MOOD DISORDER Flashcards
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- The presence and severity of accompanying anxiety
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a. Anxious distress specifier
2
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- Individuals with this specifier consistently oversleep and overeat during their depression resulting in weight gain
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e. Atypical features specifier
3
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- Involves an absence of movement or catalepsy
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d. Catatonic features specifier
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- This specifier can only be applied if full criteria for a major depressive episode have been met.
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c. Melancholic features specifier
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- Predominantly depressive episodes that have several symptoms of mania
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b. Mixed features specifier
6
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- It accompanies episodes that occur during certain seasons only
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g. Seasonal pattern specifier
7
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- A person filled with grandiose self-esteem, displaying rapid speech and impulsive behaviors and showing an elevated, expansive or irritable mood for at least one week is exhibiting symptoms of:
a. Mania
b. Hypomania
c. Stress
d. Catatonia
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8
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- A disorder that involves mood swings between subclinical levels of depression and mania is:
a. Bipolar I
b. Bipolar II
c. Dysthymia
d. Cyclothymia
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D
9
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- A person experiencing feeling of worthlessness, loss of interest in pleasurable activities, sudden weight gain or weight loss, feeling tired all the time and is said to feel physical aches and pains that have no medical cause is experiencing:
a. Depression phase
b. Manic phase
c. Bipolar I
d. Bipolar II
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10
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- Kyla gave birth to a healthy child four days ago. Now she’s tearful and having mood swings. Fortunately, these symptoms disappeared relatively quickly. Kyla was probably suffering from:
a. Major depressive disorder with peripartum onset
b. Baby blues. Her condition does not meet a diagnostic criteria
c. Adjustment disorder, depressed mood type
d. Major depressive disorder with seasonal onset
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B
11
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- The following are biological sources that can contribute to mood disorders EXCEPT:
a. genetics
b. neurotransmitter system abnormalities
c. endocrine system
d. circadian or sleep rhythms
e. marital dissatisfaction
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E
12
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- All of the following are psychological factors that can have an impact on mood disorders EXCEPT:
a. neurohormones
b. stressful life events
c. learned helplessness
d. depressive cognitive triad
e. a sense of uncontrollability
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13
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- The following are several social and cultural dimensions that contribute to mood disorders EXCEPT:
a. gender
b. few social supports
c. marital dissatisfaction
d. learned helplessness
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D
14
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- The controversial but somewhat successful treatment involving the production of seizures through electrical current to the brain.
a. electroconvulsive therapy
b. electroencephalogram
c. electrocardiogram
d. electrodermal responding
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A
15
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- This teaches clients to carefully examine their thought process and recognize “depressive” styles in thinking.
a. cognitive therapy
b. behavioral theraphy
c. interpersonal psychotherapy
d. psychodynamic therapy
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16
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- These come in three main types (tricyclics, MAO inhibitors, and SSRIs) and are often prescribed but have numerous side effects.
a. zoloft
b. antipsychotics
c. antidepressants
d. lithium
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C
17
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- This antidepressant must be carefully regulated to avoid illness but has the advantage of affecting manic episodes.
a. zoloft
b. antipsychotics
c. antidepressants;
d. lithium
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D
18
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- This therapy focuses on resolving problems in existing relationships and learning to form new interpersonal relationships.
a. electroconvulsive therapy;
b. cognitive therapy;
c. interpersonal psychotherapy
d. psychodynamic therapy
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C
19
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- This is an effort to prevent relapse or recurrence over the long run.
a. repetitive treatment
b. biological treatment
c. general treatment
d. maintenance treatment
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D
20
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- Ralph’s wife left him and took the children. He is a wellknown television personality, but, because of a conflict with the new station owners, he was recently fired. If Ralph kills himself, his suicide would be considered ___________.
a. altruistic
b. egoistic
c. anomic
d. fatalistic
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C
21
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- Sam killed himself while a prisoner of war in Vietnam. What suicide type describes this situation?
a. altruistic
b. egoistic
c. anomic
d. fatalistic
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D
22
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- Sheena lives in a remote village in Africa. She was recently caught in an adulterous affair with a man in a nearby village. Her husband wants to kill her but won’t have to because of a tribal custom that requires her to kill herself. She leaps from the nearby “sinful woman’s cliff.” Sheena’s suicide would be identified as what type?
a. altruistic
b. egoistic
c. anomic
d. fatalistic
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A
23
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- Mabel lived in a nursing home for many years. At first, her family and friends visited her often; now they come only at Christmas. Her two closest friends in the nursing home died recently. She has no hobbies or other interests. Mabel’s suicide would be identified as what type?
a. altruistic
b. egoistic
c. anomic
d. fatalistic
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B
