Final Flashcards
What statement is true of the relationship between obsessive-compulsive aniexty disorder and obsessive personality disorder?
Researchers have not found a specific link between the two disorders
Under what circumstance is a person least likely to eat nutritional food only?
Depression
What is not one of the broad categories of a autism spectrum?
Delinquent-type behaviors
Children who argue repeatedly with adults, lose their temper, ignore rules and requests, and blame others for their mistakes and problems might be diagnosed with what?
Oppositional defiant disorder
What treatment is of little help to people suffering from paranoid personality disorder?
Drug therapy
How many super traits describe the Basis of personality?
5
What is not a characteristic in a person with Bulimia nervousa?
Rarely thinking about food
What is the most common method of suicide used by two thirds of the male population?
Guns
Repeated involuntary bed wetting of ones clothes is known as what?
Enuresis
What is the effect of vommitimg after every binge?
The individual loses about half of the calories consumed during the binge
People who experience mixed feelings about their desire to kill themselves are known as what?
Death darers
What two treatment modalities are most commonly applied to ADHD?
Drug therapy and behavioral therapy
The cluster of dramatic personality disorders includes what personality disorders?
Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic
What is the name of the area in the brain that reduces hunger when activated?
Lateral hypothalamus
People with one of the odd clusters of personality disorders often qualify for an Additional diagnosis of what?
Schizophrenia
What Is a new kind of eating disorder found exclusively in men?
Muscle dysmorphobia
What people group receives the least trust from society ?
Congress members
What time after incarceration are inmates at the highest risk of suicide?
Within 2-14days
Research has found that individuals with anti social personality disorder often seem to experience less ——- than other people a key ingredient to learning
Reflection
What neuro transmitter may be associated with an eating disorder?
Seratonin
What type of medications has been helpful in reducing binges and vommiting in victims of bulimia nervousa ?
Anti depressants
What treatment for conduct disorder involves group therapy where children might work with others who have similar problems?
The anger coping and coping power program
Among the top ten cusses of death in the United States, suicide ranks what?
Tenth
The odd cluster of personality disorders consists of what 3 personality disorders?
Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal