Psychiatry Flashcards
Transference
Patient projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto physician
Countertransference
Doctor projects feelings about formative or other important persons onto patient
Acting out
Immature
Subconsciously coping with stressor or emotional conflict using actions rather than reflections or feelings
Denial
Immature
Avoiding the awareness of some painful reality
Displacement
Immature
Redirection of emotions or impulses to a neutral person or object
Dissociation
Immature
Temporary, drastic change in personality, memory, consciousness, or motor behavior to avoid emotional stress. Patient has incomplete or no memory of traumatic event.
Fixation
Partially remaining at a more childish level of development
Idealization
Expressing extremely positive thoughts of self and others while ignoring negative thoughts
Identification
Largely unconscious assumption of the characteristics, qualities or traits of another person or group
Intellectualization
Using facts and logic to emotionally distance oneself from a stressful situation
Isolation of affect
Separating feelings from ideas and events
Passive aggressive
Demonstrating hostile feelings in a nonconfrontational manners; indirect opposition
Projection
Attributing an unacceptable internal impulse to an external source
Rationalization
Asserting plausible explanations for events that actually occurred for other reasons, avoid self blame
Reaction Formation
replacing a warded off idea or feeling with an emphasis on its opposite
Regression
involuntarily turning back the maturational clock to behaviors previously demonstrated under stress
Repression
Involuntarily withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness
Splitting
Believing that people are either all good or all bad at different times due to intolerance of ambiguity. Borderline Personality Disorder
Sublimation
Replacing an unacceptable wish with a course of action that is similar to the wish but socially acceptable
Mature
Altruism
Alleviating negative feelings via unsolicited generosity, which provides gratification
Suppression
Intentionally withholding an idea or feeling from conscious awareness temporarily
Humor
Lightheartedly expressing uncomfortable feelings to shift the internal focus away from distress
Infant deprivation effects
failure to thrive
poor language/socialization
lack of basic trust
Reactive attachment disorder
Disinhibited social engagement (attached to strangers)
Deprivation for >6 months –> irreversible changes
Child Physical Abuse
Fracture, bruises, burns
Different stages of healing
Caregivers may delay seeking medical attention
Child Sexual Abuse
STI, UTI, genital, anal or oral trauma
May be no physical trauma
9-12 years
Child Emotional abuse
lack a bond with caregiver but overly affectionate with other adults
Aggressive toward children and animals
Child Neglect
Failure to provide with adequate food, shelter, supervision, education, affection
Poor hygiene, malnutrition, withdrawal, impaired social development, failure to thrive
Report to CPS
Vulnerable Child Syndrome
Parents perceive the child as susceptible to illness or injury.
Attention deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
<12 years
>6 months of limited attention span or poor impulse control
Hyperactivity, impulsivity, inattention in >2 settings
Normal intelligence but difficulty in school
T(x): stimulants, behavioral therapy
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Repetitive, pervasive behavior violating social norms.
After age 18 –> Antisocial Personality Disorder
T(x) CBT
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
Before 10 years
Severe, recurrent temper outbursts
Child is constantly angry and irritable
T(x): CBT, stimulants, antipsychotics
Intellectual Disability
Global cognitive deficits that affect reasoning, memory, abstract thinking, judgement, language, learning.
Difficulty with education, employment, communication, socialization
T(x): psychotherapy, occupational therapy, special ed
Oppositional Defiant disorder
Enduring pattern of anger and irritability with argumentative, vindictive and defiant behavior toward authority figures
T(x): CBT
Selective mutism
Onset <5 years
Anxiety disorder lasting >1 month involving refraining from speech in certain situations despite speaking in other, usually more comfortable situation.
Development not typically impaired
Coexists with social anxiety disorder
T(x): behavioral, family, play therapy, SSRIs
Separation anxiety Disorder
Overwhelming fear of separation from home or attachment figure lasting >4 weeks. Can be normal behavior up to 3-4 years. May lead to factitious physical complaints to avoid school
T(x): CBT, play therapy, family therapy
Specific Learning Disorder
Onset during school age years.
Inability to acquire or use information form a specific subject near age expected proficiency for > 6 months despite focused intervention.
General functioning and intelligence are normal
T(x): academic support, counseling, extracurricular activities
Tourette Syndrome
Onset before age 18
sudden, recurrent, nonrhythmic, stereotyped motor and vocal tics that persist for >1 year.
Coprolalia found in some
Associated with OCD and ADHD
T(x): psychoeducation, Behavioral therapy, haloperidol, fluphenazine, tetrabenazine, a2 agonists
Orientation
Patients’ ability to know the date and time, where they are, and who they are
Loss of orientation- alcohol, drugs, fluid, imbalance, head trauma, hypoglycemia, infection, nutrition, hypoxia
Retrograde Amnesia
Inability to remember things that occurred before a CNS insult
Anterograde Amnesia
Inability to remember things that occurred after a CNS insult
Korsakoff Syndrome
Amnesia (anterograde > retrograde) and disorientation caused by vitamin B1 deficiency.
Associated with disruption and destruction of the limbic system (mammillary bodies and anterior thalamus)
Confabulations
Depersonalization/ derealization Disorder
Persistent feelings of detachment or estrangement from one’s own body, thoughts, perceptions and actions (depersonalization) or one’s environment (derealization)
Intact reality testing
Dissociative Amnesia
Inability to recall important personal information, usually following severe trauma or stress.
May be accompanied by dissociative fugue
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Presence of >2 distinct identities or personalities
Women
Associated with Hx of sexual abuse, PTSD, depression, substance abuse, borderline personality, somatic symptom disorder
Delirium
Waxing and waning levels of consciousness with acute onset, decrease attention span, decrease level of arousal.
Disorganized thinking, hallucinations, misperceptions
Secondary to identifiable illness
T(x): underlying cause, decrease sleep disturbance, increase cognitive stimulation, antipsychotics
Delusions
False, fixed, idiosyncratic beliefs that persist despite evidence to the contrary and are not typical of a patient’s culture or religion
Disorganized though
Speech may be incoherent, tangential, derailed
Hallucinations
Perception in the absence of external stimuli Auditory- in schizophrenic pt Visual- drugs, delirium Tactile- alcohol withdrawal and stimulant use Olfactory- epilepsy, brain tumors Gustatory- epilepsy Hypnagogic- going to sleep, narcolepsy Hypnopompic- when waking up, narcolepsy
Schizophrenia
Profound functional impairment
(+) hallucinations, delusions, unusual thought processes, disorganized speech, bizarre behavior
(-) flat, blunted affect, apathy, anhedonia, alogia, social withdrawal
Cognitive- reduced ability to understand or make plans, diminished working memory, inattention
Schizophrenia D(x)
>2 symptoms Delusion Hallucinations (auditory) Disorganized speech Disorganized or catatonic behavior Negative symptoms >1 month of active symptoms over the past 6 months
Schizophrenia path
associated with altered dopaminergic activity, increased 5HT activity and decreased dendritic branching.
Men
Associated with heavy cannabis use in adolescence
T(x) atypical antipsychotics
Brief psychotic Disorder
> 1 positive symptom lasting <1 month, stress related
Schizophreniform Disorder
> 2 symptoms lasting 1-6 months
Schizoaffective Disorder
shares symptoms with both schizophrenia and mood disorders
> 2 weeks of psychotic symptoms without manic or depressive episode
Delusional Disorder
> 1 delusion lasting >1 month without mood disorder or other psychotic symptoms. Daily functions may be impacted. Can be shared by individuals in close relationship
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Cluster A
brief psychotic episodes that are less frequent and severe than schizophrenia
Social Anxiety
eccentric appearance, odd beliefs, or magical thinking, interpersonal awkwardness
Manic Episode
Distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated expansive or irritable mood and increased activity or energy >1 week. D(x)= >3 Distractibility Impulsivity Grandiosity Flight of ideas Increased activity decrease sleep Talkative
Hypomanic episode
Mood disturbance is not severe enough to cause marked impairment in social or occupational functioning or necessitate hospitalization. >4 consecutive days
Bipolar 1
> 1 manic episode +/- hypomanic or depressive episode
Bipolar 2
hypomanic and a depressive episode. Patient’s mood and functioning usually normal between episodes.
Cyclothymic disorder
mild form of bipolar disorder fluctuating between mild depressive and hypomanic symptoms
>2 years with symptoms present at least half of the time with remission lasting <2 months
Major Depressive Disorder
Recurrent episodes lasting >2 weeks characterized by >5 symptoms Depressed mood decreased interest guilt/worthlessness sleep disturbances suicidal ideation psychomotor retardation Appetite changes decreased concentration decreased energy T(x): CBT and SSRIs
Major Depressive Disorder with psychotic features
MDD + hallucinations or delusions. Psychotic features are typically mood congruent and occur only in the context of major depressive episode
T(x): antidepressant with atypical antipsychotic, ECT
Persistent Depressive Disorder
milder than MDD, >2 depressive symptoms lasting >2 years with any remission lasting <2 months
MDD with seasonal pattern
Major depressive episodes occurring only during particular season in >2 consecutive years. Atypical symptoms common
Depression with atypical features
mood reactivity, hypersomnia, hyperphagia, leaden paralysis, long standing interpersonal rejection sensitivity.
T(x) CBT, SSRIs, then MAOi
Peripartum mood disturbances
onset during or shortly after pregnancy or within 4 weeks of delivery. increased risk with Hx of mood disorders
Maternal postpartum blues
depressed affect, tearfulness, fatigue 2-3 days after delivery
resolves within 2 weeks
T(x): supportive and follow up to assess for MDD