Eating Disorder
This eating disorder is characterized by recurrently eating large quantities of food without the use of compensatory behaviors like purging.
What is Binge-Eating Disorder?
This cluster of personality disorders is characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic traits.
What is Cluster B?
This term describes a clinical finding of depression characterized by the lack of pleasure in normal activities, hobbies, or sexual activity.
What is Anhedonia?
In the cycle of spousal or partner violence, this stage is characterized as the shortest and the most violent.
What is the Acute Battering Phase?
A typical crisis is defined as an acute, time-limited event that usually lasts for this amount of time.
What is 4 to 6 weeks?
This SSRI is the only FDA-approved medication for the treatment of Bulimia Nervosa.
What is Fluoxetine?
This defense mechanism is commonly associated with borderline personality disorder and involves characterizing people or things as "all good" or "all bad".
What is Splitting?
This phase of bipolar disorder features an abnormally elevated, expansive, or irritable mood that lasts at least 1 week and usually requires hospitalization.
What is Mania?
In cases of suspected infant abuse, bulging fontanels, respiratory distress, and retinal hemorrhage are classic signs of this condition.
What is Shaken Baby Syndrome?
A crisis that results from achieving new life stages, such as getting married, retiring, or a child leaving home, is known as this type of crisis.
What is a Maturational (or internal) crisis?
This potentially fatal complication can occur when fluids, electrolytes, and carbohydrates are introduced to a severely malnourished client, and its hallmark sign is hypophosphatemia.
What is Refeeding Syndrome?
Individuals with this Cluster C personality disorder exhibit extreme reliance in a close relationship and an urgent search to find a replacement when one ends.
What is Dependent Personality Disorder?
This milder form of depression usually has an early onset (in childhood or adolescence) and lasts at least 2 years for adults or 1 year for children.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), Flunitrazepam (Roofies), and Ketamine are substances frequently associated with this specific crime.
What is date rape (or drug-assisted sexual assault)?
In the SAD PERSONS scale for assessing suicide risk, the "A" stands for this specific demographic factor.
What is Age (specifically under 19 or over 45)?
Unlike those with anorexia, patients with this eating disorder typically maintain a body weight within a normal range or slightly higher (BMI 18.5 to 30).
What is Bulimia Nervosa?
This specific cognitive-behavioral therapy is highly effective for clients who exhibit self-injurious behavior, focusing on gradual behavior changes while providing acceptance and validation.
What is Dialectal Behavior Therapy (DBT)?
Exposure to a 10,000-lux light box for 30 minutes a day is the first-line treatment for this specific depressive disorder.
What is Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)?
Failure to provide a vulnerable person with basic needs, or leaving unpaid bills resulting in the disconnection of gas, water, or electricity, is an example of this specific type of abuse.
What is Economic Abuse?
Giving away prized possessions is considered this type of warning sign for suicide.
What is an overt sign?
This physical sign, found during assessment, involves abrasions or calluses on the fingers or knuckles as a result of self-induced vomiting.
What is Russell's sign?
A client who displays a disregard for others, repeated unlawful actions, deceit, and manipulation, with evidence of a conduct disorder before age 15, likely has this personality disorder.
What is Antisocial Personality Disorder?
This term refers to a patient experiencing four or more episodes of hypomania or acute mania within a single year.
What is Rapid Cycling?
Following a sexual assault, this syndrome, which is similar to PTSD, can present with an initial "expressed" reaction (crying, hysteria) or a "controlled" reaction (calm, numb, blunted affect).
What is Rape-Trauma Syndrome?
This acronym is used to assess the warning signs of suicide and stands for factors like Ideation, Substance use, Purposeless, Anxiety, and Hopelessness.
What is IS PATH WARM?