Keeping the Score
You might make this diagnosis if your client is extremely thin, limits their caloric intake, and has a severe fear of gaining weight.
What is anorexia nervosa?
One or more of these two types of symptom classes form a pattern of behavior in individuals diagnosed with ADHD.
What are inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity?
This hard-to-treat class of diagnoses manifests as rigid patterns of behavior in adults.
What are personality disorders?
Your 7-year-old client suddenly begins to wet the bed and his parents want to know who they should consult.
Who is his pediatrician?
This skills-based treatment was originally created to treat borderline personality disorder.
What is dialectical behavior therapy?
This word is used to describe an experience in which an individual's ability to integrate an experience is overwhelmed.
What is trauma?
People with this eating disorder usually present with an unremarkable weight.
What is bulimia nervosa?
Characteristic symptoms of autism spectrum disorder include restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities and deficits in this.
What is social communication/interaction?
Grandiosity and a lack of empathy are associated with this disorder.
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
A child who readily speaks at home but refuses to speak to anyone at school may receive this diagnosis.
What is selective mutism?
When symptoms characteristic of a class of disorders are present but do not meet full criteria for a disorder, one of these are diagnosed.
What is an other specified or unspecified disorder?
The diagnosis of acute stress disorder can no longer be made if symptoms persist longer than this many days.
What is 30 days?
This is diagnosed when a client is purposefully making themselves ill, impaired, or injured.
What is factitious disorder imposed on self?
This is how a diagnostician would refer to a four year old who has difficulty waiting their turn or sitting still in their seat.
What is developmentally appropriate?
A person with this disorder might text her ex to tell them how great they are, only to tell them they are trash when they don't reply promptly.
What is borderline personality disorder?
A child may receive this diagnosis if they had repeated changes in caregivers, and, as a result, are inhibited, emotionally-withdrawn, and will rarely seek comfort when distressed.
What is reactive attachment disorder?
Your older adult client suffers an abrupt decline in her memory and wants to know who she should consult first.
Who is her primary care physician?
This intrusion symptom of PTSD causes a person to re-experience the trauma as if it is currently occurring.
What is a dissociative reaction (flashback)?
This behavior is associated with an increased risk of developing an eating disorder, as it creates guilt and shame about eating, and physically sets up the body to binge.
What is dieting?
The IQ of children with ADHD compares to the IQ of children without ADHD in this way.
What is the same?
You might make this diagnosis if your client shrugs off injuring a pedestrian in a car crash and has been incarcerated for larceny several times.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
Children with this diagnosis may present with excessive fear around being dropped off at daycare, school, or activities by their parents or caregivers.
What is separation anxiety disorder?
This multiplicity-featuring diagnosis is commonly co-morbid with trauma- and stressor-related disorders.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
This symptom is characterized by jumping in response to loud or unexpected noises.
What is an exaggerated startle response?
This diagnosis is associated with anxiety, depression, or trauma manifesting as physical symptoms of altered motor or sensory functions.
What is functional neurological symptom disorder?
Symptoms of ADHD must be present in 2+ settings before the person is this old.
What is 12 years old?
You client shares that they have trouble discarding worn out objects, miserly spending behaviors, and live life by a rigid set of rules. This is the first diagnosis you consider.
What is obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
Oppositional defiant disorder involves a pattern of argumentative/defiant behavior, angry/irritable mood, or this.
What is vindictiveness?
This age marks the differential between conduct disorder and antisocial personality disorder.
What is 18 years old?
Adjustment disorder's many specifiers seek to clarify whether the person is experiencing disturbance of these two things.
What are mood and conduct?