Mental Health Terms Flashcards
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Drugs are used to alleviate the symptoms of depression and are also sometimes used to treat other psychological disorders, including anxiety disorders, seasonal affective disorder, and some eating disorders
Antidepressants
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Antisocial personality disorder
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Anxiety/anxiety disorders
can be defined as an absence or suppression of emotion, feeling, concern or passion and is an indifference to things generally found to be exciting or moving.
Apathy
is a chronic developmental disorder characterized by attention problems, including distractibility, hyperactivity, impulsive behaviors, and the inability to remain focused on tasks or activities.
Attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorde
is a complex developmental disorder distinguished by difficulties with social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and behavioral problems, including repetitive behaviors and narrow focus of interest.
Autism
is an empirically based psychological treatment approach founded on the principles of operant conditioning. The goal is to replace undesirable behaviors with more desirable ones through positive or negative reinforcement of adaptive behavior.
Behavior Therapy- or Behavior modification
or applied psychophysiological feedback is a patient-guided treatment that teaches an individual to control muscle tension, pain, body temperature, brain waves, and other bodily functions and processes through relaxation, visualization, and other cognitive control techniques.
Biofeedback
formerly known as manic depression is a psychiatric disorder characterized by severe and unusual changes in energy level, mood, and interactions with others.
Bipolar disorder
is a mental opinion or description that individuals have of their own physical appearance. It is a subjective concept, based on comparisons to socially constructed standards or ideals.
Body image
is an action-oriented form of psychosocial therapy that assumes that maladaptive, or faulty, thinking patterns cause maladaptive behavior and negative emotions. The treatment focuses on changing individuals’ thoughts (cognitive patterns) in order to change their behavior and emotional state
Cognitive Behavior Therapy
is a psychotic condition characterized by recurrent or persistent non-bizarre delusions, without other obvious symptoms of mental illness. Delusions are false beliefs, based on a mistaken interpretation of reality.
Delusion/Delusional Disorders
can affect not only the personal mood and internal thoughts of a person, but also the outwardly physical functions of affected individuals.
Depression
is a treatment method which weakens the learned association between anxiety and feared objects or situations by strengthening another response—in this case, relaxation—that is incompatible with anxiety.
Desensitization
is that portion of the personality that imposes realistic limitations on the id.
Ego
ability to perceive and constructively act on both one’s own emotions and the feelings of others
Emotional Intelligence
The capacity to vicariously experience and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person by putting oneself in that person’s place.
Empathy
A term used to characterize people who are typically outgoing, friendly, and open toward others.
Extroversion
The general, predictable pattern of the process of forgetting learned information.
Forgetting Curve
the part of the personality that includes such basic biological impulses or drives as eating, drinking, eliminating wastes, avoiding pain, attaining sexual pleasure, and aggression and operates on the “pleasure principle,” seeking to satisfy these basic urges immediately with no regard to consequences.
Id
A psychological disorder characterized by the repeated inability to refrain from performing a particular action that is harmful either to oneself or others.
Impulse Control Disorders
A psychological condition that exists when a person’s feelings of inadequacy are so intense that daily living is impaired.
Inferiority Complex
A commonly used term for people who are quiet, reserved, thoughtful, and self-reliant and who tend to prefer solitary work and leisure activities.
Introversion
A description of the condition opposite depression in manic-depressive psychosis, or bipolar disorder. It is characterized by a mood of elation without apparent reason.
Mania
