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
What are used to help people with bulimia nervosa recognize and change their maldaptive attitudes towards food,eating and shape?
Cognitive techniques
What type of personality disorder displays a range of interpersonal problems marked by extreme discomfort in close relationships, odd patterns of thinking and perceiving, and behavior eccentricities?
Schizotypal
In 2001 physician-assisted suicide euthanasia was approved by law where?
The United States
What is not a quality/skill that may shift in a sufferer of borderline personality disorder?
Goals and aspirations
What is not a common biological factor to people with schizophrenia and people with schizotypal disorder?
Reduced activity of seratonin
Enduring and predictable behavioral consistencies are often called what?
Personality traits
Suicide prevention programs and hotlines focus on what?
Crisis intervention
The typical caller to an urban prevention center is who?
Native American adolescent
What is not a personality tendency that would be included in the new dsm5 diagnosis that is Called personality disorder trait specified according to your chapter?
Sexual promiscuity
Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic personality disorders fell under what personality disorder cluster?
Dramatic personality cluster
What personality disorder was formerly a name for histrionic personality disorder?
Hysterical
People with what disorder have a low opinion of their body shape, consider themselves unattractive, and are likely over estimate their actual proportions?
Bulimia nervosua
Durkheim predicted that societies with greater opportunties for change in individual wealth or status would have higher suicide rates as a result of increased what?
Anomie
What theorist believed that emeshed family patterns often lead to eating disorders ?
Salvador minuchin
What is not a given theory that explains why people with antisocial personality disorder experience less aniexty than other people?
Slow ekg waves
What does pro Ana refer to?
It refers to a series of pro anorexia sites where eating disorders may be encouraged
Personality disorders typically become recognizable during what?
Adolescence or early adulthood
What does the primary prevention of suicide lie in?
Education
Compared to the rate of Suicide in the United States countries like Korea, Hungary and Russia have what rate?
Much lower rates
What is not a typical response for a person who just indulged in a binge episode ?
Feeling happy and in control
In people suffering from bulimia nervosa binges are ussually preceded by feelings of what?
Shame
The cluster of “anxious” personality disorders includes avoidant, dependent and ——— personality disorders
Obsessive compulsive
What is the primary reason people with with schizoid personality disorder avoid social contact ?
Preference to be alone
What abnormal chromosomal situation does not cause Down syndrome?
Fragile x syndrome
What mental disorder is not mentioned as being linked strongly to suicide?
Personality disorder
People with anorexia nervosa are primarily motivated by what?
The desire to be thin
People with bulimia nervosa ussually have between 1 and – binged per week
30
What age group is most likely to leave a Suicide note indicating such problems as illness, hopelessness, disability, and loneliness as the reasons for suicide?
People over 60
According to Edwin shneidman what is the feeling of intolerable psychological pain which comes before suicide
Psych ache
Lanugo refers to what ?
Fine silky body hair that developed in victims of anorexia nervosa
The lack of concensus about the correct diagnosis of personality disorders questions what Dsm criteria?
Validity and reliability
When children reach school age, therapists often use a family intervention approach called parent management training to help with what disorder?
Conduct disorder
What is the best way to explain dichotomous thinking?
Either or black and white left or right
Abnormality in what area of the brain is has been associated with autism
Cerebellum
Slides indicate that as men as – percent of the people who attempt suicide drink Alchol just before the act. Autopsies reveal that about — —– of these people are legally intoxicated
70% one forth
What is not an area listed in the Dsm 5 as required to be affected by a personality disorder?
Intelligence
Abnormality in what area of the brain is linked to autism?
Cerebellum
What country has the highest suicide rate? At 31.5 out of every 100000 members of their population?
Lithuania
Repeated involuntary defecating into ones clothing is known as what?
Ecopresis
What personality disorder was once called “hysterical personality disorder p” and involves individuals typically described as emotionally charged and attention seeking?
Histrionic
People with what personality disorder are sometimes described as psychopaths or sociopaths?
Borderline personality disorder
What perspective believes that sucked is the result of anger directed to oneself?
Psychodynamic
The diagnostic features of what personality disorder bears the greatest similarity to people who are diagnosed with social aniexty disorder ?
Avoidant
Why is aspergers disorder no longer considered a diagnosis?
It is now diagnosed under the autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder label
What personality disorder is marked by persistently avoiding social relationships and a lack of emotion?
Schizoid
What time after incarceration are inmates at the highest risk for suicide
2-14 days
What has not been linked to cases of conduct disorder?
Genetic and biological causes
Studies have found when people with anorexia nervousa are given supportive nursing care, nutritional counseling, and a relatively high calorie diet the patients usually gain back the necessary in what time?
8-12 weeks
Suicide committed by people whom society has little or no control is known as what?
Egoistic
A body mass index of over what is considered obese?
30
When Mark, who suffers from an Austin spectrum disorder, was hungry he looked at his mother and asked “do you want dinner?” What is this reversal of pronouns referred to as ?
Pronominal reversal
What is it called when people with intellectual developmental disorder are grouped together in a separate, specially designated education program?
Special education
What psychological problem is often associated with anorexia nervousa?
Obsessive compulsive disorder
The dsm5 stipulates that a person must be atleast 18 years of age to recieve the diagnosis of ——– personality disorder
Antisocial
An enduring rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior is known as what?
Personality disorder
In 1997 what percentage of undergraduate male college students reported being dissatisfied with their weight?
15%
Theory of mind refers to what?
An awareness that other people base their behaviors on their own beliefs, intentions and other mental states
How many super traits describe the Basis of personality?
5
The exact repetition of phrases spoken by others is known as what ?
Echolalia
Mild intellectual developmental disorders is mainly linked to what causes
Sociocultural and psychological causes
What facts is not associated with increased risk of relapse in people who have recovered from bulimia nervosa?
A history of substance abuse
Under what circumstances are people least likely to eat nutritional food only?
Boredom
What brain chemical has been identified as an acting natural appetite suppressant?
Leptin
What type of therapy helps clients increase their ability to tolerate distress, learn new social skills, and respond more effectively to life situations, is considered the treatment of choice in many clinical circles for borderline personality disorder ?
Dialectical behavioral therapy
An unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself is known as what?
Parasuicide
Freudian theorists suggest that people with obsessive compulsive personality disorder are what ?
Anal retentive
Theory of mind refers to what?
An awareness that other people base their behavior on their own beliefs, intentions and mental states
Psychodynamic explanations for dependent personality disorder are very similar to those for what?
Depression
What is not a quality/skill that shift in a sufferer of borderline personality disorder ?
Athletic ability
Low levels of what chemical seem to have a role in suicide seperate from depression?
Low seratonin
In the United States what group is most likely to commit suicide?
White males over the age of 65
What is the petered treatment for autism becuaee the gains continue over time?
Behavioral therapy
The most common metabolic disorder to cause intellectual developmental disorders is what?
Pku
People with what type of personality disorder display great instability, major shifts in mood, an unstable self image and impulsivity?
Borderline
The peak age of anorexia nervosa in women is between what ages?
14 and 18
What group of Americans has the highest suicide rate?
American Indians
The frequent vommitimg and chronic diarrhea occasioned by bulimia nervosa may lead to the loss of what important bodily nutrient?
Potassium
What is not a description of the three clusters of Dsm-5 personality disorders ?
High degree of learned helplessness
What are Response programs that are put into action To prevent a rash of suicides after one person, particularly high profile individual commits suicide called?
Postvention
The basic structure of personality disorders are generally grandiose, need much admiration, and feel no empathy with others?
Narcissistic
According to long term studies, obese people who have lost their weight on very low calorie diets can what?
May experience a rebound effect which results in a net weight gain
Who was the early pioneer in the field of suicide study?
Edwin shneidman
The basic structure of personality disorder may consist of five super traits what is not a trait?
Paranoia
Surveys across the world reveal what to be the most occurring worry to young people?
Bullying
What personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of separation, and ongoing need to be taken care of?
Dependent personality disorder
Both bulimia and anorexia typically begin after what?
Immediately upon the beginning of Puberty
The most common of the chromosomal disorders leading to intellectual development disorders is what?
Down’s syndrome
Psychodynamic theorists believe that people who develope antisocial personality disorders have failed to establish a sense of what?
Trust
If a child with conduct disorder displays openly aggressive confrontational behaviors what pattern of disorder are they displaying?
Overt destructive
Paranoid personality disorder schizoid schizotypal fall under what cluster category?
Odd personality cluster
Viewing problems and solutions in rigid either or/ terms is known as what?
Dichotomous thinking
When are people least likely to eat junk food?
When they feel self-confident
What disorder has sociocultural and psychological causes?
Mild intellectual disorder
The most popular weight-restoration technique for people suffering from anorexia nervosa is what?
Supportive nursing care
What is not an area listed in the Dsm 5 as required to be affected by a personality disorder?
Intelligence
What treatment-approach is more likely to strengthen juvenile delinquent behavior then reduce it?
Instutiinslization
When children or adolescents cause a peer to be socially isolated, spread rumors about them and manipulate their friendships, they are engaging in what?
Overt non destructive
An individual who clearly intends to end their life at the time they attempt suicide and fails to do so, only to experience confusion in very next hour or day might be classified as what?
Death seekers
According to Edwin shneidman , members of the heavens gate cult who committed suicide were what?
Death ignorers
What state became the first to enact a law allowing doctors to assist in suicide by administering a lethal does of drugs?
Oregon
What behavioral technique is used to break the binge purge cycle of bulimia nervosa ?
Exposure and personal response
A seriously ill person whose consistent mismanagement of medication led to his or her death would most likely be considered what?
Sub intentional suicide
Psychodynamic therapists believe that people with histrionic personality disorder are trying to defend against a deep seated fear of what?
Loss
What is an accurate statement about women with bulimia nervousa?
They generally maintain their normal weight, though it may fluctuate marketably within that range
What is a strategy for studying suicide that utilizes clinicians and researchers data from a suicide victims past known as?
Retrospective analysis
Many people suffering from eating disorders also suffer from what?
Mood disorders
Children with ——- and an accompanying ——- disorder have a heightened risk of developing anti social personality disorder
Conduct disorder, adhd
According to Freud what are the forces that lead to a person to attempt suicide?
A real symbolic loss leads to a defense mechanism called introjection, and this in turn leads to suicide as an extreme expression of internalized anger and self hatred
What statement about suicide is true?
Many apparent accidents are probably suicides
Men are —– Likely as women to display obsessive personality disorder
Twice
What is personal response and exposure therapy used in?
Breaking the bulimic cycle
