Assessment
True or false: a complete Mental Status Exam must include an assessment of the client's appearance.
What is true?
This term refers to the co-occurrence of two or more diagnosable mental health disorders in the same individual at the same time.
What is comorbidity?
This term describes child sexual abuse perpetrated by a family member, such as a parent, sibling, or other relative.
What is Intrafamilial Child Sexual Abuse?
The DSM-5 organizes its diagnostic chapters in this order.
What is a developmental lifespan approach (from childhood to older adulthood)?
A z-score of 0 indicates that a score falls at this point on the normal distribution.
What is the mean?
Major Depressive Disorder requires symptoms to be present for at least this many consecutive weeks.
What is 2 weeks?
Higher level of cognitive functioning that plans behavior and executes goals.
What is executive functioning?
In the DSM-5, this term refers to an additional descriptor added to a diagnosis to provide more detail about a disorder's severity, course, or features.
What is a specifier?
This describes the proper seating position of the evaluator relative to the client during the Rorschach test.
What is side-by-side?
This type of therapy, commonly used for anxiety and mood disorders, focuses on identifying and changing maladaptive thought patterns and behaviors.
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)?
Identifying the psychological and behavioral features of persons who may commit a particular crime.
What is Suspect-Based Profiling?
According to the DSM-5, this anxiety disorder has the highest lifetime prevalence rate of all anxiety disorders in the general population.
What is Specific Phobia?
This is the number of restructured clinical scales found in the MMPI-3.
What is 8?
This negative symptom of Schizophrenia refers specifically to a reduction in the amount of speech produced, and is often confused with a separate symptom describing speech that is vague or empty in content despite normal quantity.
What is alogia (poverty of speech)?
This model proposes that a psychological disorder develops when a biological or genetic predisposition is combined with exposure to environmental or life stressors.
What is the Diathesis-Stress Model?
This specifier is used in Schizophrenia when a full depressive or manic episode occurs concurrently with active-phase symptoms.
What is 'with concurrent mood disorder episode' (or Schizoaffective features)?