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| 197728012 | Anxiety Disorder | Ocurrence of anxiety without an obvious external cause that affects daily functions | |
| 197728013 | Phobias | Intense, irrational fears of objects or situations | |
| 197728014 | Panic Disorder | anxiety disorder takes form of panic attacks lasting few seconds to hours | |
| 197728015 | General Anxiety Disorder | Long term, persistent anxiety and worry | |
| 197728016 | OCD | Disorder characterized by obsessions or compulsions | |
| 197728017 | Somatoform Disorder | psychological difficulties that take on physical form, but no medical cause | |
| 197728018 | Hypochondriasis | disorder people have constant fear of illness | |
| 197728019 | Conversion Disorder | actual physical disturbance, such as in ability to use a sensory organ | |
| 197728020 | Dissociative disorder | separation of different facets, of a persons personality normally integrated. | |
| 197728021 | Dissociative identity Disorder | A disorder in which a person displays characteristics of two or more distinct personalities. | |
| 197728022 | Dissociative Amnesia | a disorder in which a significant, selective memory loss occurs | |
| 197728023 | dissociative fugue | a form of amnesia in which the individual leaves home and sometimes assumes a new identity | |
| 197728024 | Mood Disorder | a disturbance in emotional experience that is strong enough to intrude on everyday living | |
| 197728025 | Major depression | a severe form of depression that interferes with concentration, decision making, and sociability | |
| 197728026 | Mania | an extended state of intense, wild elation | |
| 197728027 | bipolar disorder | a disorder in which a person alternates between periods of euphoric feelings of mania and periods of depression. | |
| 197728028 | Schizophrenia | a class of disorders in which severe distortion of reality occurs | |
| 197728029 | Personality Disorders | a disorder characterized by a set of inflexible, maladaptive behavior patterns that keep a person from functioning appropriately in society | |
| 197728030 | Antisocial personality disorder | a disorder in which individuals show no regard for the normal and ethical rules of society or the rights of others | |
| 197728031 | borderline personality disorder | a disorder in which individuals have difficulty developing a secure sense of who they are | |
| 197728032 | narcissistic personality disorder | a personality disturbance characterized by an exaggerated sense of self improtance | |
| 197728033 | childhood disorders | ADHD and Autisim | |
| 197728034 | ADHD | marked by inattention, impulsiveness, a low tolerance for frustration and a great deal of inappropriate activity | |
| 197728035 | Autism | severe developmental disability that impairs childrens ability to communicate and relate to others | |
| 197728036 | Psychodynamic Therapy | Seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and unacceptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with the problems more effectively | |
| 197728037 | Psychoanalysis Treatment | freudian psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their power in controlling behavior | |
| 197728038 | Transference | transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst of love or anger that had been originally directed to a patients parents or other authority | |
| 197728039 | Behavior treatment Approaches | treatment approaches that build on the basic process of learning, such as reinforcement and extinction and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are both learned | |
| 197728040 | Aversive conditioning | a form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by pairing aversive, unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior | |
| 197728041 | systematic desensitization | a behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety | |
| 197728042 | exposure behavior treatment | people are confronted either suddenly or gradually with a stimulus that they fear | |
| 197728043 | dialectical behavior therapy | focus is on getting people to accept who they are regardless of whether it matches their ideal | |
| 197728044 | Cognitive approaches to therapy | teach people to think in more adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves | |
| 197728045 | cognitive behavioral approach | incorporates basic principles of learning to change the way people think | |
| 197728046 | rational emotive behavior therapy | a form of therapy that attempts to restructure a persons belief system into a more realistic, rational and logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs that maintain irrational behavior | |
| 197728047 | Humanistic therapy | people have control of their behavior, can make choices about their lives and are responsible for solving their own problems | |
| 197728048 | person-centered therapy | therapy in which the goal is to reach ones potential for self-actualization | |
| 197728049 | interpersonal therapy | short term therapy that focuses on the context of current social relationships | |
| 197728050 | group therapy | people meet in a group with a therapist to discus problems | |
| 197728051 | family therapy | an approach that focuses on the family and its dynamics | |
| 197728052 | spontaneous remission | recovery without treatmetn | |
| 197728053 | drug therapy | control of psychological disorders through the use of drugs | |
| 197728054 | antipsychotic drugs | temporarily reduce psychotic symptoms such as agitation, hallucinations, adn delusions | |
| 197728055 | anti depressant therapy | medications that improve a severely depressed patients mode and feeling of well being | |
| 197728056 | mood stabilizers | drugs used to treat mood disorders that prevent manic episodes of bipolar disorder | |
| 197728057 | anti-anxiety drugs | drugs that reduce the level of anxiety a person experiences essentially be reducing excitability and increasing feelings of well being | |
| 197728058 | Electro convulsive therapy | treatment of severe depression in which an electric current of 70-150 volts is briefly administered to a patient's head | |
| 197728059 | Transcranial magnetic stimulation | depression treatment in which a precise magnetic pulse is directed to a specific area of the brain | |
| 197728060 | psychosurgery | brain surgery once used to reduce the symptoms of mental disorder but rarely used today | |
| 197728061 | Community psychology | branch of psychology that focuses on the prevention and minimization of psychological disorder in the community | |
| 197728062 | Deinstitutionalization | transfer of former mental patients from institutions to the community. |
