Health and Positive Psychology
A positive form of stress that can improve motivation and performance.
What is Eustress?
This technique uses electronic monitoring to help people gain control over involuntary bodily functions like heart rate or muscle tension.
What is biofeedback?
This trauma-related disorder may include flashbacks, nightmares, and hypervigilance after a life-threatening event.
What is PTSD?
This anxiety-related disorder is marked by obsessions and compulsions that significantly interfere with daily life.
What is Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Prescribed as medication for mania or for treating bipolar disorder and schizophrenic spectrum disorders.
What is Lithium.
This stress-response model includes three stages: alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)?
Health and illness as the result of biological, psychological, and social factors.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
These symptoms of schizophrenia include hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech, as opposed to emotional flatness or lack of motivation.
What are Positive Symptoms vs. Negative Symptoms?
Characterized by at least one manic period and one depressive period without having a full manic episode.
The process of surgically altering brain tissue to treat severe mental disorders, now considered outdated.
What is Psychosurgery?
This theory suggests people, especially women, cope with stress through nurturing and seeking social support.
What is the Tend-and-Befriend Theory?
Suggests that mental disorders result from a combination of predispositional vulnerability and environmental stress.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
These fixed, false beliefs involve the idea that others are out to harm, spy on, or conspire against the individual.
What are Delusions of Persecution?
This culturally specific syndrome, common in Latin American communities, involves intense emotional upset including screaming, crying, or fainting.
What is Ataque de Nervios?
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy, and Cognitive Restructuring.
What are types of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?
This theory explains how positive emotions help us expand cognitive and behavioral skills over time.
What is the Broaden-and-Build Theory?
This term describes using a blend of different therapeutic approaches, depending on the client's needs.
What is the Eclectic Approach?
This disorder involves the presence of two or more distinct personality states, often linked to severe childhood trauma.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
One is short-lived and accompanied by intense low mood and the other is characterized by chronic low mood for at least two years.
What is the difference between Major Depressive Disorder and Persistent Depressive Disorder
One is a type of drug that affects/changes brain chemistry (like hormone levels) to treat mental disorders, the other changed the brain in more intense ways and is used to treat schizophrenic disorders and disorders that involve psychosis.
What is the difference between Psychoactive and Antipsychotic medications?
Early life traumas which are linked to long-term negative health and psychological outcomes.
What are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)?
These types of toxic interpersonal connections often reinforce negative behaviors and interfere with psychological well-being.
What are Maladaptive Relationships?
This category of disorders includes schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and delusional disorder.
What are Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorders?
This group of personality disorders includes Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder.
What are Cluster C Disorders?
What are negative views about the world, the future, and oneself?