Mental Health and Behavioral Therapy Flashcards
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Which diagnostic manual is the primary reference used by mental health professionals in the United States?
Answer: DSM-5-TR (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders)
The DSM-5-TR, published by the American Psychiatric Association, provides diagnostic criteria, prevalence data, and cultural context for all recognized mental disorders in the US.
What is the purpose of a functional behavioral assessment (FBA) in applied behavior analysis (ABA)?
Answer: Identify the function or purpose maintaining a problem behavior to design effective interventions
An FBA determines the antecedents, behaviors, and consequences (ABC) to identify the function (attention, escape, tangible, sensory) maintaining a target behavior.
Which disorder is characterized by persistent difficulties with social communication, restricted interests, and repetitive behaviors beginning in early development?
Answer: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
ASD is a neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed based on deficits in social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior as defined in the DSM-5.
What is the PHQ-9 used to assess in clinical settings?
Answer: Severity of depression symptoms over the past two weeks
The PHQ-9 is a 9-item self-report questionnaire measuring depression severity aligned with DSM criteria, with scores ranging from 0–27 and cutoffs for mild, moderate, and severe depression.
In exposure and response prevention (ERP) for OCD, what is the 'response prevention' component?
Answer: Refraining from compulsive rituals after exposure to obsessional triggers
Response prevention involves blocking the compulsive ritual that normally reduces anxiety after an obsessional trigger, allowing the anxiety to extinguish naturally through habituation.
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Answer: Diminished emotional expression, avolition, alogia, anhedonia, and asociality
Negative symptoms reflect a reduction or absence of normal behaviors: flat affect, lack of motivation (avolition), poverty of speech (alogia), inability to feel pleasure (anhedonia), and social withdrawal.