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Assessment & Diagnosis Flashcards

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T or F psychotic symptoms always indicate schizophrenia

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False

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Bipolar 1, major depression, substance abuse disorders, delusion disorder, borderline personality, and schizoaffective disorder all all conditions that may include what type of symptoms?

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Psychotic symptoms

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Can schizophrenia be diagnosed without a period of active psychotic symptoms?

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No

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Bipolar disorder requires at least 1 period of what?

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Mania

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A diagnosis of schizophreniform disorder can be given if patient experiences psychotic symptoms for how long?

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Less than 6 months

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A diagnosis of brief psychotic disorder can be given if a patient experiences psychotic symptoms for how long?

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Less than 1 month

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A diagnosis of schizophrenia can be given if patient experiences psychotic symptoms for how long?

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6 months or more

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T or F antisocial personality disorder is only diagnosed in individuals younger than 18 years

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False older than 18

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T or F to receive a diagnosis of antisocial personalty disorder a client must have symptoms before age 15

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True

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A client who exhibits antisocial symptoms under age 18 can be diagnosed with…

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Conduct disorder

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PTSD, acute stress disorder, adjustment disorder, and bereavement are examples of

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Reactional disorders

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Describe a malingering disorder

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Faking or producing symptoms in order to obtain an external reward or achieve a goal

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What do these disorders have in common?

  • all personality disorders
  • schizophrenia > 6 months
  • dysthymic disorders
  • generalized anxiety > 6 months
  • hypochondria > 6 months
  • somatization - several years
  • obsession
  • Paraphernalia
  • sexual dysfunction
  • dyssomnia
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chronic disorders

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Describe a factitious disorder

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Producing symptoms due to a psychosocial need to adopt the sick role

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Named the disorder associated with fictitious disorders that produce physical symptoms

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Muchausen syndrome

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Describe ADHD

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Includes failure to remain attentive to various situations

Requires symptoms to occur in 2 different settings

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T or F Muchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy is considered a form of child abuse

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True

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Describe Conduct Disorders

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Repetitive and persistent pattern of conduct which violates either the basic rights of others or age appropriate social norms

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What diagnosis must you have as a child in order to receive a diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder as an adult?

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Conduct disorder

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What is the most effective tx for antisocial personality disorder?

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Environenentally based treatment

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Describe oppositional disorder

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Display aggressiveness by patterns of obstinate but generally passive behavior
Defiance cannot be result of any other disorder

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T or F children with oppositional disorder also have symptoms of conduct disorder

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False

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How much more frequent is autism in males than females?

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4-5 times more frequent

23
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Describe autism disorder

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  • onset during infancy or before age 3
  • failure to develop usual relatedness to parents and other people
  • infants lack smile, avoid eye contact, fail to cuddle
  • failure to develop normal language
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What is the key abnormal impairment for autistic children?

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Communication & social interactions

25
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  • severe and sustained impairment of social interactions
  • repetitive patterns of behavior
  • normal language & cognitive development

Are symptoms of

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Asbergers

26
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Symptoms of depression in children may include

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Failure to gain expected weight, refusal to go to school,nfear parents might die, irritability

27
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T or F a child with asbergers will have impairment in communications

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False

28
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What percentage of teen suicides are linked to depression?

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80%

29
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T or F behavioral and somatic symptoms of depression are most prominent in children and teens

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True

31
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Elimination of feces in inappropriate places that is usually involuntary and must occur at least 1 time a month for 3 months in a child at least 4 years old is called

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Encopresis

31
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Describe stereotypic movement disorder

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Motor behavior that is repetitive w/ function and interferes with activities it can cause bodily injury if untreated

32
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Common up to age 5 and more prevalent in boys an be caused by genetics, uti, or inability to wake up

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enuresis

34
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Regression after a period of normal development, onset usually before age 4 associated with stereotypical hand movements, problems with walking, mental retardation, only in females

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Rhett’s Disorder

35
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Patients w/ prolonged illnesses as children always have

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delays in attaining average outcomes

36
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Fear of pain

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algophobia

37
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fear of heights

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acrophobia

38
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This disorder is characterized by difficulty with vaginal pain and anxiety about pain during intercourse, symptoms must be present for at least 6 months

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genitopelvic pain/penetration disorder

39
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IN this stage of change, clients are unaware, unable, or unwilling to change there is the greatest lack of motivation and resistance

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precontemplation

40
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In this stage of change, clts are ambivalent or uncertain regard behavior change but is willing to look at pros and cons of change

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contemplation

41
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T or F biopsychosocial stress is usually caused by 1 event

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F

42
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_____ is a structured way of observing and describing a client’s current state of mind, under the domains of appearance, attitude, behavior, mood, affect, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, insight, and judgement

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mental status exam

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T or F Diagnostic information should always be shared with clients and used to facilitate the establishment of intervention plans?

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T

44
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Existing with or at the same time

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comorbid

45
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not recommended or safe to use

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contraindicated

46
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false fixed belief despite evidence to the contrary

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delusion

47
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confusion with regard to person, time or place

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disorientation

48
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disturbance or change in the usually integrative functions of memory, identity, perception, or consciousness

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dissociation

49
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depression caused by biochemical imbalance rather than psychosocial stressor

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endogenous depression

50
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depression caused by external events

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exogenous depression

51
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shared delusion

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folie a deux

52
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hearing, seeing, smelling, or feeling something that is not real

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hallucination

53
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subsequent to onset of an illness

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postmorbid

54
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prior to the onset of an illness

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premorbid

55
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experiencing delusions or hallucinations

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psychotic

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