Anxiety Disorders
The diagnosis given when a client is responding to immediate stress with depressive or anxious symptoms within the first 30 days following a crisis or traumatic event.
Acute Stress Disorder
A client may be diagnosed with this disorder when they experience symptoms such as lack of motivation, increased fatigue, and increased appetite during the winter months.
Seasonal Affective Disorder
A client suddenly experiences paralysis in their legs. Medical tests rule out any biological causes. They will most likely be diagnosed with:
Conversion Disorder
Clients who find themselves in a new state without any memory of their travel or their past are experiencing:
Dissociative Fugue
In the infamous case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the diagnosis in question was:
Factitious Disorder imposed on another, Munchausen by Proxy
Most anxiety disorders include thoughts that are primarily focused on __________________ events.
Future
A client who has been feeling down for the past two weeks, experiencing anhedonia, and has been struggling to get out of bed for work each morning may be experiencing:
A Major Depressive Episode
A client arrives to a new doctor's office with a folder containing extensive medical records and a comprehensive list of drugs with a timeline of corresponding symptoms. This is their 10th new intake appointment within the past year or two. The most likely disorder to be diagnosed is:
Somatic Symptom Disorder
The average number of "alters" in Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously Multiple Personality Disorder).
Light Therapy.
Clients who experience on-going concerns and stress about the events in their daily lives may be diagnosed with this disorder.
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
A client who has previously been diagnosed with Persistent Depressive Disorder recently returned to treatment due to more severe symptoms of depression that have been consistent for the past 3 weeks. This client is experiencing a condition known as:
Double Depression
Strategy for reducing medical costs and financial burden of somatic symptom and related disorders:
Assigning a "gatekeeper" physician to coordinate care.
Dissociative Disorders are sometimes seen as an ______________ from an unhealthy or abusive situation.
Escape
Upon meeting a new teacher, a 6 year old client immediately climbed into their lap and began playing with the teacher's hair. The client is likely to be diagnosed with:
Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder
This disorder consists of an unwarranted preoccupation with an imagined defect in one's physical appearance.
Body Dysmorphic Disorder.
The rapid cycling pattern of bipolar disorders tends to increase the likelihood of:
Treatment resistance and/or suicidal ideation
Clients who have been diagnosed with illness anxiety disorder may be treatment- ___________ or treatment- ___________.
Seeking; Avoidant
The etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder is often associated with this type of abuse or trauma:
Childhood; specifically sexual but not always
Define the two main components of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
Obsessions- recurrent and intrusive thoughts that cause anxiety or distress (intensify when suppressed)
Compulsions- corresponding behaviors intended to alleviate obsessive thoughts (time-consuming and only provides temporary relief)
Name the five categories of specific phobias:
Situational, Natural Environment, Animal, Blood-Injury-Injection, Other
Describe the difference between Bipolar I Disorder and Bipolar II Disorder
Bipolar I- Manic episodes (sometimes requires hospitalization), more severe, longer lasting
Bipolar II- Hypomanic episodes, less severe, usually less than 1 week
Key factor that distinguishes malingering behavior from other somatic disorders:
Malingering is an intentional act of faking physiological symptoms to gain something specific, such as drugs or to get excused from an undesirable task.
Describe the difference between depersonalization and derealization:
Depersonalization- Perceptual alterations of time, personal sense of self (out-of-body experiences), or other people
Derealization- dreamlike or foggy state of existence in general
Negative thoughts about oneself
Negative thoughts about the future
Negative thoughts about the world