In order to diagnose a "syndrome" the client will describe these, while the therapist looks for this.
What are symptoms and signs?
100
This perspective subscribes to the idea that different brain processes can be involved in a single mental disorder and asks questions about what function a behavior serves.
What is the Evolutionary Perspective?
100
In a research study the group that doesn't receive the independent variable is referred to as this.
What is the control group?
100
This is the most common childhood behavioral disorder.
What is ADHD?
100
When treating clients this theoretical approach is most interested in the past experiences of the client.
What is psychodynamic?
200
The fact that the prevalence of schizophrenia is 1% across all cultures proves that psychopathology is this.
What is universal?
200
This term was recently introduced and refers to the ethical considerations for neuroscience techniques.
What is neuroethics?
200
This is the name of the committee that approves scholarly research and ensures the safety of participants.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
200
When we observe that a child is upset and does not seek comfort from their mother and also does not accept comfort from their mother when it is offered we might look at the criteria for this disorder.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
200
Mary Ainsworth's experiment looking at attachment with mothers and infants is referred to as this.
What is the "Stranger Experiment"?
300
This is the approach where we examine psychopathology from multiple perspectives such as social, neurological, and genetic.
What is the levels of analysis approach?
300
These are the names for the two clusters of disorders. The first contains disorders such as depression and anxiety, while the second is home to disorders such as personality and substance abuse disorders.
What are internalizing and externalizing clusters?
300
Moving to a dimensional assessment of disorders is one of the biggest overall changes in this book.
What is the DSM-5?
300
This is one of the most effective ways to treat phobias.
What is exposure therapy?
300
This describes the idea that physical needs must be met before psychological needs.
What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
400
About one in four people experience this in a given year.
What is a diagnosable mental illness?
400
This childhood event is among the leading causes of an excessive stress response in adulthood.
What is trauma related to abuse?
400
This is the name of the instrument clinicians can use in order to determine if a client is experiencing symptoms of a disorder that fall within the pre-established DSM categories.
What is the Structured Interview?
400
A client experiencing an intense feeling of apprehension, anxiety or fear without the presence of danger may be said to having one of these.
What is a panic attack?
400
This is the current volume of the book published by the APA that describes the characteristics of mental disorders.
What is the DSM-5?
500
Significant personal distress, deviance from cultural and/or statistical norms, and maladaptive processes are three of the five attributes that define this.
What is psychopathology?
500
Acute stress, PTSD and adjustment disorders used to be listed under this type of disorder, however, in the DSM-5 they are now considered to be psychological disorders caused by stress.
What is anxiety?
500
When a client responds to questions in a disjointed way or with a narrative unrelated to the question we refer to it as this.
What is a "flight of ideas"?
500
A client experiencing this type of disorder may have concerns about meeting new people or fears rejection.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD)?
500
This is one hormone in particular that has been shown to have a calming effect and reduce anxiety, more commonly found in women than men.