This is a core skill in therapy (that is also useful in life all the time and that we practiced in class)
Validation.
True or false: There is solid evidence that there are overactive dopamine systems in the brain of people diagnosed with schizophrenia due to their illness.
Nah.
This diagnosis is popular, uncommon, controversial, and has little diagnostic utility.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
In order to qualify for a Major Depressive Episode, you have to meet how many of the 9 symptoms?
5. One has to be anhedonia (lack of joy or interest in doing stuff).
SSRI stands for this.
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
Effect sizes for therapy indicate that it is (more or less) effective than aspirin for heart attacks or rispderal for schizophrenia.
more
Inappropriate beliefs, often about persecution or grandeur, are called this.
Delusions
This disorder is characterized by frequent over-eating, and is a new addition to the DSM-5
Binge Eating Disorder
The ability for two clinicians to agree on a diagnosis for one person is called this.
Hint: for Depression, it's .32.
Inter-rater reliability.
This type of drug is used to treat people diagnosed with schizophrenia, although it is also used to treat children with aggression, adults with depression, and people with bipolar disorder.
This modern type of therapy believes in the unconscious motivations of behavior.
Psychodynamic.
Schizophrenia is often described in terms of two categories of symptoms.
Positive and Negative
This disorder is characterized by over-eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors.
Bulimia Nervosa
Despite the increased availability of treatment, the availability of drugs said to decrease its likelihood, and prevention efforts and hotlines, the suicide rate has risen about this much in the last 20 years.
30%
This type of drug is associated with reduced amygdala size in adolescents with as little as six weeks exposure, and is used to treat bipolar disorder
Anticonvulsants (mood stabiliziers)
This overarching model of therapy suggests that therapy will be effective if the relationship is good, the therapy provides meaning for symptoms, and there are therapeutic tasks in the session.
The Contextual Model
Increased ventricle size and decreased cortical thickness are often present in individuals who are diagnosed with schizophrenia. What TWO environmental factors could possibly account for this?
Trauma and medication exposure.
This disorder is characterized by what children 'Often' do.
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
This exclusion was previously present in the diagnosis of Major Depressive Disorder, but is now absent in the DSM-5
The Grief Exclusion
Many studies of psychiatric medications do not use patients in their studies who have not been exposed to the drugs previously. Such peopl would be classified as this.
Medication-naive
Your professors, and roughly 70% of therapists, describe themselves as this when referring to the types of therapy they employ.
Eclectic
In Pakistan, this type of hallucination is more common than auditory hallucinations.
Visual hallucinations.
In women diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, this specific physical symptom is common.
Amenorrhea - the absence of menstruation.
These three characteristics often define the attributions of people who are depressed.
Stable, Global, Internal
This type of drug, commonly used with children, is associated with long-term risk for depression, bipolar, substance use disorders, and psychotic episodes.
Stimulants!