Diagnostics
If someone is easily triggered by health concerns and is preoccupied with thinking they have a medical disorder, they most likely have...
Illness Anxiety Disorder
John, a 32-year-old marketing executive, was referred for therapy by his employer following repeated interpersonal conflicts at work. He presents with a grandiose sense of self-importance, often exaggerating his achievements and expecting special treatment from colleagues. John displays a marked lack of empathy, frequently dismissing others' perspectives and becoming easily enraged when criticized or not admired. His relationships are superficial and tend to be exploitative, with a pattern of idealizing and then devaluing others.
What is Narcissistic Personality Disorder
1 in ______ number of people in the world have schizophrenia?
100
What are the key characteristics of Cluster A personality disorders?
Odd or eccentric behavior
Factitious disorder is popularly known as _____________ Syndrome
Munchausen
What are the three subtypes of ADHD?
Jacob is a 22 year old student who was biologically born a male and is currently requesting the use of they/them pronouns. They report feeling as though they do not identify with their male body, but also don't feel as though a female gender is the right fit. They acknowledge significant depressive symptoms, isolation, and a general sense of unease around even their closest of friends and family. Given what you know about the gender dysphoric population what are three key areas of risk that you make sure to assess in the first session?
Suicidal ideation, self harm, and substance abuse
What are the three categories of symptoms associated with Schizophrenia?
Positive, Negative, Psychomotor
"Don't Abandon Me" is the key phrase for which PD?
Borderline
In Dissociative Identity Disorder the primary personality is called the ______________ and the others are referred to as the _____________.
Host/Alters
Gender Dysphoria is defined as having __________ between one's experienced/expressed gender and their assigned gender at birth.
Incongruence
Maria, a 27-year-old female, presented to the emergency department with sudden-onset paralysis of her left leg following a minor argument with her partner. Neurological and medical evaluations, including MRI and EMG, revealed no underlying physiological cause for her symptoms. Despite the lack of organic findings, Maria appeared markedly distressed and insisted she was unable to move the limb, though her muscle tone and reflexes remained intact. She has a history of multiple unexplained somatic complaints and reports significant psychosocial stressors, including unresolved childhood trauma and ongoing relational instability. What is your diagnosis?
What is Conversion Disorder?
According to one of the biological theories of schizophrenia these individuals have _too much/too little of ___________.
too much/ dopamine
What is the key term for Schizoid PD?
What is the most effective for of psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder- not just the acronym.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Please name the two main criteria required for diagnosing an individual with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Deficits in social communication and social interaction
Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities,
Daniel, a 24-year-old male university student, was brought to the psychiatric unit by his parents after exhibiting bizarre behavior, including disorganized speech, paranoid delusions, and auditory hallucinations claiming he was receiving messages from a higher power. During assessment, he indicated prominent mood symptoms, including a two-week period of severe depression marked by anhedonia, low energy, and suicidal ideation. His depression was no longer present at the time of presentation. His mental status exam revealed impaired insight, blunted affect, and tangential thought processes.
Schizoaffective Disorder
Brief Psychotic Disorder is present for more than _____ but less than ________ and is usually caused by?
1 day; 1 month; stress/trauma
"Please like me" is the key phrase for which PD?
Avoidant
Families that are high in "expressed emotion" can have a negative impact on the recovery of what disorder?
Schizophrenia
Please explain the differences between Schizoid and Schizotypal Personality Disorders.
Both lack relationships; reason why is distinction
Schizotypal personality disorder can include peculiar, eccentric or unusual thinking, peculiar style of speech, and limited or inappropriate emotional responses.
¡Closer to schizophrenia
Schizoid PD include a high preference of being alone or solitary activities, lack of understanding of social cues, little desire for intimacy or sexual relationships, indifference or lack of motivation at school or work.
Peter experienced his first psychotic episode at 30. He was an accountant at a well known firm and had a strong social network and was rather extroverted. His family and friends began noticing signs of changes including withdrawal, lack of emotion, and strange ideas about a year ago and immediately raised their concerns. Peter was receptive and started therapy shortly there after. He was doing quite well in treatment when he tragically lost his father in a car accident and consequently experienced a full break. What do you anticipate for Peter's recovery and more specifically why?
¤Good premorbid functioning
¤Triggered by stress
¤Sudden onset
¤Late onset
¤Receive treatment in the prodromal phase
Please provide three symptoms in the positive and negative categories for schizophrenia
Positive: hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking and speech, heightened perceptions, inappropriate affect
Negative: poverty of speech, blunted flat affect, loss of volition, social withdrawal
There are 10 Personality Disorders broken up into three clusters (A/B/C). Please correctly categorize them.
Cluster A
- Paranoid, Schizoid, Schizotypal
Cluster B
- Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, Narcissistic
Cluster C
- OCPD, Avoidant, Dependent
Medication for psychotic disorders has come a long way in the past few decades. We now most commonly use __________________________ as they more effectively treat the ______________ symptoms involved in these disorders and do not cause __________ ____________ which previously led to permanent parkinsonian like damage.
Atypical antipsychotics; negative; tardive dyskinesia