Childhood
This attachment disorder is characterized by emotionally withdrawn behavior and failure to seek comfort from caregivers.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
This symptom is required for Major Depressive Disorder: depressed mood OR this second symptom.
What is anhedonia (loss of interest or pleasure)?
This concept refers to the body's ability to achieve stability through physiological change.
What is allostasis?
The belief that having a thought is morally equivalent to acting on it.
What is thought-action fusion?
A person says, "I feel like I'm watching myself from outside my body." This symptom is called this.
What is depersonalization?
This disorder is characterized by inappropriate familiarity with unfamiliar adults.
What is Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder?
Excessive spending, risky sexual behavior, and impulsive decisions are behaviors commonly associated with this mood state.
What is mania?
A person experiences a qualifying trauma and has intrusive memories, avoidance, and hyperarousal symptoms for two weeks.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
This treatment is considered the gold-standard psychological treatment for OCD.
What is Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)?
A client says, "I know the world feels unreal, but I know it actually isn't." This preserved ability is the most important distinction between dissociation and psychosis.
What is reality testing?
This disorder involves serious rule violations and the violation of the rights of others.
What is Conduct Disorder?
A college student gets a poor exam grade and thinks: "I'm not smart. The professor doesn't care. I'll never graduate." This example illustrates Beck's concept of this.
What is the negative cognitive triad?
The cumulative wear and tear produced by repeated stress responses is called this
What is allostatic load?
This disorder involves excessive, difficult-to-control worry across multiple areas of life.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
This skill is often taught early in treatment to help clients reconnect with the present moment when dissociative symptoms occur.
What is grounding?
A child argues with adults, loses temper frequently, and deliberately annoys others but has not seriously violated the rights of others.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder?
A client reports sadness, fatigue, and poor concentration. This piece of information should most strongly make a clinician consider bipolar disorder rather than depression alone.
What is a history of mania or hypomania?
A person experiences a qualifying trauma and reports intrusive memories, avoidance, hyperarousal, and dissociative symptoms. The symptoms began two weeks ago. The most important clue that argues against PTSD is this.
What is duration/timing (less than 1 month)?
A client repeatedly seeks reassurance from friends that they did not say something offensive. The reassurance temporarily decreases anxiety but ultimately strengthens the cycle. This process helps explain the maintenance of OCD through this learning principle.
What is negative reinforcement?
This treatment approach teaches clients to notice thoughts, sensations, and emotions without becoming overwhelmed by them.
What is mindfulness?
A 13-year-old has a history of neglect and frequently approaches unfamiliar adults for comfort. The same child also argues with teachers, breaks rules at school, and talks back at home. Which diagnosis is MOST strongly supported by the information provided?: What is Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder?
What is Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder?
A person hears voices saying they are worthless and believes they are responsible for every bad thing that happens. This depression specifier would deserve consideration.
What are psychotic features?
A student finishes an exam, relaxation begins, heart rate slows, and digestion resumes. This branch of the autonomic nervous system is now primarily active.
What is the parasympathetic nervous system?
A student experiences intrusive thoughts about accidentally harming a loved one. To reduce anxiety, the student repeatedly reviews past memories, mentally reassures themselves that they are a good person, and silently repeats phrases until the anxiety decreases. This OCD symptom category best describes those responses.
What is a mental compulsion?
According to the framework discussed in class, depersonalization/derealization disorder involves disruptions in awareness, dissociative amnesia involves disruptions in autobiographical memory, and DID involves disruptions in this broader system.
What is identity and memory integration?