Across
- 1. therapy: prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology
- 4. coping: attempting to alleviate stress directly-- by changing the stressor or the way we interact with that stressor
- 6. the American Psychiatric Association’s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, Fifth Edition
- 9. Therapy: therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
- 11. A disorder characterized by haunting memories, nightmares,hypervigilance, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, etc.
- 13. well-being: self-perceived happiness or satisfaction with life. Used along with measures of objective well-being to evaluate people’s quality of life
Down
- 2. locus of control: the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate
- 3. disorders: psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety
- 5. Therapy: Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking
- 7. Depressive disorder: a disorder in which a person experiences, in the absence of drugs or another medical condition
- 8. meditation: a reflective practice in which people attend to current experiences in a nonjudgemental and accepting manner
- 10. a psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity
- 11. disorder: a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion revolution, or behavior
- 12. Treatment involving psychological techniques