Health & Positive Psychology
A subfield in psychology that involves studying the relationship between psychological factors such as thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and physical health.
Health Psychology
This book provides diagnostic criteria for psychological conditions.
DSM-5 (Diagnostical Statistical Manuel)
This is characterized by persistent patterns of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
ADHD
Mental illnesses characterized by psychosis, which include symptoms like hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized thinking or behavior.
Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorders
Medical treatment for depression and schizophrenia that involves the induction of brief seizures.
Electroconvulsive Therapy
These are the 3 stages of responses in the General Adaptation Syndrome.
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
Published by the World Health Organization and is used to classify conditions outside of the U.S.
ICD-11
Catatonic Stupor
A disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania.
Bipolar
This type of medication reduces the positive psychotic symptoms by inhibiting dopamine.
Antipsychotic
A coping strategy that involves seeing stress as a problem to be solved and working solutions until a solution is found.
Problem-focused coping
These are the 7 psychological perspectives.
Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Cognitive, Evolutionary, Sociocultural, Biological
This cluster in personality disorders displays odd or eccentric behaviors and includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders.
Cluster A
6 Possible causes of personality disorders
Biological, genetic, social, cultural, behavioral, or cognitive
A form of psychotherapy that explores the unconscious mind to influence current behavior, feelings, and thoughts.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Proposes some people react to stress by tending to their own needs and/or the needs of others and seeking a connection with others.
Tend-and-befriend theory
This model combines biological, psychological, and sociocultural to allow for a more thorough approach to explaining diagnosing, and treating disorders.
Biopsychosocial Model
This personality disorder exhibits attention seeking behavior, dramatic mood swings, shallow relationships.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
5 Possible causes of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Genetics, imbalance of serotonin, dopamine, and glutamate, immune responses, learned behavior (negative reinforcement), maladaptive thoughts and emotions
These are 4 ethical principles that must be followed by psychologists that are part of their code of conduct per the American Psychological Association.
Nonmaleficence, Integrity, Fidelity, Respect people's rights and dignity
These are 5 character strengths.
Wisdom/Knowledge, Humanity, Justice, Temperance, Transcendence, and Courage
This model explains how disorders might develop. It combines genetic vulnerability and stress.
Diathesis-Stress Model
These are 5 possible causes of anxiety disorders.
Genetic Predisposition, Imbalance of serotonin and dopamine, brain anatomy and abnormalities, conditioning, maladaptive thinking, and emotions
A culture-bound anxiety disorder experienced mainly by Japanese people in which people fear others are judging their bodies as undesirable, offensive, or unpleasing.
Taijin kyofusho
Described as having uncontrollable facial movements due to long-term use of antipsychotic medications. Related to dopamine regulation.
Tardive Dyskinesia