UNIT THREE:

Exploring Select Mental Disorders In-Depth Part 1

Vocabulary

Definition & Explanation

Fear
Panic
Anxiety

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Panic attack
Anxiety disorders
Prepared learning
Cognitive restructuring
Exposure and response prevention

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Double depression

Circadian

Becks cognitive theory

Negative cognitive triad

Rumination

Rapid cycling

- alarm reaction when there is immediate danger

- response to fear
- apprehension of possible danger
- mostly about whats going to happen in future
- cognitive (imma die), physiological (I cant breathe), behavioural (lol g2g pce out)
- specific phobia, social anxiety dsorder, panic, agoraphobia, GAD
- evolutionary reason why we are scared of things, we dont wanna die so we learn
- finding underlying negative problems and structuring them around positive
- treating OCD by developing a hierarchy of stimuli that can be ranked, expose themselves to it, refrain from
rituals
- moderately depressioned on a chronic basis for dysthymia, but also increase to major depressive (therefore,
double)
- biological clock

cognitive symptoms precede and cause affective/mood symptoms

think shitty thoughts about yourself, become shitty person
me, world, future
im ugly, no one likes me, no one will ever like me
marinating in their own shitty mood
instead of problem solving, they will just accept that things are always going to be this way
having 4+ bipolar (manic/depressive) episodes a year

Behavioral activation treatment

Interpersonal therapy
Factitious disorder
Malingering
Primary gain

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getting patients to become more active in their environment

current relationship issues and trying to help understand what is going wrong
intentionally producing psychological or physical symptoms
unintentionally producing psychological or physical symptoms
escape, avoidance of stressful situation (unconsciously), symptoms disappear when the problem disappears

Secondary gain

- circumstantial, attention, financial aid, (unconsciously)

Dissociative disorder

- disruptions in persons normalcy, they are not exactly who they normally are

Sociocognitive theory
Progressive Relaxation therapy
Autogenic Relaxation Therapy
Major depressive episode
(mnemonic)
Manic episode (mnemonic)

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- a persons therapist would enable/inadvertently suggest to become a different person (unintentionally)

- tensing and relaxing muscle groups
- focusing on different parts of the body (heavy? hot?)
5/9 SAD IMAGES; sleep, appetite, depressed mood*, indecisiveness, movement, anhedonia**, guilt, energy,
suicide
3/7, 4/7(irritable) SIDE TAG; sleep, ideas, distracted, excessive behavior, talkative, activity, grandiosity

T2