Psychotherapy
Which cognitive distortion when you have a tendency to focus on only one detail (often taken out of context) and ignore all other aspects and more important parts of a situation (e.g., “seeing the glass as half empty”)?
Mental filter/ Selective abstraction
Your patient on an antipsychotic develops a slow, worm-like tongue movement that started six months into treatment and isn't going away even after you stop the drug. What's the nameof the S/E?
Tardive dyskinesia
Name the 4 major dopamine pathways in the brain.
Mesolimbic, mesocortical, nigrostriatal, and tuberoinfundibular pathways.
To notify the patient, their nearest relative, proxy, personal guardian, and regional official representative about their rights related to the review panel.
What is form M?
Mark thinks his new boss is the best manager ever, but his old boss was the worst person he's ever worked for.
What is splitting?
What is the Eriksonian stage for a 65 yo M pt?
Ego integration vs. despair
ANC threshold(s) that would require holding or discontinuing clozapine.
<1.5 x 109/L
Which scale do we use to diagnose catatonia?
Bush-Francis Catatonia Rating Scale
Order to revoke a community treatment order by an attending physician.
What is H.6?
An employee who secretly resents a colleague for getting the promotion she wanted goes out of her way to praise him constantly and volunteer to help with his projects.
What is reaction formation?
A person has a panic attack when near a particular thing/stimuli, and then from then on has a specific phobia of that thing. This is an example of?
Classical/Pavlovian conditioning
A patient on phenelzine should avoid eating what, and why?
Foods high in tyramine (e.g., aged cheeses, cured meats, fermented/aged products, tap beer). Phenelzine is a nonselective MAO inhibitor and blocks tyramine metabolism; accumulated tyramine can trigger a sudden, severe hypertensive crisis (headache, palpitations, sweating, risk of stroke).
A major neurocognitive disorder that has fluctuating cognition with pronounced variations in attention and alertness as a core feature.
LBD?
This document is submitted to a Saskatchewan Provincial Court judge when someone believes, on reasonable grounds, that another person has a mental disorder and needs examination.
What is Form B?
After failing the bar exam for the second time, Devon insists law school 'wasn't a good use of his talents' and that he was always meant to be an entrepreneur.
What is rationalization?
Mention 4 functions of the EGO?
Reality testing, Judgment, Relationships with others, Sensory stimulus regulation, Affect/anxiety tolerance, Impulse control, Capacity for play, self-awareness, self-esteem, Cognitive functions, Defenses
patient on valproate has normal LFTs but is acting confused and lethargic. Most common cause?
Ammonia (hyperammonemia)
MMSE score for a mild cognitive impairment.
18-26
Notification by an Attending Physician Advising a Patient that a Community Treatment Order is No Longer in Effect
What is H.5?
After losing his son, a father spends every weekend for the next two years coaching youth baseball, saying it's 'his way of keeping busy.
What is altruism?
What is the opening (or initial) phase in IPT?
Sessions 1 to 3, develop an alliance, provide psychoeducation, and assign the patient the "sick role."
A patient stable on clozapine is admitted to a smoke-free psychiatric unit after smoking a pack a day for years. Within a week, he develops confusion, sedation, and a markedly elevated clozapine level. What was being induced by the cigarettes?
What is CYP1A2?
These two brain regions have the highest density of CB1 cannabinoid receptors, explaining why cannabis use commonly impairs motor coordination and movement.
Basal ganglia and cerebellum?
Attending physician's notice advising a patient the end of involuntary detention.
L3?
Furious about being passed over for a promotion but insisting he 'doesn't care,' John starts showing up late every day—needling his boss until the boss finally flies into a rage and fires him.
What is projective identification?