Background Information
Theory & Approaches
Clinical Diagnosis and Research
Anxiety Disorders
Phobias & PTSD
100
Belief that deviant behavior results from a battle between evil and good
What is the supernatural tradition
100
Treatment from this psychological approach relied on transference between the patient and therapist to help resolve underlying conflicts.
What is the psychoanalytic tradition?
100
In the Mental Status Exam, a person's awareness of their surroundings - who they are, where they are, what day it is.
What is sensorium
100
A future-oriented response of physical tension and apprehension
What is anxiety?
100
a phobia where relaxation is NOT recommended as a treatment method due to potential for fainting.
What is blood-injury-injection phobia?
200
Country of origin of separate biological and psychological models of abnormal behavior. In other words, the soul and body are separate.
What is Greece?
200
Theoretical belief that humans are basically good, but may need a therapist's assistance to self actualize.
What is humanistic orientation?
200
In the mental status exam, the primary feeling state of the person
What is mood?
200
An immediate alarm reaction to danger
What is fear?
200
For individuals with severe, unexpected panic attacks; Avoiding situations where a panic attack may occur. Means fear of the marketplace.
What is agoraphobia?
300
This Greek physician believed hysteria was observed in women because of their wandering uterus.
Who is Hippocrates?
300
Observed by Seligman, a pattern of "rat depression" where rats give up when they have no control over the shock patterns in their environment.
What is learned helplessness?
300
An approach distinct from the categorical and dimensional methods of classifying mental disorders. This approach is used in the DSM-IV TR where essential characteristics are defined and non-essential variants.
What is the prototypical approach?
300
When a person is more likely to have a panic attack in some situations than other
What is situationally predisposed?
300
Considered one of the most successful treatment methods for specific phobias.
What is systematic desensitization or exposure-based exercises.
400
In early biological explanations of psychological disorders, these items were believed to influence behavior/personality. For example, blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
What are the 4 bodily humors?
400
Genetic predisposition increases a person's likelihood of encountering stressful life events. The name for this genetic model...
What is the reciprocal gene-environment model?
400
In assessment, an approach used to assess thoughts, feelings, actions of individual's who are not good candidates for clinical interviews such as young children.
What is a behavioral assessment?
400
A type of panic attack that may lead to a phobia
What is a situationally bound panic attack?
400
PTSD symptoms occurring from 1-3 months after a traumatic event.
What is Acute PTSD?
500
This disease was one of the first links between germs and psychological abnormalities. Symptoms included madness and a general paresis/paralysis of the body.
What is syphillis?
500
A model suggesting a person's tendency to acquire a disorder is activated by a specific life events. For example, a person's predisposition to alcoholism may be activated by inherited tendency + number of drinking incidents.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
500
This terms means an assessment results are related to the construct it is designed to measure. For example, a score on a depression rating scale accurately relates to severity of depression.
What is validity?
500
A parenting style that seems to increase anxiety in children
What is overprotective, fearful parenting?
500
PTSD occurring within the first month after a trauma. Often accompanied by dissociative symptoms.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?