Mental Disorders
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
A disorder where you feel sad most of the time and don’t enjoy things.
What is a Hallucination?
Hearing voices that aren’t real.
What is the Cognitive Perspective?
This perspective focuses on thoughts and thinking patterns.
What is a Biomedical Therapy?
A treatment that uses medicine.
What is a Therapeutic Alliance?
A strong, trusting relationship between a therapist and a client.
What is Bipolar Disorder?
A disorder with very high energy (mania) and very low mood (depression).
What is a Delusion of Grandeur?
Believing you are someone super important or famous.
What is the Psychodynamic Perspective?
This one looks at childhood and the unconscious mind.
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
A kind of therapy that changes how you think and act.
What is Cognitive Restructuring?
Talking back to negative thoughts and changing them.
What is Schizophrenia?
A severe disorder with hallucinations and strange thoughts.
What is Word Salad?
Speaking in a way that makes no sense at all.
What is the Behavioral Perspective?
This one studies behavior we can see, and how it's learned.
What is Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)?
A machine sends electric current to the brain for depression.
What is an Exposure Therapy?
Facing your fears slowly to get over them.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)?
A disorder where a person has more than one identity.
What is Flat Affect?
Not showing emotion on your face, even when feeling something.
What is the Biological Perspective?
This one studies the brain, body, and genetics.
What are Antidepressants?
Medicine for depression.
What is Person-Centered Therapy?
A therapist listens closely and shows full acceptance.
What is Agoraphobia?
A strong fear of being in places you can't easily escape.
What is Catatonia?
Frozen, not moving or reacting to anything.
What is the Biopsychosocial Model?
This one combines biology, thoughts, and social influences.
What are Antipsychotic Medications?
Medicine used for treating schizophrenia.
What is Transference?
When a client redirects emotions meant for someone else onto the therapist.