Anxiety Disorders
Marked by Panic Attacks; this disorder is defined by a period of fear or discomfort that are developed abrupt and intensely peaking within 10 minutes.
What is Panic Disorder?
Occurs when a predominant mood is excessively elevated and can make a person expansive or irritable.
What is Mania or a Manic Episode?
Disorder defined by the loss of intellectual abilities, impairment of judgment, memory, and critical thinking; can show changes in personality.
What is Dementia?
Pictures are used as stimuli for making up stories; good at revealing personality structure.
What is a Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)?
Involuntary persistent ideas or emotions.
What is obsession?
A phobic disorder defined by fear of situations that could put themselves in public scrutiny.
A depressive disorder categorized by a depressed mood over a 2-year period.
Marked by Delusions, Hallucinations, Involuntary mannerism, and Social Detachment.
What is Schizophrenia?
Intense for of psychotherapy where they seek to influence behavior and resolve conflicts by bringing up unconscious emotions to the surface.
What is Psychoanalysis?
Absence of emotions and/or lack of interest in them.
What is Apathy?
Characterized by exaggerated and chronic anxiety, worry, and tension, when there is little to nothing to provoke these feelings.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder? (or GAD)
A couple of disorder defined by manic episodes alternating with depressive moods.
A less severe type of Autism; frequently have normal language skills and intelligence. Characterized by the feeling of wanting to interact with others but not knowing how.
What is Aspergers?
Contains true-false question that reveal aspects of personality.
What is a Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
Unconscious conflict trying to escape from repressed feeling, emotions, and thoughts by presenting psychological conflict with a loss of physical functioning.
What is Conversion Disorder?
Anxiety Disorder followed by a traumatic event.
What is PTSD (or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)?
Less Intense Mania.
What is Hypomania?
Childhood Disorders found with delay in development, socialization, and communications skills.
What are Pervasive Developmental Disorders?
Used for a wide a of psychological problems; focused on changing establish ways of things and behaviours.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
False sensory perception.
What are Hallucinations?
Disorder defined by recurrent compulsions and obsessions that take over a persons life.
What is OCD (or Obsessive-compulsive Disorder)?
Disorder involving severe dysphoria and other symptoms that can affect physical health.
What is Major Depression?
Appears in the first few years of life; marked by difficulties in communication and social interactions.
What is Autism?
For children, this therapy allows children to use and play with toys to express conflicts and feelings, when they are unable to communicate them themselves.
What is Play Therapy?
Condition where there is a breakdown in identity, perception, and memory; people try to escape reality through amnesia and alternate identities.
What is Dissociative Disorder?