Shared Flashcard Set

Details

Impulse Control Disorders
DSM-IV-TR Criteria
6
Psychology
Graduate
11/20/2007

Additional Psychology Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Intermittent Explosive Disorder
Definition

A) Several discrete episodes of failure to resist aggressive impulses that result in serious assaultive acts or destruction of property.

 

B) The degree of aggressiveness expressed during the episodes is grossly out of proportion to any precipitating psychosocial stressors.

 

C) The aggressive episodes are not better accounted for by another mental disorder (Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Psychotic Disorder, Manic Episode, COnduct Disorder, ADHD) and are not due to the direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition. 

Term
Kleptomania
Definition
A) Recurrent failue to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or for their monetary value.
 
B) Increasing sense of tension immediately before committing the theft.
 
C) Pleasure, gratification, or relief at the time of committing the theft.
 
D) The stealing is not comitted to express anger or vengeance and is not in response to a delusion or a hallucination.
E) The stealing is not better accounted for by Conduct Disorder, a Manic Episode, or Antisocial Personality Disorder. 
Term
Pyromania
Definition

A) Deliberate and purposeful fire setting on more than one occasion.

 

B) Tension or affective arousal before the act.

 

C) Fascination with, interest in, curiosity about, or attraction to fire and its situational contexts (paraphernalia, uses, consequences).

 

D) Pleasure, gratification, or relief when setting fires, or when witnessing or participating in their aftermath.

 

E) The fire setting is not done for mnetary gain, as an expression of sociololitical ideology, to conceal criminal activity, to express anger or vengeance, to improve one's living circumstances, in response to a delusion or hallucination, or as a result of impaired judgment.

 

F) The fire setting is not better accounted for by Conduct Disorder, a Manic Episode, or Antisocial Personality Disorder. 

Term
Pathological Gambling
Definition
A) Persistent and recurrent maladaptive gambling behavior as indicated by FIVE (or more) of the following:
1 - is preoccupied with gambling (preoccupied with reliving past gambling experiences, handicapping or planning the next venture, or thinking of ways to get money with which to gamble)
2 -  needs to gamble with increasing amonts of money in inorder to achieve the desired excitement
3 - has repeated unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back, or stop gambling
4 - is restless or irritable when attempting to cut down or stop gambling
5 - gambles as a way of escaping from problems or of relieving a dysporic mood 
6 - after losing money gambling, often returns another day to get even ("chasing" one's losings)
7 - lies to family members, therapist, or others to conceal the extent of involvement with gambling
8 - has committed illegal acts such as forgery, fraud, theft, or embesslement to finance gambling
9 - has jeopardized or lost a significant relationship, job, or educational or career opportunity because of gambling
10 - relies on others to provide money to relieve a desperate financial situation caused by gambling
 
B) The gambling behavior is not better accounted for by a Manic Episode. 
Term
Trichotillomania
Definition

A) Recurrent pulling our of one's hair resulting in noticeable hair loss.

 

B) An increasing sense of tension immediately before pulling out the hair or when attempting to resist the behavior.

 

C) Pleasure, gratification, or relief when pulling out the hair.

 

D) The disturbance is not better accounted for by another mental disorder and is not due to a general medical condition.

 

E) The disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impiarment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. 

Term
Impulse-Control Disorder NOS
Definition
ie- skin picking
Supporting users have an ad free experience!