DSM-5 TR Deep Dive
This neurodevelopmental disorder is characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
The legal requirement for clinicians to breach confidentiality if a client poses a threat to a specific, identifiable victim.
What is Duty to Warn/Tarasoff?
The term for the emotional exhaustion and "numbing" resulting from indirect exposure to a client's trauma.
What is Vicarious Trauma or Secondary Traumatic Stress?
SOAP is a popular note-taking acronym which stands for.
What is Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan?
What is a playful, community created slang term for neurodivergent people that is popular in social media.
What is neurospicy?
To meet the criteria for Major Depressive Disorder, symptoms must be present for at least this long.
What is two weeks?
This term describes the phenomenon where a clinician redirects their own feelings onto a client.
What is Countertransference?
A basic self-care strategy involving the practice of staying present in the moment without judgment.
What is Mindfulness?
DAP is the acronym for another note taking style.
What is Data, Assessment, and Plan?
This fictional mob boss spent years on Dr. Melfi's couch in New Jersey.
Who is Tony Soprano?
This "Cluster B" personality disorder involves a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affect.
What is Borderline Personality Disorder?
When a professional assumes two or more roles at the same time or sequentially with a client.
What is a Dual Relationship?
The process of seeking guidance from a more experienced clinician to process difficult cases.
What is Clinical Supervision or Consultation?
What is the acronym for our two governing laws on privacy and data, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, and Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
What is HIPAA and FERPA?
In the movie Inside Out, this character is the first to touch the "control console" in Riley's head.
Who is Joy?
This diagnosis replaced "Dysthymia" in the DSM-5.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
The ethical principle that prioritizes a client’s right to make their own decisions.
What is Autonomy?
This professional safeguard involves establishing limits in therapeutic relationships to maintain objectivity and protect both the clinician and the client.
What are professional boundaries?
When clinicians describe observable client behaviors such as "client tearful with slowed speech," they are documenting this type of information.
What is objective data?
A 2002 film about a Navy sailor confronting childhood trauma with the help of a psychiatrist, showing therapy's role in transforming one's life.
What is Antwone Fisher?
This specific specifier is used when a patient experiences "waxy flexibility" or mutism.
What is Catatonia?
This trio of ethical boards provides the ethical codes followed by the various professionals on our team.
What is the NASW, APA, AMHCA?
According to Maslow, this is the highest level of psychological development where one realizes their full potential.
What is Self-Actualization?
When a clinician gives the client a document to sign to prove that they have been informed of the scope of their services and confidentiality limits.
What is a consent?
This Apple TV+ show follows a grieving therapist who starts telling his clients exactly what he thinks.
What is Shrinking?