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biopsychosocial model - correct answer concept that emphasizes three aspects of abnormal behavior: biological, psychological, and sociological Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) - correct answer book that sets specific criteria for each psychological diagnosis personality disorder - correct answer maladaptive, inflexible way of dealing with the environment and other people behavior therapy - correct answer treatment that begins with clear, well-defined behavioral goals, such as eliminating test anxiety, and then attempts to achieve those goals through learning cognitive therapy - correct answer procedure that seeks to improve psychological well-being by changing people's interpretation of events cognitive-behavior therapy - correct answer treatment in which therapists set explicit behavioral goals, but also try to change people's interpretation of situations community psychologist - correct answer those who try to help people change their environment, both to prevent disorders and to promote a positive sense of mental well-being deinstitutionalization - correct answer removal of patients from mental hospitals dream analysis - correct answer seeks to understand symbolism in reported dreams eclectic therapy - correct answer treatment that uses a combination of methods and approaches empirically supported treatments - correct answer therapies demonstrated to be helpful family systems therapy - correct answer treatment based on the assumption that most people's problems develop in a family setting and that the best way to deal with them is to improve family relationships and communication free association - correct answer procedure in which a client says everything that comes to mind group therapy - correct answer treatment that is administered to several people at once intervention - correct answer dentifying a disorder and trying to relieve it maintenance - correct answer taking steps to keep a disorder from becoming more serious meta-analysis - correct answer procedure of taking the results of many experiments, weighting each one in proportion to the number of participants, and determining the overall average effect M'Naghten rule - correct answer statement that someone is legally insane if he or she was so mentally disordered at the time of an act as not to understand what he or she was doing person centered therapy - correct answer (nondirective or client-centered therapy) procedure in which a therapist listens to the client with total acceptance and unconditional positive regard prevention - correct answer avoiding a disorder from the start psychoanalysis - correct answer method that tries to bring unconscious thoughts and emotions to consciousness psychodynamic therapies - correct answer attempt to understand conflicting impulses, including some that the individual does not consciously recognize. See also Psychoanalysis psychotherapy - correct answer treatment of psychological disorders by methods that include a personal relationship between a trained therapist and a client self help group - correct answer collection of people operating much like group therapy, except without a therapist spontaneous remission - correct answer improvement of a psychological condition without therapy Tarasoff - correct answer reason to believe that a client is dangerous must warn the endangered person or take other steps to prevent harm transferrence - correct answer situation in which clients transfer onto the therapist the behaviors and feelings they originally established toward their father, mother, or other important person agoraphobia - correct answer excessive fear of open or public places compulsion - correct answer repetitive, almost irresistible action generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) - correct answer disorder in which people have frequent and exaggerated worries hyperventiliation - correct answer rapid deep breathing obsession - correct answer repetitive, unwelcome stream of thought obssessive compulsion disorder - correct answer condition with repetitive thoughts and actions panic disorder (PD) - correct answer condition marked by frequent periods of anxiety and occasional attacks of panic—rapid breathing, increased heart rate, chest pains, sweating, faintness, and trembling phobia - correct answer fear that interferes with normal living social phobia - correct answer severe avoidance of other people and a fear of doing anything in public systematic desensitization - correct answer method of reducing fear by gradually exposing people to the object of their fear antipsychotic drugs - correct answer drugs that can relieve schizophrenia atypical antipsychotic drugs - correct answer drugs that relieve schizophrenia without causing tardive dyskinesia autism - correct answer lifelong condition characterized by impaired social contact bipolar disorder - correct answer condition previously known as manic-depressive disorder, in which someone alternates between mood extremes copy number variants - correct answer deletions and duplications of tiny parts of a chromosome delusion - correct answer beliefs that are strongly held despite a lack of evidence for them