Board Study Flashcards
Why was helplessness/horror at the event taken out of PTSD criteria when DSM V was made?
Some people like police officers are trained to not respond that way
What percentage of population has been exposed to PTSD type stressors?
Of that population, what percentage develop PTSD?
82.8%
10%
PTSD overview:
Women vs men?
Malingering %?
Women > Men
20-30%. 20% of veterans
Likelihood to cause PTSD: Accident victims: Seeing others killed: Physical Assault Victim: Rape victim:
12%
25%
25%
80%
What % of people with PTSD report nightmares?
Normal adults w/nightmares?
Qualities of PTSD Nightmares?
75%
5%
increased awakenings, increased body movements, increased REM/NREM abnormalities, earlier in the night, and PTSD nightmares tend to fade in weeks/months
Flashbacks vs memory?
More common in vet vs civil?
Only 9% of gulf war vets
More common in clinical and civil situations
Should include sensory reexperiencing (touch, sound, smell); otherwise it might just be a memory
PTSD malingering tests:
Morel Emotional Numbing Test, M-FAST, SIMS
Slick Criteria
A: External Incentive
B: Neuropsych testing shows exaggeration or feigning
C: Only self-report is available
D: B & C not accounted for by other factors
Good way to test memory for malingering?
Recognition is much easier than Recall. (Some people with genuine amnesia do have problems with recognition, however)
Floor effect malingering test examples?
Rey Test
b test
What are symptom validity tests?
Present stimulus, force choice. They should get at least 50%
Which is gold standard, floor effect or symptom validity tests?
Symptom validity test
Symptom Validity tests examples?
Coin in the hand
TOMM (Useful in amnesia or concentration problems)
Teaching points from the case of the paranoid Ohio steel worker
He had no violence history and made no threats for violence. His family was willing to care for him. However, he killed his wife during lovemaking when his paranoia escalated only hours after going home.
Points:
- A building crescendo of paranoid fear = high risk for violence (Persecutory delusions are more likely to result in homicide than other psych sx)
- Clinician should no surrender judgement to the family
- Posing a threat is different from making a threat
Men are 10x more likely to be violent as women EXCEPT
Among the severely mentally ill
Peak age for violence
late teens, early 20s
Highest rate of homicide in psychosis
during first episode
2 key factors that increase risk of violence in mentally ill persons
History of violence
Substance abuse
4 factors that make command hallucinations more likely to be followed
Related to delusions
Familiar voice
Makes the person feel superior
Benefits the hallucinator
Delusions most commonly leading to violence
Paranoid (persecutory, the more specific, the greater the risk)
26% of tattoos on adult men are
of “Mom” or “Mother”
Violence History in your standard assessment
Past Use of violence
Substance Abuse
Weapons History
Criminal Arrests
Types of violence
Affective: Patterned activation of the autonomic nervous system; threatening vocalizations and postures
Predatory aggression: Planned, goal directed, emotional detachment, seen in antisocial personality
Preparation for affective violence
clenched fist tightened jaw expanded chest staring feet apart