EPPP MC 1 STUDY GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

EPPP MC 1 STUDY GUIDE EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS This is a practical, and often realistic, problem. You have a 14-year-old who doesn't want to come to you. You have a referral from the school that his grades are going down. You made an assessment that there doesn't appear, now anyway, to be any psychiatric disorder. So, what would you do? There's no need to suggest treatment since he doesn't want to come see you. And, besides, you haven't found any problems. You wouldn't continue an assessment since, from the information given, you already concluded there isn't much psychological conflict present. You could do nothing, telling him to come back to you if things get worse. That's one possibility. Another possibility presented as a choice is to explore some educational intervention, such as talking to his teachers to investigate how his school environment might be optimized. So you could certainly propose intervening with the school. And between suggesting this, and doing nothing, we'd go with exploring a school-based intervention. In the last two decades, the greatest increase in suicide rates has been among those A under the age of 15. B aged 15 to 24. C aged 35 to 44. d aged 65 to 74. - Answer-The Correct Answer is "B" While suicide rates have been increasing for adolescents and young adults and for older adults, the increase is greatest for the younger-aged group. (See S. J. Blumenthal and D. J. Kupfer, Suicide Over the Life Cycle, Washington, DC, American Psychiatric Press, 1990.) In treating a client suffering from an Anxiety Disorder, a behavior therapist instructs the client to deliberately engage in the anxiety-arousing behavior as often as possible. The therapist's goal in this situation is most likely to A neutralize the anticipatory anxiety that is the real source of the client's problem. B eliminate the client's usual avoidance behavior by evoking his resistance. C extinguish the anxiety-arousing behavior by removing the reinforcement that is maintaining it. d diminish the client's anxiety through interoceptive conditioning - Answer-The Correct Answer is "A" The behavioral technique described in this question is referred to as "paradoxical intention" and is similar in form to the paradoxical techniques used by family therapists, but differs in terms of its theoretical underpinnings. As used by behavior therapists, paradoxical intention is based on the assumption that a person avoids a certain behavior because of the anticipatory anxiety the behavior arouses. When a person deliberately engages in the behavior, a condition of incompatibility is set up and this condition serves to eliminate the anticipatory anxiety. The idea is that engaging in the behavior (or a wish to engage in the behavior) is incompatible with fear of that behavior and, consequently, the fear is neutralized. You are hired by a company to evaluate applicants and current employees for the purposes of hiring, promotion, training, and termination. You are told that the company has applicants and employees sign a waiver of confidentiality prior to seeing you. Which of the following best describes your best course of action in this situation?