The Classification of Mental Disorders: DSM-5

Question 1

“______________________” is coded when the clinician wants to indicate the reason why the client’s symptoms do not meet the criteria for a specific diagnosis.

Answer 1

Other specified disorder.

Question 2

“_____________________” is coded when the clinician does not want to indicate the reason why the client’s symptoms do not meet the criteria for a specific diagnosis.

Answer 2

Unspecified disorder.

Question 3

“___________” may be used when the clinician does not currently have sufficient information for a firm diagnosis but believes the full criteria for the diagnosis will eventually be met.

Answer 3

Provisional.

Question 4

______________________ are designed to be used in the initial patient interview and during treatment to monitor progress.

Answer 4

Cross-cutting symptom measures.

Question 5

Level __ cross-cutting symptom measures assess __ domains for adults and __ domains for children/adolescents, and are useful for identifying areas that require additional evaluation.

Answer 5

• 1
• 13
• 12

Question 6

Level __ cross-cutting symptom measures provide in-depth information on specific ___________ to help guide diagnosis, treatment planning, and follow-up.

Answer 6

• 2
• Domains

Question 7

_____________-specific severity measures correspond to the DSM-5’s diagnostic criteria.

Answer 7

Disorder.

Question 8

The WHODAS, or ___________________, Version 2.0, is used to assess level of disability in 6 domains: understanding and communication, getting around, self-care, getting along with people, life activities, and participation in society.

Answer 8

World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule.

Question 9

Personality inventories measure personality traits in five domains: negative affect, ____________, antagonism, _____________, and psychoticism.

Answer 9

• Detachment
• Disinhibition

Question 10

The Outline for Cultural Formulation provides guidelines for assessing:

• The client’s cultural ___________.
• The client’s cultural conceptualization of ____________.
• Psychosocial _________ and cultural factors that impact client vulnerability/resistance.
• Cultural factors relevant to the ____________ between the client and therapist.

Answer 10

• Identity
• Distress
• Stressors
• Relationship

Question 11

The DSM-5 defines “__________________________” as the “ways that cultural groups experience, understand, and communicate suffering, behavioral problems, or troubling thoughts and emotions,” and distinguishes between __ types of cultural concepts.

Answer 11

• Cultural concepts of distress.
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Question 12

_______________ are clusters of symptoms and attributions that co-occur among individuals from a particular culture, and are recognized by members as coherent patterns of experience.

Answer 12

Cultural syndromes.

Question 13

___________________ are used by members of different cultures to express distress and provide shared ways for talking about personal and social concerns.

Answer 13

Cultural idioms of distress.

Question 14

______________________ refer to the explanatory models that members of a culture use to explain the meaning and causes of symptoms, illness, and distress.

Answer 14

Cultural explanations.