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