Psychological Disorders and Treatments

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Across
  1. 2. Focuses on the value dignity and worth of each person
  2. 4. Person suddenly and unexpectedly travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
  3. 8. Group of disorders characterized by confused, disconnected thoughts, emotions, perceptions
  4. 9. Vague, generalized apprehension of feeling that one is in danger
  5. 10. Systematic method of changing the way a person acts and feels
  6. 12. Medication to reduce agitation, delusions, and hallucinations by blocking the activity of dopamine in the brain
  7. 15. Chemical used to counteract mood swings of bipolar disorders
  8. 16. Therapeutic method in which an electrical shock is sent through the brain to try and reduce symptoms of metal disturbance
  9. 18. Person exhibits two or more personality states
  10. 19. Use of drug to such an extent that a person feels nervous and anxious without it
  11. 20. Severe form of lowered mood in which a person experiences feelings of worthlessness and diminished pleasure or interest in many activities
  12. 22. Individual alternates between feelings of mania and depression
  13. 23. Using thoughts to control emotions and behaviors
  14. 24. Intense and irrational fear of a particular object or situation
  15. 25. Treatment used by therapists to help troubled individuals over their problems
  16. 26. Medical operation that destroys part of the brain to make the patient calmer and freer of symptoms
  17. 27. Current version of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
  18. 28. Perceptions that have no direct external cause
  19. 29. Characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience
  20. 30. Therapy aimed at making patients aware of their unconscious motives so they can gain control of behavior
Down
  1. 1. False beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
  2. 3. Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
  3. 5. Inability to recall important personal events or information
  4. 6. Radical form of psychosurgery in which a section of the frontal lobe of the brain is destroyed
  5. 7. Extreme anxiety that manifests itself in the form of panic attacks
  6. 11. Person experiences alterations in memory, identity, or consciousness
  7. 13. Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function
  8. 14. Changing undesirable behavior through conditioning techniques
  9. 17. Medication to treat major depression by increasing the amount of one or both of the neurotransmitters noradrenaline and serotonin
  10. 19. Inflexible ways of dealing with others and one's environment
  11. 21. Method that combines various kinds of therapy or combination of therapies