Abnormal Study Guide – Test 4

Chapter 13 - Personality Disorders

1. What is personality?
2. What are personality disorders?
3. When is a personality disorder diagnosed?
4. On what axis is the personality disorder classified?
5. Know the 3 categories of personality disorders, the overall characteristics of these categories, and the specific disorders found in them.
6. What are the characteristics of the paranoid personality disorder?
7. What are the characteristics of the Schizoid personality disorder?
8. What are the characteristics of the Schizotypal personality disorder?
9. What are the characteristics of the Histrionic personality disorder?
10. What are the characteristics of the Narcissistic personality disorder?
11. What are the characteristics of the Antisocial personality disorder?
12. What 2 disorders typically precede antisocial?
13. What are the characteristics of the Borderline personality disorder?
14. What are the characteristics of the Dependent personality disorder?
15. What are the characteristics of the Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?
16. What are believed to be possible causes of personality disorders?
17. What are believed to be possible causes of antisocial personality disorder?
18. What treatments tend to work with antisocial personality disorder?
19. What treatments are contraindicated with antisocial personality disorder?

Chapter 14

20. What anxiety disorders are common among children?
21. What anxiety disorder is unique to children? What are its characteristics?
22. What therapy is unique in children’s treatment?
23. What is Oppositional defiant disorder?
24. What is Conduct disorder and how is it different from Oppositional defiant disorder?
25. What is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
26. What are the suspected causes of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder?
27. How is Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder treated?
28. What is Enuresis?
29. What may cause enuresis?
30. How is enuresis treated? Be aware of the bell & pad technique.
31. What is Encopresis?

Chapter 15

32. What is Dementia?
33. What is Delirium?
34. What is the correlation between old age and suicide?
35. Why is it not surprising to see GAD among the elderly?
36. What schizophrenic like symptoms do the elderly higher likelihood of experiencing?
37. What is delusional disorder?
38. What are the characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease?
39. What are believed to be the causes of Alzheimer’s disease?
40. How is Alzheimer’s disease treated?
41. What is Parkinson’s disease?