Grab Bag
Personality
Childhood Disorders
Cognitive Disorders
Grab Bag
100
IQ below 70 + difficulty with adaptive behaviors
What is mental retardation?
100
Individuals with this personality disorder are inflexible, controlled, and often preoccupied with doing everything "right" to a degree that it impairs their functioning.
What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
100
A childhood disorder characterized by below-average intellectual functioning and adaptive skills.
What is mental retardation or cognitive disability?
100
This type of dementia is caused by a blockage or hemmorhaging of an artery causing damage to the brain.
What is vascular dementia?
100
A common cause of death in dementia
What is pneumonia or other medical complication?
200
Tests where clients interpret vague stimuli such as pictures or open-ended sentences.
What are projective tests?
200
The three categories of personality disorders.
What are odd, dramatic, and anxious/fearful?
200
In this childhood disorder, chidlren have significant impairment in social interactions, communication, and demonstrate restricted behaviors/interests. About 40 to 55% of children with this disorder have mental retardation too.
What is autism/autistic disorder
200
This type of disorder can occur after head injury. Forming of new memories and executive function may be affected.
What is amnestic disorder?
200
One common visible difference between vascular dementia and Alzheimer's type?
What is neurological involvement from stroke OR more motor problems.
300
Two type of observation used to assess how clients function in their environments.
What are analog and natural observations?
300
In recent times, this disorder was diagnosed more frequently in women than men with claims of gender bias in interpreting symptoms. Sometimes considered a gendered expression of antisocial personality disorder.
What is histrionic personality disorder?
300
Children with this disorder have average or above intelligence, but show an unexpected low performance in specific school skills.
What is a learning disorder?
300
In this type of aphasia, speech is halting and the person may use neologisms. Comprehension is usually intact.
What is Broca's aphasia?
300
Type of head injury where the brain is pressed against the skull
What is a contusion?
400
An assessment tool that gives the same results in similar situations.
What is high reliability?
400
Personality disorder characerized by great instability in moods and relationships. A history of childhood abuse or neglect is common.
What is borderline personality disorder?
400
Children with this behavior disorder are argumentative and disagreeable. They have shown defiant, hostile, negativistic behavior for 6 months or great at a level not expected for their age and peer group. These children typically do not show serious law-breaking behavior.
What is oppositional defiant disorder?
400
In this type of aphasia, comprehension of language is impaired. Speech is often fluent, but doesn't make sense (i.e. "verbal salad")
What is Wernicke's aphasia?
400
Coded on Axis V of the DSM
What is the Global Assessment of Functioning?
500
According to your text, three requirements for therapy
What are a sufferer seeking relief, a trained healer, and series of contacts between the healer and sufferer.
500
An alternate approach to classifying personality disorders that is not based on categories?
What is a dimensional approach to personality? Shedler & Weston - 12 factors Big 5 - 5 factors
500
This communication disorder is characterized by difficulty putting ideas into words and often poor grammar. Comprehension of language is stronger than production.
What is an expressive language disorder
500
A cognitive disorder that may be caused by disease, infection, toxicity from prescription drugs or a number of other events.
What is delirium?
500
The reason personality disorders and mental retaration are coded on Axis II
What are long-standing patterns of behaviors present since childhood.