Diagnosis Flashcards
(107 cards)
Criteria for all DSM Dx
- Clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning
- Not attributable to another medical condition or substance/medication use
- Not better explained by another disorder
(Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
Intellectual Disability (Intellectual Development Disorder)
- Deficits in general mental abilities and adaptive functioning
- Onset during development (childhood or even in utero)
- Mild, Moderate, Severe, or Profound based on functioning
(Neurodevelopmental Disorders)
Children who can’t be assessed (temporary dx)*
- Global developmental delay if under 5 years old
- Unspecified intellectual disability if 5 or older
(Communication Disorders)
Language disorder
- Difficulty in acquisition, use of language across modalities
- Early childhood onset (toddler)
(Communication Disorders)
Speech Sounds Disorder
- Difficulty producing speech sounds impairs/prevents talking
- Early childhood onset
(Communication Disorders)
Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
- Difficulty in communicating socially, including rules for conversation/storytelling
- Difficulty understanding anything that is not explicitly said
- Early childhood onset, not usually diagnosed until at least 4
Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Deficits in social communication and interaction
- Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior
- Symptoms present in early childhood, even if not diagnosed until later
- Replaces DSM-IV Autistic Disorder, Aspergers’s Disorder, and PDD NOS
ADHD
- Inattention sys persisting for at least 6 months
- Hyperactivity/impulsivity sys persisting at least 6 months
- Sxs present in multiple settings and were present before age 12
- A lot of differential dx: ODD, IED, Autism spectrum, learning disorder, anxiety and more
Psychotic Disorders
- Delusions - fixed beliefs unchanged by conflicting evidence
- Hallucinations - perceptions w/o external stimulus
- Disorganized thinking/speech - tangential, in coherent
- Motor behavior - grossly disorganized or abnormal
- Negative sys - diminished emotion, motivated activity
- Also alogia (limited speech), anhedonia (not taking pleasure in pleasurable activities), asociality (lack of social interest)
(Psychotic Disorders)
Delusional disorder
- Delusion w/o serious impairment and w/o other schizophrenia criteria
- Sxs at least one month
- Specify type of delusion, modifiers after one year
(Psychotic Disorders)
Brief psychotic disorder
- Delusions, hallucinations, and/or disorganized speech ( negative sys not considered here)
- At least 1 day and less than one month, with return to full functioning
(Psychotic Disorders)
Schizophreniform Disorder
- Same 5 main criteria as schizophrenia
- At least 1 month, but less than 6 months
(Psychotic Disorders)
Schizophrenia
- 5 main criteria
- Continuous signs of disturbance for at least 6 months
- Specify episodes
(Psychotic Disorders)
Schizoaffective disorder
- mood episode concurrent w main criteria for schizophrenia
- psychotic symptoms persist w/o mood episode, but mood episode present more than half of the time
(Psychotic Disorders)
Substance/Medication-Induced Psychotic Disorder
- delusions or hallucinations as direct result of substance/med
- psychotic symptoms dominant, warrant clinical attention
Bipolar and Related Disorders
- For these and depressive disorders, know mood episodes - Manic episode - Hypomanic episode - Major depressive episode
- Manic episode: at least one week
- risk-taking, grandiosity, less sleep, distractible
- one+ manic episode is necessary for Bipolar I dx
- episode requires hospitalization or includes psychotic sys, even if less than a week, it is a manic episode
- Hypomanic episode: at least 4 days
- generally same symptoms, but to lesser degree (manic causes marked impairment, hypomanic does not)
- Major depressive episode
- 5+ sxs over at least a 2-week period
- at least one sxs is depressed mood (or irritable in kids) or anhedonia
- depressed mood, anhedonia, weight change, sleep change, motor activity change, fatigue, worthlessness/guilt, poor concentration
(Bipolar and Related Disorders)
Bipolar I Dx
- only requires manic episode
- differentials: substance/medication-induced bipolar, ADHD, anxiety disorders
(Bipolar and Related Disorders)
Bipolar II Dx
- requires hypomanic episode AND major depressive episode
- differentials: MDD, cyclothymic, substance, anxiety disorder
(Bipolar and Related Disorders)
Cyclothymic Disorder
- for at least 2 years, numerous periods of hypomanic sxs and depressive sxs
- Sxs present at least half the time, never 2 months sxs free
- But without EVER meeting criteria for hypomanic or depressive episode
- (less severe, but longer lasting)
- differentials: bipolar, substance, borderline
(Bipolar and Related Disorders)
Substance/Medication-Induced Bipolar
used when there is a clear link bw substance or medication use - timing and capability
(Depressive Disorders)
Major Depressive Disorder
- At least one major depressive episode
- Differentials: Mood disorder due to another medical condition, ADHD, more
(Depressive Disorders)
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder
- Frequent temper outbursts (inconsistent w developmental level and 3+ times/week), persistent angry/irritable mood in between
- Present 12 months w/o any 3 months where criteria not met
- Sxs present in at least 2 settings (e.g. school/home)
- Age of onset is less than 10 years, don’t dx under 6 or 18+
- differential: ODD, bipolar, autism spectrum. intermittent explosive disorder can be dx after 3 months. never give both dx.
(Depressive Disorders)
Persistent Depressive d/o (dysthymia)
- persistent depressed mood for at least 2 years (1 in kids), with never 2 months sxs free
- MDD, psychotic, due to AMC, substance, personality
(Depressive Disorders)
Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder
- affective sxs in majority of cycle at least 1 year
- sxs track with menstrual cycle, become minimal or absent in week post-menses
- different from premenstrual syndrome, which is less severe