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| All clinical disorders other than personality and mental retardation. |
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| Personality disorders and mental retardation. |
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| Social and environmental factors. |
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| Global Assessment of Functioning. |
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| Not a real DSM axis, it is used to note down personal information using ADDRESSING. |
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| What does ADDRESSING stand for? |
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Age
Developmental Disabilities
Disabilities acquired later in life
Religion
Ethnicity
Socioeconomic Status
Sexual Orientation
Indigenous Heritage
Nationality
Gender identity |
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| If someone is A&Ox4, what four things are they oriented to? |
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| Person, time, place and situation |
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| Rule out--you suspect a certain disorder but need to check it. |
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| What does NOS mean after a disorder? |
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| The patient meets some criteria of a particular disorder but not enough to warrant a full diagnosis. |
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| How would you describe a GAF of 71+? |
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| 71+ is an average individual. |
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| How would you describe GAF 51-70? |
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| Moderate symptoms, still able to function to a certain degree. Example: few friends, lots of conflict at work. |
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| How would you describe a GAF 41-50? |
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| Severe symptoms--suicidal ideation, severe difficulties in functioning. Example: no friends, can't hold a job. |
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| How would you describe a GAF of 31-40? |
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| Beginning to lose touch with reality. |
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| How would you describe a GAF of 30 or less? |
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| Lost touch with reality, a danger to self or others. |
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| What is the code for no diagnosis? |
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| What is the code for deferring diagnosis? |
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| What does emic vs. etic mean? |
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| Emic is looking at something within its culture, etic is trying to look at something in a non-cultural way. |
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| When did the DSM change to a multi-axial approach? |
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| In 1980, with the DSM-III. |
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| When was homosexuality removed from the DSM-IV? |
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| According to UCDavis.edu, it was 1986--the DSM III-R. |
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