Anti-Anxiety Drugs: Help reduce the symptoms of anxiety
Benzodiazepines
SSRIs
SNRIs
TCAs
Anti-Psychotic Drugs: A type of psychiatric medication which are available on rescription to treat psychosis
Risperdal
Seroquel
Abilify
Clozaril
Zyprexa
Anti-Depressant Drugs: Psychiatric drugs which are licensed to treat depression
Fluoxetine
Paroxetine
SSRIs
AversiveConditioning: Classcial conditioning in which an unwanted behavior is targeted by pairing it with a negative stimulus in an attempt to reduce unwanted behavior
Ex. Electric shocks to keep someone from doing something (like drinkingalcohol)
Behavioral Therapy: Range of treatments and techniques which are used to change an individuals maladaptive responses to specific situations
Ex. Someone who is afraid of dogs can gradually expose themselves to dogs
Biopsychosocial Method: Looking at psychological, biological, and social factors to determine human behavior
Ex. Someone with depression and liver problems, because of their depression they could abuse alcohol causing them to have liver damage
Client-Centered Therapy/Humanist Method: The client is inherently driven toward and has the capacity for self-growth
Non-judgemental therapy for the client to self-explore
Cognitive Therapy: Studying internal mental processes such as attention, perception, memory, and decision-making
Confidentiality: Professional ethics requiring providers of mental health care to limit the diclosure of a patient's identity
They can break this if they feel the client is a harm to others or themselves
Conversion Disorder: Where a mental health issue disrupts how your brain works
Ex. Weakness or paralysis
Counterconditoning: A technique developed by psychologists that is intended to change how we percieve certain stimuli
Someone who hates public speaking starts associating public speaking with positive experiences
Deinstitutionalization: Replacement of long-stay psychiatric hospitals with smaller, less isolated community-based alternatives for the care of mentally ill people
DiathesisStress-Model: Mental disorders develope from a genetic or biological predisposition
Dopamine Hypothesis: Hyperactive dopamine transmission results in schizophrenic symptoms
Formed by Arvid Carlsson
DSM-5: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders formed by 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health
Eclectic Approach: Type of therapy tailored to fit the exact needs of the individual seeking treatment
Electroconvulsive Therapy: Involves sending an electric current through your brain
Exposure therapies: Gradually exposing someone to things that they fear
Family Therapy: Helps family members better understand eachother
Group Therapy: The treatment of multiple parents at once by one or more healthcare providers
Light Exposure Therapy: Exposure to an artificial light source
Used to treat major depressive disorder
Lithium Salts: Used as psychiatric medication, primarily for bipolar disorder and for major depressive disorder
Side effects include: vomiting, severe hand tremors, confusion, and vision changes
Lobotomy: Surgical procedure that involves severing the nervepathways in the prefrontal cortex
People literally become zombies from this
Side Effects: decreased depth of emotion, lock of initiative and poor ability to concentrate
Psychiatry: Branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders
Psychoanalytic Method: Revolves around the belief that everyone has unconscious thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories
Theories founded by Sigmund Freud
Psychopharmacology: A field of which analyzes the pacts of different drugs on the mental health of patients
Psychosurgery: Treatment of psychiatric diroders by means of cerebral neurosurgery
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS): This coil delivers magnetic impulses that stimulate nerve cells in the region of your brain that onvolves mood control
Sociocultural Method: Your behaviors and symptoms are based of your culture and background