Key Terms
This refers to when one's thoughts, behaviors, and emotions are dysfunctional and interfere with their day to day routine.
What is Psychological Disorder?
Distress-induced eating binges that are NOT accompanied by purging, fasting, and excessive exercise are characteristic of
binge-eating disorder
It is a mood disorder involving persistent sadness, loss of interest or pleasure, and other emotional and physical symptoms lasting at least two weeks.
What is major depressive disorder?
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible, enduring, and socially maladaptive behavior patterns are called ___________ disorders.
Personality disorders
This therapy aims to teach clients new ways of thinking and processing events and emotions they may experience.
What is Cognitive Therapy?
The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness is referred to as its
etiology.
A delusional state characterized by thoughts or experiences out of touch with reality
Schizophrenia
This is a rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more alternating personalities that controls one's behaviors at different times.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
This disorder is characterized by a person who lacks consciousness of wrongdoing, can be aggressive, and is usually male.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This treatment involves psychological techniques, consists of interactions between trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties.
What is Psychotherapy?
A person who maintains bizarre, false beliefs that have no basis in reality is said to have
Delusions
People have an intense fear of weight-gain, can become dangerously thin
Anorexia Nervosa
It is marked by unstable moods, self-image, and relationships, and includes impulsive behavior and fear of abandonment.
Borderline personality disorder
This form of treatment/therapy aims to treat psychological disorders through medications/drugs.
What is The Biomedical Therapies?
Showing no emotional reaction or response in situations when a strong emotional response would be expected
Flat affect
This disorder is characterized by repetitive, and sometimes unwanted, thoughts that lead to compulsive behaviors. It is often incorrectly used to describe tidy people.
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
A psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity.
What is Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADHD)?
It involves excessive reliance on others for emotional and decision-making support, and difficulty being alone.
Dependent Personality Disorder
This perspective emphasizes people's innate potential for self-fulfillment by helping them grow in self-awareness and self-acceptance. Therapists using this perspective view those in therapy as "clients" as opposed to "patients."
What is Humanistic Perspective?
What is the DSM-5?
The DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition) is used by mental health professionals to diagnose and classify mental disorders based on specific criteria.
Carol finds she is no longer interested in things she used to do, is sad most of the time, and thinks she is a terrible person. Additionally, she has recently lost a lot of weight and doesn't sleep very much. Which TYPE of disorder does Carol suffer from?
A mood disorder
a temporary state where a person has memory loss (amnesia) and ends up in an unexpected place
dissociative fugue
It is characterized by attention-seeking behaviors, excessive emotionality, and a strong desire to be the center of attention.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
This form of therapy will use a blend of therapies such as humanistic approaches and cognitive approaches.
What is Eclectic?