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Anxiety Disorders
Somatoform & Dissociative Disorders
Schizophrenia & Mood Disorders
Personality Disorder
Potpourri
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Sudden unexplainable attack of intense anxiety - feel intense doom
What is panic disorder
100
A person who is in good health becomes preoccupied with imaginary ailments
What is hypochondriasis
100
A false belief that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence
What is a delusion
100
A personality disorder characterized by irresponsibility, shallow emotions, and lack of conscience
What is anit-social personality
100

the manual used by psychologists to help them classify psychological disorders

What is the DSM-V?

200
Disorder in which victims of traumatic events experience the original event in the form of dreams or flashbacks
What is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
200

Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function

What is conversion disorder

200
Severe form of depression that interferes with functioning, concentration, and mental and physical well-being
What is Major Depressive Disorder
200
The United States most serious drug problem
What is alcoholism
200

the three components of memory assessment 

What is immediate, recent and remote memory?

300
Thinking the same thoughts over and over
What is an obsession
300
A dissosiative disorder in which a person suddenly and unexpectently travels away from home or work and is unable to recall the past
What is dissociative fugue
300
perceptions that have no direct external cause
What is a hallucination
300
Helping the alcoholic through the violent withdrawal
What is delirium tremens
300

provides the basis of appropriate nursing interventions for clients

What is the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA)?

400
Continually performing irrational actions
What is a Compulsion
400
Two or more distinct personalities each with their own patterns of thinking and behaving
What is dissociative identity disorder
400
Language sped up or disorganized
What is word salad
400
Three stages of alcoholism
What is 1)Drink makes a person feel better 2)Drinking becomes daily - hide habit 3)Drinking becomes compulsive - dependent on alcohol
400

the five ethical principles used for clients in mental health settings

What is 1) beneficence, 2) autonomy, 3) justice, 4) fidelity, and 5) veracity?

500
A vague generalized apprehension or feeling that one is in danger
What is anxiety
500
physical symptoms for which there are no apparent physical cause
What is a somataform disorder
500
Type of schizophrenia that causes limbs to remain motionless for long periods of time and in unusual positions "waxy flexibility"
What is catatonic schizophrenia
500

Why does the DSM-V cover drug addiction and alcoholism

What is ...This is a major psychological problem in American society affecting millions. It is widespread that causes physical and social problems in addition to psychological problems.

500

Administering prescribed medications, providing teaching about medications, and monitoring for effects and effectiveness

What are psychobiological interventions?