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How are mood disorders expressed?

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Extreme depression

Extreme elation

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Disturbance in a person’s emotional state

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Mood Disorder

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What is extreme depression?

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Dysphoria

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What is extreme elation?

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Euphoria

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A time limited period during which specific intense mood symptoms are evident.

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Episode

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What do you do when there is an episode?

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Document

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Clinician documents these 3 in mood disorders

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Episode severity and specifier
Episode first or recurrence
Specifier that reflects the nature of a prominent set of symptoms

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2 Depressive Disorder

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MDD
DD
Major Depressive Disorder
Dysthymic Disorder

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Describe the loss of interest in MDD

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Dramatic

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Normal mourning, how many months?

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2

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What is the SPIRITED in MDD?

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Sleep
Physical
Impairment
Root
Interest loss
Think : cognitive
Eating
Dont have cause
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Sadness not deep and intense is

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Dysthymic

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In MDD, _____ symptoms in ____ weeks

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5, 2 conscutive weeks

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2 natures of depressive episode

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Melancholic

Seasonal

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What nature of depressive episode is characterized by sadness, mourning, psychomotor retardation?

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Melancholic

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Nature of depressive episode triggered by fall, winter, christmas

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Seasonal

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2 poles of Bipolar

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Manic episode

Depressive episode

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Which one is more prevalent in Bipolar? Manic or depressive episode?

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Manic episode

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18
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Can music trigger sadness? Example.

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Yes, imortal by evanescence

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2 alternations in mood

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Bipolar

Cyclothymic

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Describe manic patient’s self esteem

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Grossly inflated

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Describe manic thinking

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Grandiose

Flight of ideas

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Who is the literary figure with bipolar?

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Virginia Woolf

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How energetic are they?

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Unusually

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Once you stop the mani patient, describe response.

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Respond with rage

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Therapy for people with Seasonal Affective Disorder

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Light therapy

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2 types of bipolar

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1 and 2

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One or more manic episodes with a possibility though not a necessity of having to experience major depressive episode

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Bipolar 1

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One or more depressive episodes and at least 1 hypomanic episode

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Bipolar 2

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A condition where the client has no full blown episode

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Hypomanic

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Less severe, less intense, no psychotic, no impairment—bipolar 1 or 2?

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Bipolar 2

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Dramatic and recurrent but not as intense as Bipolar disorder

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Cyclothymic

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Less severe kind of bipolar? Of depression? Minimum of 2 years

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Cyclothymic, dysthymic

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‘I have to end my life’ is a ___________________ to commit suicide.

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Premonition.premeditation.

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_______% of people who commit suicide have psychological disorders

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90

35
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Another name for brain chemicals

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Neurotransmitters

36
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Feeling of alienation from society

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Anomie

37
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Suicide theory the refers to the neurotransmitter

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Biological

38
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Suicide theory that refers to stress related suicide

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Psychological

39
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Suicide theory that refers to role of media in publicizing suicide

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Socio cultural

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When a person imitates the suicidal strategy used by an individual that captured media attention

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Copycat suicide

41
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Schizophrenia is first identified by German physician ____________ but _______________ systematically defined it

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Benedict Morel, Emil Kraepelin

42
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Schizophrenia was once known as

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Dementia praecox

43
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Dementia is

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Degeneration of the brain

44
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Praecox means

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Young age

45
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__________________ turned dementia praecox to schizophrenia

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Eugen Bleur

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Schiz means

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Splitting of

47
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__________ believes schizophrenia is a single entity and __________ said it represents a group of disorders

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Kraepelin, bleur

48
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The 4 As of schizophrenia

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Association
Affect
Ambivalence
Autism

49
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Rambling and incoherent speech refers to what A?

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Association

50
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The A that pertains to emotions

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Affect

51
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Inability to follow through or make decisions

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Ambivalence

52
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A tendency an egocentric thought and behavior

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Autism

53
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Symptoms of schizophrenia should be experienced for ______ months before diagnosed

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6

54
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The 3 stages of schizophrenia

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Prodromal
Active
Residual

55
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Delusions are disturbances in _____________

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Thought

56
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Hallucinations are disturbances in

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Perception

57
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Neologisms are Disturbances in

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Thinking, Language and Communication

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Catatonia is Disturbance in

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Behavior

59
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Loss of words is

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Alognia

60
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Lack of initiative is

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Avolition

61
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Loss of interest

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Anhedonia

62
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The 6 symptoms of schizophrenia are

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Disturbances in thought
Disturbances in perception
Disturbances in thinking, language and communication
Disturbances in behavior
\+ and - symptoms
Social and Occupational Dysfunction
63
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Paranoid is different from disorganized because paranoid type has

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No disorganized speech

No disturbed behavior

64
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Catatonic clients manifest a ______________ position.

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Monumental

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