Quizlet Disorders and Therapy

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  1. active listening: empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. a feather of rogers' client-centered therapy
  2. ADHD: a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
  3. agoraphobia: fear or avoidance of situations in which escape might be difficult or help unavailable when panic strikes
  4. anterograde amnesia: no new memories
  5. antisocial personality disorder: a personality disorder in which the person usually a man exhibits a lack of conscience for wrong doing, even toward friends and family member. maybe aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist
  6. anxiety disorders: psychological disorders characterized by distressing persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
  7. aversive conditioning: a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
  8. avoidant personality disorder: a disorder that expresses anxiety such as fearful sensitivity to rejection
  9. behavior therapy: therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
  10. bio-psycho-social perspective: an integrated perspective that incorporates biological, psychological and social-cultural levels of analysis
  11. biomedical therapy: prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system
  12. bipolar disorder: a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania
  13. catatonic schizophrenia: immobility, extreme negativism, and.or parrotlike repeating of another's speech or movement
  14. client- centered therapy: a humanistic therapy, developed by carl rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine accepting,empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth
  15. cognitive behavior therapy: alter the way people act and to alter the way people think
  16. cognitive therapy: therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
  17. counterconditioning: a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; basedon classical conditioning. includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning, behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on classical conditioning
  18. cyclothymic disorder: A mood disorder characterized by moderate but frequent mood swings that are not severe enough to qualify as bipolar disorder
  19. David Rosenhan: went to a mental hospital admissions offices, complaining of hearing voices that were saying empty, hollow, and thud. apart from this complaint and giving false names and occupations, they answered questions truthfully. all were diagnosed as mentally ill
  20. delusions: false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
  21. diathesis model: low vulnerability-low stress high vulnerability-low stress low vulnerability-high stress high vulnerability-high stress
  22. disorganized schizophrenia: disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion
  23. dissociative disorders: disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings
  24. dissociative identity disorder: a rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
  25. dopamine hypothesis: The theory that schizophrenia is caused by an excess amount of dopamine in the brain. Research has found that medication to reduce dopamine can reduce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
  26. DSM (IV): the American psychiatric associations diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders the fourth edition a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
  27. dysthymic disorder: a down in the dumps mood that fills most of the day, nearly everyday, for two years or more
  28. eclectic approach: an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy
  29. electroconvulsive therapy: biomedical therapy for severely depressed people in which brief electric currents are sent through the brain of an anestetized patient
  30. EMDR: while peole imagined traumatic scence, shapiro triggered eye movements by waving her finger in front of their eyes, supposedly enabling them to unlock and reprocess previously frozen trauma memories
  31. exposure therapies: behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid
  32. family therapy: therapy that treats the family as a system; views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relations and improved communication
  33. flat affect: a zombielike state of not caring
  34. generalized anxiety disorder: an anxiety disorder in which a person is unexplainably and continually tense and uneasy
  35. histrionic personality disorder: exhibits dramatic or impulsive behaviors. also, displays shallow, attention-getting emotion and goes to great lengths to gain others' praise and reassurance
  36. interpersonal psychotherapy: a brief variation of psychodynamic therapy, has been effective in treating depression and it aims to help people gain insight into the roots of their difficulties, but its goal is symptom relief in the here and now not overall personality change
  37. interpretation: in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight
  38. light exposure therapy: releaves symptoms associated with wintertime depression and manufacturers produced light boxes
  39. lobotomy: a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients; the procedure cut the nerves that connect the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
  40. major depressive disorder: a mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminishes interest or pleasure in most activities
  41. mania: a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
  42. medical model: the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured. When applied to psychological disorders, assumes that these mental illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy, which may include treatment in a psychiatric hospital, concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured
  43. meta- analysis: a procedure for statistically combining the result of many different research studies
  44. mood disorders: psychological disorders characterized by emotional extremes
  45. narcissistic personality disorder: exaggerate their own importance aided by success fantasies. they find criticism hard to accept, often reacting with rage or shame
  46. OCD: an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions
  47. panic attack: a minutes long episode of intense fear that something horrible is about to happen
  48. panic disorder: an anxiety diorder marked by unpredictable minutes long episodes of tense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations
  49. paranoid schizophrenia: preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations, often with themes of persecution or grandiosity
  50. personality disorders: psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning
  51. phobias: an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation
  52. post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD): an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after traumatic experience
  53. progressive relaxation: the therapist trains you to relax one muscle group after another, until you achieve a drowsy state of complete relaxation and comfort, then the therapist asks you to imagine a mildly anxiety-arousing situation
  54. psychoanalysis: freud's therapeutic technique, He believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences-and therapist's interpretation of them- released previusly repressed feelings, allowing the patient to regain self-insight
  55. psychodynamic theory: therapists try to understand a patients current symptoms by focusing on the themes across important relationships, including childhood experiences and the therapist relationship
  56. psychological disorders: different, distressful, and dysfunctional behavior patterns
  57. psychopharmacology: the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
  58. psychosurgery: surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
  59. psychotherapy: an emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties
  60. regression toward the mean: the tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average
  61. residual schizophrenia: withdrawal, after hallucinations and delusions have disappeared
  62. resistance: in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material
  63. retrograde amnesia: no old memories
  64. rTMS: the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity
  65. schizoid personality disorder: a disorder that expresses eccentric behaviors, such as the emotionless disengagement
  66. schizophrenia: a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed percpetions, and inappropriate emotions and actions
  67. seasonal affective disorder: those living for from the equator, the wintertime blahs constitute a form of depression
  68. social phobia: an intense fear of being scrutinized by others
  69. somatoform disorders: not consciously controlled or real physical problem in the patient’s body, but rather unconscious brain problems in which a person’s brain leads them to believe that there is something wrong with his or her body.
  70. systematic desensitization: a type of counterconditioning that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
  71. tardive dyskinesia: involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs; a possible neurotoxic side effect of long-term use of antipsychotic drugs that target D2 dopamine receptors
  72. token economy: an operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior; a patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired behavior, for various privileges or treats
  73. transference: in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships
  74. Un-DSM: a manual of human strengths and virtues
  75. undifferentiated schizophrenia: many and varied symptoms
  76. virtual reality exposure therapy: an anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking