psychological disorders and treatment

Question 1

antipsychotic drugs

Answer 1

drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other sever thought disorders - ANTAGONISTS for dopamine

Question 2

antianxiety drugs

Answer 2

drugs to control anxiety and agitation

Question 3

Antidepressants

Answer 3

treat depression, anxiety, ocs, and ptsd - increase availability of serotonin and norepinephrine

Question 4

Common antipsychotics

Answer 4

Thorazine (tardive dyskenesia)

Question 5

Common Antianxities

Answer 5

Xanax or Ativan - depress central nervous system activity

Question 6

Common Antidepressants

Answer 6

SSRI’s - Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil

Question 7

Common Mood Stabilizers (bipolar)

Answer 7

Lithium

Question 8

electroconvulsive therapy

Answer 8

electric current to brain of anesthetized patient

Question 9

tDCS - transcranial direct current stimulation

Answer 9

weak electric current to scalp

Question 10

rTMS - (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

Answer 10

rpeated magnetic energy pulses to wake patient

Question 11

ADHD

Answer 11

inattention and distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsivity

-increasingly higher percentage of diagnosises

Question 12

medical model

Answer 12

assumes that psychological

disorders are mental illnesses with physical causes

Question 13

Social anxiety disorder

Answer 13

intense fear and avoidance of social situations

Question 14

Generalized anxiety disorder

Answer 14

person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of

autonomic nervous system arousal

Question 15

panic disorder

Answer 15

disorder marked by panic attacks

Question 16

agoraphobia

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fear or avoidance of public situations

Question 17

ocd

Answer 17

a disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions), actions (compulsions)

Question 18

ptsd

Answer 18

disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, hypervigilance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety - lingers for 4 or more weeks after trauma

Question 19

major depressive disorder

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at least five signs of depression (including either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure) last two or more weeks

Question 20

bipolar

Answer 20

disorder in which a person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania

Question 21

NSSI

Answer 21

non suicidal self injury

Question 22

rumination

Answer 22

overthinking

Question 23

when are people more likely to commit suicide

Answer 23

when they are starting to get better in their depression, as they come up from their lowest

Question 24

psychotherapy

Answer 24

trained therapist and patient

Question 25

biomedical therapy

Answer 25

prescribed medications or procedures

Question 26

eclectic approach to psychotherapy

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an approach that uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Question 27

psychoanalysis

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free association, resistance (blocking bad from ur consciousness), interpretation (therapists noting of dream meaning), transference (projecting emotions onto therapist)

Question 28

client-centered therapy

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HUMANISTIC / CARL ROGERS - uses active listeing to create a genuine, accepting, empathetic environment

Question 29

what to behavior therapists assume are the problem

Answer 29

problem behaviors

Question 30

cognitive therapy

Answer 30

searches for more adaptive was of thinking

Question 31

counterconditioning

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use of classical conditioning to evoke responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors

Question 32

aversive conditioning

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associates unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)

Question 33

CBT

Answer 33

combined cognitive and behavioral techniques