MFT Diagnostic Combined Set 2

People with Borderline Personality Disorder are extremely fearful of ____________ and may engage in impulsive and extreme behaviors to keep other people with them.

In interpersonal relationships, Borderlines typically exhibit a pattern of inital __________ that is quicly followed by devaluation.

Histrionic Personality Disorder involves a pervasive pattern of emotionality and ___________ behaviors.

Individuals with Histrionic Personality Disorder fish for compliments on their ________ and are easily upset by criticism.

Individuals with Histrionic Personality Disorder are often inappropriately sexually ___________.

The essential feature of Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a pattern of ___________, need for admiration, and lack of __________.

People with Narcissistic Personality Disorder expect to be catered to and, when they aren't they may react with an intense feeling of ___________, __________ or ___________.

The Somatoform Disorders are all characterized by symptoms that suggest a medical condition but for which there is no evidence of a causal general medical condition or ____________.

Symptoms of Somatoform Disorders are not ______________ produced or feigned.

Somatization Disorder is characterized by recurrent multiple ____________ complaints that begin prior to age 30 and that include pain, gastrointestinal, sexual and _____________ symptoms.

_______________ Disorder entails symptoms that suggest a serious neurological or other medical condition (e.g. blindness, paralysis) but are believed to be due to psychological factors.

Two mechanisms have been used to explain the etiology of Conversion Disorder: ___________ gain, which refers to obtaining support from the environment, and ___________ gain, which refers to keeping an internal conflict out of consciousness.

The key feature in the successful treatment of Conversion Disorder appears to be ____________.

__________________ involves an unrealistic preoccupation with a fear of having a serious illnesss, while ___________ is characterized by preoccupation with a defect in appearance.

The Factitious Disorders involve physical or ________________ symptoms that are intentionally produced or _______________.

Recently, Factitioius Disorder _______________ has been identified as a rare form of child abuse.

Factitious Disorder can be distinguished from Malingering in that the goal of FD is to fulfill a(n) __________, while the goal of Malingering is to _____________.

The Dissociative Disorders involve a disturbance in _____________, identity, memory, and / or perception.

Dissociative Amnesia is characterized by a loss of memory for personal information, most often information related to a(n) ______________.

Dissociative _________________ involves abrupt, unexpected travel from home or wor with the partial or total asumption of a new identity.

Dissociative Identity Disorder is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or ________________ that each has its own way of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the world.

__________________ entails feeling detached or estranged from oneself while ____________ remains relatively intact

The Substance - Related Disorders are divided into two categories: the Substance - Use Disorders (Dependence and ___________) and the Substanced - Induced Disorders.

Substance Dependence is characterized by the presence of at least _______ characteristic symptoms during a 12- month period, while Substance Abuse requires the presence of only _______ or more symptoms.

The presence of ___________ (the need for an increased amount of the substance) is suggestive of Substance ______________.

Alcohol ____________ is characterized by maladaptive behavior or psychological changes and slurred speech, incoordination, and / or impairments in memory or judgment, while Alcohol ______________ involves autonomic hyperactivity, insomnia, psychomotor agitation, and transient illusions or hallucinations after a period of heavy or prolonged alcohol use.

Wernicke-Korsakoff's syndrome (aka Alcohol-Induced ___________ Disorder) involves retrograde and anterograde amnesia and is believed to be due to a _____________ deficiency.

____________ and Cocaine Intoxication share several symptoms including euphoria, hyperactivity and anxiety, while ____________ Intoxication is marked by restlesness, nervousness, flushed face, and diuresis.

_____________ Intoxication typically involves euphoria and grandiosity initially, followed by sedation, lethargy, impairments in short-term memory, and a distorted sense of time.

______________________ Intoxication shares several symptoms with Alcohol Intoxication including certain behavioral and psychological changes as well as slurred speech, incoordination, and impaired attention and memory.

A diagnosis of Schizophrenia requires a duration of the disturbance for at least ________ months with one month involving ___________ phase symptoms (e.g. delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior).

In a diagnosis of Schizophrenia disorders, Delusions are often persecutory or ______________.

Delusion of reference: The person falsely believes that insignificant remarks, events, or objects in one's environment have personal meaning or significance. For instance, a person may believe they are receiving special messages from newspaper headlines.

In a diagnosis of Schizophrenia Disorders, Hallucinations are typically _________

The onset of Schizophrenia is most often between __________ and the mid 30's.

In terms of gender, Schizophrenia is about _______________.

Five subtypes of Schizophrenia are distinguished. The Paranoid Type is characterized by preoccupation with one or more _______________ or hallucinations.

The ___________ Type of Schizophrenia involves disorganized speech and behavior and flat or inappropriate affect.

The Residual Type of Schizophrenia is diagnosed when the individual has a history of ________________ symptoms but currently exhibits only ______________ or attenuated positive symptoms.

Of the neurochemical theories for Schizophrenia Disorder, the ________________ hypothesis has received the greatest support.

Family factors associated with Schizophrenia include _____________ communication and high ______________, which is associated with a high risk for relapse.

The classic example given of a negative double bind is of a mother telling her child that she loves him, while at the same time turning her head away in disgust. (The words are socially acceptable; the body language is in conflict with it). The child doesn't know how to respond to the conflict between the words and the body language and, because she is dependent on his mother for his or her basic needs, is in a quandary. Small children have difficulty articulating contradictions verbally and can neither ignore them nor leave the relationship.

Treatments for Schizophrenia often include the administration of _____________ drugs and the provision of some form of family intervention that targets non-beneficial emotional expression among family members and ____________ (which often triggers symptoms).

Schizophrenia must be distinguished from several other psychotic disorders. In _______________, mood symptoms are brief relative to the duration of the disorder and do not occur duing the active phase.

In ______________ Disorder, mood and psychotic symptoms occur concurrently although there must be also a period of at least two weeks when delusions and hallucinations occur alone.

_______________ Disorder is identical to Schizophrenia except that the duration of symptoms is less than six months and significant impairment of social and occupational functioning is not required.

______________ Disorder involves psychotic symptoms that last for one day to one month and are eventually followed by a full return to premorbid functioning.

Brief Psychotic Disorder may or may not be preceded by a(n) _______________.

Delusional Disorder involves one or more _____________ delusions and does not usually involve markedly impaired functioning

_____________________ Disorder is diagnosed when a person develops a delusion as result of his / her association with another individual (the "primary case") who already has an established delusion.

The Sexual Dysfunctions involve either a disturbance in the _______________ or pain related to sexual intercourse.

Included in the category of Sexual Dysfunctions are __________ Disorder, which involves deficient or absent sexual fantasies and desires, and Premature Ejaculation, which occurs when a male ejaculates with minimal sexual stimulation and before he ____________.

__________________ is the appropriate diagnosis when a female experiences discomfort during intercourse as the result of spasms in the pubococygeus muscle.

The Sexual Dysfunctions can be due to ___________ factors only or to a combination of physical and psychological factors.

The Paraphilias entail intense sexual fantasties or behaviors involving either non-human objects, the suffering or humilitaion of oneself or one's partner; or ______________.

_____________________ involves cross-dressing for the purpose of sexual excitement.

Treatment for a Paraphilia often includes _______________, a form of aversive counterconditioning that is done in imagination.

Gender Identity Disorder is characterized by a strong, persistent _____________ and discomfort with one's sex and sex-role.

The Primary Sleep Disorders are not due to another mental disorder, a general medical condition, or _______________.

___________________, a type of Dyssomnia, is characterized by irresistable attacks of restorative sleep.

__________________ is a disturbance that is caused by sleep apnea or central alveolar hypoventilation.

Nightmare Disorder, a parasomnia, is characterized by repeated awakening from sleep with detailed recollections of _____________.

__________________ Disorder is characterized by repeated awakening from sleep, usually beginning with a panicky scream and an inability to recall a detailed dream.

__________________ Disorder entails repeated episodes of complex motor behaviors during sleep that involve rising from the bed and walking about.

The essential features of Anorexia Nervosa are (a) refusal to maintain a minimally normal body weight: (b) intense _____________: (c) disturbances in the perception of body weight and shape: and (d) in females, ______________.