Exam 3

Question 1

Obessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) characteristics

Answer 1

Repetitive behaviors or mental acts the individual feels driven to perform aiming to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress

Obsession or compulsions are often time-consuming

Recurrent and persistent thoguths, urges or images that are intrsuive and unwanted, causing anxiety or distress

OCD obsessions usually do not involve real-life concerns, thus some delusions may be a part of OCD insted of psycotic disorders.

Question 2

Body Dysmorphic Disorder characteristics

Answer 2

May include muscle dysmorphia in which the client is preoccupied with the idea that his or her body build is tooo small or insufficiently muscular

The most common age of onset is between 12-13 years of age

Perception of defect or flaws in pysical appearance that are incongruent with outsider perspectives

Patient has performed repetative behavios or mental acts in response to appearance conerns

Question 3

Hording disorder characteristics

Answer 3

Persistent difficulty discardign or parting with possessions regarless their value

Perceived need to save items and distress associated with discarding them

Congestion and clutter of living areas comprosising thier intended use

Symptoms may first emerge around 11-15 years of age

Question 4

Trichotillomania

Answer 4

Reccurrent pulling out of one’s hair, resulitn in hair loss accompanied with repeated attemtps to decrease or stop hair pulling

Question 5

Hording description

Answer 5

Persistent diffcitly discarding posessions due to a perceived need to save the items, resulint in accumulation of possessions that congest living space

Question 6

Excoriation

Answer 6

Recurrent skin picking resulting in skin lesions, accompanied with repeated attempts to decrease or stop skin picking.

Question 7

Body Dysmorphic Disorder description

Answer 7

Preoccupation with perceived defect(s) or flaw(s) in physical appearance that are not observeable or appear slight to others, in which these appearance concerns result in performing of repetitive behaviros or mental acts in response

Question 8

Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Answer 8

Social situations are avoided or endured with intense fear or anxiety

In children, anxiety must appear among peers specifically to meet criteria

The individual fears they will act in a way or show anxiety symptoms that will be negatively evaluated

The fear or anxiety in children may be expressed through failuare to speka in social situations

Question 9

Kleptomania characteristics

Answer 9

Fascination, gratification or relief at time of theft

Tension before the act, followed by pleasurable feelings after

Question 10

Conduct Disorder characteristics

Answer 10

Includes more severe symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder

Aggression toward individuals or animals, destruction of property or a pattern of theft or deceit

Aggression may be premeditated and/or to achieve tangible objectives

Repetitive and persistent patters associated with impairment in social, academic or occupational functioning

Question 11

Pyromania characteristics

Answer 11

Tension or affective arousal before the act, followed by pleasurable feelings after

Fascination, interest, curiosity or attraction to fire and its aftermath

Question 12

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) characteristics

Answer 12

Symptoms must present with at least one non-sibling

Individuals 5 and older have symptomatic occurrences at least once a week for a minimum of 6 months

For children under 5, symptoms must persist most days for at least 6 months

Question 13

Intermittent Explosive Disorder characteristics

Answer 13

Failure to control aggressive impulses

Chronological or developmental age of at least 6 years

Question 14

Pyromania description

Answer 14

Deliberate fire setting for the purpose of pleasure gratification or relief associated with fascination, interest curiosity or attraction to fire and its results.

Question 15

Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) description

Answer 15

Frequent and persistent patter of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness in at least one setting towards a non-sibling for at least a 6 month time period

Question 16

Intermittent Explosive Disorder description

Answer 16

Impulsive aggressive behavioral outbursts of rapid onset, grossly out of proportion to the provocation or stressor that are not premeditated.

Question 17

Conduct Disorder description

Answer 17

Repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior which violate basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms through physical harm, property loss or damage, deceitfulness or theft and/or serious violations of rules.

Question 18

Kleptomania description

Answer 18

Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal items even though the items are not needed for personal use or for monetary gain

Question 19

How does Social Anxiety (Social Phobia) differ from other anxiety disorders

Answer 19

the fear is of negative evaluation in social situations.

Question 20

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder characteristics

Answer 20

Focus on specifics may distract from the actual point of an activity

May be comorbid with hoarding disorder

Perfectionism and excessive devotions to work and productivity may interfere with task completion, leisure and friendships

Question 21

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) characteristics

Answer 21

May be comorbid wiht depresssive or trauma and stressor-related disorders

Two or more distinct personality states

Recurrent gaps in recall of everyday events, important personal information and/or traumatic events

Question 22

Dependent Personality Disorder characteristics

Answer 22

rgently rushing to another relationship when a close relationship ends

Leads to submissive and clingy behavior

Difficulty expressing disagreement, making own decisions and doing things on their own

Excessive need to be taken care of associated with fear of being unable to care for one’s self and/or being left to care for themselves

Question 23

Avoidant Personality Disorder characteristics

Answer 23

Patterns of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation

Avoidance of making new friends, shows restraint in intimate relationships and inhibited in new interpersonal relationships

Avoid work activities that involved significant interpersonal contact

May co-occur with social anxiety disorder (social phobia) and agoraphobia

Question 24

How does

Avoidant Personality Disorder overlap with Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Answer 24

to the point that the DSM-V indicates they may be different ways of conceptualizing the same or similar conditions

Question 25

General Personality Disorder description

Answer 25

A stable, long enduring patter of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture and is inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations.

Question 26

Paranoid Personality Disorder description

Answer 26

Pattern of pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent.

Question 27

Schizoid Personality Disorder description

Answer 27

Pervasive patter of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions in interpersonal settings.

Question 28

Schizotypal Personality Disorder description

Answer 28

Pervasive pattern of social and interpersonal deficits marked by acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for close relationships as well as by cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Question 29

Schizophrenia description

Answer 29

Range of cognitive, behavioral, and emotional dysfunctions that impair functioning to be markedly below the level achieved prior to the onset of the disorder.

Question 30

How do Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) differ?

Answer 30

by the extent of obsessions and compulsions and may be co-diagnosed

Question 31

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder description

Answer 31

Chronic, sever persistent irritability or anger between frequent. severe temper outbursts over a course of at least 1 year in at least two settings.

Question 32

Major Depressive Disorder (MDE) description

Answer 32

Depressed mood most of the day, with presence nearly every day associated with issues of weight, sleep, lost interest, fatigue and/or thoughts of worthlessness.

Question 33

Bipolar I Disorder description

Answer 33

Variations in mood that include at least one episode of extreme high/euphoria (Mania) lasting at least 1 week and often associated with lower moods in fluctuation.

Question 34

Bipolar II Disorder description

Answer 34

Variations in mood that include at least one episode of heightened mood (hypomania) lasting at least 4 consecutive days and one or more extreme low (major depressive episode) without presence of mania.

Question 35

Cyclothymic Disorder description

Answer 35

Experiencing of numerous periods of hypomanic symptoms without meeting criteria for hypomanic episode and depressive symptoms that do not meet criteria for major depressive episode.

Question 36

Dissociative Amnesia description

Answer 36

Inability to recall important personal information that should be successfully stored in memory and ordinarily would be readily remembered.

Question 37

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder description

Answer 37

Feelings of unreality or detachment from, or unfamiliarity with one’s self, the world or both.