Anxiety Disorders
A person experiences wide-ranging and persistent feelings of worry and anxiety. This is most likely which disorder?
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
obsessive compulsive disorder
A college professor's work performance has recently deteriorated, and his colleagues find him difficult to talk to. If this is due to a problem with drugs, the best description of this professor's behavior would be:
substance use disorder.
How long must depression last to be classified as a major depressive episode?
two weeks
Carly has posttraumatic stress disorder but refuses to talk about it. She is experiencing:
avoidance.
Agoraphobia is the fear of
The disorder that is characterized by eating binges followed by compensatory behavior such as forced vomiting is called
bulimia nervosa
Melanie has been out with friends and using drugs. Despite being obviously uncoordinated and under the influence, she wants to drive her car. Her condition is an example of:
intoxication.
Brody no longer enjoys his usual hobbies, talking to his friends, or even playing with his dog. In fact, Brody didn't even care when he learned that he was up for a promotion at work. This BEST describes someone with:
anhedonia.
A diagnostic criterion for posttraumatic stress disorder is the presence of significant distress or impairment for:
more than one month
Manual is afraid of eating in public because he expects to be negatively judged and humiliated. He makes up excuses when asked to go out to eat. His diagnosis would probably be
Social phobia
When Shana gets home from work she eats muffins, cake, ice cream, and anything in the house that's sweet. In the midst of eating, she takes a huge dose of a laxative to "empty out" the food she is eating. Her taking the laxative, and the assumption underlying why she does it, would lead to a diagnosis of
bulimia nervosa
Binge drinking is defined as drinking at least _____ drinks on a single occasion.
five
The difference between bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder is the:
severity of the manic episodes.
Lamar is having flashbacks. Which symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder does this represent?
reexperiencing the traumatic event
An adult client has been experiencing uncontrolled anxiety. His symptoms include edginess, sleep changes, fatigue, and significant distress. To meet the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for generalized anxiety disorder, these symptoms must be present for at least how many months?
6 months
Thomas hides away in his room and consumes several cartons of ice cream and a couple of boxes of doughnuts in a span of 30 minutes. He feels unable to stop eating until everything is gone, then is overwhelmed with shame at the amount he has consumed. He then goes back to what he was doing before. Thomas most likely has
binge-eating disorder
Sally took a drug 90 minutes ago. Now she sits alone quietly, intently looking at individual blades of grass that are a brilliant purple and intensely listening to the sap running in a nearby tree. The person MOST likely took the drug:
LSD.
Someone who experiences four or more alternations between mild mania and major depression within a one-year time span would be classified as having:
bipolar II rapid cycling.
Salina was terrified during the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit where she lived. For a couple of weeks after the event, she did not sleep well or feel comfortable inside a building. However, her fears gradually diminished and were completely gone within a month. Her reaction to the earthquake would MOST likely be diagnosed as
acute stress disorder
What are the persistent thoughts, ideas, impulses, or images that seem to invade a person's consciousness called?
obsessions
Participants who have just completed a very low calorie weight loss program would be MOST at risk for
bingeing
A frequent drug user finds that larger doses of a drug are necessary to produce the same “high” that much lower doses once produced. That drug user is developing:
tolerance
2 years
A person who witnessed a horrible car accident and then became unusually anxious and depressed for three weeks is probably experiencing
acute stress disorder