CIHS 4 Exam Flashcards
distinguishing between one illness from another
Diagnosis
cause and development of illness
Etiology
Ativan, Valium
antianxiety drugs
Prozac, Zoloft, and Praxil
antidepressant drugs
Thorazine
antipsychotic drugs
non-directive approach to talk therapy that requires the client to actively take the reins during each therapy session, while the therapist acts mainly as a guide or a source of support for the client
client-centered therapy
a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. It’s most commonly used to treat anxiety and depression
cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)
contains the most up to date criteria for diagnosing mental disorders with descriptive text, describing the prognosis for the individuals
purpose of the DSM-5
a treatment that involves sending an electric current through your brain, causing a brief surge of electrical activity within your brain to treat depression, suicidality, severe psychosis, food refusal secondary to depression, and catatonia
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
giving the person direct exposure to an anxiety-provoking situation
flooding
the patient relaxes and talks about whatever comes to their head(Freudian psychoanalysis)
free association
person imagines themselves in an anxiety-provoking situation
implosive therapy
mood-stabilizing drug used to treat mania, hypomania, etc
lithium
brain surgery that severes the connection between the frontal lobe and other parts of the brain as a treatment for mental health conditions such as schizophrenia
lobotomy
anxiety disorder characterized by recurring panic attacks as well as the constant worry of another attack occurring
panic disorder
victims must have 3 recurring symptoms for at least 6 months: agitation, loss of energy, difficulty focusing, irritability, muscle tension, difficulty sleeping
generalized anxiety
characterized by an out-of-proportion fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation
specific phobia disorder
fear or anxiety about one or more social situations in which the individual is exposed to possiblee scrutiny by others
social anxiety disorder
clients practice being in stressful situations with a therapist with them to help them practice replacement skills
stress-inoculation training
a medication-induced movement disorder that persists despite discontinuation or change of the medications
tardive dyskinesia
involves the therapist accepting and supporting the client regardless of what he or she says or does
unconditional positive regard
marked by active avoidance and fear of two of the following situations( public transportation, open spaces, enclosed places, crowds, being outside of the home alone)
agoraphobia
individual intentionally behaves in ways designed to prevent contact with phobic objects or situations
active avoidance
characterized by obsessions and compulsions are time-consuming (more than 1 hour per day) or case significant distress or impairment in social or occupational functioning
Obsessive compulsive disorder
recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced as unwanted that elad to anxiety or distres
obessions
repetitive behaviors or mental acts, that the individual feels driven to perform according to a self-imposed set of rules to reduce to prevent anxiety
compulsions
(lasts for more than 1 month)exposure to actual threatened death, serious injury, or sexual violence, directly experiencing or witnessing the traumatic event, learning that a traumatic event has happened to a faily member or close friend
PTSD
a therapy approach that draws the most relevant techniques from other evidence-based therapy modalities together for an effective, individualized treatment plan
eclectic therapy
client keeps a dream journal and therapists figure out the underlying concepts in the manifest content(Freudian psychoanalysis)
dream analysis
made by the therapist once they have determined the underlying issues (Freudian psychoanalysis)
interpretation
when the individual transfers their personal feelings about a person to their therapist
transference
patient intentionally blocks or refuses to open up about certain topics
resistance
when an individual becomes highly emotional(good thing to get people to open up)
catharsis
(lasts from 3 days to 1 month) same symptoms as PTSD and about 50% develop PTSD
Acute stress disorder
two or more distinct personality that involves a disruption in identity, recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and traumatic events that are inconsistent with normal forgetting
Dissociative Identity Disorder
sudden inability to recall personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that can’t be explained by normal forgetting, episodes last days or years and can be reoccurring, retrograde amnesia only
Dissociative Amnesia
it can act as a support network and a sounding board, other members often help you come up with specific ideas for improving a difficult situation or life challenge, and hold you accountable, regularly talking and listening to others also helps you put your own problems in perspective
advantages of group therapy
anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus or a situation
exposure therapy
type of therapy that associates a relaxed state with anxiety-inducing stimuli
systematic desensitzation
type of conditioning that associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted(aversive) behavior
aversion therapy/ conditioning
purposeful travel that is associated with amnesia of identity or important autobiographical information
dissociative fugue
5 or more symptoms(depressed mood most of the day, everyday, deminished interest in pleasurable activities, significant weightloss or gain, insomnia, fatigue, inability to concentrate, suicidal thoughts), impairment of social and occupational functioning
Major depression disorder
distribution of ‘tokens’ or other indicators of reinforcement contingent on desirable behavior, tokens need to be redeemable and given immediately after desired behavior(elementary schools, prisons, mental hospitals)(operant conditioning therapy)
token economics
depressed mood persists for more than 2 years, symptoms include at least 2 of the following(poor appetite or overeating, insomnia, fatigue, low self-esteem, poor concentration, feeling hopelessness)
persistent depressive disorder
an experimental procedure in which a nonhuman animal, already conditioned to respond to a stimulus in a particular way, is trained to produce a different response
counterconditioning
eating disorder where people eat so little that they have unhealthy weight loss and become dangerously thing
Anorexia Nervosa
eating disorder characterized by regular often secretive bouts of overeating followed by self-induced vomiting or purging
bulimia nervosa
frequently eating unusually large amounts of food in one sitting and feeling that eating behavior is out of control
binge-eating disorder
how cultural standards have impacted the percentages of anorexia nervosa
Cultural standards emphasize thinness with success often in magazines, television and other media, creating unrealistic images of perfection, teen girls and young women are the most at risk