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It involves cognition of the threatening object, subjective cognition of being in danger, physiological components like increased heart rate, and behavioral components like running or hitting.
FEAR
It involves subjective perception of threat, physiological changes and some kind of behavioral reaction. But unlike fear, it has no immediate threat.
ANXIETY DISORDER
It is a process of exposing the person to the phobic object in a graded way.
SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION
It is a Psychological Dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not typical or culturally expected
ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
It is an episode of intense fear or apprehension with a sudden onset. Such symptoms develop abruptly and usually reach its peak within 10-15 mins.
PANIC ATTACK
It is an intense irrational fear of some object, living being or situation
PHOBIA
It is used in treating specific phobic disorders has not been the best option of choice, since the person already knows the unreasonableness of her fear. Simply making her see irrationality is of little help.
COGNITIVE THERAPY
It is widely used to classify psychological problems and disorders. It also guides the mental health professional to distinguish the clinical diagnosis and other psychological patterns pertaining to the type of condition
DIAGNOSTIC STATISTICAL MANUAL
It refers to an extreme form of this kind of discomfort. Often extreme feelings of shyness and self-consciousness build into a powerful fear, so that it becomes difficult to participate in everyday social situations.
SOCIAL PHOBIA
People with social phobia, can usually interact easily with close and familiar persons. But meeting with new people, talking in a group, or speaking in public can trigger the phobic reaction.
TRUE
Process to repressed conflicts and deal with them at a mature level than by displacing them onto objects and situations.
PSYCHODYNAMIC APPROACH
The ancient human civilization believed that abnormal behaviors are caused by some supernatural magic, evil spirits, demons, moons and the stars
SUPERNATURAL TRADITION
The attention of the person facing the phobic is directed completely toward it, the affect is intense fear and the behavioral reaction is escape.
TRUE
The Hippocratic perspective dominated medical thought in Western countries until the middle of the 19th century. People trained in the Hippocratic tradition viewed “disease” as a unitary concept.
BIOLOGICAL TRADITION
These techniques include gradually relaxing the muscles of your body, progressively from one extremity to another, and also controlling breathing so that the internal cues of fear are regulated and under control.
PSYCHOTHERAPY
It refers to intrusive thoughts, images and impulses often of a negative or unacceptable kind, despite one’s desire to get rid of it.
OBSESSION
It is known as a free-floating anxiety in psychodynamic terms, because the anxiety does not seem to be bound to one or few specific issues.
GENERALISED ANXIETY DISORDER
It is a psychiatric condition developed as an aftermath of severe trauma often involving violence and demolition.
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
It means being compelled from within to perform certain ritualistic acts, because otherwise you are afraid of some danger befalling you
COMPULSION
It refers to a group of disorders where the person reports physical complaints characteristic of bodily dysfunction
SOMATOFORM DISORDER
It is characterized by fear of physical disease and is based on misinterpretation of some transitory bodily symptom
HYPOCHONDRIASIS
This pertains to the multiple physical symptoms at different locations of the body.
SOMATISATION DISORDER
It is defined as unnecessary preoccupation with an imagined or exaggerated defect in appearance.
BODY DYSMORHIC DISORDER
It refers to the person suffers from a real disability – often loss of a sensory or voluntary motor function such as partial paralysis, blindness, deafness and pseudoseizures.
CONVERSION DISORDER
It is a disturbance in one or more episodes of life or inability to recall significant events
DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA
It means feeling as if one is not oneself. The person seems detached from one’s body and mind.
DEPERSONALISATION
It is a sudden unexpected travelling away from home or work. This is often accompanied with amnesia.
DISSOCIATIVE FUGUE
It is a dissociated state of mind where one feels what is happening around is not real.
DREALISATION
Refers to deliberately imitating the symptoms of a physical or psychological disease with the purpose of some practical advantage.
MALINGERING
A person who is __________ may feel very low, but still may continue with his daily activities like work related as well as household duties.
MILDLY DEPRESSED
Mild or low-level depressive symptoms that persist for two or more than two years are classified as ___________
DYSTHYMIA
Dysthymia is a chronic long- lasting form of depression sharing many characteristic symptoms of______
MAJOR DESPRESSIVE DISORDER
Depression without periods of mania is sometimes referred to as ______ because the mood remains at one emotional state or “pole”.
UNIPOLAR DISORDER
characterized by mood reactivity paradoxical anhedonia and positivity, significant weight gain or increased appetite “comfort eating”, excessive sleep or hypersomnia, a sensation of heaviness in limbs known as leaden paralysis, and significant social impairment.
ATYPICAL DISORDER
a rare and severe form of major depression involving disturbances of motor behavior and other symptoms. Here the person is mute and almost stuporous, and either remains immobile or exhibits purposeless or even bizarre movements.
CATATONIC DISORDER
is defined as one or more than one week of a persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood.
MANIC EPISODE
is defined by a pattern of depressive episodes shifting back and forth with hypomanic episodes, but no full-blown manic or mixed episodes.
MIXED EPISODE
less extreme variant of mania involving a distinct episode that lasts four or more than four days and is distinctly different from the patient’s usual non-depressed mood.
HYPOMANIA
Pathological need for a substance. It may also involve the abuse of substance or the excessive ingestion of high caloric food, or gambling.
ADDICTION
A long-lasting disorder that includes both mania and depressive episodes, neither of which meet the criteria for major episodes. Lasts for at least two years.
CYCLOTHYMIC DISORDER
It is a severe, psychotic disorder. People who have it may hear voices, see things that are not there or believe that others are reading or controlling their minds.
SCHIZOPHRENIA
Use of a drug to the extent that it interferes with health and/or occupation or adjustment
DRUG ABUSE
It is a medical illness, which happens to affect the brain, and causes changes in thinking and feeling.
PARANOID DISORDER
It is a disorder characterized by movement abnormalities caused by degeneration of the neurons in the substantia nigra.
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
Irrational beliefs held with a high level of conviction that are highly resistant to change even when the delusional person is exposed to forms of proof that contradict the belief.
DELUSIONAL DISORDER
- It is characterized by an individual having a mood episode and the active phase symptoms of Schizophrenia at the same time.
SCHIZOAFFECTIVE DISORDER
- It refers to a reduction or loss of normal functions such as restriction and flattening of emotions, severely reduced speech or thought, and lack of interest in goal-directed activities.
NEGATIVE SYMPTOMS
- It is due to a direct physiological condition from medication, drug abuse, or toxin exposure
SUBSTANCE INDUCED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER
- False or distorted sensory experience that appear to be real
HALLUCINATION
- It is very similar to Schizophrenia except that it lasts from 1 to 6 months.
SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER
- Behavior that is completely inappropriate to the situation or environment and have either a complete lack of or inappropriate excess of motor activity.
DISORGANIZED OR CATATONIC BEHAVIOR
- It is designed to examine a variety of cognitive abilities, including speed of information processing, attention, memory, and language.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST
This illness occurs when a person develops delusions in the context of a relationship with another person who already has his or her own delusions.
SHARED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER
___________that begins during substance use can last as long as the drug is used.
SUBSTANCE INDUCED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER
People with _______________ have sudden, short periods of psychotic behavior, often in response to a very stressful event, such as a death in the family.
BRIEF PSYCHOTIC DISORDER
A ____________ that begins during withdrawal may first manifest up to four weeks after an individual stops using the substance
SUBSTANCE INDUCED PSYCHOTIC DISORDER
____________ is considered the most effective in dealing with social, psychological and behavioral problems resulting from schizophrenia
PSYCHOSOCIAL THERAPY
_________ can induce a short-term psychosis known as brief psychotic disorder.
TRAUMA AND STRESS
Persons with_________ appear to be more susceptible to developing brief psychotic reactions in response to stress
PERSONALITY DISORDER
__________type of delusions are involve in the theme of being followed, harassed, cheated, poisoned or drugged, conspired against, spied on, attacked, or obstructed in the pursuit of goals.
PERSECUTORY
___________is a type of delusion where the person falsely believes that insignificant remarks, events, or objects in one’s environment have personal meaning or significance.
DELUSION OF REFERENCE
___________ considered to be suffering from dangerous disease, and believes that he is their reformer and curator
REFORMATORY PARANOIA
___________a makes an individual believe that all those around him are his enemies, bent on harming him or even taking his life.
PERSECUTORY PARANOIA
Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.
ANHEDONIA
Personality disorder involving a pervasive disregard for the law and the rights of others.
ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder involving extreme “black and white” thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior. Borderline personality disorder occurs in 3 times as many females than males.
BOARDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder characterized by social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
AVOINDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder characterized by pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER
Group of treatment procedures aimed at identifying and modifying faulty thought processes, attitudes and attributions, and problem behaviors.
COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL THERAPY
It is an approach to psychotherapy in which the therapist specifically addresses four areas that tend to be particularly problematic for individuals with borderline personality disorder: self-image, impulsive behaviors, mood instability, and problems in relating to others.
DIALECT BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Personality disorder involving is a pervasive pattern of depressive cognitions and behavior’s beginning by early adulthood.
DEPRESSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder characterized by pervasive
attention-seeking behavior including
inappropriate sexual seductiveness and shallow or exaggerated emotions.
HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
Brief, structured treatment that focuses on teaching a person skill to improve existing relationships or develop new ones.
INTERPERSONAL THERAPY
Newer brief treatment approach that emphasizes resolution of interpersonal problems and stressors such as role disputes in marital conflict, or forming relationships in marriage or new job. It has demonstrated effectiveness for such problems as depression.
INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
Personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of grandiosity need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder characterized by rigid personality disorder conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE
Personality disorder characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder characterized by a pattern disorder of negative attitudes and passive resistance in interpersonal situations.
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE DISORDER
Enduring maladaptive patterns for relating to the environment and oneself, exhibited in a wide range of contexts that cause significant functional impairment or subjective distress.
PERSONALITY DISORDERS
Personality disorder involving lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others.
SCHIZOID PERSONALITY DISORDER
Personality disorder characterized by odd behavior or thinking.
SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
These are people who feel emotionally needy and undernourished, and may well appear clingy or demanding to those around them.
CRAVING NARSSICIST
Ability to understand and to some extent share the feelings and emotions of another person.
EMPATHY
Type of therapy emphasizing wholeness of the person and integration of thought, feeling, and action
GESALT THERAPY
These people enjoy “putting something over” on others, obtaining their feelings of superiority by lying to and manipulating them.
MANIPULATIVE NARSSICIST
This type of narcissist feels intense contempt for him or herself, but projects it outward onto others. Paranoid narcissists frequently drive other people away from them by hypercritical and jealous comments and behaviors
PARANOID NARSSICISTS
Method used by Freud to study and treat patients.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Treatment of mental disorders by psychological methods
PSYCHOTHERAPY
tend to be aggressive, athletic, and exhibitionistic; they enjoy showing off their bodies, clothes, and overall “manliness.”
PHALLIC NARSSICISTS
A cognitive-behavioral approach that seeks to identify and eliminate irrational beliefs that may cause maladaptive behaviors.
RATIONAL EMOTIVE THERAPY
Specialized type of group therapy in which the
members of the family of the client all participate in group-treatment session
FAMILY THERAPY
Psychotherapy of several persons at the same time in small groups.
GROUP THERAPY
First stage of psychosexual development, during
which pleasure is derived from lip and mouth contact from need-fulfilling objects
ORAL STAGE
Stage of psychosexual development during which a child begins to perceive his or her own body as a source of gratification. Feelings of narcissism are heightened during this period
PHALLIC STAGE
False belief about reality but maintained in spite of strong evidence to the contrary.
DELUSION
Person’s irrational beliefs he or she is especially important or that other people are seeking to do him or her harm.
PARANOIA
Tendency to be shy and withdrawn.
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