacology
This SSRI is often the first-line treatment for depression due to its tolerability.
What is sertraline?
This condition involves persistent sadness and loss of interest for at least two weeks.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
This therapy focuses on challenging and changing unhelpful cognitive distortions.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This theorist proposed stages of psychosocial development from infancy to old age.
Who is Erik Erikson?
This law protects the confidentiality of patient health information.
What is HIPAA?
This atypical antipsychotic has a risk of agranulocytosis and requires regular CBC monitoring.
What is clozapine?
A child with repetitive behavior and impaired social interaction may be diagnosed with this.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
This therapy is often used to treat phobias using gradual exposure.
What is Exposure Therapy?
This developmental theory includes sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational stages.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The ability of a patient to make their own medical decisions is known as this.
What is autonomy?
This mood stabilizer is teratogenic and associated with neural tube defects.
What is valproic acid?
This disorder includes periods of elevated mood and increased activity, alternating with depression.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
This therapy involves reflecting feelings to enhance insight, often used in psychodynamic models.
What is Insight-oriented therapy?
According to Freud, this stage focuses on pleasure in the mouth (birth to 18 months).
What is the oral stage?
This ethical principle refers to "do no harm."
What is nonmaleficence?
This medication is both an antidepressant and used for smoking cessation.
What is bupropion?
Hallucinations and delusions for over six months are hallmarks of this disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
This therapy is especially effective for Borderline Personality Disorder.
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy?
Kohlberg is known for his theory on this type of development.
What is moral development?
This federal law allows patients to access and amend their medical records.
What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule?
This class of drugs should not be combined with SSRIs due to serotonin syndrome risk.
What are MAOIs?
This trauma-related disorder includes intrusive memories, avoidance, and hyperarousal.
What is PTSD?
Developed by Carl Rogers, this therapy emphasizes unconditional positive regard.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
According to Mahler, this stage involves a child recognizing they are separate from their mother.
What is separation-individuation?
This act requires providers to stabilize patients in an emergency, regardless of insurance.
What is EMTALA?