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Disorders & Therapy
For AP Pysch
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Psychological disorder | any condition characterized by cognitive and emotional disturbances or impaired functioning |
| ADHD | a condition that involves persistent Inattention, Impulsivity, Fidgeting, etc. |
| DSM | What is used to classify mental disorders, to classify something as a disorder (an ailment must be Deviant, Distressful, and Dysfunctional to be classified as a disorder) |
| Medical model | The concept that mental and emotional problems should be handled like biological problems |
| Anxiety disorders | disorders that centralize around the state of fear, worry, or apprehension |
| Gen. Anxiety disorder | Excessive anxiety and worry about a range of concerns that have symptoms |
| Panic disorder | A specific anxiety disorder that is characterized by recurring unexpected panic attacks and worry about panic attacks |
| Phobia | Persistent and irrational fear of a specific situation, object, or activity |
| OCD | A disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts and compulsions |
| PTSD | a disorder that occurs after an individual lives through a significantly stressful event |
| Dissociative disorders | Any disorder with disruptions in normal forms of consciousness, memory, or perception |
| DID | A disorder that has the presence of one or more distinct identities |
| Personality disorders | any group of disorders that results in behavior or personality different from the norm |
| Antisocial personality disorder | The presence of disposition and disregard for others |
| Mood disorders | A condition where prolonged emotional disturbance presents itself |
| Major depressive disorder | a condition that is characterized by persistent sadness without mania |
| mania | a state of general excitement and overoptimism |
| Bipolar disorder | a mood disorder where depressive and manic states alternate |
| schizophrenia | a psychotic disorder where disorders occur in cognition, emotion, and behavior |
| delusions | a highly personal idea not endorsed by one’s culture or subculture |
| psychotherapy | A psychological service done by a trained professional to treat dysfunctional emotional reactions |
| Eclectic approach | this is a flexible form of therapy that uses multiple techniques to adapt to a single person |
| psychoanalysis | originally inspired by Freud using unconscious and conscious mind to understand situations |
| resistance | (in psychotherapy) opposition to therapists approach to therapy or specific terms used by therapists |
| interpretation | (in psychotherapy) terms that are used to explain behavior and emotions |
| transference | (in psychoanalysis) displacement or projection of unconscious feelings onto a different thing that the thing you feel emotions towards |
| Client centered therapy | Developed by Carl Rogers to have personality and growth for the patient |
| Active listening | listening closely and asking questions to understand someone better |
| Behavior therapy | a form of therapy that applies operant and classical conditioning |
| Counter conditioning | where a non-human animal is conditioned to respond in a way incompatible with the original response |
| Exposure therapy | a form of of therapeutic behavior that exposes someone to repeated feared stimulus |
| Systematic desensitization | this is a form of counterconditioning where someone relaxes their muscles in the face of fear, gradually losing the overt anxiousness |
| Virtual reality exposure therapy | a form of exposure therapy where people are presented with their feared stimulus in vr to treat anxiety |
| Aversive conditioning | this is where unpleasant stimulus is paired with an undesirable behavior |
| Token economy | this is where desired behavior is paired with tokens to be exchanged for rewards |
| Cognitive therapy | this is therapy that aims to change maladaptive thinking with adaptive thinking |
| Cognitive-behavior therapy | a form of therapy that aims to treat both undesirable behavior and thinking and replace it with more desirable actions |
| Family therapy | a form of psychotherapy that aims to improve inter familial relationships |
| Regression toward the mean | very high or very low scores becoming moderate upon retesting, this threatens full internal validity |
| Meta-analysis | a quantitative technique for synthesizing multiple studies into a single result |
| Biomedical therapy | a treatment for a mental disorder used to alter physiological functioning |
| psychopharmacology | the study of drugs on mental, emotional, and behavioral functions |
| Tardive dyskinesia | a movement disorder associated with the use of anti psychotics |
| ECT | treatment in which seizures are induced through a low-level electrical shock |
| rTMS | localized electrical stimulation of the brain to inhibit or restrict a region of the brain |
| psychosurgery | the treatment of a mental disorder through surgical removal of selective areas of the brain |
| Lobotomy | incisions into parts of the frontal lobe of the brain, these are informal and often did not produce results to stop mental dysfunction |
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