More vocab Flashcards
Malingering
Faking illness or symptoms for your own benefit
Factitious disorder
Intentionally falsifying medical information
Grounded Theory
To discover or construct theory from data, systematically obtained and analyzed using comparative analysis.
Behaviorism
All behavior is acquired through conditioning
Transpersonal Theory
There are stages outside the adult ego that helps with creativity, wisdom, and altruism in healthy adults. And can lead to psychosis in unhealthy adults
Social Constructionism
We construct our views and values or what’s right/wrong and what’s true/false in our own little world
Narrative Therapy
Helps separate the client from the problem by examining a person’s life story and help them with reframing
What are the steps of crisis intervention?
Assess safety and lethality
Rapport building
Problem identification
Address feelings
Generate alternatives
Develop a plan of action
Follow up
What are the stages of Psychosocial Developmental Theory?
Hope, will, purpose, competence, fidelity, love, care, and wisdom
Humanistic Theory
Emphasizes educating the communities on the importance of safeguarding human dignity and enhancing the well-being of individuals, groups and communities
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Talk therapy used to help clients dealing with strong emotions to teaching them skills to manage them
Mixed Methods Research
A combo of quantitative and qualitative research
Descriptive Studies
Immerse the researcher in another context or culture to study specific participant practices or ways of living.
Randomized controlled trials
Studies in which a randomly selected group is subjected to a variable (e.g., a specific stimulus or treatment) and a control group is not.
Single-Systems Designs
Studying a single group over a long period of time and may involve assessing the group’s response to multiple variables
Descriptive research
Seeks to describe the
current status of an
identified variable
Correlational research
Attempts to determine the
extent of a relationship
between two or more
variables using statistical
data
Causal-comparative/quasi-experimental research
Attempts to establish cause-effect relationships among the
variables
Experimental research/True experimentation
Uses the scientific method to
establish the cause-effect
relationship among a group of
variables that make up a
study
True experiment
Any study where an effort is made
to identify and impose control
over all other variables except
one
Variable
An object, event, idea, feeling, time period, or any other type of category you are trying to measure
Independent variable
The factor that is purposely changed to observe its effect
Dependent variable
Is measured to see if the change in an experiment is caused by the independent variable
Deductive reasoning
The researcher forms an hypothesis, collects data in an investigation of the problem, and then uses the data from the investigation, after analysis is made and conclusions are shared, to prove the hypotheses not false or false
Steps of the scientific method
Observation
Question
Hypothesis
Experiment
Conclusion
Result
What is Adderall and Ritalin/Methylphenidate prescribed for?
ADHD and narcolepsy
What does Adderall do?
Can help you remained focused to get tasks done. Can also help you stay awake during the day
What are the withdrawal symptoms of Adderall?
Extreme drowsiness, sleep problems, mood or mental change, depression
What are the withdrawal symptoms of Ritalin/Methylphenidate?
Onset depression, sleep problems, fatigue, return of ADHD symptoms
