TREATMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS Flashcards
Withdrawal symptoms
Symptoms such as sweating, nausea, or shakiness that occurs when drug usage ceases.
Vulnerability-stress model
The idea that individuals who have a biological vulnerability to a particular disorder will have the disorder only if certain environmental stressors are present.
Unconscious
The part of the mind that contains thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories of which people have no awareness but that can influence people’s behavior.
Unconditional positive regard
A therapist quality that is considered crucial in client-centered therapy. It involves nonjudgmental acceptance of the client.
Transference
The process by which clients relate to their psychoanalyst or therapist as they would to important figures in their past.
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)
A noninvasive procedure for treating severe depression that involves stimulation of the brain by means of a magnetic coil.
Tolerance
The need over time for more and more of a drug to get the same effect.
Therapeutic window
The amount of a drug that is required for an effect without toxicity.
Tardive dyskinesia
A serious side effect of antipsychotic drugs. It is usually a permanent condition, characterized by involuntary movements.
Systematic densensitization
A behavioral treatment that uses counterconditioning to decrease anxiety.
Superego
The moral component of the personality.
Stressors
Circumstances or events that are psychologically or physically demanding.
Stress
The experience of being threatened by taxing circumstances. It also sometimes refers to circumstances that threaten well-being, to the response people have to threatening circumstances, or to the process of evaluating and coping with threatening circumstances.
States
Temporary behaviors or feelings.
Spontaneous recovery
In classical conditioning, the reappearance of an extinguished conditioned response.
Social norms
Societal rules about appropriate behavior.
Shaping
In operant conditioning, a procedure in which reinforcement is used to guide a response closer and closer to a desired response.
Self-help groups
Groups that are similar to therapy groups except that they do not have a therapist.
Self-concept
According to Rogers, the most important feature of personality. The self-concept includes all the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs people have about themselves.
Sedatives
Drugs that slow down the nervous system.
Resistance
A client’s usually unconscious efforts to block the progress of treatment.
Rational-emotive therapy
A type of cognitive-behavioral therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that aims to identify catastrophic thinking and to change the irrational assumptions that underlie it.
Psychotherapy
The treatment of psychological problems through confidential verbal communications with a mental health professional.
Psychological dependence
Addiction based on cravings for a drug.
Psychodynamic model
The idea that psychological disorders result from maladaptive defenses against unconscious conflicts.
Psychodynamic theories
Theories based on the work of Sigmund Freud. These theories emphasize unconscious motives and desires and the importance of childhood experiences in shaping personality.
Psychoanalysis
A technique developed by Sigmund Freud to treat mental disorders. It is also a theory of personality developed by Freud that focuses on unconscious forces, the importance of childhood experiences, and division of the psyche into the id, ego, and superego.
Psychoactive drugs
Drugs that have effects on sensory experience, perception, mood, thinking, and behavior.
Prognosis
A prediction about the probable course and outcome of a disorder.