Depressive and Bipolar Disorders
How long must someone be chronically depressed before they can be diagnosed with Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Two Years
What does SSRI stand for?
Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitor
What is the extreme version of dissociative amnesia within which people not only forget their personal identities and details of their past, but also flee to an entirely different location?
Dissociative Fugue
What describes the CBT technique used for phobias that involves safely and repeatedly confronting feared objects, activities, memories, or internal sensations to break cycles of avoidance and reduce distress?
Exposure Therapy
What is "a self-inflicted death in which one makes intentional, direct, and conscious effort to end one’s life"
Suicide
What kind of depression occurs directly after giving birth?
Post-Partum Depression
What is the word for "Persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that seem to invade a person's mind"
What disorder are they related to?
Obsessions
They are related to OCD
What kind of amnesia describes "the loss of all memory of events occurring within a limited period"?
Localized Amnesia
What describes the CBT technique for phobias where a person is confronted directly with a maximum-intensity feared stimulus or situation all at once, without any gradual buildup or opportunity to escape?
Flooding
What describes self-inflicted but indirect, covert, or partial death or self-inflicted experiences of unconsciousness?
Sub-Intentional Death
What does "Anhedonia" mean?
Feeling little interest or pleasure
What brain circuit is the Amygdala a part of?
The Stress Circuit
What is the difference between PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder?
PTSD symptoms last more than one month. Acute Stress Disorder symptoms last less than a month.
What is a behavioral treatment that uses relaxation training and a fear hierarchy to help clients with phobias react calmly to the objects or situations they dread?
Systematic Desensitization
What is the word describing nonfatal attempts or gestures to kill oneself?
Parasuicide
How long do depressive symptoms need to last before it is qualified as a depressive episode?
How long do manic symptoms need to last before it is qualified as a manic episode?
2-weeks for a depressive episode
1-week for a manic episode
What is this type of thinking an example of: "If I make a mistake, then I am a total failure"?
What describes "the feeling that the environment is unreal or strange"
What is the CBT technique used to treat OCD where one deliberately faces thoughts, images, objects, or situations that trigger anxiety, fears, or obsessive urges and then consciously withholds compulsive behaviors?
Exposure and Response Prevention
What is the effect where a suicidal act appears to serve as a model for other such acts, especially among teens.
The Contagion Effect of Suicide
Which disorder is characterized by hypomanic episodes and not by full manic episodes?
Bipolar II Disorder
OCD is linked to low-levels of WHAT neurotransmitter?
Serotonin
What describes the feeling that one's conscious state is unreal?
Depersonalization
Which therapeutic approach uses mindfulness along with other cognitive-behavioral techniques to help clients diagnosed with depression recognize and accept their negative cognitions simply as unimportant streams of thinking that flow through their minds?
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) Therapy
Extreme suicide rates found within specific, small communities of people, usually referring to the suicide rates found on some Indigenous reservations are called: