Concept Checks Flashcards
People who develop schizophrenia are more likely to be born during what time(s) of the year?
Winter and early spring
Which term refers to a slender, slightly muscled physique?
Asthenic
90% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are also addicted to what substance:
Nicotine
What is the most frequent type of hallucinations?
Auditory
What type of therapy involves a multidisciplinary, mobile team that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support activities in a patient’s natural environments?
Assertive community treatment
Select the negative symptom(s) of schizophrenia. There may be more than one.
Apathy
Blunt affect
Anhedonia
What type of eye movements are frequently seen in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia?
Saccades
Select the positive symptom(s) of schizophrenia. There may be more than one.
Paranoia
Hallucinations
Delusions
Which term emphasizes early-onset change in cognition?
Dementia precox
What are the subtypes of Schizophrenia?
Paranoid Disorganized Catatonic Undifferentiated Residual
Symptoms of Paranoid type Schizophrenia
Preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations. None of the following are prominent: 1. Disorganized speech 2. Disorganized or catatonic behavior 3. Flat or inappropriate affect
Symptoms of Disorganized type Schizophrenia
Disorganized Speech
Disorganized behavior
Flat or inappropriate affect
Symptoms of Catatonic type schizophrenia
The cline needs to have at least two of the following
- Motoric immobility or stupor
- Excessive motor activity
- Extreme negativism or mutism
- Peculiarities of voluntary movement (Posturing, stereotyped movements, prominent mannerisms or prominent grimacing)
- Echolalia or echopraxia
Symptoms of Undifferentiated type Schizophrenia
The presence of symptoms that meet criterion A of schizophrenia, but that do not meet criteria for the paranoid, disorganized or catatonic type.
Symptoms of Residual type Schizophrenia
Absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
What is the life event most associated with developing depression?
Losing parents before the age of 11
Which diagnosis is characterized by episodes of major depression and hypomania?
Bipolar II disorder
Merriment is much more likely in which type of diagnosis?
Bipolar
What type of episode usually begins a bipolar episode?
Depressive
What terms refers to the phenomenon of patients committing suicide as their depression improves due to poor impulse control?
Paradoxical suicide
What is the minimum amount of time a patient should participate in their pharmacological treatment for depression?
6 months
If a patient seems to have sociopathic tendencies, what is the most likely diagnosis?
Cyclothymic
Depression is more common in older persons than in the general population?
True
What percentage of patients with bipolar experience delusions?
75
What is defined as a pervasive and sustained emotion or feeling tone that influences a persons behavior and color his or her perception of being in the world?
MOod
Which type of therapy is most appropriate for someone diagnosed with agoraphobia?
Behavioral
What referes to excessive fear of a specific object, circumstance or situation?
Phobia
Which type of phobia has a high familiar tendency?
Blood-injection- injury
Which term describes a response to a known external threat?
Fear
Caffeine and carbon dioxide are examples of what kind of substance ?
Panicogens
Which type of phobia is more likely to develop in adulthood?
Situational
People, who experience panic attacks are likely to develop which diagnosis?
Agoraphobia
How long does a panic attack typically last?
20-30 minutes
What is a conscious, standardized, recurrent behavior?
Compulsion
What is a recurrent or intrusive thought, feeling, idea, or sensation?
Obsession
Select the top three compulsions:
Checking
Washing
Counting
Resisting a compulsion reduces anxiety.
False
Completion of a compulsion reduces anxiety.
False
Select the top three obsessions:
Contamination
Somatic
Pathological doubt
90% of people with which diagnosis have also been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder?
Tourette’s syndrome
What type of symptoms include flashbacks?
Intrusion
What is the least important risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder?
Familial pattern
Which age groups are particularly susceptible to developing posttraumatic stress disorder? Select all that apply.
Young adults
Young children
Older adults
Soldiers diagnosed with Gulf War syndrome also experienced an increase in which diagnosis?
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
What is defined by the inability to identify and describe emotions?
Alexithymia
What refers to the unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person’s psychic activity?
Dissociation
What refers to a period of feeling disconnected or detached from one’s body or thoughts?
Depersonalization
What is the most likely type of trauma exposure for men resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder?
Combat
What is the most likely type of trauma exposure for women resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder?
Rape
What type of symptoms include anhedonia?
Avoidance
What term refers to the inability to recall events related to a circumscribed period of time?
Localized amnesia
What terms refer to the failure to remember a category of information, such as all memories relating to one’s family or to a particular person?
Systematized amnesia
What terms refers to the ability to remember some, but not all, of the events occurring during a circumscribed period of time?
Selective amnesia
What term refers to the failure to recall successive events as they occur?
Continuous amnesia
Which term refers to purposeful, sudden, and unexpected travel and in inability to recall one’s identity after a traumatic event?
Dissociative fugue
Which disorder is characterized by the giving approximate answers together with a clouding of consciousness and is frequently accompanied by hallucinations and other dissociative, somatoform, and conversion symptoms?
Ganser syndrome
What term refers to the failure to recall one’s entire life?
Generalized amnesia
Which disorder is commonly experienced by people with epilepsy or migraines?
Depersonalization disorder
Which disorder is manifest by a temporary, marked altercation in the states of consciousness or by a loss of the customary sense of personal identity without the replacement by an alternate sense of identity?
Dissociative trance disorder
What is the most common trauma associated with dissociative identity disorder?
Childhood trauma
Which disorder is described as identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion?
Brainwashing
Which diagnosis consists of a cluster of abnormalities associated with obesity that contributes to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes?
Metabolic syndrome
Which is the most common eating disorder?
Binge eating disorder
Which disorder is characterized by purging behavior after consuming a small amount of food in persons of normal weight who have a distorted view of their weight or body image?
Purging disorder
Patients diagnosed with which eating disorder are at an elevated risk for suicide?
Anorexia Nervosa (binge/purge)
Which sensory system plays a role is satiety/
Olfactory
Patients diagnosed with which eating disorder are less likely to recover?
Anorexia nervosa (restricting)
