Stress
Psychological Perspectives
Disorders
Personality Disorders
Treatments
100

Negative stress that overwhelms us or causes additional difficulties.

What is distress?

100

The ____________ model describes disorders as a result of social causes, such as familial dysfunction, lack of meaningful relationships, environmental stress, and peer pressure.

What is sociocultural?

100

This disorder is characterized by cycles of repeated episodes of binge eating and behaviors to compensate, such as vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise.

What is bulimia nervosa?

100

This PD is characterized by overly dramatic, reactive, and intensely expressive behaviors, including a need for attention.

What is histrionic PD?

100

The emotional bond between patient and client is called ______. 

What is the therapeutic alliance?

200

Positive stress that motivates us to act in productive ways.

What is eustress?

200

The ______________ model emphasizes the role of unconscious conflicts, often developed during childhood.

What is psychodynamic?

200

This disorder includes symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, disordered movement, speech, and thinking.

What is schizophrenia spectrum disorder?

200

This PD is characterized by unjustified suspiciousness, envy, and mistrust of others, with reduced ability to experience/express emotions.

What is paranoid PD

200

Effective therapists use _____________: empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and seeks clarification.

What is unconditional positive regard?

300

This stage of the general adaptation syndrome (GAS) occurs when the sympathetic nervous system is initially activated; heart rate increases and blood goes to the muscles. 

What is alarm reaction?

300

The ____________ model emphasizes that disorders have maladaptive (harmful) learned associations as their basis. 

What is behavioral?

300

This is a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by limitations in communication and social interaction, and by rigidly fixated interests and repetitive behaviors.

What is autism spectrum disorder?

300

This PD is characterized by grandiose exaggeration of self-importance, a need for attention and admiration, and a tendency to set unrealistic goals.

What is narcissistic PD?

300

This is a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli

What is systematic desensitization?

400

This type of coping mechanism occurs when you see stress as a problem to be solved and seek solutions until one is found. 

What is problem-focused coping?

400

The ________________ model proposes that the causes of mental disorders focus on physiological or genetic issues. 

What is biological?

400

This disorder is characterized by excessive worry or anxiety, often about multiple things at once, Occurring the majority of the time for at least 6 months.

What is generalized anxiety disorder?

400

This PD is characterized by preoccupation with orderliness and perfectionism, excessively conscientious and inflexible.

What is obsessive-compulsive PD?

400

The process of unlearning a conditioned response is called:

What is counterconditioning?

500

Under stress, people (especially women) may nurture, bond with, and seek support from others. What is this stress response called?

What is tend-and-befriend response?

500

This model assumes that any psychological problem develops due to the genetic predisposition in combination with stressful life experiences.

What is diathesis-stress model?

500

This disorder is characterized by intense, episodic depression lasting at least two weeks.

What is major depressive disorder?

500

This PD is characterized by oversensitivity to potentially being rejected by others and unwillingness to enter into relationships for fear of rejection.

What is avoidant PD?

500

This is a non-invasive treatment that uses magnetic fields to stimulate nerve cells in the brain; used when therapy and medication are not effective.

What is transcranial magnetic stimulation?