MegaDeck questions with answers || || ||
Who is at highest risk of suicide? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔White, elderly
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men
Schizophrenia
Single, never married, divorced, recently widowed
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Previous attempts ||
Adolescents with depression, bullied, or family hx of suicide
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Who is most likely to succeed at committing suicide? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Older while males || ||
What are some protective factors for suicide? - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Having children ||
Religion
Stronger alliances with medical providers and therapists
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What is lethality? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the probability that a person
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will successfully complete suicide
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What is intent? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Effective expectations for desire
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of active death
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,What is a suicide attempt? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Includes all willful,
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self-inflicted life-threatening attempts that have not led to death || || || || || || || ||
What is suicidal ideation? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔thinking about suicide,
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usually with some serious emotional and intellectual or cognitive overtones
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Where in the brain do we theorize violence and aggression originate? -
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CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Prefrontal cortex || || ||
How to assess for homicidal ideation? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Do you
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have homicidal ideation? Who do you want to kill? How do you plan to do
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this? Do you have access to the means necessary? Do you intend to commit
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the act? ||
What legal follow up is needed for homicidal ideation? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Duty to warn || || ||
Based on state laws || || ||
Obsession - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Recurrent and persistent thoughts,
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urges, or images that are experienced, at some time during the disturbance, as
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intrusive and unwanted, and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety
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or distress
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2. The individual attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts, urges, or
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images, or to neutralize them with some other thought or action (i.e. by
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performing a compulsion) || ||
,Compulsion - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. Repetitive behaviors or mental || || || || || || || || ||
acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or
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according to rules that must be applied rigidly || || || || || || ||
2. The behaviors or mental acts are aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or
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distress, or preventing some dreaded event or situation, however, these
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behaviors or mental acts are not connected in a realistic way with what they
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are designed to neutralize or prevent, or are clearly excessive
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A. || || || || || || ||
Presence of obsessions, compulsions, or both || || || || ||
B. The obsessions or compulsions are time-consuming (e.g. take more than
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one hour per day) or cause clinically significant distress or impairment in
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social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning
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C. The obsessive-compulsive symptoms are not attributable to the
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physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition || || || || || || || ||
D. The disturbance is not better explained by the symptoms of another mental
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disorder
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PANDAS - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Pediatric Autoimmune || || || || || ||
Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal infections || || || || ||
OCD common co-morbid conditions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔MDD
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(Major depressive disorder) || ||
Skin Picking ||
Hair Pulling ||
, Most Common Compulsions - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Checking
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Ordering
Arranging
Washing/cleaning
Hand-washing
Flipping lights ||
Counting
Differentiation between OCD and eating disorders - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Those with eating disorders will be counting calories, focused on weight
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loss or maintaining a specific weight
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Treatment for OCD - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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Pharmacological Treatment for OCD - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔First line
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treatment-SSRI (Luvox, fluoxetine) || ||
Second-line treatment TCA with serotonergic properties (clomipramine)
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SNRI or MAOI
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Augmentation with benzos, lithium, or Buspar || || || || ||
DSM-5 Body Dysmorphic Disorder - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Preoccupation
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with perceived flaw on body taht is not observed by others
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