Developmental Systems
This psychosocial stage suggests individuals cognitive and social systems come together to create challenges with specific psychosocial costs and benefits.
Eriksonian Stage Theory
All therapists create treatment plans using these descriptions of patients’ presenting problems in the context of past experiences and present stressors and strengths.
Conceptualization
This concept describes when multiple origins or antecedents can lead to the same diagnosis, symptom, or outcome.
Equifinality
Any immediate stressor that activates maladaptive schema or behaviors and may have longlasting impacts on neurochemical production.
Triggers
Statements like “I wish I could go to sleep and never wake up” and “no one would notice if I left” are emblematic of this type of abstract suicidal gesture.
Passive Ideation
Both a microsystem and an environment with individual group dynamics that often informs children’s individual experience of gender and cultural norms.
Family Systems
A major shift in conceptualization occurred when the DSM-III shifted to this type of scientific rationale: arguments that draw from observation of symptom clusters to create theories.
Inductive or Epidemiological
Kianna got into a fight at her sister’s baby shower because she smelled like smoke. She tells the therapist that she “doesn’t like to smoke” and “doesn’t want to.” Kianna might have… ?
Substance Dependance
“I am a bad person” pops into someone’s head during a conversation and won’t go away despite attempts to continue the conversation or pinch oneself
Intrusive Thoughts
Depression, anxiety, and eating disorders may all contribute to this - which may tell an individual that they are going to do badly during a presentation due to expecting they will look bad in front of others
Fortune-telling
Philosophers and artists who followed this principle prior to the Renaissance believed that children were tinier versions of fully formed
Formal Cause
This term describes the bodily systems and chemistry that contribute to psychological symptoms and increase vulnerability to developing disordered behavior.
Pathophysiology
Awareness of the mechanisms, emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that contribute to presenting problem.
Insight
Formula that takes into account patients’ height and weight to assess whether an individual has problematic eating. Assessed by biomedical professionals.
Body Mass Index
Name for psychodynamic concept that describes normative experience where the environment fails to meet all expectations and demands of children.
Empathic Failures
Name for the neurological system that includes the amygdala and hippocampus
Limbic System
Therapy that is present-focused and examines the relationships among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Disorder that includes difficulty understanding and exhibiting social cues associated with conversations; some therapists suggest that this is the replacement for Asperger’s Disorder.
Social Pragmatic Language Disorder
Feature in common with anxiety, eating disorders, and PTSD that is both a maladaptive behavior and mechanism.
Avoidance
Negative thoughts about the self, others, and the world are referred to as this – evidence of hopelessness in Depression.
Cognitive Triad
Psychodynamic theorists felt that individuals remained in an overly enmeshed state with the external environment until they experienced this
Trauma
Name for presenting problems that are evidence of the contribution of two co-existing or comorbid disorders.
Combined or Mixed Presentation
Vocabulary is one example of this type of intelligence – which draws from facts and activities learned from previous experiences and academic settings.
Crystallized Intelligence/Reasoning
Thought it was previously treated, this disorder was only officially recognized in the DSM-5.
Binge Eating Disorder
This type of treatment of anxiety disorders involves exposure to calming stimuli and coping skills in escalating anxiety provoking situations to uncouple conditioned responses
Systematic Desensitization