chapter 14 Flashcards
4 criteria of psych disorders
Deviant, distressing to the person, dysfunctional, unjustifiable
What is the current authority of manual for classifying and diagnosing psych disorders
DSM-5
Your client has persistent anxiety for unspecific reasons he is continuously tense and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal diagnosis?
generalized anxiety
Your client has persistent anxiety that at times escalates into an episode of intense dread terror and often chest pain diagnosis?
Panic disorder
What is agoraphobia how can someone with panic disorder develop it
Fear of public places, constantly stress, most likely to happen in public
Your client has an irrational fear but specific object activity or situation they will go to any length to avoid it diagnose?
A phobia
Client has anxious thoughts that will not go away and urges to perform ritualistic behaviors diagnosis?
OCD
In patients with OCD what are the three most common obsessions
Dirt, germs, toxins
something terrible will happen
symmetry, order, exactness
In patients with O C D what are the three most common compulsions
cleaning
repeating rituals
checking
Client experienced traumatic event when he was younger and now has haunting memories
PTSD
Not everyone who experiences a traumatic event will develop PTSD what are two determining factors
Amount of perceived control and sensitivity of limbic system
Client is very nervous about an upcoming drumline competition, he consciously tells himself he’s confident, but subconsciously he is terrified of failure the day of the competition he wakes up paralyzed in the arms diagnoses?
Conversion disorder
Client works as a nurse but starts feeling like she’s a lot of the same symptoms that her patients have diagnosis?
hypochondriasis
Client has extreme memory loss forgotten who she is not recognizing any for family members
Dissociative amnesia
Client has come to therapy because she keeps having blackouts and loses chunks of time one minute she’ll be at work facing stress next minute she doesn’t know where she is
Dissociative identity disorder
In patients with this associative identity disorder when did the personalities usually shift what type of childhood is associated with this
Shifts under stress, severe childhood abuse
Descended for the past few weeks into a state of unhappiness, lethargic, worthlessness, no appetite diagnosis?
Major depressive disorder
Two risk factors for suicide
Deep sadness and lethargy
Two reasons with NSSI engage in that behavior
Find relief from negative thoughts through the distraction of pain in attract attention TO GET HELP
If you had a patient who was in a good mood one minute and said the next would you diagnose them with bipolar disorder
No, it’s only a week of depression in bipolar has weeks of mania
Client goes to weeks of depression that alternate with weeks of euphoria diagnosis?
bipolar disorder
Describe the mania experience by individuals with bipolar disorder
Hyperactivity, panic, extreme joy
________ Disorders are psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that show up early in life
personality
Client has no conscious, hurt family members and doesn’t care, thrill of hurting people aggressive and ruthless diagnosis?
Antisocial personality disorder
