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, 1. Select the serum assessment that is used when prescribing drugs to treat psychiatric disorders in
psychosomatic patients: Potassium
2. Select the theorist who developed the eight stages of the psychosocial life cycle: Erickson
3. Select two causes of dissociative amnesia ✔✔ ANSW Sexual abuse and Partner Betrayal
4. Select the patient evaluation scale to be used before and during prescribing antipsychotic drugs ✔✔ ANSW
AIMS
5. Select the two comorbid disorders with which Pica occurs most commonly-
✔✔ ANSW Autism and Intellectual disability
6. Select the prognosis range of untreated PTSD patients ✔✔ ANSW 20% recover, 10% mild symp-toms, 40% moderate symptoms,
30% no change or worse
7. Select the memory category retained in transient global amnesia that is absent in dissociative amnesia ✔✔
ANSW Sequential events
8. The following is NOT an endocrine change noted with anorexia nervosa ✔✔ ANSW Eating with friends but not Family
9. Select the two most important elements of the psychiatric interview to establish a mental illness diagnosis. ✔
✔ ANSW Psychiatrist History and mental status examination
10. Select the greatest impediment to treat anorexia nervosa patients. ✔✔ ANSW Patient Resistance
11. Select the sleep disorder in which cataplexy is a common symptom ✔✔ ANSW Central Apnea
12. Select the obsessive-compulsive disorder for which a patient is likely to initially seek help from a Primary
Care Provider ✔✔ Correct Hoarding
13. Select the rating scale used to assess obsessive-compulsive disorder ✔✔ Correct CAPS
14. Select age after which encopresis may be correctly diagnosed ✔✔ Correct 4
15. Select the mood disorder that is worsened by chronic exposure to observ-ing violence in television, movies,