Psych Disorders Test

Question 1

DSM - 1

Answer 1

any mental health conditions, other than personality disorders or mental disability, would have been included here.

Question 2

DSM - 2

Answer 2

provided information about personality disorders and mental disability.

Question 3

DSM - 3

Answer 3

info about any medical conditions that were present which might impact the patient’s mental disorder.

Question 4

DSM - 4

Answer 4

environmental factors affecting the person - social environment, educational problems, occupational problems, housing problems

Question 5

DSM - 5

Answer 5

rating scale from 0 - 100: 100 = no symptoms, 10 = danger of hurting self or others, can’t maintain personal hygiene

Question 6

Schizophrenia

Answer 6

• split from reality
• delusions
• hallucinations
• inappropriate expression of emotion
• disorganized speech

Question 7

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Answer 7

• persistent and excessive worry
• nervousness
• sense of impending danger, panic, or doom
• feeling weak or tired

Question 8

Bipolar Disorder

Answer 8

alternating between mania and depression

Question 9

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Answer 9

person exhibits two or more distinct personalities
loss of memory

Question 10

Antisocial Personality Disorder

Answer 10

• antisocial = disruptive
• person exhibits lack of conscience for wrongdoing
• smaller frontal lobes
• body secretes less adrenaline

Question 11

Borderline Personality Disorder

Answer 11

fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, self destructive behaviors, self harm, mood swings, explosive anger

Question 12

Phobias

Answer 12

identifiable cause, diagnosis happens when a person organizes life around object of fear — can be caused by life experience, genetics, and brain chemistry

Question 13

OCD

Answer 13

• unwanted, repetitive thoughts, actions

Question 14

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Answer 14

characterized by an extreme focus on physical symptoms that causes major emotional distress and problems functioning - there is no medical reason for it
ex. illness anxiety disorder, conversion disorder

Question 15

Behavioral Therapy

Answer 15

observable
- therapy that applies learning principles to getting rid of unwanted behavior
- focuses on what we do

Question 16

Cognitive Therapy

Answer 16

• teaches new ways of thinking
• assumes thoughts intervene with events and our emotions

Question 17

Aversive Therapy

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creates association with an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior
ex. associate alcohol with nausea

Question 18

Counterconditioning

Answer 18

uses CC to evoke responses to stimuli
- replace fear of small places with relaxation
- exposure therapy
- aversive therapy

Question 19

Operant Conditioning

Answer 19

Token economy - earn a token for doing something that can be exchanged for treats or privileges
- good for children with autism

Question 20

Client-Centered Therapy

Answer 20

• therapist refrains from judging or interpreting what client says
• active listening: therapist echos, restates, and seeks clarification

Question 21

Humanist Therapies

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growth
- insight therapies: aims to increase a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses
- focus on promoting growth
- conscious thoughts are more important

Question 22

Psychodynamic Therapy

Answer 22

unconscious
- therapist is introducing them to themselves
ex. Husband - “I can’t say I love you to my wife”
PD Therapist - “Do you mean that if you could, you would like to?”
Husband - “Well, I don’t know… maybe I can’t say it because it is not true.”

Question 23

Biomedical

Answer 23

prescribed medication

Question 24

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

Answer 24

Albert Ellis
- changing a person’s thinking by pointing out its ‘absurdity’
- challenge the person vigorously

Question 25

Exposure Therapy

Answer 25

techniques that treat anxieties by exposing them to the things that they fear

Question 26

Agoraphobia

Answer 26

an anxiety disorder that often develops after one or more panic attacks.
Symptoms include fear and avoidance of places and situations that might cause feelings of panic, entrapment, helplessness, or embarrassment.