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DSM IV: AXIS 1 Essential Features
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07/11/2010

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Term
Substance Dependence EF
Definition
EF: cognitive and behavioral symptoms indicating a person continues to use substance despite significant substance related problems
Term
Substance Abuse Symptoms
Definition

3+

1. tolerance

2. withdrawal

3. more than expected/longer than expected

4. craving

5. attempt to decrease

6. time consuing

7. revolve around subtance

8. continues use even though they're aware of problem

Term
Substance Abuse EF
Definition
Ef: maladaptive pattern of substance abuse related to the repeated use of substance
Term
Substance Abuse Symptoms
Definition

TF: occur in the same 12 month period

1+

1. failure to fulfill major role obligations

2. recurrent substance use in situations where its physically hazardous (drinking and driving)

3. legal problems

4. continued use despite personal problems

Term

Substance Intoxication EF

 

Definition
EF: development of  a REVERSIBLE substance syndrome due to ingestion or exposure to a substance
Term
Substance intoxication symptoms
Definition

1. mood

2. belligerence

3. impaired social or occupational functioning

4. cognitive ability

Term
substance withdrawal EF
Definition
EF: causes maladaptive behavioral change with physiological and cognitive concomitance that is due to the sensation of the reduction in heavy and prolonged abuse
Term
Substance withdrawal symptoms
Definition

1. clincally significant distress

2. impairment in pro or social areas of funtion

3. not due to physical condition

4. usually but not always associated with dependence

5. craving to reduce symptoms

6. withdrawal worse than trying to quit

Term
Schizophrenia Symptoms
Definition

2+ impairment to:

1. perception

2. inferential thinking

3. language and communication

4. behavioral monitoring

5. affect

6. fluency and productivity of thought and speech

7. hedonic capacity

8. volition and drive

9. attention

Term
Schizophrenia Positive Symptoms
Definition

disortions in:

1. thought content

2. perceptions/hallucinations

3. language or thought process

4. self monitoring or behavior

Term
Schizophrenia Negative Symptoms
Definition

restrictions in:

1. emotional expression

2. productivity of thought and speech

3. initiations of goal directed behavior

Term
Social Drift hypothesis
Definition
inability to work, lowers socioeconomic means
Term
environmental stress hypothesis
Definition
high levels of stress associated with poverty precipitates schizophrenia
Term
Schizophrenia delusions
Definition

1.positive

2. persecutory: believe they are being tormented, followed or tricked

3. referential: certain gestures or comments are specifically directed at him 

4. if bizarre then no other criteria needs to be met

Term
Schizophrenia Hallucinations
Definition

1. disorganized thinking

a. slip off track from one topic to another

b. answers to questions completely unrelated

c.speech incoherent or word salad

2. grossly disorganized behavior

a. childlike silliness

2. difficulty with daily acitivities

c. disheveled/inapproprately dressed

d. inappropriate sexual beavhior

e. unpredictable and non-triggered agitation

Term
Schizophrenia paranoid type
Definition

EF: prominent delusions or auditory hallucinations in the context of relative preservation

Symptoms: 

1. delusions are persecutory or grandiose, usually with a common theme

2. hallucinations typically related to delusional theme

3. no disorganized or catatonic symptoms

4. asssociated feature: anxiety, anger, aloofness, argumentativenss, superior or patronizing manner

 

Term
Schizophrenia Catatonic Type
Definition

EF: psychomotor disturbance that might cause motor disturbance

- purposeless motor acitivity

- rigid posture

- no movement at all

- echolalia/aprazia

- exhaustion, malunutrition, exhaustion, hyperexia, or self inflicted injury

- catalepsy or stupor

Term
Schizophrenia Undifferentiated
Definition
- meet criteria A but don't meet criteria for paranoid, disorganized or catatonic
Term
Schizophrenia Residual Type
Definition
- at least one episode of schizophrenia but current clinical picture is without positive psychotic symptoms
Term
Schizophreniform EF
Definition

EF: identical to schizophrenia except total duration of illness is at least 1 MONTH but LESS THAN 6 MOS

 

Term
Schizophreniform Symptoms
Definition

- impaired social and occupational functioning is not required

- inbetween brief psychotic disorder and schizophrenia

- lighter form of schizophrenia

Term
Schizo-affective disorder EF
Definition
Ef: uninterrupted period of illness, all of the episodes MDE, Manic, Mixed delusions and hallucinations
Term
Schizoaffective disorder symptoms
Definition

- incorporating mood disorder

- during the same period delusions of hallucinations for 2 WEEKS  even when episodes stop

- MDE- 2 weeks, MANIC AND MIXED- 1 WEEK

- at least 1 MONTH

- 2 types: bipolar and depressive

Term
Delusional Disorder EF
Definition

- EF: presence of one or more non bizarre delusions that persist for at least 1 month

-psychosocial functioning isn't impaired

- relatively brief- day or two or even just hrs

 

Term
Erotomanic Delusional Disorder
Definition

- another is in love with the indiviudal, idealize tomatic love or spiritual union, STALKER

- person keeps delusions secret

- most are female in clinical samples

Term
Grandiose Delusional Disorder
Definition

- Conviction of having some great but unrecognized talent or insight or hving amde some important discovery

- less commonly may have delusion they are some prominent person

- special message from a deity, prophetic message from god

- cultural element

Term
Jealous delusional Disorder
Definition

- when central theme is his or her spouse is unfaithful

- no due cause

- small bits of evidence

- usually confronts the spouse and attempts to intervene in the imagined infidelity

Term
Persecutory Delusional Disorder
Definition

- most commone

- they are being conspired against, cheated, drugged, watched, harassed, screwed over in the pursuit of long term goals

- focus on some ijustice that needs to be remedied in legal actions, multiple attempts with courts

- often upset and angry and may result to violence to those they believe are hurting them

Term
Somatic Delusional Disorder
Definition

- bodily functions or symptoms:

- admits a foul odor

- infestation of insects in their skin

- internal parasite

- parts of body are mishapen or ugly

Term
Mixed Delusional Disorder
Definition
- no one delusional theme that predominates/combo
Term
Unspecified Delusional Disorder
Definition
- dominant theme cant be clearly designated, not fully described in any specific type
Term
Brief Psychotic Disorder EF
Definition
EF: disturbance of the sudden onset of at least psychotic symptoms, delusions, hallucinations, disorgnized speech, disorganized or catatonic behavior
Term
Brief Psychotic Episode
Definition

- at least 1 DAY but LESS THAN A MONTH

- evetually has a reutrn to regulat functioning

- one intense affect to another

- high risk of suicide

- preexisiting persoanlity disorders may predispose the individual

Term
Shared Psychotic Episode EF
Definition
develops in a person who is involved in a close relationship with another person- inducer who already has a psychotic disorder with prominent delusions
Term
Shared Psychotic Disorder Symptoms
Definition

- share beliefs in whole or part

- schizophrenia is most common of primary care

- can occur in larger groups but most commonly just amongst two people

- rarely seek treatment

- without intervention is usually chronic

- symptoms go away once treatment or separation

Term
Dissociate Amnesia EF
Definition
- inability to recall important personal information usually of an important or traumatic event 
Term
Localized Amnesia
Definition

- most common

- person fails to remember events during a certain period of time

- usually immediately after

- sexual assault and they dont remember anything

- uninured survivor of a car accident when family is dead

Term
Selective Amnesia
Definition

- most common

- some but not all events can be recalled during a particular event

Term
generalized amnesia
Definition

- failure of recall is persons entire life

- less common

Term
Continuous amnesia
Definition

any events up to the present

- less common

Term
Systemized Amnesia
Definition

- certain types of information

 - family or rtpye of person

 - less common

Term
Dissociative Fugue EF
Definition
EF: sudden, unexpected away from home with inability to recall some or all of his past
Term
Dissociate Fugue Symptoms
Definition

- confusion of personal identity or assumption of new identity

- distress in social and occupational functioning

- may be long or short periods of time

- some travel thousands of miles

- dont attract attention and seem fine

- most associated with truamatic or overwhelming events

Term
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Definition
Ef: presence of two or more distinct identities that recurrently take control
Term
Dissociative Idenitity Disorder Symptoms
Definition

- don't recall each other

- distinctly different identities

- primary idenitity is passive

- cirtical of one another, open conflict, different situations bring them out

- 6-7 years from first symptoms to diagnosis

Term
Depersonalization EF
Definition
- persistent or recurrent episodes characterized of detachment and estrangement from one's self
Term
Depersonalization types
Definition

1. derealization

2. body detachment

3. inauthenticity

4. self negation

5. self objectification

Term
Anorexia Nervosa
Definition

EF: refuses to maintain a normal body weight

- afraid of weight gain

- disturbance in shape or size of body

- weighs less than 85% of body weight

- 2 types: restricting and binge eating/purging

Term
Bulimia Nervosa
Definition

- binge eating and compensatory methods to prevent weight gain

- more like a punishment for weight gain

- at least twice a week for 3 months

- shame and punishment of eating problems, attempt to conceal problems

- 2 typcs: purging and non purging

Term
Panic Attack Symptoms
Definition

4+

1. dizzy

2. sense of disaster

3. heart palpitations

4. shortness of breath

5. chest pains

6. rapid heart beat

7. think they're about to die

8. lose control

9. think they're having a heart attack, going crazy 

10. sweats

11. urgent desire to flee from where ever the attack is occurring

12. attacks come abruptly in ten minutes and last less than 30 minutes, can occur several times a week

 

Term

3 types of panic attacks

 

Definition

1. unexpected: those that which the individual does not associate the onset with an environmental trigger

2. situationally: ocrru immediately on exposure to or in anticipation of the cue or trigger, social or specific phobia

3. situationally predisposed: dont necessarily occur immediately after exposure

Term
Agoraphobia
Definition

ef: fear of the marketplace

- person dfears places or situations where escape seems difficult or embaressing or help might not be avilable if needed

- fear of having a sudden attack of dizziness or diarrhea

- fear leads to avoidance of being alone outside the home

- some individuals are able to expose themselves to these situations but they experience great dread

Term
Panic Disorder with agoraphobia
Definition

- onset of unexpected panic attacks

- subsequent avoidance of multiple situations likely to trigger panic attacks

- must have basic criteria for agoraphobia

- even when they aren't going to be exposed they are concerend that they dont even want to deal with it, they want to avoid it at all costs

Term
Panic Disorder without Agorphobia
Definition

individual has additional unpexcted panic attacks but no additional avoidance with drea occurs

- not quite as intense

Term
Agoraphobia without panic disorder
Definition

- fear of panic like symptoms instead of total panic attacks

- usually reassed and get diagnosis of specific phobia instead

- full criteria for panic disorder must never be met

Term
Specific Phobia 5 types
Definition

- unwanted or intense fear or specific objects or situations

1. animal

2. nautural environment

3. blood injection type

4. situational

5. other

 

Term
Specific Phobia
Definition

- if under 18 the symptoms must persist for at leats 6 months

- recognize as excessive or unreasonable

-immediate anxiety response

- can expose themselves just with extreme dread

Term
Social Phobia or Social Anxiety Disorder
Definition

- fear of being embaressed not necessarily siutation

- fear of judgment

- provokes an immediate anxiety response

- anxiety, blushing, stomach problems, diarrhea, hand shaking, confusion

- under 18 symptoms must exist for 6 months

- adults realize the fear is unreasonable and sometimes endure with dread

- severity may differ with stressors and life demands

- may avoid eating or drinking in public

Term
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Definition

- take sup more than 1 hour per day

- recognizes that its unreasonable

- out of their control- know its out of their control

- tries to ignore or neutralize thoughts or actions

- compulsions: repetitive behaviors to neutralize obsessions

- most common: thoughts about contamination or doubts

- driven to do it because they need relief from anxiety

- more common in: males, higher class, higher intelligence

Term

PTSD

 

Definition

- also be given to those that witnessed it

- acute : less than 3 months

- chronic: more than 3 months

- delayed onset: at least 6 months after the event

- guilt or personal responsibility

Term
Acute Stress Disoder
Definition

- very imiliar to ptsd

- emotional numbing, detachment, depersonalization, world is less real, lacking significance, dissociative amnesia

- 2 days- 4 weeks, very brief

 

Term

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

 

Definition

- excessive worry occuring for more days than not for a period of 6 months

- worried about everything

- worry is difficult to control

- easily tired, difficulty concentrating

- intolerance of uncertainty

- without treatment it just gets worse

- for children they worry about performance and competence

Term
Personality Disorders Criteria
Definition

at least 2/4 ways

1. cognition: waysof perceiving events and one's self

2. affectivity: range, intensity, ability and appropriateness

3. interpersonal functioning

4. impulse control

Term
risk factors
Definition
risk factors: low ses, native americans, african americans, single low ses, single, divoreced, maladaptive, bad childhood, crappy youth, crappy adulthood, result of unwanted pregnancy
Term
Cluster A
Definition

odd and eccentric:

- paranoid

- shizotypal

- schizoid

Term
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Definition

ef: pervasive distrust and suspisciousness of others

4+

  • Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her
  • Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates
  • Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear that the information will be used maliciously against him or her
  • Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into benign remarks or events
  • Persistently bears grudges, i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or slights
  • Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack
  • Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner
  •  

    Term
    Schizoid Personality Disorder
    Definition

    ef: detachment from social relationships, limited range of expression or emotion in interpersonal settings

    4+

  • Neither desires nor enjoys close relationships, including being part of a family
  • Almost always chooses solitary activities
  • Has little, if any, interest in having sexual experiences with another person
  • Takes pleasure in few, if any, activities
  • Lacks close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
  • Appears indifferent to the praise or criticism of others
  • Shows emotional coldness, detachment, or flattened affectivity
  • Term
    Schizotypal
    Definition

    ef: uncomfortable with close relationships, cognitive and perceptual distortions and eccentricities

    5+

  • Ideas of reference (excluding delusions of reference)
  • Odd beliefs or magical thinking that influences behavior and is inconsistent with subcultural norms (e.g., superstitiousness, belief in clairvoyance, telepathy, or "sixth sense"; in children and adolescents, bizarre fantasies or preoccupations)
  • Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
  • Odd thinking and speech (e.g., vague, circumstantial, metaphorical, overelaborate, or stereotyped)
  • Suspiciousness or paranoid ideation
  • Inappropriate or constricted affect
  • Behavior or appearance that is odd, eccentric, or peculiar
  • Lack of close friends or confidants other than first-degree relatives
  • Excessive social anxiety that does not diminish with familiarity and tends to be associated with paranoid fears rather than negative judgments about self
  • Term
    Cluster b
    Definition
    dramatic, emotional or erratic
    Term
    antisocial personality disorder
    Definition

    ef: pervasive pattern of the violation of rights of others, starting in early childhood

    3+

  • Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest
  • Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure
  • Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead
  • Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults
  • Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
  • Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations
  • Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another
  • Term
    borderline personality disorder
    Definition

    ef: pervaise pattern of instability, interpersonal relationships, self image and affects

    5+

  • Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
  • A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
  • Identity disturbance, such as a significant and persistent unstable self-image or sense of self
  • Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
  • Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
  • Emotional instability due to significant reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness
  • Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
  • Transient, stress-related paranoid thoughts or severe dissociative symptoms
  • Term
    histrionic Personality Disorder
    Definition

    ef: pervasive and excessive emotionality

    5+

  • Is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
  • Interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
  • Displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
  • Consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to themself
  • Has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
  • Shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
  • Is highly suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
  • Considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
  • Term
    Narcisssitic
    Definition

    ef: need for admiration, lack of empathy, sense of grandiosity

    5+

  • Has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
  • Is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
  • Believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
  • Requires excessive admiration
  • Has a very strong sense of entitlement, e.g., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
  • Is exploitative of others, e.g., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
  • Lacks empathy, e.g., is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
  • Is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
  • Regularly shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
  • Term
    Cluster C
    Definition

    anxious and fearful

    avoidant, dependent, ocpd

    Term
    Avoidant
    Definition

    ef: pervasive pattern of social inhitibiton

    4+

  • Avoids occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact, because of fears of criticism, disapproval, or rejection
  • Is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
  • Shows restraint within intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed
  • Is preoccupied with being criticized or rejected in social situations
  • Is inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy
  • Views themself as socially inept, personally unappealing, or inferior to others
  • Is unusually reluctant to take personal risks or to engage in any new activities because they may prove embarrassing
  • Term
    Dependent Personality Disorder
    Definition

    ef: pervasiv and excessive needs to be taken care of

    - 5+

  • Has difficulty making everyday decisions without an excessive amount of advice and reassurance from others
  • Needs others to assume responsibility for most major areas of his or her life
  • Has difficulty expressing disagreement with others because of fear of loss of support or approval
  • Has difficulty initiating projects or doing things on his or her own (because of a lack of self-confidence in judgment or abilities rather than a lack of motivation or energy)
  • Goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support from others, to the point of volunteering to do things that are unpleasant
  • Feels uncomfortable or helpless when alone because of exaggerated fears of being unable to care for himself or herself
  • Urgently seeks another relationship as a source of care and support when a close relationship ends
  • Is unrealistically preoccupied with fears of being left to take care of himself or herself
  • Term
    Obcessive Compulsive Personality disorder
    Definition

    ef: excessive concern for order and control at the expense of flexibility, openness and efficiency

    - 4+

  • Is preoccupied with details, rules, lists, order, organization, or schedules to the extent that the major point of the activity is lost
  • Shows perfectionism that interferes with task completion (e.g., is unable to complete a project because his or her own overly strict standards are not met)
  • Is excessively devoted to work and productivity to the exclusion of leisure activities and friendships (not accounted for by obvious economic necessity)
  • Is overconscientious, scrupulous, and inflexible about matters of morality, ethics, or values (not accounted for by cultural or religious identification)
  • Is unable to discard worn-out or worthless objects even when they have no sentimental value
  • Is reluctant to delegate tasks or to work with others unless they submit to exactly his or her way of doing things
  • Adopts a miserly spending style toward both self and others; money is viewed as something to be hoarded for future catastrophes
  • Shows significant rigidity and stubbornness
  • Term
    Major Depressive Episode
    Definition

    ef: 2 weeks with depression or loss of interest

    5+

  • Depressed mood most of the day, nearly every day, as indicated by either subjective report (e.g., feeling sad or empty) or observation made by others (e.g., appears tearful). (In children and adolescents, this may be characterized as an irritable mood.)
  • Markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, or almost all, activities most of the day, nearly every day
  • Significant weight loss when not dieting or weight gain (e.g., a change of more than 5% of body weight in a month), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every day.
  • Insomnia or hypersomnia nearly every day
  • Psychomotor agitation or retardation nearly every day
  • Fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
  • Feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt nearly every day
  • Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness, nearly every day
  • Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide
  • Term

    MAnic Episode

     

    Definition

    ef: distinct period where there is abnormally and persistenly elevated mood or irritable mood- not sadness

    - 3+ (if irritable then 4+)

  • Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
  • Decreased need for sleep (e.g., one feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
  • More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
  • Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
  • Attention is easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant items
  • Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation
  • Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., engaging in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
  •  

    3+ (if irritable then 4+)

    Term

    Mixed episode

     

    Definition

    - manic and major episode nearly everyday

    - 1 week

    - A mixed epsiode is defined by meeting the diagnostic criteria for both a manic episode as well as a major depressive episode nearly every day for at least a full week

    Term
    Hypomanic episode
    Definition

    - distinct period where there is aat least 4 days hyper elevated mood

    - 3+ (4 if irritable)

  • Inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
  • Decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
  • More talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
  • Flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
  • Distractibility (e.g., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli)
  • Increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation
  • Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences (e.g., the person engages in unrestrained buying sprees, sexual indiscretions, or foolish business investments)
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