Understanding Psychological Disorders and Their Treatments: A Comprehensive Guide
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What is a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior?
Which psychological disorder is marked by the appearance by age 7 of extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity?
What concept suggests that psychological disorders have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and often cured?
What is the widely used system for classifying psychological disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association?
Which psychological disorders are characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety?
What is an anxiety disorder where a person is continuously tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal?
Which anxiety disorder is marked by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread, often followed by worry over a possible next attack?
What is an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation?
What disorder involves intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such?
What is the fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic?
Which disorder is characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)?
What disorder is characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, and jumpy anxiety that lingers for weeks after a traumatic experience?
What term describes positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises?
Which psychological disorders are characterized by emotional extremes?
What mood disorder involves two or more weeks with five or more symptoms, including depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure?
What is a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state?
Which mood disorder involves alternating between the hopelessness of depression and the overexcited state of mania?
What term describes compulsive overthinking about problems and their causes?
Which psychological disorder is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and diminished or inappropriate emotional expression?
What is a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational ideas and distorted perceptions?
What are false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychological disorders?
What is a false sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus?
Which disorder involves symptoms that take a somatic form without apparent physical cause?
What disorder involves experiencing very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found?
Which disorder involves interpreting normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease?
What are disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings?
Which rare dissociative disorder involves a person exhibiting two or more distinct and alternating personalities?
What eating disorder involves maintaining a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight?
Which eating disorder involves alternating binge eating with purging, excessive exercise, or fasting?
What disorder involves significant binge-eating episodes followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without purging?
Which psychological disorders are characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning?
What personality disorder involves a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members?
What is the treatment involving psychological techniques, consisting of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties?
What are prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on a person's physiology?
What approach to psychotherapy uses techniques from various forms of therapy depending on the client's problems?
What is Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique that involves free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences to release repressed feelings?
In psychoanalysis, what is the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material called?
In psychoanalysis, what is the analyst's noting of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors to promote insight?
In psychoanalysis, what is the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships called?
What therapy derives from the psychoanalytic tradition and seeks to enhance self-insight by responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences?
What variety of therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person's awareness of underlying motives and defenses?
What is the humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers that uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment?
What is empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies, as a feature of Rogers's client-centered therapy?
What is a caring, accepting, non-judgmental attitude that Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance?
What therapy applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors?
What behavior therapy procedures use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors?
What are behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid?
What type of exposure therapy associates a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli, commonly used to treat phobias?
What anxiety treatment progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears?
What type of counter-conditioning associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)?
What is an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for privileges or treats?
What therapy teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions?
What is the confrontational cognitive therapy developed by Albert Ellis that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions?
What is the popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy?
What therapy is conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interactions?
What therapy treats the family as a system and views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by other family members?
What is the procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies?
What is clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences?
What is the bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client's problem?
What is the personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma?
What is the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior?
What drugs are used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder?
What drugs are used to control anxiety and agitation?
What drugs are used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD, with many being SSRIs?
What is the biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient?
What is the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain, used to stimulate or suppress brain activity?
What is the surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior?
What psychosurgical procedure was once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients by cutting nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain?
Which neurotransmitter is associated with schizophrenia?
Which neurotransmitters are associated with depression?
Which neurotransmitter is linked with anxiety?
Which neurotransmitter is associated with bipolar disorder?
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