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- Select the two assessment tools used primarily for patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia.
- Correct Answer: PANSS and BPRS
- When documenting thought processes during assessment, flight of ideas means:
- Correct Answer: Rapidly moving from one thought to another at a pace difficult for others to keep up with, but thoughts are connected
- The clinician must realize a complete and accurate patient history is never truly obtained and assessment is always ongoing, treatment evolving, and outcomes reassessed.
- Episodes of major depression and hypomania are the main characteristics of:
- Correct Answer: Bipolar II Disorder
- Environmental toxins may mimic certain psychiatric disorders. Which environmental toxicity can create delirium, confusion, and parkinsonian syndromes?
- Correct Answer: Manganese intoxication
- A patient’s ‘insight’ in the psychiatric evaluation refers to:
- Correct Answer: The patient’s understanding of how they are feeling, presenting, and functioning, as well as potential causes
- Diagnosis for enuresis should NOT be made until after age 5 years old for children.
- Select the anxiety disorder that is most associated with selective mutism in children.
- Correct Answer: Social anxiety disorder
- Select two events that are NOT causes of dissociative trance disorder.
- Correct Answer: Natural disaster and Appropriate drug therapy
- Select two brain regions that are associated with anxiety disorders.
- Correct Answer: Locus ceruleus and Raphe nuclei
- Select the self-report rating scale used to screen for major depression disorders in patients.
- Correct Answer: Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
- All of the following laboratory tests are helpful when assessing for potential alcohol abuse EXCEPT:
- Select the patient evaluation scale to be used before and during prescribing antipsychotic drugs.
- Correct Answer: AIMS (Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale)
- Select the time after cessation of the stressor causing an adjustment disorder in which symptoms should cease to persist.
- What is the primary goal of data collection during the psychiatric interview?
- Correct Answer: To obtain the patient’s perception of their health and illness
- Select the neurodevelopmental disorder typically diagnosed in childhood.
- Correct Answer: Intellectual Developmental Disorder
- A diagnosis of Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder requires the child never has symptoms of restricted interest and repetitive behaviors.
- Intermittent Explosive Disorder tends to decrease in severity with age, but organic impairments can exacerbate symptoms.
- Erik Erikson’s “Generativity versus Stagnation” is a psychosocial life stage.
- The event not considered a traumatic exposure for PTSD is:
- Correct Answer: Listening to music
- Negligent parenting is the primary cause of Reactive Attachment Disorder.