Mood Disorders
This disorder is characterized by persistent sadness, loss of interest, and symptoms lasting at least 2 weeks.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
The minimum symptom duration required for a PTSD diagnosis.
What is 1 month?
Seeing or hearing things that are not there.
What are hallucinations?
Continued substance use despite recurrent social, occupational, or interpersonal problems reflects this DSM criterion.
What is impaired control or continued use despite consequences?
A client reports hearing voices for eight months, believing neighbors are spying on them, and has become socially withdrawn.
What is Schizophrenia?
This specifier is used when an individual with depression displays elevated mood, increased energy, or racing thoughts that do not meet full criteria for mania.
What is "with mixed features"?
Excessive worry occurring most days for at least 6 months.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
Psychotic symptoms accompanied by major mood episodes suggest this diagnosis.
What is Schizoaffective Disorder?
Buprenorphine, methadone, and naltrexone are commonly used for this diagnosis.
What is Opioid Use Disorder?
A client experiences excessive worry about finances, family, and health for over a year and feels unable to control the worry.
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
A hypomanic episode and major depressive episode are characteristic of this disorder.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?
Sudden episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms such as palpitations and shortness of breath.
What are panic attacks?
Hallucinations and delusions are commonly associated with this disorder.
What is Schizophrenia?
Under DSM-5, Substance Use Disorder severity is determined by this factor.
What is the number of criteria met?
A client uses opioids daily, has developed tolerance, experiences withdrawal, and continues using despite losing employment.
What is Opioid Use Disorder, Severe?
The primary difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II Disorder.
What is the presence of a full manic episode in Bipolar I?
Persistent fear of scrutiny or negative evaluation in social situations characterizes this diagnosis.
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
Determining whether psychotic symptoms occur independently of substance use is critical for differentiating schizophrenia from this diagnosis.
What is Substance/Medication-Induced Psychotic Disorder?
This medication can reverse an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone (Narcan)?
A teenager has alternating periods of depression and episodes of decreased need for sleep, increased confidence, and risky behavior lasting over a week.
What is Bipolar I Disorder?
A manic episode causes significant impairment and lasts at least this long unless hospitalization occurs sooner.
A manic episode causes significant impairment and lasts at least this long unless hospitalization occurs sooner.
Experiencing panic attacks while avoiding situations where escape may be difficult suggests this diagnosis.
What is Agoraphobia?
A person experiences delusions for at least one month without significant impairment or other psychotic symptoms.
What is Delusional Disorder?
Requiring more of a substance to achieve the same effect.
What is tolerance?
A 32-year-old client presents for assessment reporting periods of severe depression lasting several weeks. During the past year, she has also experienced multiple episodes lasting 4 to 5 days where she slept only 3 to 4 hours per night, felt unusually energetic, was more talkative than usual, started several business ventures, and described feeling "on top of the world." During these periods, she did not require hospitalization, did not experience psychosis, and maintained her employment. The client denies any history of a full manic episode.
What is Bipolar II Disorder?