Cultural Competence
This factor distinguishes a mental disorder from culturally normative emotional reactions.
What is functional impairment?
This mood episode distinguishes Bipolar I Disorder from Bipolar II Disorder.
What is mania?
Intrusive, unwanted thoughts and images are best described as this component of OCD.
What are obsessions?
Experiencing trauma through television or social media alone does not meet this PTSD requirement.
What is Criterion A?
Reduced emotional expression, lack of motivation, and diminished speech are examples of this symptom category.
What are negative symptoms?
A clinician who pathologizes culturally normative behavior risks committing this error.
What is misdiagnosis?
This depressive disorder involves chronic low mood lasting at least two years in adults.
What is Persistent Depressive Disorder?
Repeated checking, reassurance seeking, and ordering behaviors are examples of this symptom type.
What are compulsions?
Symptoms lasting less than one month following trauma are most consistent with this diagnosis.
What is Acute Stress Disorder?
This type of delusion involves assigning personal meaning to neutral events.
What is a referential delusion?
Beliefs that are unusual to the clinician but shared by a client’s community are best described as this.
What are culturally congruent beliefs?
Depression is approximately this much more common in women than men.
What is 2:1?
Persistent difficulty discarding possessions due to perceived need to save them, leading to cluttered living spaces, best describes this disorder.
What is hoarding disorder?
Emotional or behavioral symptoms that develop in response to a non-traumatic life stressor and resolve once the stressor or its consequences end are most consistent with this diagnosis.
What is adjustment disorder?
This disorder is diagnosed when psychotic symptoms occur both during and outside of mood episodes.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
A belief that causes no impairment and is culturally shared would most likely result in this outcome.
What is no diagnosis?
This disorder involves numerous periods of hypomanic and depressive symptoms that never meet full criteria for mania or major depression.
What is cyclothymia?
Recurrent hair pulling that results in noticeable hair loss and repeated attempts to stop is characteristic of this disorder.
What is trichotillomania?
PTSD symptoms must persist longer than this duration.
What is one month?
Speech that shifts topics with loose associations and fails to return to the original point is best described as this type of disorganized speech.
What is derailment?
Clinicians increase diagnostic confidence by considering culture, developmental stage, and this additional contextual factor.
What is environmental or situational context?
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder symptoms occur during this phase of the menstrual cycle.
What is the luteal phase?
Anticipatory fear before social situations is a core feature of this model of social anxiety.
What is the vicious cycle?
Positive psychological changes following trauma are known as this.
What is posttraumatic growth?
Worldwide, schizophrenia affects approximately this proportion of the population.
What is about 1%?