Chapter 11
Across
- 2. An affective disorder characterized by a dysphoric mood and/or loss of interest or pleasure in almost all usual activities or pastimes
- 5. The complex physiological responses resulting from exposure to stressors
- 6. A drug that subdues a psychiatric patient's behavior
- 8. Way of delivering services to people using scientific evidence that shows that the services actually work
- 10. An affective disorder characterized by distinct periods of elevated mood alternating with periods of depression
- 11. The nation's leading mental health research agency, housed in the National Institutes of Health
- 12. Collective term for all diagnosable mental disorders
- 13. Surgical severance of nerve fibers of the brain by incision
- 15. The concept of equality in healthcare coverage for people with mental illness and those with other medical illnesses or injuries
- 16. Treatment for mental illness that involves medications
- 17. The first and most famous antipsychotic drug
Down
- 1. A treatment that involves verbal communication between the patient and a trained clinician
- 3. Method of treatment for mental disorders involving the administration of electric current to the scalp to induce convulsions and unconsciousness
- 4. An alarm reaction that prepares one physiologically for sudden action
- 7. Emotional and social well-being, including one's psychological resources for dealing with day-to-day problems in life
- 9. A drug that reduces nervous activity
- 14. Diseases that result from chronic exposure to excess levels of stressors