Psychopharmacotherapy involves the treatment of mental disorders with ___________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Biological models of mental disorders explain mental illness as resulting from which of the following factors?

   A. Biochemical imbalance
   B. Genetic predisposition
   C. Familial transmission
   D. Brain defects
   E. All of the above

2. People with unipolar disorders experience________people with bipolar disorders are vulnerable to:

   A. alternating periods of depression and mania; mania only
   B. depression only; alternating periods of depression and mania
   C. mania only; alternating periods of depression and mania
   D. alternating periods of depression and mania; depression and mania simultaneously

3. Which of the following mental disorders is the most common in the population.

   A. Schizophrenia
   B. Anxiety disorders
   C. Substance abuse
   D. Depression

4. Which models explains that psychological disorders develop when people with some vulnerability to mental illness experience proximal stressors?

   A. Diathesis-stress model
   B. Attachment model
   C. Psychodynamic model
   D. Cognitive-behavioral model

5. Systematic desensitization is particularly effective for the treatment of _______ disorders.

   A. generalized anxiety
   B. panic
   C. obsessive-compulsive
   D. phobic

6. A delude Scotsman, Daniel M’Naughten, tried to assassinate a government official in 1843.He was sent to a mental hospital rather than to a prison because he was judge to: ___________?

   A. be mainic
   B. be insane.
   C. be depressed
   D. neurotic

7. The main problem with the current classification scheme for personality disorders is that:

   A. It falsely implies that nearly everyone has at least one personality disorder.
   B. the criteria for diagnosis are so detailed and specific that even extremely disturbed people fail to meet them.
   C. the categories often overlap, making diagnosis is unreliable.
   D. it contains too few categories to be useful.

8. All of the following are types of anxiety disorders EXCEPT:

   A. Phobic disorders
   B. Dissociative order
   C. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
   D. Post-traumatic stress

9. Because it is so pervasive,__________is often considered “the common cold” of psychological disorders.

   A. obsessive-compulsive disorder
   B. schizophrenia
   C. dissociation
   D. depression

10. Disruptions in conscious awareness and sense of identity are most characteristics of ________ disorders.

    A. generalized anxiety
    B. personality
    C. obsessive-compulsive
    D. dissociative