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UNIT 8 (CH 12/13) Flashcards

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psychological disorders characteristics by distressing, persistent, anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

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anxiety disorders

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continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal

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generalized anxiety disorder

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marked by unpredictable minutes-long episodes of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations

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panic disorder

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marked by a persistent, irrational fear and aviodance of a specific object, activity, or situation

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phobia

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characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions)

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obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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a rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found

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conversion disorder

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a somatoform disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

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illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis)

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conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings

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dissociative disorders

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a rare disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities

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dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions

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schizophrenia

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false beliefs, often of persecution of grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders

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delusions

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characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning

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personality disorders

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lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist - usually men

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antisocial personality disorder

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deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors

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psychological disorder

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marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of 3 key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity

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attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)

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the concept that diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital

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medical model

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the APA’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - widely used system for classifying psychological disorders

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DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)

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haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawl, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for 4 weeks of more after a traumatic experience

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post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises

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post-traumatic growth

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mood disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or a medical condition, 2 or more weeks of significantly depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities

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major depressive disorder

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marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state

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mania

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person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania

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bipolar disorder

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therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight

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psychodynamic therapy

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a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses

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insight therapies

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Rogers - the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth

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client-centered therapy

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empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies - part of client-centered therapy

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active listening

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a popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior)

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cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

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treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members

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family therapy

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clinical decision-making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences

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evidence-based practice

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a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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the application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or supress brain activity

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repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

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surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

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psychosurgery

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a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients - cuts the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain

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lobotomy

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a personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma

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resilience

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uses techniques from various forms of therapy

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eclectic appraoch

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consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psycholoigcal difficulties or achieve personal growth

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psychotherapy

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free association, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist’s interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight

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psychoanalysis

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the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

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resistance

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the analyst’s noting supposed dream meaning, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

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interpretation

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the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

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transference

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a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

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unconditional positive regard

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applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

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behavior therapy

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uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors

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counterconditioning

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behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to things they fear and avoid

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exposure therapies

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a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.Commonly used to treat phobias

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systematic desensitization

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anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears

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virtual reality exposure therapy

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type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)

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aversive conditioning

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an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange that tokens for various privileges or treats

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token economy

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teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

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cognitive therapy

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a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies

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meta-analysis

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prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient’s nervous system

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biomedical therapy

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the study of the effects of drugs on the mind

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psychopharmacology

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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder

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antipsychotic drugs

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drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

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antianxiety drugs

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Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. (Several widely used are selective seotonin reuptake inhibitors-SSRI)

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antidepressant drugs

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a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people’s illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions

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rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

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therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction

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group therapy

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a bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problem

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therapeutic alliance

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intense fear and avoidance of social situations

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social anxiety disorder

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the study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

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Epigenetics

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fear or avoidance of situations, such as crowds or wide open places, where one has felt loss of control and panic

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agoraphobia

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compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes

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rumination

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a group of psychological disorders marked by irrational ideas, distorted perceptions, and a loss of contact with reality

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psychotic disorders

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false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus

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Hallucinations

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(also called process schizophrenia) a form of schizophrenia in which symptoms usually appear by late adolescence or early adulthood. As people age, psychotic episodes last longer and recovery periods shorten.

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chronic schizophrenia

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(also called reactive schizophrenia) a form of schizophrenia that can begin at any age, frequently occurs in response to an emotionally traumatic event

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acute schizophrenia

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psychological disorder in which the symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause

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somatic symptom disorder

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an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) maintains a starvation diet despite being significantly underweight; sometimes accompanied by excessive exercise

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anorexia nervosa

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an eating disorder in which a person’s binge eating (usually of high-calorie foods) is followed by inappropriate weight-loss promoting behavior, such as vomiting, laxative use, fasting, or excessive exercise

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bulimia nervosa

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significant binge-eating episodes, followed by distress, disgust, or guilt, but without the compensatory purging, fasting, or excessive exercise that marks bulimia nervosa

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binge-eating disorder

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