Clinical Psychology Terms

a syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

• Psychological disorder

• Anxiety disorders

• Phobia

• Bipolar disorder

an anxiety disorder marked by a persistent, irrational fear and avoidance of a specific object, activity, or situation

• Anxiety disorders

• Phobia

• Illness anxiety disorder

• Dissociative identity disorder

a caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

• Unconditional positive regard

• Insight therapies

• Psychotherapy

• Behavior therapy

a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders

• Schizophrenia

• DSM-5

• Hallucination

• Phobia

a disorder related to somatic symptom disorder in which a person interprets normal physical sensations as symptoms of a disease

• Illness anxiety disorder

• Somatic symptom disorder

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder

• Posttraumatic stress disorder

a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

• ECT

• DBS

• CBT

• OCD

psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety

• Anxiety disorders

• Phobia

• Bipolar disorder

• Antisocial personality disorder

a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

• Systematic desensitization

• Cognitive-behavioral therapy

• Biomedical therapy

• Psychodynamic therapy

a psychological disorder marked by extreme inattention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity

• ADHD

• PTSD

• OCD

• ECT

therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses

• insight therapies

• Psychotherapy

• Behavior therapy

• Biomedical therapy