MSE
Personality Disorders
Ethics
Skills and Interventions
Intake, Assessment, Diagnosis
Differential Diagnosis
100

Speech that is excessively fast and difficult to interrupt is called this.

Pressured speech

100

This personality disorder is characterized by distrust and suspicion of others.

Paranoid Personality Disorder

100

This ethical principle requires therapists to protect client information.

Confidentiality

100

A belief that one's culture is superior to another's

Ethnocentrism

100

A form of interview that delves into the specific of topics that seemed particularly troubling for the client during the disclosure of the presenting problem

Exploratory interviewing

100

This disorder is often confused with borderline personality disorder because both may involve unstable relationships and emotional dysregulation

Bipolar Disorder

200

A client pacing the room and unable to sit still is displaying this type of motor activity.

Psychomotor Agitation

200

People with this disorder may appear socially detached and prefer solitary activities.

Schizoid Personality Disorder

200

This process ensures clients understand risks, benefits, and limits of therapy.

Informed consent

200

A family unit that consists of a married man and woman and their immediate children

Nuclear family

200

This disorder involves intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors performed to reduce anxiety

OCD

200

Unlike avoidant personality disorder, this disorder primarily involves fear of scrutiny during performance or social situations.

Social Anxiety Disorder

300

A client rapidly shifting topics with superficial connections demonstrates this thought process.

Flight of ideas

300

This disorder includes eccentric behavior, magical thinking, and unusual belief

Schizotypal Personality Disorder

300

This occurs when a therapist has multiple roles with a client.

Dual Relationships

300

Boundaries that are characterized by having many rules about association with non-family, physical barriers used to limit access to the family, rigid rules and values, and few connections with others

Closed Boundaries

300

Danger to self or others, the extent to which a dysfunction distresses an individual, independent of the objective severity of the issue, behavior that interferes with daily living, a departure from the norm

The four D's of abnormality:

Danger

Distress

Dysfunction

Deviance

300

This disorder can resemble schizotypal personality disorder due to social deficits and unusual behaviors beginning in childhood.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

400

This term describes severely reduced emotional expression.

Flat affect

400

People with this disorder often have difficulty making everyday decisions without reassurance.

Dependent Personality Disorder

400

This ethical duty requires reporting when a client is at risk of harming themselves or others.

What is Duty to Warn/Protect?

400

This technique practices new behaviors in session.

Role-play/ Rehearsal

400

Presence of delusions, disorganized speech and behavior, and major impairment in social functioning for at least 6 months.

Schizophrenia

400

A major difference between narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder is this trait often absent in antisocial personality disorder.

Need for admiration

500

Rapid and abrupt changes in emotional expression are known as this.

Labile affect

500

This Cluster C disorder is most associated with fear of criticism and rejection.

Avoidant Personality Disorder

500

This concept involves practicing within one’s level of training and expertise.

Scope of Competence

500

A defense mechanism where socially unacceptable thought or impulse is channeled in a more acceptable direction

Sublimation

500

What 4 letter acronym should be used when assessing someone?

SOAR: Social Occupational Academic Relationship

500

This trauma-related disorder may mimic borderline personality disorder due to emotional instability, relationship difficulties, and fear responses.

PTSD