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RITARDO MENTALE
MENTAL RETARDATION
DISTURBO OSSESSIVO COMPULSIVO
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
PSICOSI MANIACO-DEPRESSICA
MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS
TERAPIA SHOCK ELETTROCOMPULSIVA
ELECTRO CONVULSIVE SHOCK THERAPY
CATTIVO COMPORTAMENTO
ACTING OUT
DISTURBO DELL'UMORE
MOOD DISORDER
DISTURBO POST TRAUMATICO DA STRESS
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
STORIA CLINICA
CASE HISTORY
PERSONALITA DIVISA, BIPOLARE
SPLIT PERSONALITY
TERAPIA FARMACOLOGICA
DRUG THERAPY
ANTI-MANIAC DRUG
Drug used to control mania in bipolar depression, such as Lithium
NEUROLEPTIC DRUGS
Drugs used to trest schizophrenia. They block dopamine receptor sites. possible side-effect include blurred vision and a drop in white blood cells, such as CHLOROPROMAZINE
ANTI-DEPRESSANT DRUGS
These drugs promote activity of noradrenaline and seratonin, which lead to increase arousal. Side-effect include heart problems. (ex. Prozac)
ATYPICAL NEUROLEPTIC DRUGS
These drugs are a safer and more effective alternative to the practice of maintenance adjunctive treatment with traditional neuroleptic agents in patients with bipolar disorder (ex. CLOZAPINE)
ANXIOLYTIC DRUGS
BENZODIAZEPINES. These drugs act on synapses and neurotrasmitters, especially by promoting GABA, the body's natural form of anxiety relief. GABA reduces seratonin levels, a neurotransmitter related to arousal and aggression. the common side effects of benxodiazepines are sleepiness and dependance
IMPULSE-CONTROL DISORDER
A class of disorders all marked by inability to resist an impulse to engage in some acts that ultimately prove harmful to oneself
ATTENTION-DEFICIT DISORDER
Inability to concentrate at school or at work
GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER
A class of disorders characterized by a sense of inappropriateness concernig one's gender identification
APHASIA
partial or complete loss of language abilities
APRAXIA
partial or complete loss of the ability to perform voluntary movements
PSYCHOASTHENIA
mental retardation
DELUSION
A belief that is mainteined in spite of argument, date and refutation which should destroy it
ASEMIA
Partial or complete loos of ability to understand the meaning of symbols
AGORAPHOBIA
an anxiety disorder marked by fear and avoidance of public places
ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER
A disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, impulsive behavior and problems with authority
SAD (seasenal affective disorder)
A disorder marked by bouts of depression that occur on a seasonal basis. Sufferers oten experience depression, irritability and weight gain. Sometimes used the Phototherapy to improve symptoms of seasonal depression
PHOBIA
an irritational and excessive fear of a object or situation. These fears can interfere with an individual's life and lead to considerable anxiety and stress
TOKEN ECONOMY
an operant-conditioning technique. Patients living in an institution are given tokens as secondary reinforcers when thei engage in correct/socially desiderable behavior. The tokens can be exchanges for primary reinforcers-food or privileges
IMPLOSION THERAPY
both classical-conditioning techniques aim to present the patient with maximum exposure to the feared stimmulus, with exposure continuing until their fear vanishes thus extinguishing the conditioned response
INTERPERSONAL THERAPY
A short-term therapy often used to tret depression. This tratment approach focuses on an individual's social relationship and how to improve social support.
PHOTOTHERAPY
A therapy that uses special light bulbs, which are much brighter than ordinary lights to improve symptoms of seasonal depression.
SISTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION
A technique used to treat phobias, designed to produce a decrease in anxiety toward some feared object or situation, by exposing the client to a series of approximations to the anxiety-producing stimulus under relaxed conditions, until finally the anxiety reaction is extinguished
BIOFEEDBACK
A technique that use electronic devices to measure physiological processes such as breathing rate; sli temperature; skin conductance and muscle tension. The goal usually is to change these various physiological processes from a state of nervous arousal to a state of deep relaxation.
What kind of patiets benefit most from psychotherapy?
The patients who benefit most from therapy are those who want to make some kind of change in their personal or professional life, or who suffer from mentall health problems, such as anxiety and depression
When does family or couples therapy prove useful?
It proves useful when onee of the members'problems, either phycical or mental, is affecting family or relationship dynamics
What is the most suitable tratment for patients suffering from moderate-to-severe depression?
The most suitable treatment fpr patients moderate-to-severe depression is a combination of psychoterapy and drug therapy, such as antidepressants
How does behavior therapy help the patients modify their maladaptive behaviors?
Behavior therrapy uses either classical or operant conditioning techniques to help patients "unlearn" maladaptive behaviors
What are the main difference between behavior therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy?
Behavior theaory is more limited thn cognitive-behavior therapy because is focused solely on external behavior
In what ways can the psychoanalysr help the patients?
The psycoanalyst can help the patients spot uncoscious motivations and unresolved problems from childhood to work throught isssues and to become awere of how past problems influence our present actions and feelings
FAMILY THERAPY
includes discussion e problem solving session with every memer of the family. Family or couple therapy is helpful when one of the family member's physical o mental health is directly affecting family dynamics or the well-being of significant relationships.
GROUP PSYCHOTERAPY
Is more affective and interest to many patients and doctors. In many country, the group psychoterapy approach have surpassed the individual approch. many doctors see the group of 8 to 10 patients as optimal, but may vary in size from 3 to 15. Session aree usually weekly or twice mouthy of 1 or 2 hours.
MEDICATION
may be used whit psychotherapy. for many people, this is the best approch to treatment. People with moderate-to-severe depression tipically do best with a combination of antidepressants and some form of psychoterapy.
BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Behavorist suggers that the abnormal and maladaptive behavior can be learned, just like any other behaviors. What can be learned can be unlerned. So effective therapy should aim at madification of bad behavior with classical or operant conditioning techniques
COGNITIVE TERAPHY
Grew out of behaviors therapy because the latter is considerate too inadequate for is focus in external behaviors only. The cognitive approche try to identify and correct thinking patters that may be causes problematic felling and behavior. If a belief or thougt is too rigid, the therapist help the client to modificate his or her thinking
GESTALT THEORY
is based on two ideas: in the first idea the gestalt therapists look at "here and now" ow living. Behiin this idea there are the belief that studing, descriving and observing what is in this moment lets us fully understand ourself. The second idea is that the people are caught in a web of relation with other things, and all the things that exist are in relation with other things. Treatment, which is usually conducted in group, is focus on atttempt to expand person's awereness of self by using past experience, bodly sensation, memorie, emotional states...
PSYCHOANALYSIS
also called psychoodynamic or psychoanalitic therapy, help people to discovered and understand the emotional conflict that may be contributing to emotional problems. Therapist help the client to uncover unconscious motivation and unresolved problems from childood, and become cosciusness how those mmotivation influence present feelings and behaviors. This Therapy is too long and typically taking several years