AbPsych Exam 3

Question 1

Anhedonia

Answer 1

Inability to feel pleasure

Question 2

How to identify major depressive episodes

Answer 2

o	Depressed mood (affect)
o	Diminished interest in activities
o	Significant weight loss or decrease in appetite nearly everyday
o	Insomnia or hypersomnia
o	Psychomotor agitation or retardation
o	PerFatigue or loss of energy
o	Feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt (cognitive)
o	Diminished ability to concentrate
o	Recurrent thoughts of death

Question 3

Difference between major depress disorder and persistent depression.

Answer 3

Persistent depression has fewer and less severe symptoms

Question 4

How to identify hallucinations when they are symptoms of depression

Answer 4

Depressive themes

Question 5

Seasonal Affective Disorder

Answer 5

Characterized by lethargy, anergy, hypersomnia, over-eating, weight gain, carbohydrate cravings.
Fall-Winter based.

Question 6

Postpartum onset

Answer 6

After the birth of a child mood fluctuates wildly.

Question 7

Catatonic features

Answer 7

Matoric immobility or excessive purposeless motor activity; extreme negativism, repeating others actions and words.

Question 8

Melancholic features

Answer 8

Worse in the morning, significant weightless, dysphoria.

Question 9

Psychotic features

Answer 9

Delusions or hallucinations consistent with depressive themes

Question 10

Gender difference in the diagnosis of depressive disorders

Answer 10

Men are more likely to be depressed, but women are more likely to be diagnosed.

Question 11

Characteristics of childhood and adolescent depression

Answer 11

• Sleep loss
• Appetite loss
• Decline in school performance
• Social withdrawal
• Fatigue
• Writing goodbye letters
• Giving possessions away

Question 12

How to identify bipolar disorder

Answer 12

Mood is frenzied (many mixed emotions)
Thought content is grandiose
Delusions (visual and auditory)
Racing ideas and speech
Impaired judgment
Disinhibition
Recklessness
MEN AND WOMEN ARE EQUALLY LIKELY TO DEVELP BD

Question 13

Cyclothymia

Answer 13

Less severe and more chronic than bipolar

Question 14

People with Bipolar disorder and cyclothymia tend to be more…

Answer 14

creative than others

Question 15

ECT is used when

Answer 15

A person has exhausted all other treatments. A last resort.

Question 16

Lithium treatment of Bipolar Disorder

Answer 16

Prevents manic and depressive episodes, greatly reduces the risk of suicide

Question 17

The full name of the new depressive order DMDD

Answer 17

Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder

Question 18

When receiving both medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy

Answer 18

85% of people experience relief from depression

Question 19

Egoistic suicide

Answer 19

When suicide is committed by people who feel alienated from others

Question 20

Anomic suicide

Answer 20

committed by people who experience severe disorientation from society

Question 21

Altruistic suicide

Answer 21

committee when a person believes that taking his or her life will benefit society in some way

Question 22

Suicide cluster

Answer 22

When two or more suicides or attempted suicides are non randomly bunched together in space or time, such as a series of suicide attempts in the same high school or a series of completed suicides in response to the suicide of a celebrity

Question 23

Suicide is the ______ leading cause of death in the U. S.

Answer 23

8th

Question 24

Factors associated with the high rate of suicides among Native Americans

Answer 24

Poverty, lack of education and hope, discrimination, substance abuse, and easy access to firearms

Question 25

Risk factors for adolescent suicide

Answer 25

- Family history - Being male - Native American - Psychiatric diagnosis - White in contrast to black - Mini epidemics - Delinquency history - Access to firearms

Question 26

Warning signs of suicide

Answer 26

- Sleep loss - Appetite loss - Decline in school performance - Social withdrawal - Fatigue - Writing goodbye letters - Giving possessions away

Question 27

Most common risk factor of suicide in college students

Answer 27

A history of major depression

Question 28

Single best predictor of suicide attempts and completed suicides

Answer 28

hopelessness

Question 29

Failed attempts will certainly lead to...

Answer 29

future attempts without intervention

Question 30

Older people are more likely to commit suicide because...

Answer 30

Cannot tolerate loss of their spouse or loved ones, want to escape the pain of illness, cannot bear the idea of being in a nursing home.