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Psych/Behavioral Health #4 Flashcards

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Name the Cluster A personality types

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  • Schizoid
  • Schizotypal
  • Paranoid
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Name the Cluster B Personality Types

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  • Antisocial
  • Borderline
  • Histrionic
  • Narcissistic
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Name the Cluster C Personality Types

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  • Avoidant
  • Dependent
  • Obsessive-Compulsive
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What is the treatment choice for all personality disorders?

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Cognitive behavioral therapy (Psychotherapy)

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Describe a patient with a schizoid personality disorder

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  • Voluntary social withdrawal and anhedonic introversion
  • Most common in males
  • Prefers to be alone
  • Loner, hermit like behavior
  • Detached, cold, flat affect
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Describe a patient with a schizotypal personality disorder

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  • Odd, eccentric, bizarre behavior and thought patterns
  • Magical thinking or speech (belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, etc.)
  • May talk to self in public
  • Pervasive discomfort with close relationships
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Describe a patient with paranoid personality disorder

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  • Pervasive pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others
  • Unjustified doubts regarding the loyalty and trustworthiness of others
  • Sees hidden messages, is easily insulted, doesn’t forgive, bears grudges
  • Suspicion regarding faithfulness of partner without justification
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Describe a patient with antisocial personality disorder

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  • Behaviors deviating sharply from the norms, values, and laws of society
  • May commit criminal acts
  • Irritability or aggression toward others
  • Lack of remorse for actions
  • Failure to maintain work or honor financial obligations
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How old must the patient be to diagnose them with antisocial personality disorder?

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18 years old

Must have history by age 15 consistent with conduct disorder

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What is a patient with borderline personality disorder like?

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  • Unstable, unpredictable mood and affect
  • Unstable self-images and relationships
  • Mood swings, impulsivity, self-mutilation
  • Fear of abandonment
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What is a patient with histrionic personality disorder like?

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  • Attention seeking: need to be center of attention, overly emotional, dramatic, seductive
  • Hissy fits: temper tantrums, self-absorbed
  • Often inappropriate, sexually provocative, seductive
  • Seeks reassurance and praise often
  • May believe their relationships are more intimate than they really are
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Narcissistic personality disorder presents as

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  • Grandiose excessive sense of self-importance, superiority, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
  • Fragile self-esteem
  • Takes advantage to exploit others for self-gain
  • Lacks empathy for others
  • Reacts to rejection with rage
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Social inhibition due to an intense fear of rejection, affecting daily life. Timid, shy, lacks confidence

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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How does avoidant personality disorder differ from schizoid personality disorder?

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  • Avoidant patients do not want to be alone, they just have a fear of being rejected.
  • Schizoid patients prefer to be alone
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Describe a patient with dependent personality disorder

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  • Pattern of excessive need to be taken care of, leading to clingy behavior
  • Difficulty expressing disagreement for fear of decreased approval
  • Feeling of helplessness when alone
  • Serial relationships
  • Goes to extreme lengths to gain approval of others
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Describe obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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-Characterized by preoccupation with order, details, and perfectionism without obsessions or compulsions

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True or False: Behavior in a patient with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is ego-syntonic

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True

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Fixed belief despite evidence to the contrary

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delusion

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What is a non bizarre delusion

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False + plausible but highly unlikely (such as being poisoned)

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What is the diagnostic criteria to diagnose a patient with delusional disorder?

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-At least 1 delusion lasting at least 1 month WITHOUT other psychotic symptoms and no significant impairment in function

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Treatment for delusional disorder

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Atypical (2nd generation) antipsychotics

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What is schizophreniform disorder?

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Symptoms of Schizophrenia but duration between 1-6 months

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What is schizoaffective disorder?

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Schizophrenia + mood disorder (major depressive or manic episode)

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Describe the difference in presentation regarding ages between men and women for schizophrenia?

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-Men present earlier (early to mid 20s) and women present in the late 20’s.

Men tend to have more negative symptoms and poorer outcome

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Risk Factors for Schizophrenia
- Strong genetic predisposition | - Substance use is common: nicotine most common
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What are some factors that have a better outcome for a patient with schizophrenia?
- Later age of onset - Acute onset - Positive symptoms - Good social support - Female gender - Few relapses - No family history of mental illness
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What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
THESE SYMPTOMS ADD TO NORMAL BEHAVIOR Hallucinations Delusions Disorganized Speech Behavioral Disturbances
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What are negative symptoms for schizophrenia?
These symptoms TAKE AWAY from normal behavior - Absence of normal cognition - Affect flattening - Alogia: poverty of speech - Avolition: poor hygiene and grooming, anergy - Anhedonia - Asociality: failure to engage with others socially
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What is the pathophysiology of positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Due to excess dopamine in the mesolimbic pathway
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What is the diagnostic criteria for schizophrenia?
-2 or more following symptoms: positive symptom, negative symptom, disorganized behavior for at least 6 months At least 1 must be hallucinations, delusions, disorganized speech and must manifest for at least 1 month Must impair function
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What is seen on a CT scan for a patient with schizophrenia?
Ventricular enlargement (lateral and third) as well as decreased cortical volume and grey matter
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First line pharmacotherapy for schizophrenia
Atypical antipsychotics (Risperidone, Olanzapine, Quetiapine, Aripiprazole)
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First-generation antipsychotics such as (Haloperidol, Droperidol, and Chlorpromazine) are used in treatment of schizophrenia, but have increased risk of
Extrapyramidal symptoms, tardive dyskinesia, and neuroleptic malignant syndrome
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True or False: with PTSD, the traumatic event happened anytime in the past
True
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Symptoms of PTSD
- Re-experiencing: > 1 month as repetitive recollections (distressing dreams) and dissociative reactions (flashbacks) - Avoidance of stimuli associated with the traumatic event - At least 2 negative alterations in cognition and mood: inability to remember important aspects of the event, anhedonia, negative emotions - At least 2 arousal and reactivity symptoms: angry outbursts, irritable behavior, sleep disturbances, startle response
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First-line treatment for PTSD
SSRI's - Trazodone may be helpful for insomnia - Cognitive behavioral therapy
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What medication may be useful for nightmares and hypervigilance?
Prazosin
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What is the diagnostic criteria for acute stress disorder?
Traumatic event occurred < 1 month ago and the symptoms last < 1 month
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What is the treatment for acute stress disorder?
Counseling and psychotherapy are first-line because the symptoms will resolve in 1 month If symptoms last > 1 month, treat as PTSD
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What is adjustment disorder?
Maladaptive behavior to an identifiable stressor (job loss, physical illness, leaving home, divorce, etc.) that causes a disproportionate response than would normally be expected within 3 MONTHS of the stressor and resolves WITHIN 6 MONTHS
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Treatment of choice for adjustment disorder
Psychotherapy
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What is illness anxiety disorder?
-Preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness despite constant reassurance and medical workups showing no disease Formerly known as hypochondriasis
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Explain how long the symptoms are present in illness anxiety disorder
At least 6 months There are no somatic symptoms present in this condition Not explained by another disorder
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Management of illness anxiety disorder
- Regularly-scheduled appointments with their medical provider - Psychotherapy (CBT)
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What is malingering?
Intentional falsification or exaggeration of signs and symptoms for external (secondary) gain (financial gain, food, shelter, avoidance of prison/school/work, to obtain drugs)
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What is the difference between malingering and factitious disorder?
In malingering, the patient wants secondary gain; however, in factitious disorder, the primary motive is to assume the sick role and get sympathy

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