Disorders
More About Disorders
Insight/Talk Therapies
Action/Behavioral Therapy
So Random
100

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)

100

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) is currently in this edition. (Dr. Gomez passed this around class during that chapter.) 

5th

100

This therapy approach has clients lay on a couch with the therapist seated behind them.

Psychoanalysis or Freudian Therapy

100

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 

100

Certain problems such as bed-wetting, phobias, and compulsions are best treated with this general category of therapy. 

Behavioral Therapies

200

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

200

The most common type of hallucinations that people with psychotic disorders experience. 

Auditory (hearing things)

200

Roger's person-centered therapy values authenticity, empathy, reflection, and this important element

Unconditional positive regard

200

Aversion therapy (such as adding Antabuse to alcohol) is based upon this learning principle.

Classical Conditioning

200

This is the percentage of people who report that they feel therapy helped them

75%-90%

300

Patients with this disorder experience manic highs and extreme depression lows.

Bipolar 

300

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)

300

This therapy type focuses on helping clients change the way they think by challenging automatic thoughts. 

Cognitive Therapy

300

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

300

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

400

This risk increases as a person who suffers from depression starts to come out of their depressive episode.

Suicide

400

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

400

Some examples of this include Arbitrary Inference, Overgeneralization, and Personalization

Cognitive Distortions

400

Token economies and contingency contracts behavioral therapy techniques based upon this type of learning. 

Operant Conditioning or Reinforcement

400

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

500

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

500

These types of symptoms appear in patients with schizophrenia that have additions or exaggerations of delusions, hallucinations, or distorted thinking

Positive Symptoms

500

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 

500

Behavior therapies used to be called Behavioral Modification or B-Mod. Nowadays, it is more appropriately called this. 

Applied Behavioral Analysis

500

This is the name of the person who opposed the brutal treatment of mentally ill patients hospitalized in early insane asylums.

Philippe Pinel