Kids/Suicide
Why is it hard to diagnose a kid with a mental illness?
Kids do not always signal their own distress
___ involve repeated thoughts, ideas, or mental images
_____ involves repetitive and rigid behavior a person feels compelled to do in order to reduce anxiety.
Obsessions, compulsions
Amy at first stopped eating candy and then gradually started to eliminate other food from her diet until she was basically eating nothing. She has an intense fear of gaining weight and her BMI is very low. What is Amy experiencing?
Anorexia Nervosa, restrictive type
Alcohol and barbiturates are depressants or stimulants?
Depressents
A therapist listens carefully to a client's words and attempts to show accurate empathy and genuineness. the therapist is most likely using the
Humanistic approach
Symptoms of mental illness in children present the same as they do in adults. True or false?
False.
People who go through traumatic events and then re-experience the trauma most likely have
Post-traumatic stress disorder
____ involves the emergence of two or more distinct personalities.
Dissociative Identity disorder
What type of drug increases activity in the central nervous system?
Stimulants
The DSM is used to classify mental disorders and provide theory and treatments. True or false?
False. It only provides the diagnosis of mental disorders.
Older adults are more likely to commit suicide. True or false?
True
Messages moving from neurons to neurons must cross tiny spaces called
Synapes
What is the deadliest mental disorder?
Anorexia Nervosa
A relative mild state of mania is called?
Hypomania
Your psychological sense of being male or female is what?
Gender Identity
Changing in mood, feeling hopeless, and like you do not belong are warning signs of?
Suicide
Which model focuses on the unconscious internal processes and conflict in behavior?
Psychodynamic model
Most people with bulimia differ from people with anorexia by
Sustaining a normal weight
Jumping to conclusions, personalization and overgeneralization are examples of what?
Cognitive Distortion
List the features of psychotherapy
2. Psychological principles
3. Behavior, thoughts, and feelings
4. Personal growth
What is the final question regarding the assessment of suicide?
Did the person have the means to carry on?
Alice is seeing a therapist for her anxiety. The therapist tells her that her anxiety could be the result of the way she talks to herself, attitude, and self-defeating thoughts. The therapist is using what model?
Cognitive
People with this personality disorder lack remorse, are often irresponsible, violent, and disregard social norms.
Antisocial personality disorder
What are the two drugs when put together can cause the deadliest withdrawal?
Alcohol and benzos
Hallucinations, disorganized speech, and delusions are examples of ____ symptoms in schizophrenia.
Positive symptoms