6613136237 | Diagnosis | This is distinguishing one illness from another (Use of the DSM-V) | 0 | |
6613140763 | Etiology | These are causes and development history. Involves the Diathesis-stress model. | 1 | |
6613143261 | Diathesis-stress model | This is part of etiology and are the disorders developed due to a combination of genetic vulnerability and risk factors in an environment | 2 | |
6613147154 | Prognosis | This is a probable course of illness | 3 | |
6613148627 | Epidemiology | This is the study of the distribution of a disorder in a population. Also involves prevalence | 4 | |
6613150253 | Prevalence | This is part of epidemiology an is the percentage of population that has a disorder within a certain time frame. | 5 | |
6613158957 | Deviant, maladaptive, and distressing | These are the 3 general criteria when explaining behavior | 6 | |
6613160580 | Deviant | This is a general criteria when explaining behavior and is the violation of acceptable cultural norms. This can change over time and depends on where you are--different cultural norms. | 7 | |
6613164167 | Maladaptive | This is a general criteria when explaining behavior and is dysfunction in everyday activities | 8 | |
6613165266 | Distressing | This is a general criteria when explaining behavior and is personal anguish and suffering regarding mental health | 9 | |
6613176915 | Generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, specific phobia, and panic disorder | What are the 4 types of anxiety disorders? | 10 | |
6613178051 | Generalized anxiety disorder | This is 1 of 4 types of anxiety disorders, and is the persistent and excessive anxiety, autonomic arousal, or worry that lasts at least 6 months. | 11 | |
6613182587 | Social anxiety disorder | This is 1 of 4 types of anxiety disorders, and is intense anxiety when exposed to certain kinds of social situations. As a result, the personal often avoids these situations, and is formerly known as social phobia. | 12 | |
6613182588 | Specific phobia | This is 1 of 4 types of anxiety disorders, and is intense anxiety when exposed to a particular object or situation. The person often avoids the feared object or situation because of a desire to escape the anxiety linked to it. | 13 | |
6613182589 | Panic Disorder | This is 1 of 4 types of anxiety disorders, and is the recurrent, unexpected panic attacks, which cause worry or anxiety. During a panic attack, a person has symptoms such as heart palpitations, sweating, trembling, chest pains, dizziness, and fear of losing control or going crazy, or dying. Panic attacks often trigger phobias. Involved with agoraphobia. | 14 | |
6613201868 | Agoraphobia | This is a part of panic disorders and is a fear of going out to public places (some people become confined to their homes or trusted places with trusted people) | 15 | |
6613262821 | OCD, Hoarding disorder, body dysmorphic disorder, and trichotillomania | What are the 4 types of OCD and related disorders? | 16 | |
6613267175 | OCD | This is 1 of 4 OCD and related disorders and involves obsessions, compulsions or both. Obsessions being ideas and thoughts that are persistent and causes anxiety or stress, and compulsions being repetitive behaviors that help to prevent to relieve anxiety. | 17 | |
6613268571 | Hoarding disorder | This is 1 of 4 OCD and related disorders and is persistent difficulty discarding or parting w/possessions, regardless of their actual value due to a perceived need to save the items and distress associated with discarding them. | 18 | |
6613268572 | Body Dysmorphic disorder | This is 1 of 4 OCD and related disorders and is a body-image disorder characterized by persistent and intrusive preoccupations with an imagined or slight defect in one's appearance. | 19 | |
6613345902 | PTSD | This is a trauma and stressor related disorder and a person with this disorder re-experiences a highly traumatic event and avoids stimuli associated with the trauma. Symptoms include increased arousal such as insomnia, irritability etc. | 20 | |
6613375933 | Dissociative identity disorder and dissociative amnesia | What are the two dissociative disorders? | 21 | |
6613377247 | Dissociative identity disorder | This is one of the two dissociative disorders and is a lack o connection in a persons's thoughts, memories, feelings, and actions. It is a coping method from a situation or experience and is involved with the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very different personalities, also known as multiple personality disorder | 22 | |
6613384874 | Dissociative amnesia | This is one of the two dissociative disorders and is when a person blocks out certain information, usually associated with a stressful or traumatic event, leaving him or her unable to remember important personal information. | 23 | |
6620366884 | Major depression, persistent depressive disorder, seasonal depression | What are the three types of depressions? | 24 | |
6620367958 | Major depression | One of three types of depressions and is the clinical depression marked by a depressed mood most of the day, particularly in the morning. Symptoms are present everyday for at least 2 weeks and can be treated by psychotherapy, anti-depressants, or ECT. | 25 | |
6620369475 | Persistent Depressive disorder | One of three types of depressions and is a physiological disorder characterized by a chronic but mild depressive state that has been present in an individual for more than 2 years. Can be treated by psychotherapy and medication | 26 | |
6620369476 | Seasonal Depression | One of three types of depressions and is depression that is caused by months or seasons. Ex) Being depressed in dark months | 27 | |
6620391170 | Bipolar 1, bipolar 2, and cyclothymic disorder | What are the three types of bi-polar and related disorders? | 28 | |
6620393488 | Bipolar 1 | This is one of three types of bipolar disorders and is the classic diagnosis of this disorder. Patients experience periods of extreme inflated mood followed by depressive episodes. This can be treated through psychotherapy and drug treatment. | 29 | |
6620398778 | Bipolar 2 | This is one of three types of bipolar disorders and this does not have intense highs-called hypomanic rather than manic episodes, but does include depressive episodes. Can be treated through psychotherapy or medication. | 30 | |
6620398779 | Cyclothymic disorder | This is one of three types of bipolar disorders and these are mood swings between short periods of mild depression and hypomania, an elevated mood. The low and high mood swings never react the severity of major depression or mania. It's "Bi-polar like" | 31 | |
6620457249 | Schizophrenia | This is a disorder that involves a spectrum including two or more of the following symptoms: Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thinking and speech, abnormal motor behavior and negative symptoms. | 32 | |
6620464729 | Delusions | Part of schizophrenia and these are false beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality. | 33 | |
6620470384 | Hallucinations | This is part of schizophrenia and these are sensory experiences that occur in the absence of a real, external stimulus or are grossly distorted. Auditory hallucinations are the most common. | 34 | |
6621145652 | Antisocial personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder | What are the 4 types of personality disorders? | 35 | |
6621147933 | Cluster A B C | What are the three clusters of personality disorders | 36 | |
6621147947 | Cluster A | This is one cluster of three types in personality disorders and it involves Odd, Eccentric: Paranoid, schizoid schizotypal traits | 37 | |
6621156021 | Cluster B | This is one cluster of three types in personality disorders and it involves dramatic, emotional, erratic: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic traits | 38 | |
6621156022 | Cluster C | This is one cluster of three types in personality disorders and it involves anxious, fearful: avoidant: dependent, obsessive-compulsive traits | 39 | |
6621182368 | Antisocial personality disorder | This is one of 4 types of personality disorders and this is having little concern for the rights of others or the law. behavior patterns include excessive drinking, fighting and irresponsibility. | 40 | |
6621190602 | Narcissistic Personality disorder | This is one of 4 types of personality disorders and people with these disorders have intense, unstable emotions and distorted self-images. Have an exaggerated sense of superiority ad importance, wand a preoccupation with success and power. | 41 | |
6621194235 | Borderline personality | This is one of 4 types of personality disorders and this is a complex mental health condition that causes emotional instability, relationship problems, a low sense of self-worth, and fear of abandonment. | 42 | |
6621208235 | Histrionic Personality disorder | This is one of 4 types of personality disorders and this is when a personal needs to be the center of attention. Uses inappropriate sexual seductive behavior, has shifting emotions, and believes relationships are closer than they actually are. This is Blake!! | 43 | |
6621341468 | Conversion disorder and Illness anxiety disorder | What are the two types of somatic symptom and related disorders? | 44 | |
6621344673 | Conversion disorder | This is one of two types of somatic symptoms and related disorders and this is severe emotional conflicts that are converted into physical symptoms or a physical disability; caused by anxiety of emotional distress but not by physical causes | 45 | |
6621386996 | Illness anxiety disorder | This is one of two types of somatic symptoms and this is the preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness. Used to be known as hypochondriasis | 46 | |
6621508156 | Free association, dream analysis, transference, resistance, interpretation | What are the 5 types of psychoanalysis treatments? | 47 | |
6621509421 | Free association | This is one of 5 types of psychoanalysis treatments and this is when the person abandons normal way of censoring thoughts by constantly repressing them, and instead says what ever comes to mind. | 48 | |
6621547900 | Dream analysis | This is one of 5 types of psychoanalysis treatments and this is when people are encouraged to dream and remember them: manifest content (direct meaning) and latent content (Hidden meaning) | 49 | |
6621547902 | Transference | This is one of 5 types of psychoanalysis treatments and this is when clients respond to a counselor as if the counselor were some significant figure in the past | 50 | |
6621547903 | Resistance | This is one of 5 types of psychoanalysis treatments and this is when clients make progress then starts to slow down or stop. This takes many forms like missing appointments, being late, and blocking thoughts, etc. | 51 | |
6621549288 | Interpretation | This is one of 5 types of psychoanalysis treatments and this is when the counselor helps the client understand the meaning of past and present events. This encompasses explanations of clients thoughts, feelings, and actions. | 52 | |
6621599929 | Empathy and active listening, unconditional positive regard, congruence | What are the three types of person-centered therapy | 53 | |
6621617595 | Empathy and active listening | This is one type of person centered therapy and this is when empathy is the counselor's ability to feel with the client and convey understanding back to them. Essentially is an attempt to think with the client. | 54 | |
6621623966 | Unconditional positive regard | This is one type of person centered therapy and this is also known as acceptance, it's a deep and genuine caring for the client as a person--prizing the person just for being | 55 | |
6621632293 | Congruence | This is one type of person centered therapy and this is the condition of being transparent in the therapeutic relationship by giving up roles and facades--counselor setting aside concerns and being available and open to the patient. | 56 | |
6621649845 | Couples therapy and family therapy | What are the two types of group therapies? | 57 | |
6621651183 | Couples therapy | This is one of two types of group therapy and this involves the treatment of both partners in a committed, intimate relationship, in which the main focus is on relationship issues. | 58 | |
6621656516 | Family therapy | This is one of two types of group therapy and this involves the treatment of a family unit as a whole, in which the main focus is on family dynamics and communications | 59 | |
6621665295 | Extinction, token economy, systemic sensitization, flooding, and aversive conditioning | What are the 5 types of behavioral therapy? | 60 | |
6621666487 | Extinction | This is one of five types of behavioral therapy and this involves withholding reinforcements in order to reduce the frequency of a specific behavior--used to eliminate behaviors | 61 | |
6621670464 | Token economy | This is one of five types of behavioral therapy and this is a form of positive reinforcement in which clients receive token when they display desired behavior--can turn in the token for reinforcer. | 62 | |
6621671844 | Systematic sensitization | This is one of five types of behavioral therapy and this was designed to help clients overcome anxiety in particular situations. Hierarchy questions and asks about rate of anxiety. | 63 | |
6621671845 | Flooding | This is one of five types of behavioral therapy and this is imagined anxiety making the clients overwhelmed with images of anxiety--producing stimuli | 64 | |
6621671846 | Aversive conditioning | This is one of five types of behavioral therapy and these are forms of punishment like time-outs, over correction, and covert sensitization | 65 | |
6621732597 | Rational-emotive behavioral therapy, thought stopping, cognitive restructuring | What are the three types of cognitive-behavioral approach? | 66 | |
6621735184 | Rational-emotive behavioral therapy | This is one of three types of cognitive-behavioral approaches and this is when counselors are active and directs, instructors who teach and correct clients cognition. Requires consistent repetition usually bright, knowledgeable, empathetic counselors. | 67 | |
6621744721 | Thought stopping | This is one of three types of cognitive-behavioral approaches and this helps clients reduce self-defeating behavior. Counselors initially ask clients to think self-defeating behavior, and then yell "STOP!". Helps clients replace self-defeating thoughts | 68 | |
6621745978 | Cognitive restructuring | This is one of three types of cognitive-behavioral approaches and this is the most effective technique in the cognitive-behavioral approach. In this, clients are taught to identify and change self-defeating thoughts that negatively influence their behavior. | 69 | |
6630101039 | Clinical psychologist | This person specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and everyday problems. | 70 | |
6630103669 | Psychiatrist | This people are physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders | 71 | |
6630115364 | Valium and xanax | What drugs treat anti-anxiety? | 72 | |
6630117486 | Valium and xanax | What drugs help relieve tension and ease nervousness, and help with anti-anxiety? | 73 | |
6630124499 | Clozapine, clorazile, and thorazine | What three drugs treat schizophrenia? | 74 | |
6630126525 | Clozapine, clorazile, and thorazine | What drugs help medications work as dopamine antagonists, reduce hallucinations and delusions, and work to help schizophrenia? | 75 | |
6630133801 | Prozac, paxil, zoloft | What three drugs work as anti-depressants? | 76 | |
6630137444 | Prozac, paxil, and zoloft | Which three rugs are medications to slow down the process of reuptake, work best with mood disorders, and help OCD and panic disorders, and work as anti-depressants? | 77 | |
6630148128 | Lithium and Valporate | Which two drugs work as a mood stabilizer for bi-polar disorder? | 78 | |
6630152366 | ECT | This is used for severe depression and is not common, but works as electric shocks producing small seizures in the brain. This is not a go to treatment, but effective in the long run. | 79 | |
6630168562 | Hallucinations and delusions | What are the positive (added) symptoms for hallucinations? | 80 | |
6630175326 | Lack of emotion, loss of pleasure etc. | What are the negative (removed) symptoms for hallucinations? | 81 | |
6630185089 | Trichotillomania | This is a type of OCD and it involves ripping out one's own hair, or doing something else to relieve stress. | 82 |
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