Unit 8 - Extra Terms Flashcards
Psychological Disorders
A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.
Biopsychosocial Approach
Looks at the way both internal and external factors influences our mental state; to look at the “whole” patient.
ADHD
A psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity.
Biomedical Therapy
Changing the brain’s functioning with drugs, electroconvulsive shock, magnetic impulses, or psychosurgery.
Psychopharmacology
The study of the effects of drug on mind and behavior.
Psychosurgery
Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.
Lobotomy
A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal loves to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.
Humanistic Therapy - Carl Rogers
People have teh power to control their fate, ideas, and movements as they move towards self-actualization.
Client-Centered Therapy - Carl Rogers
A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate the client’s growth.
Active Listening
Listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies.
Unconditional Positive Regard
Caring, accepting, and nonjudgmental attitude.
Group Therapy
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction.
Family Therapy
Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.
Regression Towards the Mean
The tendency for extreme or unusual scores to fall back (regress) towards their average.
Meta-analysis
A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.
