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What statement is true of the relationship between obsessive-compulsive aniexty disorder and obsessive personality disorder?

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Researchers have not found a specific link between the two disorders

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Under what circumstance is a person least likely to eat nutritional food only?

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Depression

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What is not one of the broad categories of a autism spectrum?

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Delinquent-type behaviors

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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?

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Oppositional defiant disorder

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What treatment is of little help to people suffering from paranoid personality disorder?

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Drug therapy

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How many super traits describe the Basis of personality?

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5

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What is not a characteristic in a person with Bulimia nervousa?

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Rarely thinking about food

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What is the most common method of suicide used by two thirds of the male population?

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Guns

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Repeated involuntary bed wetting of ones clothes is known as what?

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Enuresis

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What is the effect of vommitimg after every binge?

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The individual loses about half of the calories consumed during the binge

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People who experience mixed feelings about their desire to kill themselves are known as what?

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Death darers

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What two treatment modalities are most commonly applied to ADHD?

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Drug therapy and behavioral therapy

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The cluster of dramatic personality disorders includes what personality disorders?

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Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic

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What is the name of the area in the brain that reduces hunger when activated?

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Lateral hypothalamus

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People with one of the odd clusters of personality disorders often qualify for an Additional diagnosis of what?

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Schizophrenia

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What Is a new kind of eating disorder found exclusively in men?

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Muscle dysmorphobia

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What people group receives the least trust from society ?

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Congress members

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What time after incarceration are inmates at the highest risk of suicide?

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Within 2-14days

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Research has found that individuals with anti social personality disorder often seem to experience less ——- than other people a key ingredient to learning

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Reflection

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What neuro transmitter may be associated with an eating disorder?

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Seratonin

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What type of medications has been helpful in reducing binges and vommiting in victims of bulimia nervousa ?

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Anti depressants

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What treatment for conduct disorder involves group therapy where children might work with others who have similar problems?

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The anger coping and coping power program

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Among the top ten cusses of death in the United States, suicide ranks what?

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Tenth

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The odd cluster of personality disorders consists of what 3 personality disorders?

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Paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal

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What are used to help people with bulimia nervosa recognize and change their maldaptive attitudes towards food,eating and shape?

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Cognitive techniques

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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?

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Schizotypal

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In 2001 physician-assisted suicide euthanasia was approved by law where?

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The United States

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What is not a quality/skill that may shift in a sufferer of borderline personality disorder?

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Goals and aspirations

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What is not a common biological factor to people with schizophrenia and people with schizotypal disorder?

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Reduced activity of seratonin

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Enduring and predictable behavioral consistencies are often called what?

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Personality traits

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31
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Suicide prevention programs and hotlines focus on what?

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Crisis intervention

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The typical caller to an urban prevention center is who?

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Native American adolescent

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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?

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Sexual promiscuity

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Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic personality disorders fell under what personality disorder cluster?

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Dramatic personality cluster

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What personality disorder was formerly a name for histrionic personality disorder?

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Hysterical

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People with what disorder have a low opinion of their body shape, consider themselves unattractive, and are likely over estimate their actual proportions?

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Bulimia nervosua

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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?

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Anomie

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What theorist believed that emeshed family patterns often lead to eating disorders ?

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Salvador minuchin

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What is not a given theory that explains why people with antisocial personality disorder experience less aniexty than other people?

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Slow ekg waves

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What does pro Ana refer to?

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It refers to a series of pro anorexia sites where eating disorders may be encouraged

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Personality disorders typically become recognizable during what?

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Adolescence or early adulthood

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What does the primary prevention of suicide lie in?

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Education

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Compared to the rate of Suicide in the United States countries like Korea, Hungary and Russia have what rate?

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Much lower rates

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What is not a typical response for a person who just indulged in a binge episode ?

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Feeling happy and in control

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In people suffering from bulimia nervosa binges are ussually preceded by feelings of what?

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Shame

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The cluster of “anxious” personality disorders includes avoidant, dependent and ——— personality disorders

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Obsessive compulsive

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What is the primary reason people with with schizoid personality disorder avoid social contact ?

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Preference to be alone

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What abnormal chromosomal situation does not cause Down syndrome?

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Fragile x syndrome

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What mental disorder is not mentioned as being linked strongly to suicide?

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Personality disorder

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People with anorexia nervosa are primarily motivated by what?

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The desire to be thin

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People with bulimia nervosa ussually have between 1 and – binged per week

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30

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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?

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People over 60

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According to Edwin shneidman what is the feeling of intolerable psychological pain which comes before suicide

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Psych ache

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Lanugo refers to what ?

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Fine silky body hair that developed in victims of anorexia nervosa

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The lack of concensus about the correct diagnosis of personality disorders questions what Dsm criteria?

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Validity and reliability

56
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When children reach school age, therapists often use a family intervention approach called parent management training to help with what disorder?

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Conduct disorder

57
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What is the best way to explain dichotomous thinking?

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Either or black and white left or right

58
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Abnormality in what area of the brain is has been associated with autism

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Cerebellum

59
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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

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70% one forth

60
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What is not an area listed in the Dsm 5 as required to be affected by a personality disorder?

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Intelligence

61
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Abnormality in what area of the brain is linked to autism?

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Cerebellum

62
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What country has the highest suicide rate? At 31.5 out of every 100000 members of their population?

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Lithuania

63
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Repeated involuntary defecating into ones clothing is known as what?

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Ecopresis

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What personality disorder was once called “hysterical personality disorder p” and involves individuals typically described as emotionally charged and attention seeking?

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Histrionic

65
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People with what personality disorder are sometimes described as psychopaths or sociopaths?

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Borderline personality disorder

66
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What perspective believes that sucked is the result of anger directed to oneself?

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Psychodynamic

67
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The diagnostic features of what personality disorder bears the greatest similarity to people who are diagnosed with social aniexty disorder ?

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Avoidant

68
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Why is aspergers disorder no longer considered a diagnosis?

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It is now diagnosed under the autism spectrum disorder or communication disorder label

69
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What personality disorder is marked by persistently avoiding social relationships and a lack of emotion?

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Schizoid

70
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What time after incarceration are inmates at the highest risk for suicide

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2-14 days

71
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What has not been linked to cases of conduct disorder?

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Genetic and biological causes

72
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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?

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8-12 weeks

73
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Suicide committed by people whom society has little or no control is known as what?

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Egoistic

74
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A body mass index of over what is considered obese?

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30

75
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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 ?

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Pronominal reversal

76
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What is it called when people with intellectual developmental disorder are grouped together in a separate, specially designated education program?

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Special education

77
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What psychological problem is often associated with anorexia nervousa?

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Obsessive compulsive disorder

78
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The dsm5 stipulates that a person must be atleast 18 years of age to recieve the diagnosis of ——– personality disorder

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Antisocial

79
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An enduring rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior is known as what?

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Personality disorder

80
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In 1997 what percentage of undergraduate male college students reported being dissatisfied with their weight?

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15%

81
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Theory of mind refers to what?

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An awareness that other people base their behaviors on their own beliefs, intentions and other mental states

82
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How many super traits describe the Basis of personality?

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5

83
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The exact repetition of phrases spoken by others is known as what ?

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Echolalia

84
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Mild intellectual developmental disorders is mainly linked to what causes

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Sociocultural and psychological causes

85
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What facts is not associated with increased risk of relapse in people who have recovered from bulimia nervosa?

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A history of substance abuse

86
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Under what circumstances are people least likely to eat nutritional food only?

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Boredom

87
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What brain chemical has been identified as an acting natural appetite suppressant?

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Leptin

88
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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 ?

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Dialectical behavioral therapy

89
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An unsuccessful attempt to kill oneself is known as what?

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Parasuicide

90
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Freudian theorists suggest that people with obsessive compulsive personality disorder are what ?

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Anal retentive

91
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Theory of mind refers to what?

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An awareness that other people base their behavior on their own beliefs, intentions and mental states

92
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Psychodynamic explanations for dependent personality disorder are very similar to those for what?

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Depression

93
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What is not a quality/skill that shift in a sufferer of borderline personality disorder ?

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Athletic ability

94
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Low levels of what chemical seem to have a role in suicide seperate from depression?

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Low seratonin

95
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In the United States what group is most likely to commit suicide?

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White males over the age of 65

96
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What is the petered treatment for autism becuaee the gains continue over time?

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Behavioral therapy

97
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The most common metabolic disorder to cause intellectual developmental disorders is what?

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Pku

98
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People with what type of personality disorder display great instability, major shifts in mood, an unstable self image and impulsivity?

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Borderline

99
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The peak age of anorexia nervosa in women is between what ages?

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14 and 18

100
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What group of Americans has the highest suicide rate?

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American Indians

101
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The frequent vommitimg and chronic diarrhea occasioned by bulimia nervosa may lead to the loss of what important bodily nutrient?

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Potassium

102
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What is not a description of the three clusters of Dsm-5 personality disorders ?

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High degree of learned helplessness

103
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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?

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Postvention

104
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The basic structure of personality disorders are generally grandiose, need much admiration, and feel no empathy with others?

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Narcissistic

105
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According to long term studies, obese people who have lost their weight on very low calorie diets can what?

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May experience a rebound effect which results in a net weight gain

106
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Who was the early pioneer in the field of suicide study?

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Edwin shneidman

107
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The basic structure of personality disorder may consist of five super traits what is not a trait?

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Paranoia

108
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Surveys across the world reveal what to be the most occurring worry to young people?

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Bullying

109
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What personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of separation, and ongoing need to be taken care of?

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Dependent personality disorder

110
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Both bulimia and anorexia typically begin after what?

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Immediately upon the beginning of Puberty

111
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The most common of the chromosomal disorders leading to intellectual development disorders is what?

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Down’s syndrome

112
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Psychodynamic theorists believe that people who develope antisocial personality disorders have failed to establish a sense of what?

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Trust

113
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If a child with conduct disorder displays openly aggressive confrontational behaviors what pattern of disorder are they displaying?

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Overt destructive

114
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Paranoid personality disorder schizoid schizotypal fall under what cluster category?

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Odd personality cluster

115
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Viewing problems and solutions in rigid either or/ terms is known as what?

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Dichotomous thinking

116
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When are people least likely to eat junk food?

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When they feel self-confident

117
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What disorder has sociocultural and psychological causes?

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Mild intellectual disorder

118
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The most popular weight-restoration technique for people suffering from anorexia nervosa is what?

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Supportive nursing care

119
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What is not an area listed in the Dsm 5 as required to be affected by a personality disorder?

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Intelligence

120
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What treatment-approach is more likely to strengthen juvenile delinquent behavior then reduce it?

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Instutiinslization

121
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When children or adolescents cause a peer to be socially isolated, spread rumors about them and manipulate their friendships, they are engaging in what?

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Overt non destructive

122
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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?

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Death seekers

123
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According to Edwin shneidman , members of the heavens gate cult who committed suicide were what?

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Death ignorers

124
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What state became the first to enact a law allowing doctors to assist in suicide by administering a lethal does of drugs?

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Oregon

125
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What behavioral technique is used to break the binge purge cycle of bulimia nervosa ?

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Exposure and personal response

126
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A seriously ill person whose consistent mismanagement of medication led to his or her death would most likely be considered what?

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Sub intentional suicide

127
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Psychodynamic therapists believe that people with histrionic personality disorder are trying to defend against a deep seated fear of what?

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Loss

128
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What is an accurate statement about women with bulimia nervousa?

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They generally maintain their normal weight, though it may fluctuate marketably within that range

129
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What is a strategy for studying suicide that utilizes clinicians and researchers data from a suicide victims past known as?

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Retrospective analysis

130
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Many people suffering from eating disorders also suffer from what?

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Mood disorders

131
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Children with ——- and an accompanying ——- disorder have a heightened risk of developing anti social personality disorder

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Conduct disorder, adhd

132
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According to Freud what are the forces that lead to a person to attempt suicide?

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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

133
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What statement about suicide is true?

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Many apparent accidents are probably suicides

134
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Men are —– Likely as women to display obsessive personality disorder

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Twice

135
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What is personal response and exposure therapy used in?

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Breaking the bulimic cycle

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