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When it comes to phobias, this works better than systematic desensitization

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In vivo exposure

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It involves 24 sessions focused on identifying the emotions and a meaning surrounding panic attacks

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Psychodynamic treatment (panic disorder)

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Treatment for panic disorder wherein it uses exposure techniques, persuades the client to deliberately elicit the bodily sensations associated with panic

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Panic control therapy (PCT)

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Medications that are used in anxiety disorders

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Anxiolytic
Benzodiazepines
Antidepressants (preferred over benzodiazepines)

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Several trials have shown that _____________ produces a major decrease in body dysmorphic symptoms compared to control conditions

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CBT

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It includes removing the hoarders possession while the person is away; this typically creates mistrust and animosity

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Coercive strategies

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A training or behavioral therapy that helps people reverse or unlearn a bad habit by following certain habit reversal training steps

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Habit reversal training

Used in tricotillomania and OCD

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It helps victims of rape and childhood sexual abuse dispute tendency towards self blame

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Cognitive processing therapy - PTSD

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Client is hypnotized and encouraged to go back in his or her mind to traumatic events in childhood

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Age regression

DID

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True or false?

Antidepressant is used if the DID is comorbid with anxiety and depression, these medications actually have NO effect on the DID itself

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True

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Meaning “taking hold of the nerves”

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Neuroleptics

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Teach people with schizophrenia how to successfully manage a wide variety of interpersonal situations; it involves role-playing and other group exercises to practice skills

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Social skills training

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It concentrates on trying to normalize such functions as attention and memory; seeks to enhance basic cognitive functions in people with schizophrenia

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Cognitive Remediation Therapy

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These two models both entail a multidisciplinary team that provides services in the community, such as medication, treatment for substance abuse, help in dealing with stressors people with schizophrenia face regularly, psychotherapy, vocational training, and assistance in obtaining housing and employment

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Assertive Community Treatment Model and Intensive Case Management Model

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Also called halfway houses; Google alternatives for people who do not need to be in the hospital but are not quite well enough to leave on their own or even with their family

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Residential treatment homes

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Largest and most widely used self-help group; tries to instill in each member the belief that alcohol dependence is a deceased can never be cured and that continuing vigilance is necessary to resist taking even a single drink, less uncontrollable thinking begin all over again

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Alcoholics Anonymous

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Teaching people and those close to them to reinforced behaviors inconsistent with thinking

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Contingency Management Therapy

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Interview in which it carefully assesses drinking in the past 3 months

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Timeline Follow Back (TLFB)

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polyethylene patch taped to the arm serves as a transdermal (through the skin) nicotine delivery system that slowly and steadily releases the drug into the bloodstream and then to the brain

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Nicotine patches

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The idea is to help smokers endure the nicotine withdrawal that companies any effort to stop smoking

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Nicotine replacement treatments

Nicotine may be supplied in gum, patches, or electronic cigarettes

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Incorporate the 12 step program

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Gambler’s Anonymous

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Person imagine situations he finds inappropriately arousing and also imagines of feeling sick or ashamed for feeling acting this way

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Covert sensitization

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Teaching the sex offender to consider how he’s or her behavior would affect someone else may lessend the tendency to engage in such activities

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Empathy training

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Patience are instructed to masturbate to their usual fantasies but to substitute more desirable ones just before ejaculation

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Orgasmic reconditioning

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A federal law that requires the release of relevant information to protect the public from sexually violent offenders
Megan's law
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This is used for adults with ADHD to reduce distractibility and improve organizational skills
Cognitive behavioral therapy
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Includes arranging the environment so that the child initiates an interest. For example placing a favorite toy just out of reach
Naturalistic teaching strategies for ASD
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This disorder maybe self correcting and may not require special intervention
Language disorder
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Person is instructed to stop speaking when a stuttering episode occurs and then to take a deep breath before proceeding
Regulated breathing method
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Electronically if changing speech of feedback to people who stutter
Altered auditory feedback
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Involves three meetings to get to know, assess, and provide feedback to parents regarding their children and parenting practices; offered to families with toddlers who were at high risk of developing conduct problems
Family checkup (FCU)
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Parents are taught to modify their responses to their children so that pro social rather than antisocial behavior is consistently rewarded; use reinforcements or punishments depending on the behavior
Parent management training
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It is useful for serious juvenile offenders; it is based on the view that contact problems are influenced by multiple factors within the family as well as between the family and other social systems
Multi-systematic treatment
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An opioid antagonist also used in the treatment of alcoholism and kleptomania
Naltrexone
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It is a benzodiazepine, which is commonly used to treat Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) due to its calming effects.
Diazepam
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focuses on reducing the frequency and intensity of panic attacks through cognitive-behavioral techniques.
Panic Control Treatment (PCT)
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key component of this for PTSD involves repeatedly confronting and processing the traumatic memory in a safe and controlled environment
Imaginal exposure
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helps patients with Somatic Symptom Disorder by addressing and modifying the cognitive distortions related to their physical symptoms.
CBT
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How is conversion disorder typically treated?
Treatment for conversion disorder often involves addressing underlying psychological issues, sometimes with the help of psychotherapy.
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treatment options for Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder?
Psychological treatments similar to those for panic disorder may be helpful
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Which SSRIs are commonly used in the pharmacological treatment of PTSD?
Prozac and Paxil
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What traditional method do Kisii tribal doctors in Kenya use to treat hallucinations?
Scraping the skull after making a scalp incision Kisii tribal doctors listen to their patients to find the location of the noises in their heads (hallucinations), then get them drunk, cut out a piece of scalp, and scrape the skull in the area of the voices.
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Which biological intervention was thought to be helpful for schizophrenia but carried great risk of serious illness and death?
Insulin coma therapy was thought for a time to be helpful but closer examination showed it carried great risk of serious illness and death.
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taking hold of the nerves
neuroleptic
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Earliest neuroleptic drugs and are called conventional or first-generation antipsychotics.
Hadol and Thorazine
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What is the primary action of antipsychotic medications in treating schizophrenia
Reducing dopamine activity Antipsychotic medications, known as dopamine antagonists, help people think more clearly and reduce hallucinations and delusions by reducing dopamine activity.
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Focus of psychosocial interventions for schizophrenia?
Psychosocial interventions focus on reattaching social skills such as basic conversation, assertiveness, and relationship building.
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Purpose of supportive employment in vocational rehabilitation for schizophrenia
Supportive employment involves providing coaches who give on-the-job training to help individuals with schizophrenia adapt to work environments.
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involves using a multidisciplinary team of professionals to provide broad-ranging treatment.
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
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How do traditional healers among the Xhosa people of South Africa sometimes treat schizophrenia
Traditional healers among the Xhosa people sometimes recommend the use of oral treatments to induce vomiting, enemas, and the slaughter of cattle to appease spirits.
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Who recommend the use of oral treatments to induce vomiting, enemas, and the slaughter of cattle to appease spirits.
Traditional healers among the Xhosa people
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A form of support is often used by Hispanics for treating schizophrenia
Hispanics often use family support as a key component in treating schizophrenia.
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They use more biological, psychological, and community treatment approaches for schizophrenia
The British
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They hold more religious beliefs about both the causes and treatments of schizophrenia.
Native Chinese
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What stage of schizophrenia does prevention focus on treating?
Prevention focuses on treating persons in the prodromal stages to identify and treat children who may be at risk of developing the disorder later in life.
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newer medications and are considered atypical or second-generation antipsychotics
Risperidone and Olanzapine
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Aims to correct brain structure abnormalities that are believed to cause or contribute to schizophrenia symptoms.
Psychosurgery
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known to impair cognitive and motor functions, and they carry risks such as falls and fractures in older adults.
Benzodiazepines
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SSRI used for treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
SSRIs like Paxil, Lexapro, and Cymbalta
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focuses on exposing patients to physical sensations that trigger panic attacks to help them manage their symptoms
PCT
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Involves real-life experiences to challenge and disprove automatic negative perceptions.
Cognitive therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder
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Antidepressant specifically mentioned as being used for Social Anxiety Disorder
Paxil, Zoloft, Effexor and D-cycloserine are used.
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Common feature of Cognitive-behavioral programs for panic disorder
Calm Tools for living Rationale: Cognitive-behavioral programs for panic disorder often involve gradual exposure combined with techniques to manage anxiety.
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________, when combined with CBT, enhances the effectiveness of treatment for anxiety disorders.
D-cycloserine (DCS)
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It is an SSRI used for OCD, and relapse is common if the medication is stopped.
Clomipramine (Anafranil)
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Considered the most effective treatment for OCD, involving exposure to feared situations and prevention of compulsive rituals.
Exposure and Ritual Prevention (ERP)
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What treatment for OCD addresses various cognitive distortions, including overestimation of threat, inflated responsibility, and the need for perfectionism.
Cognitive treatments
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A term for neurosurgery performed to treat psychological disorders, though it is considered a misnomer.
Psychosurgery
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Another SSRI used to treat BDD, in addition to Clomipramine.
Fluvoxamine
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Teaching individuals to assign different values to objects and reducing anxiety about discarding less-valued items are crucial for treating ________
Hoarding Disorder
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Designed to help patients become aware of and change their repetitive behaviors.
Habit Reversal Training
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One of the most well-known SSRIs used for treating depression.
Fluoxetine (Prozac)
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Were widely used before SSRIs became the preferred treatment.
Tricyclic antidepressants
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It can cause various side effects, including sexual dysfunction.
Tricyclic antidepressants
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It can lead to hypertensive episodes or even death if foods containing tyramine are consumed.
Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOIs)
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It is well-known for its mood-stabilizing properties and is effective in treating manic episodes.
Lithium carbonate
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It can cause side effects such as lowered thyroid functioning and weight gain.
Lithium
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involves administering electric shocks directly to the brain to produce a seizure and treat severe depression.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
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It is used to alter brain electrical activity to treat mood disorders.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
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Focuses on addressing social and interpersonal triggers for depression and improving relationships.
Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
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In treating Bipolar Disorder, what is a major challenge regarding medication compliance?
The “pleasures” of a manic state Rationale: The manic state can lead patients to refuse medication because they enjoy the heightened mood, making compliance a challenge.
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Helps regulate circadian rhythms and manage sleep and eating patterns in bipolar disorder.
Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT)
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A cognitive tool can be used to assess implicit suicidal ideation
Stroop test
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It is an agreement where individuals commit to not engaging in suicidal behavior
No-suicide contract
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An intervention that involves limiting access to dangerous items for individuals at risk of suicide
Safety planning
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It is a mixed reuptake inhibitor used to treat depression.
Venlafaxine (Effexor)
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It is primarily used to stabilize mood and prevent both manic and depressive episodes in bipolar disorder.
Lithium

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