Psychology of Mental Disorders
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Psychology of Mental Disorders explores the scientific study of abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions, focusing on the major psychological disorders as classified by the DSM. The course examines the symptoms, causes, diagnostic criteria, and treatment options for various conditions such as anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders. Students will gain an understanding of theoretical models and approaches to assessing, diagnosing, and treating mental health disorders while also addressing the social, cultural, and ethical considerations affecting those impacted by mental illness.
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Introduction to Clinical Psychology 3rd Canadian Edition by John Hunsley
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Chapter 1: The Evolution of Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Psychiatrists currently receive training in
A)diagnosis and pharmacotherapy.
B)diagnosis and psychotherapy.
C)diagnosis,psychotherapy,and pharmacotherapy.
D)pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy.
Answer: C
Q2) Over recent years,many clinical psychologists have
A)narrowed their focus to treating mental disorders rather than interpersonal problems.
B)begun to take on more of the roles of a psychiatrist.
C)begun to address health issues.
D)been granted prescriptive authority.
Answer: C
Q3) The term that refers to cluster of symptoms that frequently occur together is an)
A)disorder
B)syndrome
C)illness
D)cluster
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Contemporary Clinical Psychology
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Q1) To become licensed as a clinical psychologist in Canada,you need a
A)graduate degree in psychology.
B)graduate degree in an accredited clinical psychology training program.
C)graduate degree in the social science field.
D)graduate degree in any field related to health or mental health.
Answer: A
Q2) A needs assessment functions to
A)determine the extent of training required for new employee psychologists.
B)determine the extent of an unmet health care need in an identified population.
C)determine whether programs have successfully achieved their goals.
D)to assess the extent to which the program was carried out as intended.
Answer: B
Q3) The number of clinical psychologists working in private practice has ________ in the past few decades.
A)decreased considerably
B)remained constant
C)increased considerably
D)moderately increased
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Classification and Diagnosis
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Q1) Children diagnosed with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD)show persistent and maladaptive symptoms of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that are ______________________.
A)consistent with developmental level.
B)inconsistent with developmental level.
C)consistent with age,but not maturity level.
D)inconsistent with age,but not maturity level.
Answer: B
Q2) Research has categorized children's difficulties into two broad dimensions of problems: internalizing and externalizing.Internalizing problems refer to
A)yelling and destroying things.
B)sadness and withdrawn behaviour.
C)behaviour that occurs when the person is in a social setting.
D)attributing blame one's problem behaviour to oneself.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
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Q1) Which of the following is a common threat to the external validity of a study?
A)Selection biases.
B)Attrition rates.
C)Sample characteristics.
D)Repeated testing.
Q2) Correlational designs use which of the following design features?
A)Experimental manipulation.
B)Random assignment to conditions.
C)Random sampling of a population.
D)None of the above.
Q3) _____________ refers to the extent to which the interpretations drawn from the results of a study can be justified and alternative interpretations can be reasonably ruled out.
A)External validity
B)Internal validity
C)Statistical conclusion validity
D)Internal reliability
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Chapter 5: Assessment: Overview
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Q1) To be sure that a test is yielding valid data it must meet which of the following criteria?
A)It must have norms.
B)It must measure all aspects of the underlying construct it purports to measure.
C)It must be related with scores of other tests of similar constructs.
D)Both B and C.
Q2) Assessments conducted primarily to provide information addressing a person's current or anticipated psychosocial deficits are referred to as _________ services.
A)intervention-focused
B)assessment-focused
C)evaluative
D)prognostic
Q3) In what ways)can treatment outcome data can be used?
A)To help estimate the benefits,duration,and cost of treatment.
B)As an indicator of how well an entire system of care is functioning.
C)To document the typical range of outcomes experienced by clients as a means of comparison between clients.
D)All of the above.
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Chapter 6: Assessment: Interviewing and Observation
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Q1) A psychologist cannot maintain confidentiality when
A)s/he suspects a child is in need of protection.
B)s/he suspects an older adult living alone is being exploited financially.
C)a lawyer asks to see the psychologist's file.
D)all of the above.
Q2) Which of the following is/are true regarding the importance of routine screening of whether a client has been a witness to and/or a victim of violence:
A)The psychologist must consider the context in which exposure to violence screening is conducted.
B)The psychologist may interpret the individual's symptoms differently if the individual has been exposed to violence.
C)The psychologist must ask in a sensitive way.
D)All of the above.
Q3) Early in an assessment interview,cognitive-behavioural psychologists ask questions to
A)obtain a behavioural description of the problem.
B)determine the cognitive underpinnings of the problem.
C)explore childhood antecedents of the problem.
D)determine the underlying basis for the problem.
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Chapter 7: Assessment: Intellectual and Cognitive Measures
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Q1) Fluid intelligence refers to
A)reasoning ability and the capacity to draw upon prior experiences.
B)crystallized intelligence.
C)innate intellectual potential.
D)what has been learned from formal education.
Q2) The general interpretive strategy recommended for the Wechsler tests,is to A)move from the specific such as the factor scores)to the general such as the full scale IQ)when interpreting results.
B)move from the general such as the full scale IQ)to the specific such as the factor scores)when interpreting results.
C)Both A and B depending on the subscale).
D)interpret the full scale IQ only,as it is a composite of the factor scores.
Q3) Semantic memory and episodic memory are subtypes of __________ memory.
A)procedural
B)declarative
C)contextual
D)working
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Chapter 8: Assessment: Self-Report and Projective Measures
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Q1) Most personality tests are based on __________ and are often called ___________ personality tests.
A)self-report; subjective
B)scoring by the test administrator; subjective
C)self-report; objective
D)scoring by the test administrator; objective
Q2) The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory differs from the MCMI-III in that it also assesses:
A)Expressed concerns,such a peer insecurity.
B)Personality styles and disorders.
C)Major clinical syndromes.
D)The suitability of the measure for adolescents not seeking mental health services.
Q3) _________'s early theories postulated that the unconscious aspect of our personality is something that can be accessed through considerable conscious effort.
A)Freud
B)Jung
C)Wechsler
D)Rogers
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Chapter 9: Assessment Integration and Clinical Decision-Making
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Q1) A psychologist should understand the impact of diagnostic status on global psychosocial functioning for a client because ________________ an individual who receives one or more diagnoses will not be able to function across many life domains.
A)in nearly every case
B)in the majority of cases
C)it does not necessarily mean that
D)in very few cases
Q2) The approach to psychological assessment in which clients are actively encouraged to participate in discussions about the reasons for the assessment,the results of the testing,and how the assessment data should be integrated and interpreted is known as the:
A)therapeutic model of assessment.
B)collaborative model of evaluation.
C)client-focused model of assessment.
D)client-driven model of evaluation.
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Chapter 10: Prevention
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Q1) The most effective interventions to prevent negative outcomes for disadvantaged children are
A)short-term and not intensive.
B)long-term and not intensive.
C)short-term and intensive.
D)long-term and intensive.
Q2) The long-term effects of home-visiting programs,where nurses visit at-risk parents,include
A)improving parental care.
B)reducing child abuse and neglect.
C)reducing the number of arrests of the children when they reached adolescence.
D)all of the above.
Q3) Research strategies used to examine the effect of prevention programs can
A)target high-risk samples.
B)offer the program at high intensity.
C)rely on accumulating samples from various studies.
D)all of the above.
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Chapter 11: Intervention: Overview
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Q1) Psychotherapy clients are most likely to A)be male.
B)be female.
C)have a lower income.
D)be older adults.
Q2) The vast majority of psychological interventions are delivered in A)individual sessions.
B)group sessions.
C)couple therapy sessions.
D)Both A and C
Q3) Psychotherapy is practised by A)psychologists.
B)nurses.
C)social workers.
D)all of the above.
Q4) Behavioural interventions focus on
A)reducing undesirable behaviours.
B)reducing undesirable behaviours and increasing desirable behaviours.
C)increasing desirable behaviours.
D)classical conditioning responses.
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Chapter 12: Intervention: Adults and Couples
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Q1) The huge growth in empirical attention toward the effects of psychotherapy has been attributed to:
A)Sigmund Freud
B)Carl Jung
C)Hans Eysenck
D)Albert Bandura
Q2) What made it difficult to compare research conducted by behavioural therapists and traditional therapists in the mid-1900s?
A)Each research group used different criteria for including studies in their review.
B)Different criteria were used to evaluate whether therapy worked.
C)Interpretation of results was influenced by each group's biases.
D)All of the above.
Q3) The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence NICE)stepped care model for the management of depression includes the following possible treatments except:
A)electroconvulsive therapy.
B)antidepressant medication.
C)interpersonal psychotherapy.
D)transcranial magnetic stimulation.
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Chapter 13: Intervention: Children and Adolescents
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Q1) The Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD revealed that A)combined treatments were most effective.
B)medication management was most effective.
C)behaviour treatment was most effective.
D)none of the above.
Q2) Research has demonstrated that although depression is _________ common in adolescence as in adulthood; research in adolescent depression has been _______ extensive than the research for depression in adults.
A)less common; less
B)almost as; less
C)almost as; more
D)less common; more
Q3) Multisystemic Therapy MST)is an approach to treat seriously disturbed delinquent adolescents by
A)combining CBT and family therapy.
B)challenging youth about the long term effects of their behaviour.
C)intervening in an integrated way in the multiple systems in which youth are involved.
D)demanding as much effort from youth as from parents.
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Chapter 14: Intervention: Identifying Key Elements of Change
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Q1) According to the APA Psychotherapy division task force,________ is a demonstrably effective element of the therapeutic relationship.
A)the number of sessions.
B)years of training.
C)empathy.
D)gender of the client.
Q2) Smith et al.1980)conducted analyses on data from 56 comparative outcome studies of the behavioural and verbal classes of treatment and found that A)there were significant differences between the two classes of therapy. B)verbal classes of treatment were more effective.
C)behavioural and verbal classes of treatment were equally effective.
D)neither class of treatment was effective.
Q3) Rosenzweig's 1936)hypothesis that all psychotherapies must be equivalent in their effects is referred to as the
A)Tropical bird effect.
B)Dodo bird verdict.
C)Chameleon result.
D)Common factors approach.
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Chapter 15: Health Psychology, clinical Neuropsychology, and Forensic Psychology
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Q1) Current individualized cognitive rehabilitation programs for attentional problems and early stage Alzheimer's disease
A)are methodologically sound.
B)have been shown to be efficacious in randomized controlled trials.
C)currently provide only limited empirical support.
D)have been shown to work in effectiveness studies.
Q2) A pain that serves an unpleasant,but useful,function for an individual and lasts for a short duration is classified as _______ pain.
A)acute
B)prolonged
C)chronic
D)short-term
Q3) Which of the following factors influence the experience of chronic pain?
A)Attributing it to a traumatic injury.
B)Being fearful of causing further pain by engaging in activity.
C)Feeling unable to control their pain.
D)All of the above.
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