Eating Disorders
This eating disorder is characterised by bingeing without compensatory behaviours
What is Binge Eating Disorder?
This cluster includes Borderline and Antisocial Personality Disorders.
What is Cluster B?
This neurodevelopmental disorder involves inattention, hyperactivity, or both.
What is ADHD?
This disorder involves preoccupation with imagined physical defects.
What is Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)?
This disorder involves argumentative, angry, and vindictive behaviours.
What is Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD)
Name the two subtypes of Anorexia Nervosa.
*What are Restricting Type and Binge-eating/Purging Type?
What therapy was specifically designed for Borderline Personality Disorder?
What is Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)?
At what age must symptoms of ASD be present to meet DSM-5-TR criteria?
What is early developmental period (typically by age 2)?
In OCD, compulsions serve what psychological function?
What is to reduce anxiety or prevent a feared event?
What is the first-line treatment for children with ODD or CD?
What is Parent Management Training (PMT)?
This intervention, supported for adolescents with AN and BN, involves the whole family in treatment.
What is Family-Based Treatment (FBT)?
This model explains BPD as the product of emotional vulnerability and an invalidating environment.
What is the BioSocial Model?
Name one feature from Criterion A (social communication) of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
What is reduced social-emotional reciprocity (or alternatives like nonverbal communication difficulties)?
Name two common compulsions in OCD.
What are checking, washing, counting, or arranging?
Name two contextual risk factors for Conduct Disorder.
What are low SES, family conflict, harsh parenting, peer deviance, etc.
Name two psychological symptoms common to both AN and BN.
What are anxiety and depression? (Other valid answers: social withdrawal, obsessive-compulsiveness)
Name one Cluster A personality disorder and describe its main trait.
What is Paranoid PD? (Main trait: distrust/suspiciousness) or Schizoid PD (emotional detachment)
What is the difference between 'Combined' and 'Predominantly Inattentive' presentations of ADHD?
Combined = meets criteria for both types; Inattentive = meets only the inattention criteria.
What is the core difference between OCD and OCPD?
OCD has obsessions and compulsions; OCPD is a rigid personality style without true obsessions.
What does the ‘Callous-Unemotional’ specifier in CD indicate?
Persistent lack of guilt, empathy, and concern for performance.
Explain why individuals with atypical AN can still experience severe health consequences.
Because despite normal BMI, they engage in restrictive eating and experience similar psychological and medical complications.
Differentiate between Avoidant and Dependent Personality Disorders based on core fears.
Avoidant: fear of criticism/rejection; Dependent: fear of being alone or without support.
Explain one way ADHD and ASD can be confused during diagnosis.
Both can include difficulty focusing or social challenges, but root causes differ—ADHD = attention regulation; ASD = social understanding.
Explain the concept of 'fear of self' in OCD and its role in obsessional thinking
It refers to fear of who one might become, maintaining intrusive thoughts through misappraisal of self.
Explain how operant conditioning is used in PMT to disrupt the coercive parent-child cycle.
By reinforcing positive behaviours and removing reinforcement for defiant behaviour, breaking the cycle of negative interaction.