Conflicts & Coping
Psychological/Anxiety Disorders
Mental/Personality Disorders
Types of Therapy & Mental Health Pro's
Potpourri
100
The least stressful type of conflict because the choices are all positive.
What is approach-approach conflict?
100
Behavior patterns or mental processes that cause serious personal suffering.
What are psychological disorders?
100
Typically involves feelings of helplessness, guilt, and great sadness.
What is depression?
100
Goals include replacing avoidant behavior with coping behavior and to reduce inappropriate feelings of anxiety and guilt with positive ones.
What is psychoanalysis?
100
The physical and mental strain and person experiences in association with demands to adapt to a challenging situation.
What is stress?
200
A single goal can produce both approach and avoidance motives. A choice is both good and bad at the same time.
What is approach-avoidance conflict?
200
The most common of all anxiety disorders. Refers to a persistent excessive or irrational fear of a particular object or situation.
What is a phobia?
200
Formerly known as manic depression. Characterized by dramatic ups & downs in mood. Switches between mania and depression
What is bipolar disorder?
200
Professional that has a master's degree or Ph.d. In counseling psychology, typically works in a high school, college, or business.
What is a clinical psychologist?
200
A false sensory perception that occurs in the absence of an actual stimulus.
What are hallucinations?
300
One way to reduce the immediate effects of a stressor, but probably not in the most desirable way.
What is defensive coping?
300
The importance of culture is demonstrated by _______ _______. Symptoms associated with this disorder would be considered abnormal by people from other cultures.
What are culture-bound syndromes?
300
People with this disorder show a persistent behavior pattern of disregard and violation of others' rights. Typically, they feel no regret or remorse.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
300
Goal of this therapy is to remove obstacles in the path of self-actualization by using active listening and unconditional positive regard.
What is humanistic therapy?
300
A technique used by psychoanalysts to interpret the content of patients' dreams.
What is dream analysis?
400
People in this type of conflict are forced to choose the "lesser of two evils", that is, to choose between 2 unsatisfactory choices.
What is avoidance-avoidance conflict?
400
Refers to the intense, persistent feeling of anxiety that would cause stress for practically anybody.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)?
400
Usually considered the most serious of psychological disorders, characterized by a loss of contact with reality.
What is Schizophrenia?
400
An MD with a specialization in psychiatry bad post-graduate training in abnormal behavior. They are able to prescribe medication.
What is a psychiatrist?
400
The patient's transfer of emotions associated with other relationships to the therapist.
What is transference?
500
In this kind of conflict, each of several alternative courses of action has its advantages and disadvantages.
What is multiple-avoidance conflict?
500
A fear of being in places or situations in which escape may be difficult or impossible.
What is agoraphobia?
500
Instability in interpersonal relationships and self-image.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
500
Goal is to replace maladaptive, self-defeating behavior with adaptive, self-enhancing behavior by using systematic desensitization, modeling, aversive conditioning, and operant conditioning.
What is behavior therapy?
500
A type of counter conditioning, used to treat phobias, in which a pleasant, relaxed state is associated with gradually increasing, anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization?