AP Psych Disorders and Treatment

ADHD

a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. Heritable

UMAD

Behavior has to be unjustifiable, maladaptive, atypical and disturbing to be considered having a disorder

Medical Model

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

DSM-5

the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition; a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders.

insomnia disorder

condition in which insufficient sleep interferes with normal functioning

Rosenhan Study

Study in which healthy individuals were admitted into mental hospitals after saying they were hearing voices. Once in, they acted normally and still were not labeled as impostors. Brought to light many problems with the system and exposed the process.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

a disorder characterized by chronic, excessive worry accompanied by three or more of the following symptoms: restlessness, fatigue, concentration problems, irritability, muscle tension, and sleep disturbance

Phobia

When a person is intensely and irrationally afraid of a specific object (spiders) or situation (flying)

Panic Disorder

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

Social anxiety disorder

intense fear of social situations, leading to avoidance of such. Formally called social phobia.

Agoraphobia

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

obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

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

post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

an anxiety disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience

posttraumatic growth

positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises. EX- going through a breakup and coming out as a stronger person

Mood Disorder

an illness that involves mood extremes that interfere with everyday living. EX- Depression

Major Depressive Disorder

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

Mania

a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state. EX- depression is slow motion, but mania is hyperactive fast forwarding

Bipolar Disorder

A mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania. highs and lows rapidly

bipolar 1 disorder

a type of bipolar disorder marked by full manic and major depressive episodes. Extreme highs and lows

bipolar 2 disorder

a disorder characterized by alternating periods of extremely depressed and mildly elevated moods. Basically just less active than bipolar 1.

seasonal affective disorder (SAD)

a mood disorder caused by the body's reaction to low levels of sunlight in the winter months

Persistent Depressive Disorder

It is often milder, lasting at least 2 years. aka dysthimia

Rumination

compulsive fretting; overthinking about our problems and their causes

Schizophrenia

a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression. 4 types, but know paranoia and catatonic.

Paranoia symptoms

most common in schizophrenia, preoccupation with delusions or hallucinations

Catatonic symptoms

immobility (or excessive, purposeless movement), extreme negativism, and/or parrotlike repeating of another's speech or movements

self-defeating beliefs

intensely negative assumptions about themselves, their situations, and their futures lead them to magnify bad experience and minimized good ones

explanatory style

a person's habitual way of explaining events, typically assessed along three dimensions: internal/external, stable/unstable, and global/specific. Can be positive or negative

positive symptoms of schizophrenia

ADDING behaviors. EX- hallucinations and delusions, talk in disorganized, deluded ways and exhibit inappropriate laughter/tears/rage.

negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Absence of appropriate behaviors (SUBTRACTING). EX- toneless voices, expressionless faces, mute or rigid bodies.

Psychosis

Emotional disturbance characterized by inability to cope in real world. Can't function in life

Neurosis

Emotional disturbance characterized by excessive anxiety. Can function in life

Delusions

false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders. EX- word salad-- jumbled ideas all in one

Hallucinations

false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus. EX- exclusively senses

Dopamine hypothesis

the idea that schizophrenia involves an excess of dopamine activity

Dissociative disorder

disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts, and feelings. EX- Amnesia

Conversion disorder

A rare somatoform disorder in which a person experiences very specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. (blindness, paralysis, seizures - psychological causes)

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder. EX- the movie, Split

Eating Disorders

Anorexia nervosa- starvation, Bulimia nervosa- alternating binge eating and purging, Binge eating disorder- over eating constantly w/o purging

Antisocial personality disorder

A personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless. EX- criminals

Psychotherapy

treatment involving psychological techniques; "talk therapy"; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

Biomedical therapy

prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology

eclectic approach

an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy. Basically all of them in a nice blend specific to the client.

Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

Resistance

in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material. EX- instead of saying "i hate her", which is what is really being thought, compliment them instead. Think of the movie Mean Girls.

Interpretation

in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight. Basically whatever the therapist thinks.

Transference

in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships EX- love or hatred for a parent will reflect on the therapist

psychodynamic therapy

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

Insight therapy

a variety of therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses. EX- psychoanalytic and humanistic

Active listening

Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.

Client centered therapy

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 clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.) Think acronym AGE to remember the 3 techniques.

Unconditional positive regard

a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients to develop self-awareness and self-acceptance. Basically a "ill love you no matter what" philosophy.

Behavior therapy

therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors. Basically, instead of looking for deep underlying causes, this therapy teaches behaviors to combat old ones.

cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

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

Exposure therapy

behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid

Systematic-desensitization

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias. EX- remember the dissecting research we wrote on this study

counterconditioning

a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapies and aversive conditioning. Basically just opposite of cc.

Aversive conditioning

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

Token economy

an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats. EX- go to therapy, parents give you chocolate

rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)

a confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions. EX- patient says they aren't good enough, therapist asks why, over and over until they essentially prove themselves wrong.

virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET)

a method of exposure therapy that uses virtual reality, in which clients become immersed in computer-generated environments that resemble the situations they fear

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

cognitive therapy

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

Psychopharmacology

the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior. EX- studies placebo effect recovery

Antipsychotic drugs

drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder. For positive schitzo symptoms, because there needs to be a drug ADDED. These drugs are antagonists, which work against. ex: clozapine

Antidepressants

drugs that combat depression, PTSD, OCD, anxiety and other things, by affecting the levels or activity of neurotransmitters in the brain. These drugs are agonists, which means they work to increase a certain neurotransmitter. Several antidepressants are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, EX- Prozac

Antianxiety drugs

drugs used to control anxiety and agitation. These depress the central nervous system. EX- xanax

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient. Some memory loss, not permanent, criticized for placebo effect.

Lobotomy

a psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain. Literally did not work and was used in the 30's-60's cause they didn't know how the brain worked.

personality disorders

inflexible, exaggerated & maladaptive ways of thinking. A general name for all disorders that relate to inflexible/enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.

Cluster A

Person seems odd or eccentric. Contains schizoid, Schizotypal and Paranoid personality disorders.

schizoid personality disorder

Withdrawn & lacks feelings for others. Seldom marry (have few relationships)

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Odd thought, speech and emotional reactions, Impaired social functioning. EX- Luna lovegood

Paranoid personality disorder

Inappropriately suspicious & mistrustful of others, refuse to accept blame or criticism

Cluster B

person seems dramatic, emotional, or erratic. Contains Borderline, Antisocial, Histrionic, and Narcissistic personality disorders.

Borderline personality disorder

Tend to act impulsively, self destructive, unstable self-image, mood, mostly women

Antisocial personality disorder

Pattern of violent, criminal, or unethical behavior. Inability to feel affection for others, No remorse for actions, Mostly men. EX- joker hospital scene

Histrionic personality disorder

Very dramatic Attention seeking Needs praise and reassurance. EX- regina george

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Grandiose view of themselves, constant attention and admiration

Cluster C

person appears anxious or fearful. Contains Dependent, Avoidant and Obsessive compulsive personality disorders.

dependent personality disorder

Inability to make decisions on their own, can't live independently, can't tolerate being alone. EX- Patrick from spongebob

Avoidant personality disorder

Fears of rejection, leads to isolation

Carl Rogers

Developed "client-centered" therapy, a humanist

Albert Ellis

Developed "rational emotive behavior therapy" (REBT), cognitive therpaist

Aaron Beck

pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.

Mary Cover Jones

"mother of behavior therapy"; used classical conditioning to help "Peter" overcome fear of rabbits

Joseph Wolpe

described use of systematic desensitization to treat phobias

B F Skinner

behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history

Freud

psychoanalytic theory

flooding/emersion therapy

exposing patients to their phobia or fear head on to overcome it. EX: Fear of Heights? Go sky diving + survive = no more fear

Deinstitutionalization

moving people with psychological or developmental disabilities from highly structured institutions to home- or community-based settings

SSRI

class of drugs used to relieve anxiety by limiting reuptake of a neurotransmitter

Eustress

A positive stress that energizes a person and helps a person reach a goal

distress

negative stress

General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases—alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

adaptation-level phenomenon

our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

diathesis-stress model

suggests that a person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed until triggered by stress

Epigenetics

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

delusions of grandeur

belief that you enjoy greater power and influence than you do