Glossary
Antisocial Personality Disorder: Antisocial Personality Disorder is a Cluster B personality disorder that involves aggression, lack of remorse, tendency to lie, low standards of safety, manipulation and violation of rights.Behavior Modification: Behavior Modification is a form of therapy that focuses on modifying maladaptive behaviors, employing reinforcement and punishment. This can be used with children with anger issues.
Biofeedback: Biofeedback is a technique used to increase awareness, monitoring and control over physiological signs in the body, employing electronic instruments.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on core beliefs that underlie maladaptive emotions and behaviors. It attempts to change these irrational beliefs and targets unhelpful behaviors to treat the issue. CBT is effective with several conditions like depression, anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder.
Habit Reversal Training: Habit Reversal Training is a form of behavioral therapy that aims to reverse repetitive maladaptive behaviors such as those in impulse control disorders. Competing responses are developed to reverse the habit.
Impulse Control Disorder: An impulse control disorder is a psychiatric condition characterized by maladaptive behaviors which can be repetitive and the individual feels compelled to perform, leading to distress and/or impairment.
Pharmacotherapy: The use of medications to treat a disorder or health condition is known as pharmacotherapy.
Pyromania: Pyromania is an impulse control disorder that involves repeated fire setting characterized by tension before the act, and pleasure or relief after it. It also involves fascination with fire. The individual is not motivated by monetary or revenge related factors.
Substance Use Disorder: Substance use disorder, commonly known as addiction, involves the use of substances such as alcohol, tobacco or drugs, in which there is a difficulty controlling intake, and prolonged use, irrespective of impairment and harmful effects.
