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PSY 166 Exam #1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
02/08/2013

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Term
What is PICA??
Definition
  • Persistent eating of nunnutritive susbstances for a paid of at least 1 month
  • The eating behavior is not part of a culturally sanctioned practice
  • Usually treated as an anxiety d/o 
Term
What's coded on Axis 1
Definition
Clinical d/o & other conditions that may be a focus of clinical attention
Term
What's coded on Axis 2
Definition
Personailty D/O & Mental Retardation
Term
What's coded on Axis 3
Definition

General Medical Conditions

 

Term
What's coded on Axis 4
Definition

Psychosocial & Environmental Problmes

  • negative life event, am environmental difficulty or defiency, a familiar or other interpersonal stress, an inadequacy of social support or personal resources
  • Ex: probelms w/ primary support group, related to the social environment, educational problems, occupational problems, housing problems, economic..
Term
Axis 5
Definition

Global Assessment of functioning (GAF)

  • The clinician's judgement of the individual's overall level of functioning.
  • Useful in planing treatment & measuring its impact & in prediction outcome
Term

 

Mental Retardation

Definition
  • Coded in Axis II
  • IQ of 70 or below
  • Onset before age 18
  • Low functioning in at least 2 areas
Term

Cut off scores to diagnose

Mental Retardation

Definition
  • Mild: 50-75-70/ low end jobs,"educable"
  • Moderate: 35-40-50-55/ poor relationships "trainable"
  • Severe: 20-25-35-40/ constant assistance
  • Profound: 20-25-below/ 
Term

Major differences between

Aspergers & Autism

Definition
In asperger's there's no significant delay in language compared to autism
Term
Coding types for ADHD
Definition
  1. ADHD Combined Type
  2. ADHD Pre-dominately Inattentive Type
  3. ADHD Pre-dominately Hyperactive Type
  4. ADHD Impulsice Type
Term
What type of ADHD is found more common in females
Definition
Innatentive type
Term
What type of ADHD is most found in males?
Definition
Impulsive
Term
What ype of ADHD is more frequently diagnosed
Definition
Impulsive Type
Term
ADHD
Definition
  • Some symptoms mush have been present before age 7
  • 2 or more settings
  • Clear evidence of imparment across 2 settings
Term

Encopresis & Enuresis

Why are they red flags for the therapists?

 

Definition
Sexual Abuse
Term
Encopresis
Definition
  • repeated passage of feces into inappropriate places whether involunatry or intentional (both)
  • At least 4 years of age


Term
Enuresis
Definition
  • Repeated voiding of urine into bed or clothes (whether voluntary or intentional)
  • At least age 5
  • Nocturnal, Diurnal, or Both 
Term
Criteria set for CD
Definition
  • Repetitive & persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rigths of others are... violated. 3 or more criteria met:
  1. Aggression to people or animals 
  2. Destruction of property 
  3. Deceitfulness or theft
  4. Serious violations of rules  
  • CD Childhood-Onset Type: onset of at least one criterion of CD before age 10
  • CD Adolescent_Onset Type: absence of any criteria characteristic of CD after age 10
  • CD Unspecified Onset: Age is known 
Term
Criteria of ODD
Definition

A pattern of negativistic, hostile, & defiant behavior lasting at least 6 months, during which four criteria are met:

  1. often losses temper
  2. often argues with adults
  3. often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult's requests or rules
Term
CD & ODD
Definition
  • CD: more severe, found in more in males
  • ODD: mild, found more in females 
Term
Internalizing & Externalizing
Definition
  • Depression & cutting/mostly females/sex & drugs
  • Aggressive & violent/mostly males/violence & drugs
Term
McDonald Triad
Definition
  1. Fire setting
  2. Bed wetting
  3. Animal torture
Term
Rett's D/O
Definition
  • Rare
  • Only found in females
  • assoc. with severe mental d/o
  • brain abnormalities & genetic mutation
  • life expectancy to age 40 (reduced)
Term
What do use Assessments for?
Definition

They are given to the judges

Custody issues

general treatment purposes

Term
What's included in the assessments?
Definition
  • IQ
  • Academic records
  • legal issues
  • clinical d/o
  • clinical interview (background info)
  • familiy history
  • alcohol & mental history
Term
What can we & cannot use for collateral info?
Definition
  • Familiy interviews 
  • CPS reports
  • Basically ANYTHING in print
Term
Reactive Attachment D/O
Definition
  • Before age 5
  • caused by screwed un parents
  • attach to random strangers
Term
Which group of ethnicity can't we use IQ test for?
Definition

African-American

  • they score lower than white people
  • belived to be racially biased towards them
Term
CD diagnosed in females or males?
Definition
Males
Term
ODD diagnosed more in females or males?
Definition

females

 

Term
Coping for Mental Retardation
Definition
  • Mild: Educable
  • Moderate:trainable 
  • Severe: constant assistance
  • Profound: 
Term
Which is not easiest to diagnose
Definition
Mild
Term
Menatl retadation more common in??
Definition
Males, but more severe in females
Term
Which is more severe Aspergers or Autism?
Definition
Autism
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