Suicide Stats and Types
Are women or men more likely to attempt suicide?
What are women? Men are more likely to die from suicide attempts though.
Which of these two are free to the public?
ICD
Does reliability or validity measure the accuracy of an experiment?
What is validity?
How is the HiTOP organized?
What do the Latin terms "Dia" and "Gignoskein" translate to roughly?
How many people on average die of suicide in a year?
What is 800,000?
True or False: the DSM-5 is considered very reliable in the medical community.
False
List two different types of validity
Concurrent
Face
Predictive
Construct
Descriptive
What is the main idea behind the RDoC?
All disorders are rooted in mistakes with the brain function. Very biological perspective
What is the difference between criminal and civil commitment?
Criminal-legally finding someone not guilty due to mental illness and they are placed in
Civil-Legal process of placing someone in a mental institution against their will and without their consent
Sheila takes dangerous risks because she is unsure she wants to die while Abby wants to take her life as a result of finding out she has terminal cancer. What two types of suicide might they be categorized as?
What are death-darers and death-initiators?
What are the current versions of ICD and DSM in use today?
ICD-10 and DSM-5
What are duty to warn and duty to protect?
BONUS: for 50 points, which case inspired the duty to warn?
Duty to protect- a therapist's duty to go against the confidentiality clause in a case where a third-party might be harmed
BONUS: the Tasaroff case
Which psychoogical approach does the PDM use?
Psychodynamic
What percentage of defendants use the insanity plea?
Less than 1%
What is the difference between Psychache and subintentional death according to Shneidman?
Does the ICD or the DSM consider disorder to be an inexact term and disorders to be caused by an internal misfunction?
ICD
What is the difference between Neuropsychological tests and Neurological tests?
Neuropsychological- psychological tests where they test your cognitive, motor, and perceptual skills to see memory and whatnot.
Neurological- purely medical, need to have a doctor to do it
Describe the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test
Nine cards with geometric designs, you are shown and then have to draw from memory. Neuropsychological test
What is the difference between objective and projective tests?
BONUS (for 50): Give an example of each
Objective: participant directly engages in behavior
Projective: Participant reacts to visual or other cues and are assessed based off of reactions
BONUS: ABC, Inkblot, TAT, etc.
What is the problem with Nonsuicida Self-Injury, Suicide Ideation or other suicidal behaviors, and presenting problems?
They have a high comorbidity and so cannot be diagnosed yet as their own diseases
What is the history of the ICD and the DSM?
ICD started before WHO as a book of medical diagnoses, adopted by them later
DSM-Emil Krappelin categorized mental illnesses based off symptoms, DSM used originally to catalouge abnormal people in the U.S. Census
What is interrator reliability?
How often different raters are using the same diagnostic criteria or guidelines to reach the same diagnosis
What is formulation and how is it different than a diagnosis?
Hypothesis about a person’s difficulties which draws from psychological theory
It doesn’t need a diagnosis because it has its own theories
DAILY DOUBLE:
Describe the Rosenhahn experiment
8 peeps pretended to have a mental illness and were hospitalized. blah blah blah go into more detail