This is the most common anxiety disorder where excessive anxieties and worries occur more days than not for at least 6 months and include symptoms such as insomnia, feeling jittery, and headaches.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is currently in this edition. (Dr. Gomez passed this around class during that chapter.)
5th
This therapy approach has clients lay on a couch with the therapist seated behind them.
Psychoanalysis or Freudian Therapy
Sally is deathly afraid of spiders. Her behavioral therapist asks her to build this to rank her fears from 0-100 so that she can undergo systematic desensitization.
Fear Hierarchy
Certain problems such as bed-wetting, phobias, and compulsions are best treated with this general category of therapy.
Behavioral Therapies
Egocentrism, lack of a conscience, disregard for the rights of others, impulsive behavior, lack of remorse or guilt, and charisma are characteristics of a person with this personality disorder.
Antisocial or ASPD
The most common type of hallucinations that people with psychotic disorders experience.
Auditory (hearing things)
Roger's person-centered therapy values authenticity, empathy, reflection, and this important element
Unconditional positive regard
Aversion therapy (such as adding Antabuse to alcohol) is based upon this learning principle.
Classical Conditioning
This is the percentage of people who report that they feel therapy helped them
75%-90%
Patients with this disorder experience manic highs and extreme depression lows.
Bipolar
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities, weight loss or gain, fatigue, and feelings of worthlessness may be found in people with this disorder.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
This therapy type focuses on helping clients change the way they think by challenging automatic thoughts.
Cognitive Therapy
A type of exposure therapy where the client is directed to move their eyes rapidly back and forth while thinking of a disturbing memory.
EMDR or Eye-Movement Desensitization Reprocessing
This is the banned therapy type where some people ended up dying because they suffocated in the process of wiggling through blankets and mats.
Rebirthing Therapy
This risk increases as a person who suffers from depression starts to come out of their depressive episode.
Suicide
According to this model, someone with an inherited predisposition for schizophrenia will experience a schizophrenic episode when they encounter more stress than they can handle.
Diathesis-Stress Model
Some examples of this include Arbitrary Inference, Overgeneralization, and Personalization
Cognitive Distortions
Token economies and contingency contracts behavioral therapy techniques based upon this type of learning.
Operant Conditioning or Reinforcement
This is the term a family therapist will use to refer to a member of the family who tends to get blamed for all or most of the family's dysfunction.
Scapegoat
This is the term that is used for patients who may have symptoms that fit what used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID
These types of symptoms appear in patients with schizophrenia that have additions or exaggerations of delusions, hallucinations, or distorted thinking
Positive Symptoms
This psychoanalytic concept is the tendency for a client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from their past onto their therapist.
Transference
Behavior therapies used to be called Behavioral Modification or B-Mod. Nowadays, it is more appropriately called this.
Applied Behavioral Analysis
This is the name of the person who opposed the brutal treatment of mentally ill patients hospitalized in early insane asylums.
Philippe Pinel