Anxiety / Obsessive Compulsive
What your mom suffers from when she goes to work & constantly worries if she locked your home door or not.
What is an Obsession?
A manual created by the American Psychiatric Association to define psychological disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
Requires people to directly experience trauma or extreme exposure to the details of a traumatic event.
What is the DSM-5?
Restricting its access lowers suicide rates.
What are guns?
The length of time 5 or more symptoms are present during the same period and represent a change from previous functioning.
What are 2 weeks?
A code-based phobic stimulus (i.e.: fear of flying in airplanes).
What is Situational?
In the DSM-5, the symptoms of this disorder are "problems related to sexual arousal from objects or disfunction".
What is Paraphilic?
Difficulty forming emotional attachments to others, while being emotionally withdrawn and showing little positive affect.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)?
The disorders that increases the risk for suicide.
What are depression, bipolar, substance abuse, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders?
Feelings of intense sadness, rumination about the event, insomnia, poor appetite, and weight loss.
What are responses to a significant loss?
An ongoing & persistent form of anxiety.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)?
Sociocultural approaches view abnormal behaviors in terms of difficulties arising from family & other social relationships.
What is 1 major perspective on psychological disorders that mental health professionals use?
People that experience a higher level of PTSD due to overt discrimination, racial microaggressions, and internalized racism.
Who are African-Americans?
2 or more suicides (or attempted suicides) that nonrandomly occur closely together in space or time.
What is suicide cluster?
The predominant affect is feelings of emptiness and loss.
What is grief?
Short intense feelings of heart palpitations, sweating, trembling, shortness of breath, dizziness, stomach pain, loss of control, and fear of dying.
What are Panic Attacks?
This creates a catch-22 for metal health professionals when evaluating patients.
What is a diagnosed-based system of insurance coverage?
Transforms distressing memories into more adaptive and less emotionally charged ones.
What is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)?
The Federal agency that tracks suicide rates.
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
Having the presence of mood congruent or mood-incongruent delusions or hallucinations.
What is a Psychotic episode?
The part of the brain that's engaged when anticipate threats & avoid stimuli a.k.a. anticipatory anxiety.
What is the Cingulate Cortex (Anterior section)?
He participated in a study in the 1970s that was influential & led to a greater scrutiny of how labeling individuals with a diagnosis can affect their future lives.
Who is David Rosenhan?
A coordination of an inflammatory response through a stream of neurohormones.
What is a stress-activated Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) axis?
The method used to commit suicide by 70% of girls aged 10-14?
What is suffocation (hangings)?
Treatment used for mild cases of MDD that is effective for approximately 62% of patients.
What is Psychotherapy?