Psychiatry

Which of these is true about doctor and a depressed patient communication?

• Structured communication, long sentences

• Try to tell them jokes to make them laugh

• Ask if there is anything You can do to help, instead of asking what's wrong

• Start the interview by asking about suicidal thoughts, ideas and plans

When communicating with an agitated and agressive patient:

• Use verbal confrontations

• Avoid verbal confrontations and reassure them that You are there to help

• Avoid non-verbal communication

• Use excessive reactions

What is transference?

• Client's emotional reaction to the therapist

• Therapist's emotional reaction to the client

• Where You hear, see, smell, taste or feel things that apear to be real but only exists in Your mind

• When someone has trouble creating logical sentences through speech and/or writing

Expressed emotion, is a measure of the family environment that is based on how the relatives of a psychiatric patient spontaneously talk about the patient. It specifically measures three to five aspects of the family environment – critical comments, hostility, over-involvement, positivity and warmth.

Which of these is NOT high expressed emotion?

• Critical comments

• Positivity

• Hostility

• Emotional over-involvement

A high level of exspressed emotion in the home can worsen the prognosis in patients with mental ilness, such as schizophrenia and social anxiety disorder, or act as a potential risk factor for the development of pshychiatric disease.

Which two are high expressed emotions?

• Critical comments and positivity

• Hostility and warmth.

• Hostility and over-involvement

• Positivity and warmth

Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a useful test for dementia patients. It is effective as a screening tool for cognitive impairment.

It DOES NOT measure:

• Orientaton in time and space

• Calculation

• Language

• Abstraction

Physical exercice is good for:

• Reducing anxiety

• Alzheimer's disease prevention

• Cardiovascular health

• To brag about

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