Exam three Flashcards
(33 cards)
Which of the following is not a condition found with eating disorders in the DSM?
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Lanugo is defined as what?
Dawny hair growth
hair growth from starvation
Binge-eating disorder was added to which DSM?
DSM-5
Delilah is overweight. She likes to eat cookies and other sugary snacks, and often eats an entire package at one sitting. She is upset by this because she knows how important weight is to health, but she does not engage in any compensatory behaviors. Which of the following would be a likely diagnosis?
Binge-eating disorder
Ginger suffers from anorexia. She is often angry and irritable. These feelings may result from what?
May be a result of her starving herself
Which of the following is the strongest predictor of a person developing bulimic symptoms?
The amount of critical comments family members made about the person’s apperance
Research suggests that ________ provides the best immediate and long-term outcomes in the treatment of bulimia nervosa.
Cognitive-behavioral therapy
A common sign of bulimia nervosa is
Reoccurant episodes of Binge-eating
feeling of being “out of control” during BE epidsodes
compensatory behaviors
The behavioral patterns of individuals with personality disorders
Are thought to be relatively consistant over time, with little adaptation to new kinds of experiences
Helen is suspicious and doubts the loyalty of even her friends. She is unwilling to forgive perceived insults and never forgets a grudge. She is most likely to be diagnosed with ________ personality disorder.
Paranoid personality disorder
Early criminal behavior is most characteristic of what personality disorder?
anti-social personality disorder
Sam shows little emotion and is a loner. He has no social relationships, other than his family, and he seems to experience little pleasure, if any. What personality disorder might Sam have?
schizoid
Hattie has a dependent personality disorder. This means that she experiences what behaviors?
has acute discomfort when she is alone
Why does the person with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder have problems in interpersonal relationships?
they have no times for relationships
Dialectical behavior therapy is defined as?
A promising, problem focused treatment for BPD–
Which of the following personality disorders is most likely to be mistaken for schizophrenia?
Schizotypal
What personality disorders are considered part of the Cluster B personality disorder?
anisocial, conduct disorder, borderline, hisrionic, narcissistic
–Cluster B: emotional, dramatic, erratic
What do all of the Cluster A disorders have in common?
social dysfucntion
Judd has been drinking heavily for a number of years. When he is not drinking, he experiences profuse sweating and shakes. This indicates that Judd
has withdrawal symptoms when he abstains from alcohol
All drugs that people become dependent upon produce what?
act on pleasure pathways in the brain
Concerning the causes of alcoholism, the research tell us what?
they are probably several different patterns of causes associated with several different types of alcohol dependence
Heavy drinking during pregnancy, especially the early part, often causes what behavioral effect in children?
aggressiveness and withdrawal in the child
“I am a person who has an affliction-I cannot drink like social drinkers. Spiritual change may help me in recovering from my addiction, but I will be an alcoholic for life.” The person who said this would feel most comfortable in ________.
Alcoholic anonymous
What makes treatment of dependence on heroin especially challenging?
the likely involvement of the user in a drug-using subculture