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why the person came to the clinic
  • Etiology
  • Prognosis
  • Incidence
  • Presenting problem
the structure of the mind and the distinct functions of personality that sometimes clash with one anotherthe defense mechanisms with which the mind defends itself from these clashes or conflictsthe stages of early psychosexual development that provide gist for the mill of our inner conflicts
  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • Saint Vitus's Dance (aka tarantism or rave)
  • Humoral theory of disorders
  • psychosocial treatment
Breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning
  • Psychological Dysfunction
  • Psychopathology
  • Atypical
  • Developmental Psychology
disorder begins suddenly
  • Episodic course
  • Insidious onset
  • Etiology
  • Acute onset
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
  • Chronic Course
  • Prognosis
  • Atypical
  • Melancholic
for this reason, these problems are often considered to be on a continuum or a dimension rather than to be categories that are present or absent.
  • Just having a dysfunction is not enough to meet the criteria for psychological disorder.
  • Psychological Disorder / Abnormal behavior
  • Clinical
  • Functions of Mental Health Practitioners
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - contains the current listing of criteria for psychological disorders
  • DSM
  • PSYCHOSIS
  • PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
  • CLINICAL DESCRIPTION
German psychiatrist responsible for creating the first truly comprehensive classification system of psychological disorders
  • introspection
  • Insidious onset
  • Supernatural model
  • Emil Kraepelin
describes behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present distress and impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or impairment
  • Abnormal
  • Hippocrates
  • asylums
  • Anton Mesmer
how many people in the population as a whole have the disorder
  • Etiology
  • Incidence
  • Prognosis
  • Prevalence
insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon
  • Lunatic
  • Exorcism
  • Shaping
  • Melancholic
Situation in which an emotional reaction spreads from one individual to others nearby.
  • Etiology
  • Emotion contagion
  • Behavior therapy
  • Psychological dysfunction
Explanation of human behavior and its dysfunction that posits important roles for spirits, demons, grace, sin, and so on.
  • Psychological model
  • Operant conditioning
  • Supernatural model
  • Intrapsychic conflicts
the study of origins, has to do with why a disorder begins and includes biological, psychological and social dimensions
  • Prevalence
  • Etiology
  • Incidence
  • Prognosis
facilities for treating the mentally ill in Europe during the Middle Ages and into the 19th century.
  • exorcism
  • lunatic
  • hospitals
  • asylums
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one
  • rationalization
  • denial
  • projection
  • displacement
the study of changes that occur as an individual matures
  • Psychopathology
  • Longitudinal study
  • Developmental psychology
  • Behaviorism
the public and authoritative act of the Church to protect or liberate a person, place, or object from the power of the devil (demonic possession) in the name of Christ.
  • Behavior Therapy
  • Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • Exorcism
  • Lunatic
Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret unconscious tensions
  • ego psychology
  • psychoanalysis
  • reaction formation
  • defense mechanisms
a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
  • behavior therapy
  • electroconvulsive therapy
  • deep brain stimulation
  • operant conditioning
a method of self-observation in which participants report their thoughts and feelings
  • Incidence
  • Emil Kraepelin
  • introspection
  • Operant Conditioning
represents the unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder.
  • Insidious onset
  • Prognosis
  • Clinical description
  • Etiology
A term coined by F.A. Mesmer to refer to a putative force or fluid capable of being transmitted from one person to another, producing healing effects. See also Mesmerism.
  • delusions
  • behaviorism
  • hallucinations
  • animal magnetism
Derived from psychoanalysis, this theory emphasizes the role of the ego in development and attributes psychological disorders to failure of the ego to manage impulses and internal conflicts. Also known as self-psychology.
  • psychoanalysis
  • ego psychology
  • reaction formation
  • Anton Mesmer
(psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious
  • repression
  • rationalization
  • object relations
  • displacement
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your true motivation is concealed by explaining your actions and feelings in a way that is not threatening
  • rationalization
  • displacement
  • projection
  • denial
An anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object or situation.
  • delusions
  • phobia
  • operant conditioning
  • psychosis
Greek anatomist whose theories formed the basis of European medicine until the Renaissance (circa 130-200)
  • B.f. Skinner
  • Hippocrates
  • Galen
  • John P. Grey
pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. he is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons and rats.
  • Anton Mesmer
  • B.F. Skinner
  • John B. Watson
  • Hippocrates
Treatment practices that focus on social and cultural factors (such as family experience), as well as psychological influences. These approaches include cognitive, behavioral, and interpersonal methods.
  • behaviorism
  • psychopathology
  • behavior therapy
  • psychosocial treatment
A reformer and pioneer in the movement to treat the insane as mentally ill, beginning in the 1820's, she was responsible for improving conditions in jails, poorhouses and insane asylums throughout the U.S. and Canada. She succeeded in persuading many states to assume responsibility for the care of the mentally ill. She served as the Superintendant of Nurses for the Union Army during the Civil War.
  • prototype
  • Dorothea Dix
  • B.F. Skinner
  • Sigmund Freud
A class of psychological disorders involving physical ailments with no authentic organic basis that are due to psychological factors.
  • counseling psychologists
  • Somatoform disorders
  • moral therapy
  • benzodiazapine
usually concentrate on more severe psychological disorders
  • clinical psychologists
  • chronic course
  • psychiatrists
  • social workers
rate of occurrence; particular occurrence; Ex. high incidence of infant mortality
  • Etiology
  • Prevalence
  • Incidence
  • Prognosis
a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
  • shaping
  • extinction
  • denial
  • operant conditioning
a typical profile. a pt may have only some features or symptoms of the disorder (minimum number) and still meet criteria for the disorder because his or her set of symptoms is close to the prototype.
  • prototype
  • heuristic
  • exemplar
  • prognosis
psychological disorders characterized by anxiety or tension
  • neuroses
  • delusions
  • psychopathology
  • hallucinations
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else
  • denial
  • displacement
  • projection
  • rationalization
the scientific study of psychological disorders
  • Etiology
  • Prognosis
  • Psychopathology
  • Developmental Psychology
a prediction of the course of a disease
  • Prognosis
  • Prevalence
  • Incidence
  • Etiology
an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
  • shaping
  • developmental psychology
  • operant conditioning
  • behaviorism
(psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts
  • projection
  • denial
  • rationalization
  • displacement
philosophy of treatment that emphasized treating mentally ill people with compassion and understanding, rather than shackling them in chains
  • moral therapy
  • John B. Watson
  • Etiology
  • intrapsychic conflicts
false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus
  • psychosis
  • delusions
  • hallucinations
  • denial
that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
  • unconscious
  • operant conditioning
  • delusions
  • displacement
Dangerous biological treatment involving the administration of large doses of insulin to induce seizures.
  • Insidious onset
  • Insulin shock therapy
  • Insulin shock
  • Reserpine
a type of learning in which behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher
  • Operant Conditioning
  • Extinction
  • Behaviorism
  • Shaping
Modern development in psychodynamic theory involving the study of how children incorporate the memories and values of people who are close and important to them.
  • projection
  • object relations
  • behaviorism
  • operant conditioning
Development of a disorder that occurs gradually over an extended period (contrast with acute onset).
  • Etiology
  • Acute onset
  • Chronic course
  • Insidious onset
Believed that the healing of physical ailments came from manipulation of people's bodily fluids. His technique of mesmerism was used with hypnotism.
  • Anton Mesmer
  • Hippocrates
  • B.f. Skinner
  • John B. Watson
false beliefs that are maintained even though they clearly are out of touch with reality
  • hallucinations
  • delusions
  • psychosis
  • phobia
tend to study and treat adjustment and vocational issues encountered by relatively healthy individuals
  • developmental psychology
  • counseling psychologists
  • insidious onset
  • psychiatrists
a type of learning in which an organism comes to associate stimuli. A neutral stimulus that signals an unconditioned stimulus (US) begins to produce a response that anticipates and prepares for the unconditioned stimulus. Also called Pavlovian or respondent conditioning.
  • psychosocial treatment
  • Hippocrates
  • Classical conditioning
  • Psychological Dysfunction
Normal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors. Physicians believed that disease resulted from too much or too little of one of the humors.bloodblack bileyellow bilephlegm
  • Saint Vitus's Dance (aka tarantism or rave)
  • Humoral theory of disorders
  • Psychoanalytic theory
  • psychosocial treatment
(psychoanalysis) purging of emotional tensions. SECOND MOST IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT
  • delusions
  • Catharsis
  • atypical
  • introspection
a condition in which a large group of people exhibit the same state of violent mental agitation
  • Emil Kraepelin
  • Mass Hysteria
  • psychosis
  • Supernatural model
inner mental struggles resulting from the interplay of the id, ego, and superego when the three subsystems are striving for different goals
  • intrapsychic conflicts
  • operant conditioning
  • insidious onset
  • faulty cognitions
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