and Answers
Question:
An illness of symptoms or deficits that affect voluntary motor or
sensory functions, which suggest another medical condition but that is
judged to be caused by psychological factors because the illness is
preceded by conflicts or other stressors in known as which of
the following?
A. functional neurological symptom disorder
A condition characterized by the person giving
approximate answers, with clouding of consciousness,
frequently accompanied by hallucinations or other
dissociative, somatoform or conversion symptoms is
A. Ganser Syndrome
Question:
Which of the following can cause delirium? Check all that apply.
A. Polypharmacy
B. Sleep
deprivation
Acute withdrawal from alcohol represents which type of
clinical problem in psychosomatic medicine?
Psychological factor precipitating medical condition
Question:
The principal theoretician to bring psyche and
soma together was which of the following?
A. Sigmund Freud
Question:
Which of the following would not be included in the treatment plan for a
patient with illness anxiety disorder?
A. Exploratory invasive procedures to obtain diagnosis
Question:
Which of the following is consistent with current literature about the
relationship between obstetrical complications and autism spectrum
disorders (ASD)?
Research proves there is a positive correlation between obstetrical
complications and ASD
,Question:
The epidemiology related to kleptomania includes which of the following?
,Kleptomania is reported to occur in fewer than 5 percent of identified
shoplifters.
The prevalence of kleptomania is not known, but it is estimated to be
about 0.6 percent. The range varies from 3.8 to 24 percent of those
arrested for shoplifting. There are reports that it occurs in fewer than 5
percent of identified shoplifters. The male-to-female ratio is 1:3 in
clinical samples.
Question:
A frontotemporal dementia with onset in the fifth to sixth decade of life,
more common in men, marked by personality change.
Question:
Which of the following demographics are consistent with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD)
A. Four times more common in boys than girls.
Question:
The ARNP is working with the family of a patient with Alzheimer's
Disease who keeps stating the family is plotting against her, trying to have
her "snuffed out." The family is distraught because they
state they are doing their best to make sure their family member is safe.
The ARNP explains which of the following in educating the patient about
the patient's
A. The patient is delusional. An estimated 30 to 40 percent of patients
with dementia have delusions
Question:
Which of the following persons hypothesized that the symptoms of
conversion disorder reflect unconscious conflict?
A. Sigmund Freud
Question:
Which of the following is consistent within normal range
developmental milestones in adaptive skills for a 4-year-old?
A. Toilets self alone; uses fork
Question:
A temporary marked alteration in the consciousne or by the
state of ss customary
sense of personal identity without the replacement by an alternate
sense of identity is known as which of the following?
A. Dissociative trance disorder
Question:
Differential diagnoses to be considered when diagnosing Ganser
syndrome include which of the following?
, A. All the above (organic dementia, depressive
pseudodementia, Korsakoff'ssyndrome)
Question:
A patient who has been raped, presents with the inability to recall
important personal information and any information about the
rape, does recall events prior and since. There does not appear
to be any physiological reason for this. This presentation is
consistent with which of the following diagnoses?
A. Dissociative amnesia
Question:
17. Depersonalization can result from which of the following
conditions? Check all that apply.
A. Seizure patients and migraine sufferers
; they can also occur with use of psychedelic drugs, especially marijuana,
lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and mescaline,
Question:
A child who demonstrates repetitive significant violations of social rules
and the rights of others over the course of a year would
likely be diagnosed with which of the following diagnoses?
A. Conduct Disorder
Question:
A sudden unexpected purposeful travel away from home with inability
to recall all of one's past accompanied by confusion about personal
identity not due to direct effects of a substance or a general medical
condition which causes clinically significant distress or impairment in
social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning is most
specifically known as which of the following?
A. Dissociative fugue
Question:
Which of the following is NOT considered a nonpathological form of
amnesia?
A. Generalized Amnesia, Selective Amnesia, Localized amnesia, continuous
amnesia
Question:
The diagnosis formerly known as multiple personality disorder is now
known as which of the following?
A. Dissociative Identity Disorder
Which of the following is not consistent with what is known
about the epidemiology of dissociative fugue?