SOLUTION PRACTICE
◉ 40-year old client not feeling comfortable socially after gaining
weight. Unwilling to try new activities and avoiding activities he
once found enjoyable. Answer: Avoidant Personality Disorder
◉ Client believes his favorite actress is in love with him. He is
appropriate in every other way and substance use is not the factor.
Answer: Delusional Disorder
◉ Cyclothymia. Answer: Mild form of bipolar disorder. Cause is
unknown
◉ Client needs help with substance use, uses recreationally on the
weekends. Two DUIs within 3 years. Answer: Stimulant Use Disorder
◉ Complaints about significant Chronic back pain and shoulder pain
(basis of a disability claim), when seen he looks fully physical
capable of bending and picking up things. Answer: Malingering - to
receive an external reward
◉ Symptoms of Schizophrenia categorized in three groups. Answer:
Positive, Negative, and Disorganized
,◉ Couple comes in. Wife displays feelings of distrust and no
tolerance for relationships and also experiences excessive over-
valuation "he's the best thing that every happened to me". Answer:
Borderline Personality Disorder
◉ A patient diagnosed with depression/suicide ideation suddenly
appears to feel better and think more clearly. Answer: Suicide has
increased!
◉ 20 year-old male college student. Last 6-7 months grossly
disorganized or catatonic behavior and speech, hallucinations, poor
responses. Answer: Schizophrenia...Paranoid, disorganized,
catatonic, undifferentiated, and residual
◉ When a client's physical symptoms have a psychological cause it is
referred to as. Answer: Conversion Disorder
◉ Appraisal. Answer: Any means by which by which a counselor
assesses a client. ie: mental health exam, IQ test
◉ Type of test - NCE. Answer: Objective
◉ Test created by David Wechsler. Answer: IQ
, ◉ When administering tests to a client, the counselor should always.
Answer: Inform the client of limitations of testing
◉ Validity (In testing). Answer: How accurate the test is
◉ Reliability (in testing). Answer: How consistent the results are
◉ The only test you are using with your client has a reliability of .60,
you should.... Answer: disregard the results of the test as the
reliability is too low
◉ Francis Galton. Answer: Inherited intellectual abilities; father of
behavioral genetics; personality traits are passed down
◉ J.P. Guilford. Answer: individual differences and intellect;
creativity
◉ Developed the first intelligence test. Answer: Alfred Binet and
Theophilus Simon
◉ Rorschach. Answer: Inkblot test