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1
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People who develop schizophrenia are more likely to be born during what time(s) of the year?

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Winter and early spring

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2
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Which term refers to a slender, slightly muscled physique?

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Asthenic

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3
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90% of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are also addicted to what substance:

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Nicotine

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4
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What is the most frequent type of hallucinations?

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Auditory

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What type of therapy involves a multidisciplinary, mobile team that provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support activities in a patient’s natural environments?

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Assertive community treatment

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Select the negative symptom(s) of schizophrenia. There may be more than one.

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Apathy
Blunt affect
Anhedonia

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What type of eye movements are frequently seen in patients diagnosed with schizophrenia?

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Saccades

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Select the positive symptom(s) of schizophrenia. There may be more than one.

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Paranoia
Hallucinations
Delusions

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9
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Which term emphasizes early-onset change in cognition?

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Dementia precox

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10
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What are the subtypes of Schizophrenia?

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Paranoid 
Disorganized 
Catatonic 
Undifferentiated 
Residual
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Symptoms of Paranoid type Schizophrenia

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Preoccupation with one or more delusions or frequent auditory hallucinations. 
None of the following are prominent: 
1. Disorganized speech 
2. Disorganized or catatonic behavior
3. Flat or inappropriate affect
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Symptoms of Disorganized type Schizophrenia

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Disorganized Speech
Disorganized behavior
Flat or inappropriate affect

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Symptoms of Catatonic type schizophrenia

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The cline needs to have at least two of the following

  1. Motoric immobility or stupor
  2. Excessive motor activity
  3. Extreme negativism or mutism
  4. Peculiarities of voluntary movement (Posturing, stereotyped movements, prominent mannerisms or prominent grimacing)
  5. Echolalia or echopraxia
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Symptoms of Undifferentiated type Schizophrenia

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The presence of symptoms that meet criterion A of schizophrenia, but that do not meet criteria for the paranoid, disorganized or catatonic type.

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Symptoms of Residual type Schizophrenia

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Absence of prominent delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.

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What is the life event most associated with developing depression?

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Losing parents before the age of 11

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17
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Which diagnosis is characterized by episodes of major depression and hypomania?

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Bipolar II disorder

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18
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Merriment is much more likely in which type of diagnosis?

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Bipolar

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19
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What type of episode usually begins a bipolar episode?

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Depressive

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20
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What terms refers to the phenomenon of patients committing suicide as their depression improves due to poor impulse control?

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Paradoxical suicide

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21
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What is the minimum amount of time a patient should participate in their pharmacological treatment for depression?

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6 months

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22
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If a patient seems to have sociopathic tendencies, what is the most likely diagnosis?

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Cyclothymic

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23
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Depression is more common in older persons than in the general population?

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True

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24
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What percentage of patients with bipolar experience delusions?

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75

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25
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What is defined as a pervasive and sustained emotion or feeling tone that influences a persons behavior and color his or her perception of being in the world?

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MOod

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26
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Which type of therapy is most appropriate for someone diagnosed with agoraphobia?

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Behavioral

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27
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What referes to excessive fear of a specific object, circumstance or situation?

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Phobia

28
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Which type of phobia has a high familiar tendency?

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Blood-injection- injury

29
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Which term describes a response to a known external threat?

A

Fear

30
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Caffeine and carbon dioxide are examples of what kind of substance ?

A

Panicogens

31
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Which type of phobia is more likely to develop in adulthood?

A

Situational

32
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People, who experience panic attacks are likely to develop which diagnosis?

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Agoraphobia

33
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How long does a panic attack typically last?

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20-30 minutes

34
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What is a conscious, standardized, recurrent behavior?

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Compulsion

35
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What is a recurrent or intrusive thought, feeling, idea, or sensation?

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Obsession

36
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Select the top three compulsions:

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Checking
Washing
Counting

37
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Resisting a compulsion reduces anxiety.

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False

38
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Completion of a compulsion reduces anxiety.

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False

39
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Select the top three obsessions:

A

Contamination
Somatic
Pathological doubt

40
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90% of people with which diagnosis have also been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder?

A

Tourette’s syndrome

41
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What type of symptoms include flashbacks?

A

Intrusion

42
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What is the least important risk factor for developing posttraumatic stress disorder?

A

Familial pattern

43
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Which age groups are particularly susceptible to developing posttraumatic stress disorder? Select all that apply.

A

Young adults
Young children
Older adults

44
Q

Soldiers diagnosed with Gulf War syndrome also experienced an increase in which diagnosis?

A

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

45
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What is defined by the inability to identify and describe emotions?

A

Alexithymia

46
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What refers to the unconscious defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person’s psychic activity?

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Dissociation

47
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What refers to a period of feeling disconnected or detached from one’s body or thoughts?

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Depersonalization

48
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What is the most likely type of trauma exposure for men resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder?

A

Combat

49
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What is the most likely type of trauma exposure for women resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder?

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Rape

50
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What type of symptoms include anhedonia?

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Avoidance

51
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What term refers to the inability to recall events related to a circumscribed period of time?

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Localized amnesia

52
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What terms refer to the failure to remember a category of information, such as all memories relating to one’s family or to a particular person?

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Systematized amnesia

53
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What terms refers to the ability to remember some, but not all, of the events occurring during a circumscribed period of time?

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Selective amnesia

54
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What term refers to the failure to recall successive events as they occur?

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Continuous amnesia

55
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Which term refers to purposeful, sudden, and unexpected travel and in inability to recall one’s identity after a traumatic event?

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Dissociative fugue

56
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Which disorder is characterized by the giving approximate answers together with a clouding of consciousness and is frequently accompanied by hallucinations and other dissociative, somatoform, and conversion symptoms?

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Ganser syndrome

57
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What term refers to the failure to recall one’s entire life?

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Generalized amnesia

58
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Which disorder is commonly experienced by people with epilepsy or migraines?

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Depersonalization disorder

59
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Which disorder is manifest by a temporary, marked altercation in the states of consciousness or by a loss of the customary sense of personal identity without the replacement by an alternate sense of identity?

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Dissociative trance disorder

60
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What is the most common trauma associated with dissociative identity disorder?

A

Childhood trauma

61
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Which disorder is described as identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion?

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Brainwashing

62
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Which diagnosis consists of a cluster of abnormalities associated with obesity that contributes to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes?

A

Metabolic syndrome

63
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Which is the most common eating disorder?

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Binge eating disorder

64
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Which disorder is characterized by purging behavior after consuming a small amount of food in persons of normal weight who have a distorted view of their weight or body image?

A

Purging disorder

65
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Patients diagnosed with which eating disorder are at an elevated risk for suicide?

A

Anorexia Nervosa (binge/purge)

66
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Which sensory system plays a role is satiety/

A

Olfactory

67
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Patients diagnosed with which eating disorder are less likely to recover?

A

Anorexia nervosa (restricting)

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