Exam 2 Flashcards
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Anorexia Nervosa diagnostic criteria
Failure to maintain normal weight for gender/age/height/physical health.
Intense fear of gaining weight
Disturbance in the way one’s body is experienced
Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake (ARFID)
An eating disturbance that manifests as a persistent failure to meet nutritional or energy needs.
Avoidance based on sensory characteristics or fear of choking.
Behavioral Activation
A treatment for depression that focuses on increasing reinforcement by encouraging patients to engage in activities they find enjoyable.
Binge Eating Disorder
Recurrent episodes of binge eating in which an individual eats a significantly larger amount of food than what most people would in a discrete period and experiences a lack of control.
Bipolar I Disorder
Both major depressive episodes and mania.
Bipolar II Disorder
Characterized by both major depressive episodes and hypomania.
Bulimia Nervosa
Recurrent binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors such as purging.
Cognitive therapy
Treatment approach that involves identifying and correcting illogical thinking patterns often associated with depression.
Compensatory Behavior
Actions taken to prevent weight gain after binge eating, such as purging, fasting, or excessive exercise.
Conversion Disorder/Functional Neurological Syndrome (FND)
Neurological symptoms that cannot be explain by a physical cause.
Patterns inconsistent with organic impairment and may exhibit a lack of concern about the symptom.
Cyclothymia
Characterized by at least 2 years of alternating between sub-diagnostic depression and hypomania.
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)
A treatment for depression that involves passing an electrical current through the brain.
Exposure and Responsive Prevention
A treatment used for OCD and illness anxiety disorder, that involves gradually exposing patients to their fears and preventing them from engaging in the usual compulsive responses.
Extinction
Decrease in voluntary behavior that has the potential to produce rewarding consequences.
Factitious disorder
The falsification of physical or physiological symptoms or induction of injury or disease in oneself or another, even in the absence of obvious external rewards.
Family Based Treatment (FBT)
A treatment for eating disorder, anorexia, in which all family members are actively involved in helping the patient re-establish health eating, restore weight, and interrupt compensatory behaviors.
Feminist-Socioculture Perspective
Emphasizes societal pressures and cultural ideals, regarding female thinness, in the development of eating disorders.
Hypomanic episode
A period of at least 4 days characterized by elevated mood and similar symptoms to mania but with reduced impairment or severity.
Illness Anxiety Disorder
Preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness.
May engage in excessive health-related behaviors.
Introjection
A defense mechanism in which an individual turns angry feelings inward, resulting in self-criticism and attack.
Learned helplessness
A theory of depression that suggests individuals may develop a sense of hopelessness and passivity after experiencing repeated uncontrollable negative events.
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
Characterized by one or more major depressive episodes without any intervening periods of mania.
Major Depressive Episode
A period of at least two weeks characterized by five or more symptoms of depression, including either depressed mood or loss of pleasure or interest in usual activities (anhedonia).
Malingering
Intentionally feigning illness for external gain, such as financial benefits, prescription drugs, or time off work.
