CLINICAL MODALITIES IN ADVANCED
PSYCHIATRIC EXAM 1 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE 2026 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Attachment in the making. Answer: 8-12 wks - 6 months. Infants
become more attached to one or more persons in the environment.
◉ Clear-cut attachment. Answer: 6-24 months. Infants show signs of
distress when separated from caretaker or mother. Can occur as
early as 3 months.
◉ Insecure-avoidant. Answer: Tends to avoid close contact with
people andlingers near caregivers rather than approaching them
directly.
◉ Insecure-ambivalent-. Answer: child finds exploratory play
difficult, even in the absence of danger, clings to his or her
inconsistent parents.
◉ Insecure-disorganized -. Answer: Children in this case have
parents who are emotionally absent with a parental history of abuse
in their childhood,
, ◉ Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy. Answer: People control
their own destinies and interpret events according to their own
values and beliefs.
◉ A-B-C theory. Answer: Activating event, belief, consequences
(emotional and/or behavioral)
Ellis- RET
◉ Forms of irrational beliefs. Answer: Something should be
different/Something is awful or terrible/One cannot tolerate
something/Something or someone is damned or cursed.
Ellis-RET
◉ "Masturbatory" ideologies have 3 forms:. Answer: I must do well
and win approval or I am a rotten person/You must act kindly
toward me or you are a rotten person/My life must remain
comfortable or life hardly seems worth living.
Ellis-RET
◉ Therapy consists of... for RET. Answer: Therapy consists of
detecting and eradication irrational beliefs, Disputing: Detecting
irrationalities, debating them, discriminating between logical and
illogical thinking, and defining what helps create new beliefs.
Debating: Questioning and disputing the irrational beliefs.
PSYCHIATRIC EXAM 1 COMPREHENSIVE STUDY
GUIDE 2026 PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ Attachment in the making. Answer: 8-12 wks - 6 months. Infants
become more attached to one or more persons in the environment.
◉ Clear-cut attachment. Answer: 6-24 months. Infants show signs of
distress when separated from caretaker or mother. Can occur as
early as 3 months.
◉ Insecure-avoidant. Answer: Tends to avoid close contact with
people andlingers near caregivers rather than approaching them
directly.
◉ Insecure-ambivalent-. Answer: child finds exploratory play
difficult, even in the absence of danger, clings to his or her
inconsistent parents.
◉ Insecure-disorganized -. Answer: Children in this case have
parents who are emotionally absent with a parental history of abuse
in their childhood,
, ◉ Albert Ellis' Rational Emotive Therapy. Answer: People control
their own destinies and interpret events according to their own
values and beliefs.
◉ A-B-C theory. Answer: Activating event, belief, consequences
(emotional and/or behavioral)
Ellis- RET
◉ Forms of irrational beliefs. Answer: Something should be
different/Something is awful or terrible/One cannot tolerate
something/Something or someone is damned or cursed.
Ellis-RET
◉ "Masturbatory" ideologies have 3 forms:. Answer: I must do well
and win approval or I am a rotten person/You must act kindly
toward me or you are a rotten person/My life must remain
comfortable or life hardly seems worth living.
Ellis-RET
◉ Therapy consists of... for RET. Answer: Therapy consists of
detecting and eradication irrational beliefs, Disputing: Detecting
irrationalities, debating them, discriminating between logical and
illogical thinking, and defining what helps create new beliefs.
Debating: Questioning and disputing the irrational beliefs.
