Select the serum assessment that is required when prescribing drugs to treat psychiatric disorders in psychosomatic patients.
Selected Answer:
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A.
Potassium
Select the theorist who developed the eight stages of psychosocial life cycle.
Selected Answer:
C.
Erikson
Select two causes of dissociative amnesia.
Selected Answers:
A.
Sexual abuse
D.
Partner betrayal
Select the patient evaluation scale to be used before and during prescribing antipsychotic drugs.
Selected Answer:
A.
MMS E
Select the two comorbid disorders with which Pica occurs most commonly.
Selected Answers:
C.
Autism
D.
Intellectual disability
Select the prognosis range of untreated PTSD patients.
Answer:
10% recover, 20% mild symptoms, 30% moderate symptoms, 40% no change or worse
Select the memory category retained in transient global amnesia that is absent in dissociative amnesia.
Selected Answer:
B.
Sequential events
The following is NOT an endocrine change noted with anorexia nervosa:
Selected A.
Increased
Glucose
Select the two most important elements of the psychiatric interview to establish a
mental illness diagnosis.
Selected Answers:
A.
Psychiatric history
C.
Mental status examination
Select the greatest impediment to treating anorexia nervosa patients.
Selected Answer:
D.
Noncompliance with therapy
Select the sleep disorder in which cataplexy is a common symptom.
Selected Answer:
D.
Narcolep sy
from a Primary Care Provider.
Selected Answer:
D.
Body dysmorphia
Select the rating scale used to assess obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Selected Answer:
C.
YBOC S
Selected C.
Answer:
4
Select the mood disorder that is worsened by chronic exposure to observing violence in television, movies, and video games.
Selected Answer:
A.
Bipola r
Select a provider’s most important knowledge area essential to a successful mental health interview of a child.
Selected Answer:
A.
Normal development
Select the minimum treatment time to assess the effectiveness of antidepressant drug therapy.
Selected Answer:
A.
1-2
What is one main difference between acute stress disorder and PTSD?
Selected Answer:
A.
PTSD diagnosis require symptoms to last at least for one month.
Factors that indicate a good prognosis for PTSD disorders include all the following EXCEPT:
Selected Answer:
B.
short duration of symptoms
disorder or hypochondriasis.
Selected Answer:
A.
Angina pectoris
What is the most IMMEDIATE consideration in assessing depression in adolescents?
Selected Answer:
B.
Safet y
Select the neurotransmitter that is most involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia.
Selected Answer:
B.
Dopami ne
Select the most important component of the patient-provider rapport.
Selected Answer:
A.
Empat
Select the most effective treatment for social anxiety disorder in children.
Selected Answer:
B.
Cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) and SSRI antidepressants
All the following are key psychiatric findings when assessing speech and language in children EXCEPT:
Selected Answer:
A.
Normal articulation
Selected Answer:
A.
Intense horror
All the following are classes of coping mechanisms in the Model of Mental Health as Resilience where humans overcome stressful situations EXCEPT:
Selected Answer:
B.
Generativity versus Stagnation
Anatomical and functional neuroimaging studies have associated a decreased activation in what part of the brain with obsessive-compulsive behaviors?
Selected Answer:
B.
Substantia nigra
Select the two complications in diagnosing patients with anorexia nervosa.
Selected Answers:
Denial of symptoms
n medical cause
s i s t
Select the anxiety disorder that emerges in ages 9 to 18 months.
Selected Answer:
A.
Separati on
Select the two most common peripheral symptoms of anxiety.
Selected Answers:
B.
Dizzine ss
D.
Tremors
Select the hormone or neurotransmitter that is involved in regulating the 24-hour circadian sleep-wake cycle.
Selected Answer:
D.
Melatoni n
Select the event most associated with the occurrence of dissociative fugue.
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