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MH 707- EXAM 1. module 1-2
1. section 1: DSM-5 basics: introduction, use of the manual, cautionary statementon
forensic use
2. section II: DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and codes
3. Section III: DSM-5 emerging measures and models, assessment measures, cultural
formulation, alternate model for personality disorders, conditions for furtherstudy
4. What section would give you a clinical picture of a disorder: section II
5. DSM-5 disorder categories: "Depressed Patients Sound Anxious, So Claim
Psychiatrists"
depression and other mood disorders, psychotic disorders, substance abuse disor-
ders, anxiety disorders, somatic disorders, cognitive disorders, personality disorders
6. DSM-5 Purpose: provide communication amongst providers to treat different
disorders, provide standards of each disorder, and provide a clinical picture of the
individual
7. Vanderbilt ADHD Assessment scale: assessment tool for attention deficit hy-
peractive disorder that is available free online
8. Techniques used to elicit information with a reluctant patient: open ended
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questions, continuation techniques, shift to neutral ground, schedule second inter-
view
9. Continuation techniques: " go on", Really?. wow?"
10. HPI Crisis Approach: "Why now", "why is this a crucial point in the person's
life", focus on 1-4 week period when the crisis occured
11. HPI Syndrome Approach: begin questioning by ascertaining when the patient
first remembers signs of illness. Ensuing questions track the course of the illness
through months or years, arriving at the present
12. HPI chronological narrative: when patients jumps into a chronologic narrative
of their problems; your "scouting" period
13. HPI launch into diagnostic questions: when a patient mentions a type of
mood, immediately assess for presence of the diagnostic criteria
14. HPI current and premorbid level of functioning: assess overall functioning by
asking THREE basic aspects of life: love, work, and fun
15. common precipitants of psychiatric syndromes: arguments with friends or
family, rejection or abandonment, death or major illness of a loved one, anniversaryof
a negative event, major medical illness or age related deterioration in functioning,
stressful events at work or school, mental health clinician going on vacation, med-
ication noncompliance, substance abuse
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16. Mature defenses: suppression, altruism, sublimation, humor
17. suppression: emotion remains conscious but is suppressed
18. altruism: suppressing the emotion by doing something nice for others
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