Exam 3

Which description BEST represents someone with bulimia nervosa?

A woman regularly tells herself that she is going to eat a small healthy meal but then commonly finds herself eating an entire pizza, a carton of ice cream, and a box of doughnuts at one sitting. She immediately feels shame and guilt and then forces herself to throw it all up.

Most often, conversion disorders begin during which life phases?

Late childhood and young adulthood

Someone who intentionally feigns an illness to receive external gain is described as someone who:

Someone who intentionally feigns an illness to receive external gain is described as someone who:

How likely is someone with undiagnosed conversion disorder to seek psychotherapy initially?

Somewhat likely, but a small majority of people with conversion disorder still seek medical therapy first.

A child's distracting behaviors occur only in a school setting and include failure to follow instructions and finish work, answering questions before they have been completed, and a lot of seat squirming and fidgeting. Could ADHD be a diagnosis of this child's behavior?

Yes, it could be, but only if the fidgeting is distracting to others.

Statistically speaking, which eating disorder is a male most likely to develop?

binge-eating disorder

When Marigold sees her healthcare provider for treatment of an allergy, her healthcare provider tells her that her symptoms are factitious. Marigold will most likely:

leave the facility and immediately seek treatment from a different physician.

A child is openly hostile toward his parents. He argues with them constantly and will not do anything they say. They cannot control him. The diagnosis he is MOST likely to receive is:

oppositional defiant disorder.

A child will not obey her mother. When threatened with punishment, she swears, throws things, and threatens to break everything in the house. Her outbreaks seem to be restricted to her parents, but she is almost completely unmanageable. This is an example of:

oppositional defiant disorder.

How does the DSM-5 label the group of physical illnesses that seem to be caused or worsened by an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors?

psychological factors affecting other medical conditions

Regarding emotions, the pattern common in bulimia from pre-binge, through binge, to post-binge is BEST described in sequence as:

tension, powerlessness, shame.

Which statement is TRUE regarding anorexia nervosa?

Most people recover, but those who do not are most likely to die from starvation or suicide

Which of these is a type of factitious disorder?

Munchausen syndrome

A therapist who is caring for someone with an illness anxiety disorder should expect to find which of the following?

frequent checking of the body for signs of illness

Which treatment for depressed children and adolescents has been controversial?

antidepressant drugs

Which characteristic is very common in individuals with anorexia nervosa but is significantly less common in those who have bulimia nervosa or binge eating?

loss of menstrual periods

An individual who has been diagnosed with a somatic symptom disorder would MOST likely first seek:

medical help.

The child most likely to show the first symptom of autism spectrum disorder would be a:

boy under 3 years old.

Unlike factitious disorders, psychophysiological disorders:

come from an interaction of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.

A person who has anorexia nervosa has dry, rough, cracked skin and may develop lanugo. Why would you not expect to see these symptoms in someone with binge-eating disorder?

These symptoms result from nutritional deficiencies caused by starvation.

Which of these describes conversion disorders in men?

They occur approximately half as often as they do in women

Gabe appeared at the clinic complaining of pain in his knee, shoulder, and abdomen; nausea and vomiting; blurred vision; and exhaustion. The patient history revealed that he had been going to clinics for years trying to get treatment for these complaints as well as for a host of other physical symptoms. The diagnostic consensus was that Gabe suffered from

somatic symptom disorder.