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12/01/2015

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What is the most key component of anti-social personality disorder out of all the criteria?
Definition
Lack of remorse
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What are the other disorders tourette’s is commonly comorbid with?
Definition

 

ADHD
OCD
Anxiety
Mood disorders

Term
What is motor tic where people with tourettes involuntarily touch themselves inappropriately
Definition

 

    • Copropraxia

      • Coprolalia: When you swear involuntarily
Term
What is it called when an individual feels the need to steal items even if they are of little value to them?
Definition
Kleptomania - Impulse control disorder
Term
What is the interpersonal danger signal when a person tries to convey to you and that you and them are in the same boat?
Definition
Forced teaming
Term
What is the main difference seen in court between Robert Tolloch and his friend who murdered the two professors from dartmouth which signified that tulloch had antisocial personality disorder
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    • Robert showed no emotion-no remorse/ his friend was in tears

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Name 4 out of the 7 interpersonal danger signals identified by Gavin De Becker
Definition

 

    • Loan Sharking: Give a favor and expect something in return

    • Unsolicited Promises: Promise things that don’t need to be promised

    • Discounting ‘No’

    • Too many details

    • Typecasting

    • Forced Teaming

    • Overly Friendly
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What is one of the four main components/ criteria of an impulse control disorder
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    • Tension/ build up

    • Guilt afterwards

    • Experience of uncontrollable impulse

    • Sense of gratification afterwards
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Mandated reporting is when a therapist is required by law to report their client if they express any desire to harm people who can’t protect themselves which are:
Definition
Disabled, children, elderly
Term
What is one of the common predictors seen in childhood for someone with antisocial personality disorder
Definition
Cruelty to animals
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What are the two things that people with BPD need in treatment?
Definition

 

Validation
Benevolent Demanding

Term
What is the disorder called where an individual has a compelling need to get rid of one of their limbs
Definition
Body integrity Identity Disorder
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What is the difference between anorexia and bulimia?
Definition

 

Anorexia: Restricting
Bulimia: Cycle of binging and purging

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What is the name of the woman who created DBT ( Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
Definition

 

Dr. Marsha Linehan
Burn Victims

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Name 2 of the 4 criteria of substance use disorder
Definition

 

    • Impaired control over substance use

    • Social Impairment

    • Risky use

    • Pharmacological criteria (Tolerance, withdrawal)
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Before Linda Isabell realized her son had tourette’s disorder she used to believe he had what?
Definition
Sensory Integration Disorder
Term
What was charles diagnosis
Definition
Impulse control disorder, but would be hypersexual disorder if it were in the DSM
Term
As mentioned by beth manion, she agrees with the saying, the opposite of depression is
Definition
Vitality - Andrew Solomon wrote it in Noon Day Demon
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What is it called when family members or loved ones of an individual with an addiction, facilitate their use of a substance (either by giving money or place to stay)- giving them an out, because then they don’t have to worry about where they have to stay
Definition
Enabling
Term
Prior to the establishment of the ADHD diagnosis, hyperactive and impulsive children might have been labeled as having “minimal brain dysfunction,” which suggests that the basis for their disruptive behavior was:
Definition
An underlying neurological problem
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The most common medications to treat ADHD are:
Definition
Stimulants
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In the Taking Sides chapter entitled, “Is Addiction a Brain Disease?” the National Institute on Drug Abuse (YES) states that the initial decision to take drugs is:
Definition
Mostly voluntary
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In the Taking Sides chapter entitled, “Is Addiction a Brain Disease?” the National Institute on Drug Abuse (YES) states that when science began to study addict behavior in the 1930s, people addicted to drugs were thought to be:
Definition
Morally flawed
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Over the past few decades, research reports have emerged about the effectiveness of marijuana in treating severe pain and:
Definition
Nausea
Term
For some people with serious mental illness such as depression, using cannabis poses an increased risk of developing:
Definition
Schizophrenia
Term
California State Senator Leland Yee and Attorney Steven F. Gruel, who believe that research confirms that violent video games are harmful to minors, maintain at the beginning of their article that the First Amendment to the Constitution does not protect:
Definition
materials harmful to minors
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[image] Patricia A. Millett, who does not believe that research confirms that violent video games are harmful to minors, criticizes the meta-analysis offered by Yee and Gruel because:
Definition
It based on studies tha used invalid measures of aggression
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In the Taking Sides issue entitled “Must Mentally Ill Murderers Have a Rational Understanding of Why They Are Being Sentenced to Death?” Nathaniel Quarterman (No) and the authors of the amici curiae (Yes) would agree on all of the following statements except:
Definition
Panetti understands why he will be executed by the state
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In the Taking Sides issue entitled “Must Mentally Ill Murderers Have a Rational Understanding of Why They Are Being Sentenced to Death?” Nathaniel Quarterman (No) states that a capital convict differs from a capital defendant in that a capital convict:
Definition
Has substantially fewer rights
Term
How many children were killed at Sandy Hook?
Definition
20
Term
The Goldberg article was written in the immediate aftermath of what shooting?
Definition
Aurora, Colorado
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Bryan Stevenson, who believes that “recreational” drugs should be legalized, points out that the highest rate of incarceration in the world occurs in
Definition
The US
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Charles Stimson, who does not believe that “recreational” drugs should be legalized, begins his argument by pointing out the addictive properties of what drug?
Definition
Marijuana
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