Mental Status Exams
Which is not typically assessed in an MSE?
Recent substance use (even though this may impact mental status)
SUD interventions often target the client’s confidence in their ability to change, which is referred to as what?
Self-efficacy
MI is used to bring about what type of changes?
Behavioral
True/false: some psychotropic medications can cure certain mental disorders
False
True/false: administering a standardized instrument (e.g., the PHQ-9) is not sufficient for clinical diagnosis
True
What type of thinking refers to disruptions to sensory perceptions?
Hallucinations
Which class of psychiatric medications may be useful to maintain sobriety?
Opioid antagonists
Which of the following is not a technique typically used in MI?
Developing pros/cons lists for changing
What term describes when a person feels better due to receiving a medication but the benefit does not derive from the biochemical action of the medication?
Placebo effect
What set of codes are used in the DSM-5 for “problems in living” that social workers often address?
Z codes
What word is often used to describe the affect of severely depressed people?
Flat/blunted
This term is used to describe when individuals use illicit substances to manage the symptoms of an underlying, untreated mental disorder
Self-medication
Which alliterative MI principle holds that helping professionals should not engage in arguments with clients about the need to change?
Roll with resistance
What is the name of an unsupported theory that proposes that depression is due to lack of certain neurotransmitters in the brain?
Chemical imbalance [theory of depression]
Passive suicidal ideation is a fairly common feature of what disorder?
Major depression
What term describes speech that is typically frenetic, louder than normal, and fast-paced?
Bonus: This often an indication of what?
Pressured
Bonus: Mania
The disease model of addition posits that substance use disorders primarily reside in the client’s ___________.
Brain (or neurobiology)
What is the term that describes the impulse of social workers and other helping professionals to solve the client’s problem for them?
Fixing reflex
Which class of medications can help with focus but are easily misused?
Stimulants
What term refers to viewing common human experiences as psychiatric disorders?
Medicalization
What term describes individuals who generally know where they are and what is going on, even if they are not clear on the specific details?
Grossly oriented
Failing to manage important role obligations (e.g., parent, student, employee) is a component of what category of diagnostic criteria for SUDs?
Social impairment
What acronym that sounds like certain mischievous animals refers to forms of change talk?
DARN CATS
What psychotropic medication is notorious for being highly effective but having a very narrow therapeutic index?
Lithium
Which psychiatric symptom that can be present in multiple disorders is arguably the most concerning for suicide completion?
Agitation (will also accept anger or aggression)