Clinical Flashcards
What are the criteria for acute stress disorder?
Symptoms occur within 1month of stressor
Sx resolve by 1 month….last 2 days to 1month
At least 3 dissociative sx
What are the defining criteria of childhood onset obsessive compulsive disorder?
Compulsions start 1 to 2 years before the obsessions.
Washing, checking, ordering rituals
High comorbidity rate..tic d/o, depression, ADHD
Family loading for OCD
High frequency of hoarding ob/comp
What is the diagnostic criteria for conversion disorder?
1 sx or deficit in motor or sensory fx such as paralysis, seizure, blind
May be due to primary gain, decrease anxiety or keep it ucs, or to secondary gain, avoid st, get support
Often conflict or stressful even shortly before onset. No physical cause.
Tx–hypnosis, narcosis, dramatic placebo
What are the dx criteria for somatization disorder?
Multiple physical sx Before age 30 At least 4 pain sx 2 GI sx, 1 sexual sx, 1 pseudo neurological sx
Also called briquets syndrome
How is malingering different than factitious disorder?
Malingering is not a mental disorder. It is a deliberate production of symptoms motivated by external incentives (miss work, $). It is under the pts control.
Factitious..behaviors can be deliberate but not necessarily controlled.
What are the types of focal seizures and how do they differ?
Partial (focal) seizure–uncontrollable twitching, part of body jerks and can increase.
Complex partial seizure (psychomotor or temporal lobe seizures) impaired consciousness. Stare blankly. Drunk acting.
Simple partial seizures-(Jacksonian)
One side of the body uncontrollable. No problem w consciousness. Tonic clinic may follow.
What are the types of bilateral seizures?
No local onset
General tonic clonic (grand mal)
Convulsions, ucs, rigidity. May go 1 hr. deep sleep when done
Generalized absence of seizures (petit mal)– very brief loss of cs, few or no other sx, no deep sleep
What are the differences between tension and migraine headaches? Include info on treatment.
Tension headaches–pain both sides, tight band around the head
Use EMG biofeedback to decrease tension or relaxation training
Migraine- pain on one side, nausea and GI sx, aura before
Caused by dilation and spasms of blood vessels.
Tx- thermal hand warming and biofeedback. Relaxation training and biofeedback equally effective. Often combine them and it is more effective then either alone and better than self monitoring.
What is Selye’s theory of general adaptation syndrome to stress?
ARE
Alarm–pituitary adrenal system mobilizes sympathetic nervous system
Resistance–defenses stabilized , sx disappear , energy depleted
Exhaustion–depleted
Flooding is used to treat what disorders?
Exposure to feared stimuli with response prevention is effective with agoraphobia, specific phobias, obsessive compulsive do, and PTSD.
What is systematic desensitization and who does it treat?
Gradual exposure to feared stimuli with relaxation strategies is highly effective with specific phobias.
Erickson’s stages of development
Year 1. Trust vs mistrust (oral). Year 2 autonomy vs shame/doubt (anal) 3 to 6. Initiative vs guilt (phallic) 6 to 12 industry vs inferiority...competence occurs Corresponds to freuds latency phase.
12 to 18 yrs identity vs role confusion
18 to 35 yrs Early adulthood.. intimacy vs isolation..capacity to form intimate relationships
35 to 60. Middle adulthood…generativity vs stagnation…capacity to care and give to next generation.
60 plus . Late adulthood…Integrity vs despair..wisdom occurs
How do ericksons stages correspond to freuds?
Oral
Anal….1 to 3. Autonomy v shame/
Doubt
Phallic. 3 to 6. Initiative v guilt
Latency 6 to 12. Industry v inferiority
Genital 12 to 18. Identity v role
confusion
What is rehms self control theory?
It is a theory of depression which integrates cognitive and behavioral models. Depression is viewed as a result if negative self evaluations, lack of self reinforcement, and high rates of self punishment.
Tx– self monitoring, self evaluating, self control skills, modify dysfx thoughts and behaviors
What problem use aversive conditioning?
- PTSD
- Sexual dysfx
- Delusional do
- Smoking
- Smoking.
Aversive used for addictive behaviors. Aversive stimulus (shock) Repeatedly paired with conditioned stimulus (smoking). Hoped ucr of pain will become cr, replacing pleasure.
Problems with aversive conditioning..hi relapse rate, lack of generalization, and ethical concerns.
Night terrors remit:
- Early childhood
- Middle childhood
- Adolescence
- Adulthood
- Occur 3 to 12 years. Peak age is 3.5 years.
1 to 6 percent have it.
Equally affected
What is the treatment of choice for a specific phobia?
Flooding
Then in vivo modeling…gradual interactions with feared object. Exposed and observes coping.
Howard found in his meta analysis of outcome by the end if 6 months of treatment what percent of pts are improved?
- 25
- 50
- 75
- 90
- 75 percent by 6 mo
50 percent after 8 sessions
What predicts adjustment following a traumatic event?
Family history of mental illness, social support, and manner of processing stressful stimuli.
Debriefing has not shown to prevent PTSD and factors such as permit if fx, or training of debriefer have not been shown to matter.
Which theorist believed maladaptive behavior results from ppls attempts to make up for perceived or real disabilities as children?
- Freud
- Adler
- Horney
- Jung
Adler…inferiority complex. Children experience a sense if inadequacy based on real and perceived limitations. To overcome and achieve mastery, they develop. Lifestyle that is either adaptive or maladaptive. Adler examines the lifestyle..mistaken goals and faulty assumptions are discovered and ideally modified to be more constructive. Individual psychology.
What is an early indicator of therapy outcome?
Therapeutic alliance.
What are the steps in psychoanalysis?
Confrontation
Clarification
Interpretation
Working through
Proven sequence
From psychoanalytic pt of view, anxiety occurs when:
A. Defense mechanisms have not properly modulated intrapsychic excitation.
B. person has difficulty coping
C. Experiences emotions that have previously been repressed
D. Facing difficult life transition.
A
What psychodynamic theorist is linked to introversion/extroversion?
Which is linked to STEP etc?
- Jung
2. Adler