Rule out diagnoses Flashcards
What need to be ruled out before you make a diagnosis of Adjustment Disorder? 6
- Acute Stress Disorder (extremely severe stressor that elicits multiple psychological symptoms, e.g., intrusive distressing memories, withdrawal, or dissociation lasting up to 2-4 weeks)
- MDD
- PTSD
- Personality Disorders
- Psychological factors affecting other medical conditions
- Normative stress reactions
What needs to be ruled out before you make a diagnosis of Anorexia Nervosa? 9
Medical condition causing weight loss MDD resulting in lack of appetite and weight loss Substance abuse disorders Bulimia Nervosa Social anxiety disorder Body dysmorphic disorder OCD Schizophrenia Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder
What needs to be ruled before you make a dx of Antisocial Personality Disorder? 6
Criminal behavior Substance abuse Narcissistic personality disorder Paranoid personality disorder Hypomanic episode in bipolar II disorder Cyclothymic disorder
What needs to be ruled before you make a dx of ADHD? 18
Normal temperamental characteristics Depressive disorders Bipolar disorders Anxiety disorders Intermittent explosive disorder Oppositional defiant disorder Stereotypic movement disorder Tourette's disorder Autism spectrum disorder Specific learning disorder Substance use disorders Personality Disorders Neurocognitive disorders Psychotic disorders Medication-induced symptoms Reactive attachment disorder Intellectual disability Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
What need to be ruled out before you make a dx of Autism Spectrum Disorder? (11)
Congenital hearing impairment Schizophrenia with childhood onset Psychosocial deprivation Childhood schizophrenia Rett Disorder (in girls) OCD Schizoid personality disorder Selective mutism Language Disorders Social communication disorders ADHD Intellectual disability without autism spectrum disorder Stereotypic movement disorder
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Avoidant Personality Disorder? 6
- Social phobia (experiences significant anxiety symptoms in social situations)
- Dependent personality disorder (mainly seeks care from others)
- Schizoid personality disorder (is content with little social contact)
- Agoraphobia
- Substance use disorders
- Personality change due to another medical condition
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Bipolar I Disorder? (15)
Bipolar II disorder Schizophrenia Substance use disorders Delirium Cyclothymic disorder MDD Bipolar disorder due to another medical condition Personality disorders Disorders with prominent irritability ADHD Substance/medication-induced bipolar disorder Panic disorder GAD and other anxiety disorders PTSD
What need to be ruled out before you make a dx of Body Dysmorphic Disorder? (12)
Normal appearance concerns Psychotic disorders Anorexia and other eating disorders Gender dysphoria MDD Avoidant personality disorder OCD Delusional disorder, somatic type Koro Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders Anxiety disorders Illness anxiety disorder
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Borderline Personality Disorder? (11)
- Histrionic personality disorder
- Narcissistic personality disorder
- Paranoid personality disorder (do not include self-destructive behavior or feelings of aloneness)
- Depressive disorders
- Bipolar disorders
- Personality change due to another medical condition
- Substance use disorders
- Identity problems
- Dependent personality disorder
- Schizotypal personality disorder
- Antisocial personality disorder
- Personality change due to another medical condition
- Substance use disorders
- Identity problems
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Brief Psychotic Disorder? (15)
- Psychotic disorder due to another medical condition
- Delirium
- Substance/medication-induced delirium
- Substance intoxication
- Schizophreniform disorder
- Delusional disorder
- Bipolar disorder with psychotic features
- Other schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders
- Factitious disorder
- Personality disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Depressive disorder with psychotic features
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Bulimia Nervosa? (5)
- Anorexia Nervosa - binge-eating/purging type (body weight is much below normal)
- Kleine-Levin syndrome (episodic eating binges and hypersomnia)
- Borderline personality disorder (poor impulse control including impulsive eating)
- Binge-eating disorder
- MDD with atypical features
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Conduct disorder? 7
Depressive disorders Bipolar disorders ADHD Intermittent explosive disorder Adjustment disorders Oppositional defiant disorder Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Conversion Disorder? 9
Substance/medication-induced etiologies Neurological disease Somatic symptom disorder Somatization disorder Body dysmorphic disorder Dissociative Disorders Factitious disorder and malingering Depressive disorders Panic disorder
What needs to be ruled before you make a dx of Cyclothymic Disorder? 9
- Substance/medication-induced bipolar and related disorder
- Substance/medicaiton-induced depressive disorder
- MDD (the residual phase is characterized by dysthymic disorder in some patients, so-called “double depression)
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bipolar I disorder with rapid cycling
- Bipolar II disorder with rapid cycling
- Bipolar and related disorders due to another medical condition
- Depressive disorder due to another medical condition
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Delayed Ejaculation? (4)
Incompatible sexual technique
Substance/medication use
Dysfunction with orgasm (anhedonic ejaculation)
Another medical condition
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Delirium? 6
- Other neurocognitive disorders (e.g. major or minor neurocognitive disorder due to Alzheimer’s disease)
- Psychotic disorders
- Bipolar disorders with psychotic features
- Depressive disorders with psychotic features
- Acute stress disorder
- Factitious disorder and malingering
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Delusional Disorder? 11
- Delirium
- Major neurocognitive disorder
- Substance/medication-induced psychotic disorder
- Schizophrenia
- Schizophreniform disorder
- Depressive disorder with psychotic features
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder with absent insight/delusional beliefs
- Body dysmorphic disorder with absent insight/delusional beliefs
- Schizoaffective disorder
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Dependent Personality Disorder? (7)
Dependent traits without pathology
Depressive disorders (more episodic and not as chronic)
Agoraphobia
Panic disorder
Substance use disorders
Personality change due to another medical condition
Borderline personality disorder
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder? 9
Other dissociative disorders Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders MDD Anxiety disorders OCD Histrionic personality disorder Illness anxiety disorder Substance/medication-induced disorders Mental disorders due to another medical condition
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Dissociative Amnesia? 12
Neurocognitive disorders Delirium Normal aging Dissociative identity disorder Factitious disorder and malingering PTSD Substance-related disorder Posttraumatic amnesia due to brain injury Seizure disorders Catatonic stupor Depersonalization/derealization disorder Acute stress disorder
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of DID? 10
Borderline Personality Disorder Schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders MDD Bipolar disorders Conversion disorders Seizure disorders Factitious disorder Substance/medication-induced disorders PTSD Malingering must be ruled out when the pt presents in a forensic context
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Erectile Disorder? 6
- Presence of erections during REM sleep, morning erections, or erections with masturbation suggest a psychological rather than a physical cause
- MDD
- Substance/medication use
- Male hypoactive sexual desire disorder
- Premature ejaculation
- Another medical condition
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Exhibitionistic Disorder? 6
Neurocognitive disorders Conduct disorder Antisocial personality disorder Schizophrenia Substance use disorders Situational difficulties (i.e. lack of suitable partners)
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx Factitious Disorder? 5
Conversion disorder Borderline personality disorder Somatic symptom disorder Medical condition or mental disorder not associated with intentional symptoms Malingering
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Female Orgasmic Disorder? 6
Nonsexual mental disorder
Interpersonal factors (e.g. IPV, severe relational distress)
Another medical condition
Substance/medication use
Other sexual dysfunction
Incompatible sexual technique or inadequate sexual stimulation
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder? 6
- Nonsexual mental disorders
- Interpersonal factors (e.g. intimate partner violence, severe relational distress)
- Substance/medication use
- Another medical condition
- Other sexual dysfunctions
- Inadequate or absent sexual stimuli
What needs to be ruled out before you make a dx of Fetishistic Disorder? 6
Tranvestic disorder
Sexual mashochism disorder or other paraphilic disorders
Schizophrenia
Major or minor neurocognitive disorder
Situational difficulties
Fetishistic behavior without fetishistic disorder