Disorders 1
Sufferers of this disorder swing between wide extremes in mood, from happiness and overactivity to depression.
What is bipolar disorder?
This disorder is characterized by extreme sadness and despair, which often looks like a disinterest in regular activities and over- or under-eating or sleeping.
What is major depression?
The term used to describe approaching treatment from several perspectives, not just one.
What is eclectic or biopsychosocial?
In order to treat a patient, clinicians must make a diagnosis. In America, clinicians use this manual to make consistent diagnoses.
What is the DSM-V (or DSM-V-TR)?
This theory of stress coping is more common in women, and says that some people cope by tending to the needs of others and seeking connections with them.
What is tend and befriend theory?
This anxiety disorder appears only in Japan and is characterized by extreme concern over offending others with your body.
Clients with this disorder have an unstable sense of self, which often shows itself in chaotic and disrupted interpersonal relationships ("I hate you, don't leave me").
What is borderline personality disorder?
This term is most similar to the medical principle of "do no harm."
What is nonmaleficence?
This term refers to the theory that an individual has a genetic predisposition to a disorder, but environmental causes bring it out.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
In this stage of the general adaptation syndrome, our bodies go into fight or flight in order to prep us for action.
What is alarm?
This disorder is caused by trauma that then results in flashbacks, hypervigilance, severe anxiety, insomnia, emotional detachment, and hostility.
What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)?
This disorder is characterized by persistent unwanted thoughts and intrusive repetitive behaviors.
What is obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)?
Free association and dream interpretation are both treatment practices from this perspective.
What is psychoanalytic/psychodynamic?
This treatment can be used for pain control and anxiety, but cannot overcome free will, retrieve memories, or cause regression. Also, it can't make you cluck like a chicken.
What is hypnosis?
In this stage of the general adaptation syndrome, your body gives up, leading to a compromised immune system and burnout.
What is exhaustion?
The most controversial psychological disorder; stress causes a person's personality to fracture and leads to alter personalities.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Clients with this disorder are often charming, manipulative, dishonest, and show consistent disregard for others without remorse.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
This behavioral treatment involves receiving feedback on heart rate, blood pressure, and other physical markers of stress, and then learning to control them to help with anxiety and depression.
What is biofeedback?
A drug commonly used to treat bipolar; used to be added to 7UP soda.
What is lithium?
Stress that is negative or damaging is called distress, while stress that is positive or motivating is called
What is eustress?
This disorder is characterized by an inability to remember parts of the past, often as the result of trauma; it may involve the person leaving and taking on a whole new life.
What is dissociative amnesia (with or without fugue)?
This disorder appears in 1% of the population worldwide, and causes are linked to genetics, prenatal virus exposure, and an overabundance of dopamine.
What is schizophrenia?
Therapists who subscribe to this perspective believe in free will and self-actualization, and treat their patients with unconditional positive regard, active listening, and person-centered therapy.
What is humanistic?
Aversive conditioning, token economies, and systematic desensitization are all therapies rooted in this perspective.
What is behavioral?
Sometimes after an extremely stressful event, rather than resulting in a disorder, some people experience growth and resilience that leads to a greater appreciation for life.
What is post-traumatic growth?