Name the Disorder?
Characterized by intense memories of the trauma, dreams/nightmares, and/or flashbacks
What is post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD?
This has three stages including the alarm, resistance and exhaustion stage.
What is General Adaptation Syndrome?
Define this: Ritualistic or repetitive behaviors that a person carries out continuously in an attempt to decrease anxiety.
What is a compulsion?
What is marked psychomotor disturbance, either excessive motor activity or virtual immobility and motionlessness?
A major characteristic of this phenomena involves a detachment from reality—rather than a loss of reality as in psychosis.
What is dissociation or dissociative disorder?
This occurs after a traumatic event and is characterized by re-experiencing, avoidance, and hyper-arousal that occur from 3 days to 4 weeks following a trauma.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
The most prescribed medication for the treatment of OCD is...
What are First line: SSRIs (fluvoxamine, sertraline)?
Abnormal, involuntary movements such as lip smacking, tongue protrusion, chewing, blinking, grimacing, and choreiform movements of the limbs and feet.
What is tardive dyskinesia?
What causes dissociative amnesia?
What is a traumatic experience or event?
Patients with this disorder have trouble “adjusting” to the stressor in their lives. Their symptoms develop within a month, lasting no more than 6 months.
What is Adjustment Disorder?
In this level of anxiety something is definitely wrong; You notice nervousness/agitation; difficulty concentrating, but they are able to be redirected.
What is Moderate Anxiety?
This is an example of a positive symptom of schizophrenia.
What are delusions or hallucinations?
Muscle rigidity, high fever, increased muscle enzymes (particularly, creatine phosphokinase), and leukocytosis (increased leukocytes).
What is Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome?
A person with this disorder may suddenly shift and then shift back to multiple personality traits.
What is dissociative identity disorder? (previously known as multiple personality disorder.)
Clients with this disorder exhibit minimal social and emotional responses and are afraid for no apparent reason. Usually under the age of 5.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?
This is the fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult or that help wouldn't be available if things go wrong.
What is Agoraphobia?
In this disorder the client exhibits an acute, reactive psychosis for less than the 6 months necessary to meet the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia.
What is Schizophreniform disorder?
A term used to describe the lack of motivation or ability to do tasks or activities that have an end goal, such as paying bills or attending a school function. It occurs most commonly in schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar disorder.
What is Avolition?
What is one example of using a grounding technique to diminish the dissociative experience by focusing on current senses.
What is...
Can you see me and the room we are in?
Can you feel the watch on your wrist?
These clients exhibit unselective socialization, social interaction with caregivers and strangers alike. Usually under the age of 5.
What is Disinhibited Social engagement disorder?
Specific phobias are subdivided into the following categories:(there are 5)
What are- Natural environmental phobias: fear of storms, water, heights, or other natural phenomena
•Blood–injection phobias: fear of seeing one’s own or others’ blood, traumatic injury, or an invasive medical procedure such as an injection
•Situational phobias: fear of being in a specific situation such as on a bridge or in a tunnel, elevator, small room, hospital, or airplane
•Animal phobia: fear of animals or insects (usually a specific type; often, this fear develops in childhood and can continue through adulthood in both men and women; cats and dogs are the most common phobic objects)
•Other types of specific phobias:
(folie à deux) is a type of shared psychotic disorder most commonly seen in:
What are siblings, parent and child or spouses?
Because dopamine excess and serotonin modulation of dopamine plays a part in schizophrenia, this medication is a dopamine and serotonin antagonist.
What is a clozapine (Clozaril). (newer atypical antipsychotics)
This is the sensation of being in a dream-like state in which the environment seems foggy or unreal.
What is derealization? pg. 212