EPPP EXAM SIMULATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

EPPP EXAM SIMULATION EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS In their often-cited study of community mental health services and ethnicity, Sue and his colleagues (1991) found that, with regard to treatment outcomes: Select one: A. Hispanic and African American clients showed substantially less improvement than Anglo and Asian American clients. B. Hispanic American clients showed somewhat less improvement than African, Anglo, and Asian American clients. C. African American clients showed somewhat less improvement than Hispanic, Anglo, and Asian American clients. D. Hispanic, African, and Asian American clients showed less improvement than Anglo American clients. - Answer-C. African American clients showed somewhat less improvement than Hispanic, Anglo, and Asian American clients According to Murray Bowen, when two family members experience stress, they may recruit a third family member to reduce the tension in their relationship. Then, if the stress continues, the resulting tension may spread to other family members and, as more people become involved, _________ develops. Select one: A. a destablized ("runaway") system B. a series of interlocking triangles C. emotional cutoff D. emotional flooding - Answer-B. a series of interlocking triangles According to George Kelly (1995), a fully functioning person is one: Select one: A. whose predictions about events and other people are usually correct. B. whose self and self-image are in a state of congruence. C. who is able to first identify and then achieve realistic goals in a responsible manner. D. who routinely experiences events with here-and-now immediacy. - Answer-A. whose predictions about events and other people are usually correct In a research study, an investigator interested in the genetic contributors to suicide compares certain demographic, behavioral, and genetic characteristics of a sample of psychiatric patients who attempted suicide in the past month with the characteristics of the first degree and second degree biological relatives of the psychiatric patients and with "healthy controls" (non-patients). The probands in this study are the: Select one: A. psychiatric patients. B. third-degree relatives. C. first-degree relatives. D. first- and second-degree relatives. - Answer-A. psychiatric patients Which of the following is a cause of conductive deafness?