See how many of the following criteria it takes you to ID the following DSM diagnosis (text from the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders). Answer there or in comments.
The person fears being shamed or ridiculed in close relationships. As a result, people with this disorder become overly alert [...]
Find three mistakes in this description of Antisocial Personality Disorder:
A person aged 21 years or older with a childhood history of disregard for the rights of others can be diagnosed as having APD if he or she gives evidence of three of the following seven behaviors associated with disregard for others:
-Fails to conform [...]
Fill in the blanks. Text from the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Answers there or in comments.
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder characterized by [ANSWER A]. Because of this fear, the affected individual starves herself or himself, and the person’s weight falls to about [ANSWER B]% (or less) of the normal weight for age [...]
Text from the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Answers there or in comments. This one’s trickier.
The close association in agoraphobia between fear of being outside one’s home and fear of having panic symptoms is reflected in DSM-IV-TR panic disorder [...]
Fill in the blanks. Text from the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Answers there or in comments.
DSM-IV-TR states that the symptoms of an adjustment disorder must appear within [ANSWER A (AN AMOUNT OF TIME)] of a stressor; and that they must meet at least one of the following criteria: 1) the distress [...]
Here, to keep you on your toes, the first in a series of DSM Quick Quizzes. This one’s about Acute Stress Disorder (ASD). Text courtesy of the Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders. Follow the link there for fill-in-the-blank answers or see comments below.
ASD, like [ANSWER A], begins with exposure to an extremely traumatic, horrifying, [...]
Tinkering with ProProfs with a Hepworth, Rooney, and Larsen on my lap, came up with a few questions. May add more. [...]
Finally tried out my own flash cards. Not bad–a few mistakes, some typos. Here’s what I was left needing to review. Thought it might be handy to have here (and that maybe cutting and pasting would somehow save me having to reread them). A slow scroll is the same as a quick quiz.
Piaget’s Stages (ages): [...]
Too big for a flash card, some helpful examples of ________________ from wikipedia:
A feeling that people on television or radio are talking about or talking directly to them
Believing that headlines or stories in newspapers are written especially for them
Having the experience that people (often strangers) drop hints or say things about them behind their back
Believing that [...]
Quick quiz: Name the three levels in Kohlberg’s Stages of Moral Development (pilfered from wikipedia). Answer in Comments.
Level 1: ______________
1. Obedience and punishment orientation
(How can I avoid punishment?)
2. Self-interest orientation
(What’s in it for me?)
Level 2: ______________
3. Interpersonal accord and conformity
(Social norms)
(The good boy/good girl attitude)
4. Authority and social-order maintaining orientation
(Law and order [...]
