EXAM PAPER 2026 SOLVED QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
◉ Moderate resilience. Answer: Moderate resilience and emotional
intelligence is associated with the most growth.
◉ Mahler's stages of separation-individualization. Answer:
Borderline pathology is thought to evolve from problems in
Practicing, Consolidation, Differentiation, and Rapprochement.
◉ Neuroscience and human actions. Answer: People do things
because of what happens in their brain.
◉ Emotional reactions retraining. Answer: One can learn to activate
their prefrontal cortex and retrain emotional reactions.
◉ Psychodynamic psychotherapy focus. Answer: Psychodynamic
psychotherapy interventions focus on the person's emotions and
thoughts, deepening understanding of triggers from the past played
out in the present.
, ◉ Change agent in relational psychodynamic therapy. Answer:
Insight.
◉ Cultural syndrome. Answer: A group of co-occurring, relatively
invariant symptoms found in a specific cultural group, community or
context.
◉ Yalom's therapeutic factors. Answer: This behavior is consistent
with the corrective recapitulation of the primary family group.
◉ Role play in therapy. Answer: Role play in the context of the
therapy session is an example of behavioral rehearsal.
◉ Social Skills Training. Answer: The advanced practice psychiatric
nurse who assists the patient to maintain eye contact appropriately
is doing Social Skills Training.
◉ Cognitive distortion example. Answer: 'If I was in a relationship,
all of my problems would be solved' is an example of the Fallacy of
attachment.
◉ Cognitive distortion in family therapy. Answer: In a family session,
the statement 'See they never let me do anything!' is recognized as
cognitive distortion known as Overgeneralization.