| Conceptual and Methodological Issues | Assessment of Manic Scales | Assessment of Depressive States | Assessment of Bipolar Risk and Screening Instruments | Assessment of bipolar symptoms in children and adolescents |
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what is a disadvantage of self ratings of affective states?
patient must be literate, cooperative, stable
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What is SRMI?
Self report mania inventory. It consists of 47 items rated true or false.
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What are some self rating scales for depressive symptoms?
Beck depression inventory, Zung self rating depression scale, Hamilton depression inventory, Inventory of depressive symptomatlogy
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What is the aim of Bipolar risk screening assessment?
enable early intervention, to alter the course of the illness and prevent the severe psychosocial consequences of the disruption of normal social development typically associated with the disorder.
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What is one instrument used to diagnose manic symptoms in children?
Kiddie Schedule for Affective disorders and schizophrenia
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what is a methodological issue involved in the assessment of manic and depressive states?
clarification of the goals of assessment
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What is one of the first systematic observer rating scales for the measurement of mania?
The manic state rating scale
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What is the most widely used self rating scale for depression?
Beck Depression Inventory
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What is the reason behind the development of the General behaviour inventory?
to identify individuals at high risk, for developing bipolar disorder, particularly adolescents and young adults
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What is DISC interview?
Dominance, Inducement, Submission, Compliance
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what is a conceptual issue involved in the assessment of manic and and depressive states?
bipolar conditions are constantly fluctuating and vary in course and episode feature.
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What is the four items that are graded on a 0 to 8 scale on YMRS?
irritability, speech, thought content, and disruptive/aggressive behavior
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What is the criteria for Zung Self Rating depression Scale?
20 item scale with a four-point severity range, measures somatic, psychological, and mood aspects of depression.
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Who developed the Hypomanic Personality Scale?
Eckblad and Chapman (1986)
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What is the two major issues that are associated with the assessment of depression in children?
1) most diagnostic procedures assume that children's reports of their symptoms should be supplemented by information collected by caretakers.
2) The relatively low agreement among informants. |
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What is the advantages of self ratings of affective states?
-patients are in a unique position to provide information about their feelings and moods
-the patient is free of the theoretical biases that affect the development and use of observer ratings -they require little time and expense -can be completed rapidly |
What is the Bech-Rafaelsen Mania Scale's items?
motor activity, verbal activity, flight of thoughts, voice/noise level, hostility/destructiveness, mood, self esteem, contact with others, sleep changes, sexual interest, and work activities
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What is the reason behind the development of Carroll Depression Rating Scale?
Existing self report and clinician based scales were not adequate for the diagnosis of depressive symptoms.
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What is the criteria of the screening assessment of depression-polarity?
It consists of 3 items demonstrating the greatest disparity of bipolar-I and unipolar depression: presence of delusions during the current episode of major depression, number of prior episodes of major depression, and family history of major depression or
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What is the name of the person that developed Child Depression Inventory?
Maria Kovacs (1981)
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what is the reasons as to why rating scales are important?
-help determine severity of episodes or symptom states
-provide information of treatment response -identify the progression and resolution of symptom patterns |
What is the rating scale that was developed by Secunda and Colleagues?
The Manic diagnostic and severity Scale was developed.
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What is the depressive scale that rates melancholia symptoms?
It is a sub scale in Hamilton depressive inventory
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What is included in the contents of the mood disorder questionnaire?
It contains 13 yes-no items, as well as 2 additional questions designed to verify whether symptoms occurred during the same time period and caused significant problems.
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What is a significant criteria to observe when using diagnostic assessments on children?
Clinical and course features, such as rapid cycling and mixed states that differ between children and adults with bipolar disorder.
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