Depressive/Bipolar Disorders
Trauma & Stressor/Dissociative Disorders
Anxiety/OCD Disorders
Psychotic/Personality Disorders
APA Format
100
This is the major distinguishing factor between Bipolar I and Bipolar II Disorder.
What is lifetime presence of a manic episode?
100
This disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states within one individual.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
100
This abrupt, short-lived surge of fear and associated physical symptoms (i.e. heart racing, shortness of breath, choking sensations, dizziness, etc.) is the hallmark symptom of this disorder.
What is Panic Disorder?
100
The two key features of psychotic disorders.
What are delusions and hallucinations?
100
This phrase appears in the top left corner of your title page only, followed by an abbreviated version of your paper title in all caps.
What is "Running head:"?
200
Patients with major depressive disorder or a bipolar disorder who also have associated delusions and/or hallucinations are given this specifier.
What is “with (mood-congruent/mood-incongruent) psychotic features”?
200
This term refers to feeling persistently detached from one’s mental processes or body, or having recurrent “out of body” experiences.
What is “depersonalization”?
200
__________ are intrusive thoughts urges or images that cause anxiety or distress, while ________ are repetitive behaviors or mental acts performed to prevent or reduce anxiety and distress.
What are obsessions and compulsions?
200
A pervasive pattern of unstable/intense relationships, emotional reactivity/dysregulation, impulsivity and suicidal/self-mutilating behaviors.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
200
Direct quotations always require this additional piece of information in their in-text citation.
What is a page number (p. 1)?
300
In order for a patient to be diagnosed with Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia), he/she must meet criteria for major depression for this number of years.
What is 2 years?
300
This term refers to persistently perceiving that the world is unreal or dreamlike.
What is “derealization”?
300
This disorder is characterized by marked fear or anxiety about particular situations where escape is difficult or help may be unavailable, leading to extreme avoidance.
What is Agoraphobia?
300
In order to be diagnosed with Antisocial Personality Disorder in adulthood, children must display symptoms of this disorder before age 15.
What is Conduct Disorder?
300
In the References section, these letters are the only letters that are capitalized in a journal article's title.
What is the first letter of the first word and the first letter of the first word following a colon?
400
A patient with a bipolar disorder who has at least 4 distinct major depressive/manic/hypomanic episodes in a period of 12 months would be given this specifier.
What is “with rapid cycling”?
400
This is the major distinguishing factor between PTSD and Acute Stress Disorder.
What is the duration of symptoms (up to 1 month in Acute Stress Disorder, more than 1 month in PTSD)?
400
This disorder is characterized by recurrent hair-pulling that results in hair loss and causes significant distress/impairment.
What is Trichotillomania?
400
In Delusional Disorder, this specifier refers to the delusional belief that another person is in love with him/her.
What is “erotomanic type”?
400
The format used for in-text citations mentioned for the first time is (Jones, Smith, & Andrews, 2015) EXCEPT when the number of authors is greater than or equal to this number.
What is 6?
500
Patients diagnosed with major depressive disorder with mixed features are at increased risk for the development of this psychological disorder(s)?
What is Bipolar I or Bipolar II Disorder?
500
In Dissociative Amnesia, this specifier refers to purposeful travel or wandering associated with amnesia for one’s identity.
What is “with dissociative fugue”?
500
Joe experiences intense fear and anxiety when he must receive an injection. He has avoided visiting the doctor’s to get a flu shot for the past 3 years, and has been prohibited from interacting directly with patients at his job in a nursing home. Joe is suffering from this type of specific phobia.
What is blood-injection-injury phobia?
500
A transdiagnostic psychomotor disturbance symptom that includes features such as stupor, mutism, stereotypy, and echolalia.
What is catatonia?
500
The format for an in-text citation previously mentioned is as follows: Jones et al. (2015). You can infer that the number of authors for this citation is greater than or equal to this number.
What is 3?