9422198100 | what qualifies behavior/thoughts/emotions as being disordered and abnormal | deviant, dysfunctional, distress, dangerous | 0 | |
9422198101 | DSM-5 | diagnostic and statistical manual and mental disorders | 1 | |
9422198102 | psychopathology | the study of mental disorders | 2 | |
9422198103 | diagnosis | a label of a cluster of symptoms | 3 | |
9422198104 | prognosis | outlook for your condition, time span of treatment, what is going to happen with your condition | 4 | |
9422198105 | etiology | cause or origin of condition | 5 | |
9422198106 | prevalence | how common/present something is within a population | 6 | |
9422198107 | incidence | the rate at which new people are being diagnosed | 7 | |
9422198108 | comorbid | when two disorders occur together | 8 | |
9422198109 | insanity | legal defense, you have to prove that you were incompetent at the time of the crime | 9 | |
9422198110 | historical theories | possessed by demons, put into asylums, beating, bleeding, burning, castration, trephination | 10 | |
9422198111 | phillippe pinel | changed the way mental illnesses were cared for, treated mentally ill as physically ill | 11 | |
9422198112 | diathesis-stress model | when prexisting vulnerabilities and chronic stress are bunched together, theres a higher liklihood of mental illness | 12 | |
9422198113 | psychodynamic etiology | childhood trauma, unconscious desires, messed up id | 13 | |
9422198114 | psychodynamic treatment | hypnosis, analysis, counseling, free association | 14 | |
9422198115 | behavioral etiology | their environment/experiences forces their behavior (people have fear of dogs because they got bit by a dog) | 15 | |
9422198116 | behavioral therapy | taking them away/exposing them to their fear | 16 | |
9422198117 | humanistic etiology | if basic human needs aren't met, mental health is affected or lacking unconditional positive regard | 17 | |
9422198118 | humanistic treatment | talk therapy | 18 | |
9422198119 | cognitive etiology | people who have pessimistic explanatory styles controls the way they behave | 19 | |
9422198120 | cognitive treatment | studying how depressed people think, change how they think | 20 | |
9422198121 | biological etiology | genetic disorder/inherited, neurotransmitter imbalances, damage neural pathways | 21 | |
9422198122 | biological treatment | drug therapy, gene therapy, study brain structure | 22 | |
9422198123 | sociocultural etiology | disorders that only exist in certain cultures (eating disorders) | 23 | |
9422198124 | evolutionary etiology | extreme manifestation of natural self defense | 24 | |
9422198125 | biopsychosocial etiology | combo of biological and cognitive causes | 25 | |
9422198126 | biopsychosocial treatment | medicine and therapy | 26 | |
9422198127 | generalized anxiety disorder | most common, show symptoms for 6 months, feel tension most of the time, impending dread | 27 | |
9422198128 | panic disorder | recurrent panic attacks, constant fear of another attack, one month of excessive concern or maladaptive behavioral changes | 28 | |
9422198129 | social anxiety disorder | pathological shyness, intense irrational fear of social situations or performance, symptoms for 6 months | 29 | |
9422198130 | specific phobia | excessive fear triggered consistently, feel powerless to stop it, disrupt daily routine, 6 months | 30 | |
9422198131 | agoraphobia | fear of open spaces, afraid to leave your house because of a fear of having a panic attack and not getting any help | 31 | |
9422198132 | common anxiety disorder etiology | light genetic link/predisposition, chronic stress, traumatic event | 32 | |
9422198133 | anxiety disorder treatment | medication, anxiolytics, group or talk therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy | 33 | |
9422198134 | obsessions | intrusive, unavoidable thoughts | 34 | |
9422198135 | compulsions | behavior that makes the thoughts subside, time consuming and distressing | 35 | |
9422198136 | OCD etiologies | neurotransmitter imbalance (serotonin) otherwise unknown, sometimes triggering event | 36 | |
9422198137 | OCD treatment | SSRIs or other medication, cognitive behavioral therapy | 37 | |
9422198138 | PTSD | involve an event that threatened death/serious injury/violence with one or more symptoms for one month | 38 | |
9422198139 | PTSD etiologies | traumatic event | 39 | |
9422198140 | PTSD treatment | trauma focused therapy, exposure therapies, cognitive processing therapy, antidepressants | 40 | |
9422198141 | major depressive disorder | more intense version of depression, 5 or more symptoms for more than 2 weeks, can't carry out normal daily activity | 41 | |
9422198142 | persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) | milder/fewer symptoms for more than two years, can continue every day functioning | 42 | |
9422198143 | bipolar disorder | vasilation between major depressive disorder and state of mania, highest suicide risk | 43 | |
9422198144 | cyclothymia | less intense versions of bipolar disorder, hypomania and dysthymia | 44 | |
9422198145 | seasonal affective disorder | seasonal pattern of depressive symptoms associated with lack of sunlight | 45 | |
9422198146 | mood disorder etiologies | diathesis stress, biological component, genetics, low serotonin/norepinephrin (depression), high norepinephrine (mania) | 46 | |
9422198147 | mood disorder treatment | drugs (SSRIs), cognitive behavioral therapy, rational emotive behavioral therapy | 47 | |
9422198148 | positive symptoms of schizophrenia | symptom added on top of normal experience | 48 | |
9422198149 | delusions | false beliefs-cognitive | 49 | |
9422198150 | hallucinations | sensory experience with no stimulus | 50 | |
9422198151 | negative symptoms | symptoms taken away from normal experience | 51 | |
9422198152 | catatonia | you literally stop moving and completely freeze, but people can move your body | 52 | |
9422198153 | disorganized symptoms | flight of ideas, word salad | 53 | |
9422198154 | etiologies for schizophrenia | genetics, paternal age, brain structure, excess of dopamine | 54 | |
9422198155 | treatment of schizophrenia | drugs (antipsychotics), family therapy, social skills training | 55 | |
9422198156 | dissociative identity disorder | parts of personality separated from others, two or more "alters" | 56 | |
9422198157 | etiologies of DID | traumatic childhood event, extreme PTSD | 57 | |
9422198158 | treatment of dissociative disorders | talk therapy/drug therapy | 58 | |
9422198159 | dissociative amnesia | suddenly you forget who/where you are | 59 | |
9422198160 | fugue | find yourself in a different place/city with no clue who they are | 60 | |
9422198161 | somatic symptom disorder | unexplained physical ailment, high health anxiety about symptoms, present 6 months | 61 | |
9422198162 | illness anxiety disorder | nonexistant or minor bodily symptoms, worry/fear of serious disease, six months | 62 | |
9422198163 | conversion disorder | impaired motor/sensory function, blindness, numbness, paralysis. no medical explanation, warrant medical explanation | 63 | |
9422198164 | factitious disorder | purposefully LIE about bodily/psychological symptoms, no incentive/external benefit | 64 | |
9422198165 | somatoform disorder etiologies | chronic stress, traumatic event | 65 | |
9422198166 | somatoform treatments | cognitive behavioral therapy, hard to treat because there's nothing medically wrong | 66 | |
9422198167 | Paranoid Personality Disorder | distrust/suspicious of others without justification | 67 | |
9422198168 | Schizoid Personality Disorder | detatch from social relationships and doesn't express emotion | 68 | |
9422198169 | Schizotypal Personality Disorder | odd beliefs or magical thinking. behavior that is odd, eccentric or peculiar | 69 | |
9422198170 | Antisocial Personality Disorder | sociopath disregard/violation of others rights, lack of remorse, manipulative | 70 | |
9422198171 | Borderline Personality Disorder | overdramatic, big changes in emotion | 71 | |
9422198172 | Histrionic Personality Disorder | seeks attention, overdramatic, compulsive need for attention | 72 | |
9422198173 | Narcissistic Personality Disorder | fantasize about future, obsessed with themselves, superior to everyone | 73 | |
9422198174 | Avoidant Personality Disorder | fear of rejection, bad with relationships, overreacts about everything | 74 | |
9422198175 | dependent Personality Disorder | excessive need to be taken care of, inability to make decisions, clingy behavior | 75 | |
9422198176 | obsessive compulsive disorder | obsessed with orderliness, perfectionist that interferes with task completion | 76 | |
9422198177 | resistance | the client refuses/ can't access things from their unconscious | 77 | |
9422198178 | interpretation | latent/manifest content in your dreams | 78 | |
9422198179 | transference | a client redirects feelings toward someone in your life towards their therapist | 79 | |
9422198180 | projective tests | rorschach (ink blot), thematic approach test (see a picture and make a story) | 80 | |
9422198181 | psychodynamic | building off Freud, but not quite, like Adler, Horney | 81 | |
9422198182 | congruence | when your real self = your ideal self | 82 | |
9422198183 | unconditional positive regard | unconditional love from at least one place in your life | 83 | |
9422198184 | tenants of good talk therapy | acceptance, genuineness, empathy | 84 | |
9422198185 | rational-emotive behavioral therapy | directly confronting negative or illogical thoughts, degrades a persons thought patterns | 85 | |
9422198186 | cognition and depression | reteaching thoughts in order to affect behaviors | 86 | |
9422198187 | beck depression inventory | survey that shows negative cognitive tendencies that may be associated with depression | 87 | |
9422198188 | counter-conditioning | if you have a feared stimulus, you pair it with a good thing | 88 | |
9422198189 | counter-conditioning used for | phobias, generalized anxiety disorder | 89 | |
9422198190 | mary cover jones | woman who counter conditioned Baby Albert, pioneer of counter conditioning | 90 | |
9422198191 | exposure therapy | someone is shown what they fear/what makes them anxious | 91 | |
9422198192 | flooding | overwhelm the person with the feared stimulus, for more mild cases, must be done carefully | 92 | |
9422198193 | aversion therapy | used for addiction, pairing negative stimulus with addictive substance to make you not want it | 93 | |
9422198194 | virtual reality | helps people with phobia or PTSD using technology to mimic someone experiencing something without actually experiencing it | 94 | |
9422198195 | systematic desensitization | used with phobias, progress/gain exposure in exposure to feared stimulus while learning how to calm yourself down | 95 | |
9422198196 | anxiety hierarchy | slow exposure to phobia | 96 | |
9422198197 | cognitive behavioral therapy | refrain thoughts specifically towards behavior | 97 | |
9422198198 | group therapy | all people suffering from the same issues | 98 | |
9422198199 | family therapy | the immediate family of someone who is suffering from an illness | 99 | |
9422198200 | electro convulsive therapy | biomedical therapy for depression, brief electric current stimulation sent through brain of anesthetized patient | 100 | |
9422198201 | repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation | application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain | 101 | |
9422198202 | pyschosurgery | surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in effort to change behavior | 102 | |
9422198203 | lobotomy | one used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent. patients cut nerves connecting frontal lobe to emotion | 103 |
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