CLPS 0010 Readings - Chapter 14

Question 1

Axis 1 classification

Answer 1

Clinical disorders: schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, sexual and gender disorders, sleep disorders, eating disorders

Question 2

Axis 2 classification

Answer 2

Mental retardation and personality disorders: antisocial, paranoid, borderline

Question 3

Axis 3 classification

Answer 3

General medication conditions

Question 4

Axis 4 classification

Answer 4

Psychosocial and environmental problems that might affect diagnosis/treatment/prognosis

Question 5

Axis 5 classification

Answer 5

Global assessment of functioning on a scale from 1 to 100

Question 6

What is the family systems model?

Answer 6

A diagnostic model that considers symptoms within an individual as indicating problems within the family

Question 7

What is the sociocultural model?

Answer 7

Diagnostic model that view psychopathology as the result of the interaction between individuals and their cultures

Question 8

What is the diathesis-stress model?

Answer 8

Diagnostic model that proposes that a disorder may develop when an underlying vulnerability is coupled with a precipitating event

Question 9

What is the cognitive-behavioral approach?

Answer 9

Diagnostic model that views psychopathology as the result of learned, maladaptive thoughts and beliefs

Question 10

What is the difference between internalizing and externalizing disorders?

Answer 10

Internalizing: characterized by negative emotions and grouped into categories that reflect fear and distress; Externalizing: characterized by disinhibition

Question 11

What is the general gender trend for internalizing/externalizing disorders?

Answer 11

Internalizing for women, externalizing for men’

Question 12

What neurotransmitter is OCD related to?

Answer 12

Glutamate: main excitatory transmitter

Question 13

What brain area is OCD related to, when smaller?

Answer 13

Caudate: involved in impulse suppression (leads to overactivation of frontal lobe for compensation)