Mood Disorders
Bipolar II Disorder is characterized by absence of this type of episode
Manic
How is Generalized Anxiety Disorder different from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
What is Obsessional thoughts are more than excessive worries about everyday problems & intrusions that take the form of urges, impulses, and are accompanied by compulsions that serve to reduce anxiety
An irresistible urge to behave in a certain way, especially against one's conscious wishes.
What is a compulsion?
If a new client comes in reporting recent nightmares, lapses in memory, decreased participation in significant activities, feelings of detachment from others, trouble concentrating and difficulty sleeping, what clarifying diagnostic questions might you want to ask?
What is has there been a recent trauma? How long has this been going on?
These two areas must be present in order to qualify for any diagnosis
What is Clinically significant distress and impairment to functioning
What is important to rule out prior to a diagnosis of Mood Disorder?
What is Symptoms are not due to direct physiological effect of: Substance abuse, general medical condition
Name 4 symptoms of a panic attack
What are Accelerated heart rate Sweating Trembling Shortness of breath Feeling of choking Chest pain/discomfort Nausea Dizziness Derealization or depersonalization Fear of going crazy Fear of dying Numbness or tingling Chills or hot flashes
OCD may be confused with this disorder, the difference being that those with OCD believe their thoughts to be intrusive, unwanted, or inaccurate.
What is OCPD
Name two symptoms of PTSD that describe persistent or recurring feeling of being detached from one's body or mental processes, like an outside observer of their life, and a feeling of being detached from one's surroundings
What are depersonalization and derealization
History has given us many creative artists, composers, and writers with presumed bipolar disorders. Name one
Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) and Ernest Hemingway
A person meets criteria for a Manic Episode if mood symptoms persist for 1 week or…
What is For any duration if hospitalization is necessary
Name 2 specific phobia specifiers
What are Animal type Natural Environment type Blood-Injection-Injury type Situational Type
Two specifiers for Hoarding Disorder
What is With excessive acquisition an level of insight
The difference between Acute Stress Disorder and PTSD
What is the timeframe
When someone who is addicted to a substance stops taking that drug, they go through this, which may involve pain, shakes, vomiting, and severe headaches.
What is withdrawal?
What two criteria must be present for a diagnosis of Major Depressive Episode?
What are Depressed mood and loss of interest or pleasure
How long does anxiety have to be present to merit a diagnosis of Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
What is 6 months
Name three common topics/themes of obsessions
What is Contamination, losing control, harming others, unwanted sexual thoughts, religious obsessions (scrupulocity)
A disorder that may occur in children who have experienced seriously negligent care by their primary caregivers and who consequently do not form necessary, healthy emotional attachments with their caregivers and others
RAD
You see a client who has been proscribed Lithium, Depakote, or Tegretol -- what is the most likely diagnosis?
Name two mood disorders that require presence of depressed mood for at least 2 years…
What are Dysthymic Disorder and Cyclothymic Disorder
This disorder is characterized by avoidance, or endurance with extreme distress, of situations from which escape may be difficult or embarrassing, or those in which help may be unavailable if a panic attack or panic-like symptoms should occur
What is agoraphobia
The difference between trichotillomania and excoriation
What is excessive hair pulling vs. skin picking/scratching, rubbing
Name three specifiers for adjustment disorder
What is with depressed mood, with anxiety, with mixed anxiety and depressed mood, with disturbance of conduct, with mixed disturbance of emotions and conduct, and unspecified
When two or more disorders coexist in the same person. What is the word for this?
Comorbidity