Therapies
This is a type of therapy in which various family members participate in therapy individually and in combination with other family members.
What is Family Therapy?
Involves a loss of connection with some part of our consciousness, identity, or memory
What is a dissociation or dissociative disorder?
This is known as the lack of emotional expression.
What is blunted affect?
This type of therapist first has to obtain a medical degree (M.D.).
What is a Psychiatrist?
In this type of procedure, graphic imagery is used to create unpleasant associations with specific stimuli
What is covert sensitization therapy?
This broad type of therapies are based on the notion that the way we think about our circumstances is essential to our health and adjustment.
What are cognitive therapies?
This is characterized by six months of persistent physical complaints with excessive thoughts, feelings, or behaviors related to the symptoms that cause distress or disrupt one’s life
What is Somatic symptom disorder?
While the likelihood of any one individual developing schizophrenia is 1%-2%, if your identical twin has, these are your odds.
What is about 50%?
These broad types of therapies focus directly on changing current problem behaviors rather than delving into the client’s past
What are behavior therapies?
A mood disorder characterized by depression that occurs at the same time every year.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?
This type of therapy believes that the therapist should serve more as a facilitator or coach to help move the client in the direction of change.
What is Humanistic Therapy?
These types of disorders involve a significant change in a person’s emotional state; this change may include feeling depressed or extremely elated for an extended time.
What are Mood Disorders?
Unusual, odd, or repetitive behaviors and gestures that can be present with Schizophrenia are known as ____.
What are Disordered behavior(s)?
In addition to promoting cognitive restructuring, therapists wanted to help clients initiate behavioral changes. So they created these types of therapies.
What are Cognitive Behavioral Therapies?
This theory/model is a representation of integrating all the three perspectives and explanations of abnormality to become a comprehensive model.
What is the Biopsychosocial perspective?
These theories attribute abnormal behavior to some physical process: genetics, an imbalance in hormones or neurotransmitters, or some brain or bodily dysfunction.
What are Biological theories?
Bipolar I disorder, there is a mood change from low to a “high” or euphoric state, called _____.
What is Mania
____ and ____ contribute to an increased likelihood of developing Schizophrenia.
This is a list of situations or items that trigger a client’s anxiety or fear, from least to most fear inducing. Used in Systematic desensitization.
What is an anxiety hierarchy?
This is the use of low-frequency magnetic pulses change activity in underlying cortical regions.
What is Repeated transcranial magnetic stimulation?
Trepanation, or the drilling of holes in the skull by ancient people, might represent the very first effort to use this.
What is Psychosurgery?
With depressive disorders this type of symptom includes, inability to concentrate or difficulty in making decisions, exaggerated feelings of worthlessness or guilt, thoughts of suicide.
What are Cognitive Symptoms?
These types of symptoms of schizophrenia represent an excess or distortion of normal functions and are more obvious signs of a break with reality called psychosis. They include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
What are Positive symptoms?
This therapeutic medication is a widely used benzodiazepine, typically prescribed for panic disorder, general anxiety disorder, and premenstrual syndrome.
What is Alprazolam (Xanax)?
This type of therapy assumes that people will improve once they understand their problems.
What are Insight therapies? [more specific than Psychoanalytic]