Oh my GAD
The length of time a person must show symptoms to qualify for GAD or Social Anxiety Disorder.
What is 6 months?
The age before which symptoms must appear to warrant a diagnosis for ADHD.
What is 12 years old?
The length of time someone must be experiencing symptoms to qualify for Persistent Depressive Disorder or Cyclothymic Disorder.
What is 2 years?
The main difference between acute stress disorder and PTSD.
What is that acute stress disorder has symptoms for a shorter time (between 3 days to one month), whereas PTSD has the symptoms present for over a month?
The difference between "other specified" and "unspecified"
What is "other specified" gives a reason for the person not meeting full criteria, whereas "unspecified" the clinician does NOT give a reason?
The three main withdrawal symptoms from benzodiazepines for anxiety.
What are insomnia, seizures, and anxiety?
The two main areas of impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
What are social communication and social interaction?
(May also accept restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities)
The major difference between MDD and PMDD
What is symptoms depending on the client's menstrual cycle for PMDD?
This is what a person experiences when they were involved in a traumatic event and then cannot remember their name, school, or anything that happened before that day.
Alex is a 20-year-old college student who has difficulty making friends and understanding social cues. They prefer routines and become upset or overwhelmed when plans suddenly change. Alex is sensitive to loud noises and crowded places and enjoys talking about a few specific interests they are passionate about. They want to improve their social skills and feel more comfortable around others.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
This is the difference between agoraphobia and social anxiety disorder.
The main difference between Tourette’s Disorder and Persistent Motor or Vocal Tic Disorder is this.
What is having BOTH motor and vocal tics (Tourette's) vs. just having one or the other?
True or false: onset for Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder is between 5-10 years old.
(100 bonus points for whoever can give the correct age range for onset)
To meet criteria for dissociative identity disorder, a person must experience a disruption of identity with two or more personality states, which involve marked alterations in these three areas.
A family recently adopted an 8-year-old child from a foster home. The child, despite being in a loving home, experiences regular outbursts and an inability to regulate their emotions and either flatly responds or violently pushes the new parents away any time they attempt to comfort the child.
What is Reactive Attachment Disorder? (Bonus 100 points for describing the difference between this and disinhibited social engagement disorder)
The key criteria to qualify for panic disorder (3).
What is recurrent and unexpected panic attacks, 1 month or more of persistent concern about future panic attacks and significant maladaptive behavior change to avoid panic attacks?
(200 bonus points for someone who can list 5 of the 13 symptoms of a panic attack)
In obtaining an accurate diagnosis of a neurodevelopmental disorder, assessments from the following may be needed
Who are occupational therapist, medical doctor, family members, and school teacher?
List 4 of the 7 symptoms of a manic/hypomanic episode.
What are:
1. inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
2. decreased need for sleep
3. more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
4. flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
5. distractibility as reported/observed
6. increase in goal-related activity/psychomotor agitation
7. excessive involvement in risky activities
(Bonus 100 points for the difference between manic and hypomanic episodes)
The 5 criteria that must be met to diagnose PTSD (A,B,C,D, and E in the DSM).
What is A) Exposure to a traumatic event, B) intrusion symptoms, C) Avoidance symptoms, D) Negative alterations to cognitions/mood (Ex: dissociation), E) Arousal symptoms?
Mary seems to be lethargic almost every single day, but there are occasional days where she gets a little burst of energy and starts expressing goals, what is next on her life plan, flights of ideas, and even feelings of opulence. Her family expresses excitement because they think she is snapping out of it, and then she is back to her old lethargic self again.
What is Bipolar II? (lethargy, bursts of energy, flight of ideas/feelings of opulence)
What are:
List 4 inattentive and 4 hyperactive symptoms of ADHD.
What are:
Inattention- overlooks/misses details, difficulty sustaining attention, seems to not listen, doesn't follow through on instructions/ tasks, difficulty organizing tasks and activities, avoids tasks that require sustained effort, loses things necessary for tasks, easily distracted, forgetful in daily activities
Hyperactivity- fidgets/taps, leaves seat, runs/climbs when inappropriate, unable to play/engage quietly, "on the go"/driven by a motor, talks excessively, blurts out answers, difficulty waiting turn, intrudes on others.
List 6 of the 9 symptoms that need to be present for the same two weeks to meet Major Depressive Disorder
What are:
1. depressed mood
2. diminished interest/pleasure in activities
3. weight loss or gain
4. insomnia or hypersomnia
5. psychomotor agitation (restlessness)
6. fatigue
7. feelings of worthlessness or guilt
8. diminished ability to think/concentrate/indecisiveness
9. reccurent thoughts of death (SI without a specific plan)
9 out of 14 symptoms are required to diagnose someone with acute stress disorder. Name at least 8.
Intrusion (1. recurrent distressing memories 2. dreams 3. flashbacks 4. intense prolonged stress/physiological reactions);
Negative mood (5. persistent neg mood);
Dissociative symptoms (6. altered sense of reality/self 7. dissociative amnesia);
Avoidance (8. avoiding memories/thoughts/feelings 9. external reminders);
Arousal (10. sleep disturbance 11. irritable/angry outbursts 12. hypervigilance 13. probs with concentration 14. exaggerated startle response)
ROLE PLAY!! Diagnose me!
You will have 5 minutes to ask me questions and figure out a possible diagnosis (There may be more than 1). Whichever team is closest gets the points. HINT: The disorder(s) can be any of the ones covered in class, not just the ones in this Jeopardy.
What is primary diagnosis, Social Anxiety Disorder, and secondary diagnosis Body Dysmorphic Disorder?