Personality Disorders
Which disorder is associated with preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control?
Answer: What is obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
This is the most common mood disorder, characterized by persistent sadness and loss of interest.
Answer: What is major depressive disorder?
What does the acronym DSM stand for?
Answer: What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
A provincial statute or law that applies to individuals with a mental disorder
What is The Mental Health Act
This is the most well-known psychotic disorder, characterized by delusions and hallucinations.
Answer: What is schizophrenia?
A key feature of this disorder is an intense fear of abandonment and unstable relationships.
Answer: What is borderline personality disorder?
A person avoids social situations due to intense self-consciousness and intense fear of embarrassment.
Answer: What is social anxiety disorder?
What is the purpose of a risk assessment?
Answer: What is to identify potential harm to self or others?
What is one ethical challenge in forensic social work?
Confidentiality,
A false belief held despite evidence to the contrary is known as this.
Answer: What is a delusion?
A client exhibits grandiosity, a need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Which disorder is most likely?
What is narcissistic personality disorder?
What are two interventions social workers may complete with someone who has Borderline Personality Disorder?
•co-ordinated manner
•Provide support, empathy, and validation
•Provide stability and set limits
•Work to contain distress
•Be prepared for crises
•Understand that change is slow
•Understand that motivation to change will fluctuate
•Maintain a recovery model orientation
This assessment covers the client’s current symptoms and mental state.
What is the Mental Status Exam
True or False, social workers do not have to get consent to support people with a mental health disorder
What is False
Hearing voices that aren’t there is a form of this symptom.
Answer: What is an auditory hallucination?
This personality disorder includes a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others, often violating social norms
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
In which disorder do individuals experience symptoms of both depression and mania?
Answer: What is bipolar disorder?
This term refers to a client’s ability to understand and make decisions.
Answer: What is decision-making capacity?
Refers to treatment ordered by a court, government, or other authority rather than entered voluntarily by the individual. (not involuntary)
What is Mandated treatment?
What are three ways a social worker can support a client with psychosis?
Answer: What are coordinating care, providing psychoeducation, facilitating appointments with mental health clinicians, being non-judgmental, assisting with the SDoH, supporting the traditional recovery model?
What are the three "clusters" of personality disorders?
Internalizing, Externalizing, Schizoid
This type of depression occurs seasonally, often during the fall and winter months.
Answer: What is seasonal affective disorder (SAD)?
What term for forensic clients is applied to individuals who commit an offence but are assessed as lacking the mental capacity to understand the nature or wrongfulness of their actions at the time of the offence due to a mental disorder.
Not-criminally responsible
A process/order by which people with mental health disorders who pose a risk to themselves or others are provided involuntary treatment and detention
What is a CTO - Community Treatment Order
Name one antipsychotic medication commonly used to treat psychosis.
Answer: What is Risperidone, Haldol, Olanzapine, Abilify, Seroquel?