CH 11 Disorders
Inflexible, maladaptive and stable patterns of thoughts, emotions, behavior, and interpersonal functioning that deviate from the expectations of the individual's culture.
What are personality disorders?
A negative emotional state occurring in response to events that are perceived as taxing or exceeding a person's resources or ability to cope.
What is stress?
An eating disorder where the individual engages in binge-eating and does not purge or find other ways to rid their bodies of the excess food and calories.
What is binge-eating disorder?
Treatment of emotional, behavioral, and interpersonal problems through psychological techniques that promote understanding of problems and modify troubling feelings, behaviors, or relationships.
What is psychotherapy?
Prescription drugs that alter mental functions, alleviate psychological symptoms, and are used to treat psychological disorders.
What is psychotropic medication?
A personality disorder that generally begins at a young age with diagnoses of Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder. These individuals violate the rights of others, lack empathy or remorse for their actions, are irresponsible, impulsive, and manipulative.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
The branch of psychology that studies how biological, behavioral, and social factors influence health, illness, medical treatment, and health-related behaviors.
What is Health Psychology?
An eating disorder characterized by excessive weight loss, an irrational fear of gaining weight, and distorted body self-perception.
What is anorexia nervosa?
Use of medications, electroconvulsive therapy, or other medical treatments to treat the symptoms associated with psychological disorders.
What is biomedical therapy?
Prescription drugs that are used to reduce psychotic symptoms.
What are antipsychotic medications?
This personality disorder is characterized by instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotions, and marked impulsivity.
What is borderline personality disorder?
What is the General Adaptation Syndrome?
A mood disorder characterized by extreme and persistent feelings of despondency, worthlessness, and hopelessness, causing impaired emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physical functioning.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Type of psychotherapy that focuses on directly changing maladaptive behavior patterns by using basic learning principles and techniques.
What is Behavior Therapy or Behavior Modification?
Prescription drugs that are used to alleviate the symptoms of anxiety.
What are antianxiety drugs?
A self-report inventory that assesses personality characteristics and psychological disorders, used to assess both normal and disturbed populations.
What is the MMPI or Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
Repeated, duplicate DNA sequences that are found at the very tips of chromosomes and that protect the chromosomes' genetic data during cell division.
What are telomeres?
A mood disorder that is characterized by chronic form of depression that is less severe than major depressive disorder.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
A type of psychotherapy in which the therapist is nondirective and reflective, and the client directs the focus of each therapy session developed by Carl Rogers.
What is Client Centered Therapy?
Prescription drugs that are used to reduce the symptoms associated with major depressive disorder.
What are antidepressant medications?
This trait theory of personality identifies extraversion, neuroticism, aggreableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience as the fundamental building blocks of personality.
What is the Five-Factor Model of personality?
Martin Seligman's coined the way some of us use external, unstable, and specific explanations for negative events.
What is the optimistic explanatory style?
A mood disorder involving periods of incapacitating depression alternating with periods of extreme euphoria and excitement.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
A type of cognitive therapy that focuses on changing the client's irrational beliefs that was developed by Albert Ellis.
What is Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)?
Biomedical therapy used primarily in the treatment of major depressive disorder that involves electrically inducing a brief brain seizure.
What is electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or electroshock?