Deck 3: Psychopharmacology and Pharmacokinetics

Question 1

The complete mental status exam consists of five sections or areas of evaluation.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

A complete history of your client includes the following sections/areas of assessment:

A) Identifying information, patient reports family history, and diagnostic assessment.
B) Identifying information, presenting problem, proposed treatment, and summary information.
C) Identifying information, presenting problem, psychometric information, and summary.
D) Identifying information, presenting problem, family history, psychometric information, diagnostic assessment, and proposed treatment goals and methods.

Answer 2

Identifying information, presenting problem, family history, psychometric information, diagnostic assessment, and proposed treatment goals and methods.

Question 3

The mental status exam provides information on cognition, mental capacity, memory, academic achievement, and intelligence.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Which assessment instrument is offered in both a 17 and 21 question format?

A) Beck Depression Inventory
B) State-Trait Inventory
C) Geriatric Depression Inventory
D) Hamilton Depression Rating Scales

Question 5

The Million Clinical Multiaxial Inventory consists of 150 items and can also be hand scored.

Question 6

The MMPI-2 contains 567 items and should be administered by a psychologist or others with training in its interpretation.

Question 7

It is helpful to know what treatment approaches and medications were tried before and their level of success.

Question 8

Which of the following personality inventories is available in an adolescent version?

A) PAI
B) MCMI-III
C) MMPI-2
D) none of these

Question 9

A sorter version of the PAI called the PAS consists of 22 items and could be given in just six minutes.

Question 10

Immediate, recent and _______ memory are assessed on the mental status exam.

A) long-term
B) short-term
C) distant
D) remote

Question 11

There are _____ types of hallucinations usually noted in those who manifest psychotic behaviors.

A) three
B) four
C) five
D) six

Question 12

The Beck Depression Inventory contains about 70 items, and is rather difficult to administer.

Question 13

The mental trend and thought content section provides information on themes, hallucinations, delusions, somatizations, and substance abuse.

Question 14

Good history taking includes information on the patient's presenting problem, family history, psychometric/treatment history, diagnostic assessment, and proposed treatment plan.

Question 15

Which of the following contains 567 items and evaluates patients on ten clinical scales?

A) MMPI-2
B) MCMI-III
C) PAI
D) none of these

Question 16

While most of the mentioned assessment instruments require some psychometric knowledge, and some require special training as a psychologist, the ___________ ___________ decides if your credentials are adequate to administer various assessment/evaluation instruments.

A) Licensing board
B) Test publisher
C) Local municipality
D) Degree level

Question 17

On the mental status exam, oriented X 3 refers to:

A) person, memory, and time.
B) person, place and situation.
C) person, place and issue.
D) person, place, and time.

Question 18

It is important for every patient to have a complete physical including tests for thyroid function, metabolic abnormalities, urine toxicology, and a CBC draw.

Question 19

The full mental status includes all of the following areas of assessment except:

A) mental grasp
B) psychological reasoning
C) sensorium
D) judgment and insight

Question 20

Your proposed treatment plans should always include:

A) the proposed short and long term goals/objectives
B) your theoretical approach
C) your prognosis
D) all of the above