Anxiety Chapter 5
What is the most common treatment for anxiety disorders that is empirically supported?
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
What is the most common specific learning disorder?
Dyslexia
Name four symptoms of a major depressive episode.
- Depressed mood - Lack of interest/pleasure in daily activities - Significant change in appetite and/or weight - Insomnia or hypersomnia - Fatigue or loss of energy - Feeling of worthlessness - Difficulty concentrating - Recurrent thoughts of death, suicidal ideation or suicide attempt - Clinically significant distress or impairment
Around what age do schizophrenia symptoms begin to surface?
Young Adulthood
typically between the ages 16 and 30.
What is dissociative identity disorder?
Disruption of one's identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states.
What is excoriation? (just a basic definition)
Skin picking disorder
What are the two main areas of impairment in Autism Spectrum disorder?
1. Communication and social interaction 2. Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities
How long do manic episodes last (outside the hospital)
At least one week
What are the four positive symptoms associated with Schizophrenia?
1. Delusions 2. Hallucinations 3. Disorganized speech 4. Catatonic or grossly disorganized behavior
This is a disorder in which individuals 'pretend' to have some kind physical or psychological disorder or disease.
Factitious Disorder
What is the main line of treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
Exposure Response Prevention combined with CBT
X in 59 school aged children meet criteria of ASD
1
This diagnosis was created to combat the over diagnosis of childhood bipolar disorder.
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
How long must psychotic symptoms be present to have an schizophrenia diagnosis?
at least 6 months
What is a dissociative fugue?
During a amnestic episode, person travels or wanders, sometimes assuming a new identity in a different place. After leaving the fugue state, they do not know how or why they traveled.
How long must symptoms be present for someone to have PTSD?
More than one month
For ADHD to be diagnosed, there must be impairment in at least X settings.
Two or more
What is the difference between Bipolar I disorder and Bipolar II Disorder?
Bipolar I: experiences manic episodes and major depressive episodes Bipolar II:experiences hypomanic episodes and major depressive episodes.
List at least 3 of the 4 negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Avolition (or apathy) – lack of initiation and persistence Alogia – relative absence of speech Anhedonia – lack of pleasure, or indifference Affective flattening – little expressed emotion
In general the goal of treatment for dissociative identity disorder is...
to merge the various personalities/identities together
Name the 3 neurotransmitters that people with anxiety disorders may lack.
GABA Norepinephrine Serotonin
1. What is prevalence of ADHD in school aged children? 2. When do symptoms typically begin? 3. What is girl to male ratio?
1. 5%
2. 3 or 4
3. 1:2
Name that behavioral theory for explaining MDD: Lack of perceived control over life events leads to decreased attempts to improve one’s situation.
Learned Helplessness
What are the most common delusion and hallucination? (you should have a two part answer)
Delusion: of grandeur or persecution Hallucination: auditory
DID is often caused by...
An extreme trauma