Anxiety/phobias
Look A child is showing the following symptoms for 4 weeks now:
-distress when his mother leaves him at school
-nightmares about leaving his mother
-reluctance to leave home bc of fear of leaving his mother
This child is showing signs of what mental health disorder?
Social anxiety disorder:
*key points: at least 3 symptoms for at least 4 weeks in children (6 weeks in adults)
____ are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that aim to neutralize obsessions
Compulsions
Reactive attachment disorder is diagnosed between the ages of ___ and ___.
9 months and 5 years
Determine which part of this statement is true and which is false:
Personality disorder are life long conditions that cannot be managed
True: life long conditions
false: they CAN be managed
True or false: hallucinations and delusions may become less severe over time, and so do negative symptoms such as attention and social cognition
False: hallucinations and delusions will diminish, but negative symptoms only get worse over time
Social anxiety disorder is closely associated with which other two disorders?
1. Separation anxiety
2. Selective mutism
True or false?
Children can be diagnosed with obsessive compulsive disorder
True!
*fact: children rarely have Insight on his/her obsessions and compulsions
It would not be unusual to see a CEO with which of the following personality disorders?
Narcisstic or Obsessive compulsive
The idea of ”recovery” from schizophrenia means?
Not about about a cure, about support and accommodations
What is considered the gold standard for treatment for phobias?
CBT
True or false:
the prognosis is the same for all individuals with OCD
False!
-early onset= worse prognosis
-nature of obsessions and compulsions determines the level of functional deficits
True or false?
in PTSD, the major life stressor does not have to be directly experienced
True. It can also be witnessed or learned about
DBT is the gold standard for the treatment of PDs. DBT is based on the idea of balance between?? ___ and ____
Acceptable and change
“I hear you, and understand how you see the world, but you yourself said you are not happy…“
A mother believed her daughter was getting molested by her neighbor, with 0 evidence of this being true. Overtime, her daughter also began to believe her neighbor molested her, due to her moms psychosis. This is now an example of what psychotic disorder?
Shared psychotic disorder
FEAR
A possible comorbidty of body dysmorphic disorder is ___.
eating disorders
The idea that multiple soldiers can go through the exact same experience, and one develops PTSD and the other does not can be supported by the idea that…
Certain individuals may have a predisposition to PTSD Due to genetics and CNS dysfunction (e.g., abnormalities in the hippocampus)
de-personalization/ de realization is a normal, protective factor humans who have experienced unmanageable amounts of trauma. However, if we keep detaching from ourself/our surroundings The following disorder may develop: ________
Dissociative amnesia
Second generation antipsychotic medications used to treat schizophrenia symptoms, no longer have Sid effects of Tardive Dyskinesia, but another side effect that is very serious includes:
Diabetes and agranulocytosis
What is the etiology of panic disorders?
*bonus point if you can name the risk factor
1. Brain abnormalities (amygdala, PFC)
2. Temperament
3. Environment
**risk factor: smoking!
Name an example of a compulsion that would be difficult for diagnose (or notice if not self reported)
Client counting in their head
Name two forms of psychopharmacology for trauma related disorders
1. Benzodiazepines
2. SSRI’s/SNRIs
3. TCA’s
The following Personality Disorder, under cluster B, is most likely to describe an individual who is in the forensic system. They show a lack of empathy or remorse, and also have a history of a conduct disorder
Antisocial
The time frame of symptoms for brief psychotic disorder is between ____ and ____
One day and one month
*a provisional disorder