Pertinent information for Testing Flashcards
What TCA might be a first line for MDD if they also have OCD?
Clomipramine
What TCA might be a first line for MDD if they also have migraines?
Imipramine
What are the S/S saying for anticholinergic toxicity?
red as a beet, dry as a bone, blind as a bat (blind), mad as a hatter, hot as a hare (hyperthermia), and full as a flask (urinary retention)
STOMAS for TCAs and Atypical antipsychotics
Sedating, torsades, orthostatic hypotension, metabolic, anticholinergic, seizure
JPEGS for delusional Disorder
Jealous, persecutory, erotomaniac, grandiose, and somatic
What are the three main symptom sets belonging to PTSD?
- Reexperiencing (Nightmares, Intrusive thoughts, and flashbacks)
- Arousal (hypervigilance, irritability, difficulty sleeping, difficulty concentrating, reckless, exaggerated startle)
- Avoidance (Inability to remember, avoiding distressing memories or stimuli)
What is the role of the ID?
This is our taboo impulses and cannot come to conscious awareness
What is the role of the Super Ego?
To control and prevent the ID from coming to our consciousness.
What is the Ego?
This is the sense of self. All perceptions and all sense of self belong to the Ego.
What is sublimation?
This is when you take an unacceptable ID impulse and channel it into a socially acceptable way.
The patient presents with co-occurring mood and psychotic symptoms. (Mood symptoms can be either depressive or manic).
Schizoaffective
The patient presents with psychotic symptoms in the absence of mood disorder.
Schizophrenia
This disorder presents with suspicion, projection (blaming others for everything that happens), pervasive distrust (result of maladaptive projection).
Paranoid personality disorder
DIG FAST
An acronym for mania. Distractibility, Irritability/irresponsibility, Grandiosity, Flight of Ideas, Activity increased, Sleep decreased, and excessive Talkitiveness
Most effective therapy for borderline personality disorder?
DBT (dialectal behavioral therapy)
A psychotic episode that lasts less than one month.
Brief psychotic disorder
A psychotic episode that lasts one month to six months.
Schizophreniform.
A psychotic episode that lasts six months or longer
Schizophrenia
What five disorders do you have to rule out to diagnosis with schizophrenia (as it is a diagnosis of exclusion)?
Substance induced, medical condition, schizoaffective, primary mood disorder, and autism spectrum disorder
What is Capgras Syndrome?
Family or friend has been replaced by an intruder or a clone
What is Cotard Syndrome?
You or part of you is dying or is dead
What is the Fregoli Syndrome
Another person can shapeshift or take the guise of another person
the psychodynamic principle that assumes all behavior has a purpose
Psychic determinism
the psychodynamic principle that one understands that others have needs and that impulsive actions can cause self-harm
Ego development principle
the psychodynamic principle that seeks pleasure and gratification immediately
Id principle
the psychodynamic principle that imposes a moral framework and ethical restraint learned from the environment.
The Superego mediation principle
The miracle question is what kind of therapy?
Solution focused therapy
a skill-based approach that focuses on four main areas: emotional regulation, improving distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness
DBT
a paradoxical directive would be what type of therapy?
Strategic
a technique that uses expressive tools and activities to recreate emotional situations from the past or present so they can be resolved in a less threatening manner
Experiential therapy
a treatment that addresses patterns of interaction that cause conflict within a family system
Structural Therapy
The process by which the body affects the drug is known as
Pharmacokinetics
the effect of the drug on the body and includes agonist and antagonist properties
Pharmacodynamics
Reduced protein binding is due to decreased nutritional absorption associated with
aging