Clinical Presentations
What is an unwanted image, idea, urge or thought?
Obsession
What type of therapy that is exposing the client to an obsession or fear and preventing them from completing the compulsive behavior?
Exposure and Response Prevention therapy (ERP)
Anxiety disorder characterized by obsessions and compulsions
Obessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
What is it called when components of mental experience are split from consciousness but remain accessible through dreams and hypnosis
Dissociation
Hoarding disorder is comorbid with which disorders?
GAD, MDD, ADHD
This disorder encompasses emotional and behavorial symptoms (depression, anxiety,) that arise within 3 months as response to a stressor of any severity
Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that an individual feels thye must perform in an effort to reduce anxiety and stress
Compulsion
ERP is a specialized form of which type of therapy?
CBT
What is one disorder we use EMDR to treat?
PTSD
Paralysis, tremors, blindness, mutism, & loss of hearing are all symptoms of which disorder
FND
What is the primary difference between Somatic Symptom Disorder (SSD) and Functional Nerurological Symptom Disorder?
SSD: a mental health condition where a person has an extreme, distressing focus on physical symptoms—such as pain, fatigue, or shortness of breath—that results in major disruption to their daily life
FND:Loss of neurologic functioning in a sensory or motor area of the body without physical cause
This disorder results from significant neglect and/or trauma. Affected children have difficulty forming emotional attachments to others, are emotionally withdrawn, and show little positive affect.
Reactive Attachment Disorder
invisible, internal mental acts or cognitive rituals performed to reduce anxiety caused by an obsession
EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
What is the primary difference between Somatic Symptom Disorder and Anxiety Illness Disorder?
Somatic Symptom Disorder involves physical symptoms
What are the different identities of a person diagnosed with DID called?
How many personalities does the DSM say a person must have in order to be diagnosed with DID?
At least two--host and one alter
What is one of the psychological factors in the theories of PTSD?
•Pre-existing conditions increase risk (comorbidity)
•Coping strategies influence vulnerability to PSTD
•Finding a sense of purpose or meaning may increase coping
Severity, Proximity, and Duration are part of which theory for which disorder?
This is a Social and enivronmental factor of PTSD
What three therapies are used for SSD and IAD?
Psychodynamic therapy, behaviorial therapy, and cognitive therapy
The disorder where people have an intense fear of developing symptoms related to their health, but they do not have any actual symptoms (or they have very mild symptoms that they are overly sensitive to)
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Persecutor is an example of what ?
This disorder is characterized as a psychological disorder that involves persistent and uncontrollable urges to keep items that have no utility or instrumental value
Hoarding Disorder
Dissociative Amnesia
An inability to recall important personal and autobiographical information—usually of a traumatic or stressful nature
observable,external physical actions that a person feels driven to perform to reduce anxiety or prevent a feared outcome
overt compulsion
Why are people with somatic disorders or dissociative disorders often resistant to therapy?
They are unaware they have a psychological condition.
Which disorder is highly comorbid with Illness Anxiety Disorder?
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
What are the two forms of dissociation related to PTSD?
Derealization and Depersonaliztion
What is a difference between Somatic Symptom Disorder and Anxiety Illness Disorder?
SSD: A person experiences one or more real, distressing physical symptoms (such as chronic pain, fatigue, or stomach upset) and spends an excessive amount of time, thoughts, and emotional distress fixated on them
IAD: A person has mild or no physical symptoms, yet harbors an intense, persistent fear or preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious undiagnosed disease
How many phases is the trauma focused psychotherapy process for the treatment of DID?
three phases
ASD and PTSD have the same symptoms outside of which factors?
Time of onset and duration
What are the first line of pharmacological treatments for OCD and related disorders?
SSRIs and SNRIs
Which disorder involves falsifying illness in another person?
Factitious disorder imposed on another (by proxy)
What is the process called when one alter takes over or pushes out the host or another alter?
Switching
This disorder involves the development of inappropriate and overly familiar behavior with adult strangers, usually to do with neglectful & abusive experiences
Disinhibited social engagement disorder
Dissociatiave Fugue
A rare subtype or specifier of dissociative amnesia that involves a sudden, purposeful departure or "psychological flight" from one's usual home or workplace
a sudden intense experience where the person feels they are actually reliving the event
flashback
A form of Cognitive-behavioral therapy that focuses on developing skills that allow the individual to cope with stress
Stress innoculation therapy
Deliberate faking of an illness to gain attention
factitious disorder imposed on self
Social Media has had a strong impact on this disorder characterized by extreme worry about physical appearance
Body dysmorphic disorder
What is Trichotillomania?
Disorder characterized by pulling one's own hair out
disorder characterized by pulling at one’s own skin
Excoriation