Chapters 1-4
The consistency of an assessment measure.
What is Reliability?
An extensive network of nerve fibers that connect the
central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord) to all other organs of the body; helps control organ involuntary activities.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
Involve lows of depression and highs of mania
What is bipolar disorder?
Self-inflicted death in which one makes intentional, direct, and conscious effort to end one’s life.
What is suicide?
What is factitious disorder?
This model focuses on the unconscious and discusses defense mechanisms.
What is psychoanalytic/psychodynamic?
This disorder states that "Fear and related symptoms begin soon after trauma and last for less than one month."
What is acute stress disorder?
Criteria one for this state's "For a 2-week period, person displays an increase in depressed mood for the majority of each day and/or a decrease in enjoyment or interest across most activities for the majority of each day."
What is a major depressive episode?
Social isolation and abuse are an example of this type of trigger for suicide.
What are long term stressors?
This disorder's criteria one states "Presence of at least one symptom or deficit that affects voluntary or sensory function."
What is conversion disorder?
This disorder's first criteria is "For 6 months or more, person experiences disproportionate, uncontrollable, and ongoing anxiety and worry about multiple matters."
What is generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)?
An extreme version of dissociative amnesia
What is dissociative fugue?
This medication group focuses on serotonin for treatment of depresision.
What is an SSRI?
Provide constructive advice or information about how to kill self to 7.5 percent of teenagers.
What are pro-suicide websites?
This disorder's criteria one says "At least one upsetting or repeatedly disruptive physical (somatic) symptom."
This disorder's first criteria is "Pronounced, disproportionate, or repeated fear about being in at least two delineated situations."
What is Agoraphobia?
This is the most common pattern of interactions in DID; some personalities are aware of others, but the awareness is not mutual. Those who are aware (“coconscious subpersonalities”) are “quiet observers.”
What is one-way amnesic relationships?
An implanted pulse generator sends electrical signals to the vagus nerve, which then delivers electrical signals to the brain.
What is VNS?
This age group has the highest percentage of suicide attempts per 100,000 people.
What is ages 45-64.
This disorder's criteria one states that a "Person is preoccupied with thoughts about having or
getting a significant illness. In reality, person has no
or, at most, mild somatic symptoms."
What is illness anxiety disorder?
The four D's
What are Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction and Danger?
This disorder is described as feeling of separation from one's own body.
What is depersonalization?
The FDA approved this in 1970 for the treatment of Bipolar Disorder.
What is Lithium?
Suicide hotlines and suicide prevention programs are an example of this.
What is crisis intervention programs?
These are the two patterns of somatic symptom disorder.
What are somatization pattern and predominant pain pattern?