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1
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The rates of schizophrenia appear to be

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Similar in undeveloped and developing countries

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2
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Schizophrenia usually develops

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Late adolescence and early adulthood

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The phaseof schizophrenia marked by a slow steady deterioration and gradual decline in function before clear-cut psychotic behaviours and emerge is called

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Prodromal

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After an onset schizophrenic episode of full return to normal behaviour

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Is uncommon but does occur

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False believes that remain fixed in a persons mind despite evidence to the contrary are

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Delusions

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When somebody is constantly making up new words and has no meaning what is he doing

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Neologism

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One of Adams symptoms of having schizophrenia is while talking to others he will inappropriately but persistently keep repeating the same words or thoughts over and over again

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Preservation

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8
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People with schizophrenia appear to blank dopamine more than others

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Utilize more

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9
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People with schizophrenia are most likely to have been born in the

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Winter

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Ventricular enlargement is found in about blank percentage of schizophrenic patients

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75%

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Most people with schizophrenia and organize mental health settings are treated with

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Anti-psychotic medication

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Tardive dyskinesia is especially common among blank patience

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Older female

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13
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Staying on medication can reduce the relapse rate for schizophrenia to about

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40%

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14
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The goal of early psychosis intervention program is

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Prevention of acute psychosis

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15
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The basic social skills training model used in treating schizophrenia employs

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Role-playing exercises

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16
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When individuals on inpatient units are rewarded for appropriate behaviour with plastic chips that can be exchanged for tangible reinforcers such as desirable goods or privileges this is called

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A token economy

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17
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Most antipsychotic drugs appear blank of schizophrenia

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To control the positive symptoms but not the negative symptoms

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18
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Hallucination voices that instruct them to perform certain apps such as harming themselves or others (schizophrenia)

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Conversing

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Which of the following is a possible diathesis for schizophrenia

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Family conflict

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Blank symptoms tend to occur during acute episodes of schizophrenia and then disappear

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Positive

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21
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Disorders such as depression and persistent depressive disorder are

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Uni polar

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In a major depressive episode the adult person experiences either a depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in all or virtually all activities for a period of at least

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Two weeks

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23
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Major depressive disorder if left untreated usually last for blank months or longer

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Six months

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24
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All of the following are factors that influence risk for major depression except

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Level of education

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25
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Court found that blank are more likely to distract themselves when they are depressed where as blank are more likely to amplify depression by ruminating about their feelings and possible causes

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Men women

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26
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According to the health Canada which of the following is not a cause of generally higher rates of depression in indigenous communities

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Genetic factors

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27
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Phototherapy generally is more effective if the light is directed at the person’s

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Eyes

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28
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Which of the following is not a psychosocial factor that may contribute to the cause of postpartum depression

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An unwanted child

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29
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The DSM-V treats postpartum depression as a

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Subtype of major depression

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30
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The average duration for an episode of persistent depressive disorder is about

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Several years

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Do you essential feature of bipolar one disorder is the occurrence of one or more blank episodes

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Manic

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32
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Classical psychodynamic theories see depression as

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Anger turned inward

33
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Each of the following is a side effect of tricyclics except

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Loss of appetite

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Evidence shows that people who become depressed tend to in counter blank in long-term relationships

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Rejection

35
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The cognitive triad of depression is a concept pioneered by

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Back

36
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Genetics appears to play the largest role in the development of

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Bipolar disorder

37
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Research suggests that the metabolic activity of the blank is typically lower and clinically depressed groups then healthy controls

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Pre-frontal cortex

38
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Which of the following drugs is not generally used to treat depression

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Lithium

39
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Electroconvulsive therapy is used to treat blank and people who failed to respond to medication

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Major depressive disorder

40
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Delusions that are out to get you

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Persecution

41
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Delusions that others are talking about you

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Reference

42
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Delusions involving inflated believes about self-worth

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Grandeur

43
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The adoption of a fix posture and resisting all efforts to be moved

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Catatonic rigidity

44
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Involuntary interruptions of speech

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Blocking

45
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Delusions that you are being controlled by external forces

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Delusions of control

46
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The early period of deterioration and schizophrenia

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Prodromal

47
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Not aware or responsive to the environment

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Catatonic stupor

48
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Return to the previous level of function in following the active episode

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Residual phase

49
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Tendency to string words together because they rhyme or sound a like

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Clanging

50
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Created words that have no apparent meaning

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Neologisms

51
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Psychotic symptoms typically develop during this phase

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Active phase

52
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Ideas that are strong together with little or no relationship among them

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Perseveration

53
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Measure of disturbed family communication

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Expressed emotion

54
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Perceptions which occur in the absence of external stimulus

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Blocking

55
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Symptoms characterized by the absence of something that is normally present

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Negative symptoms

56
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Absence of emotional expression

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Flat affect

57
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Learned helplessness

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The notion that depressed people have come to view themselves as in capable of having an effect on their environment

58
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Cognitive traid

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A negative view of self world and future

59
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Hypomanic episode

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Less disruptive state of mania

60
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Cyclothymic disorder

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Alternations between mild depression and hypomanic symptoms

61
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All or nothing thinking

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You look at things and absolute black and white categories

62
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Overgeneralization

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You view were negative event as a never ending pattern of defeat

63
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Mental filter

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You dwell on the negative the negatives and ignore the positives

64
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Discounting the positives

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You and stink that your accomplishments or positive qualities don’t count

65
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Jumping to conclusions

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You can conclude that things are bad without any definite evidence

66
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Mind reading

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You assume that people are reacting negatively to you

67
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Fortune-telling

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You predict that things will turn out badly

68
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Magnification or minimization

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You blow things way out of proportion or shrink their importance

69
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Emotional reasoning

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You recent from how you feel I feel like an idiot so I must be

70
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Should statements

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You criticize yourself or other people with should and shouldn’ts and musts

71
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Labelling

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Instead of saying I made a mistake you tell yourself I’m a jerk or a loser

72
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Personalizing

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You blame yourself for something that you were responsible for

73
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Criteria for persistent depressive disorder

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Depressed mood lasting at least two years
Additional symptoms:
Poor appetite or over eating
Sleep problems
Low energy or fatigue
There has never been a manic or hypomanic episodes
The symptoms caused distress or impairment

74
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Causes of depressive disorders from the biological perspective

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Genetics neurotransmitters brain abnormalities anterior cingulate and I make a villa

75
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Causes of depression from the socio-cultural perspective

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Stressful life events poor social support gender issues

76
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Cognitive perspective for depression

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Becks cognitive theory treatment such as anti-depressant

77
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DSM5 criteria for bipolar one

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One or more manic episode
At least four of the symptoms
Elevated or irritable mood
Decreased need for sleep
Talkativeness
Flight of ideas
Distractibility
Symptoms last at least one week
 Impairment in daily functioning
78
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How do you schizophrenia get treated

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Antipsychotics but only helps 60 to 80%

Psychosocial interventions

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