Essentials of Child & Adolescent Psychopathology
Questions from chapter 1
1)Who established the first psychology clinic to treat children with learning disabilities?
a)William Healey
b)Lightner Witmer
c)James Watson
d)William James
2)Which is NOT one of “the four D's” used as a guideline to evaluate behavior?
a)dysfunction
b)distress
c)danger
d)derivation
3)“Initiative vs. Guilt” is a developmental task which is in which stage of development?
a)preschool
b)toddler
c)schoolage
d)teen years
4)Whose adaptation theory was influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution?
a)Albert Bundura
b)Salvador Minuchin
c)John Bowlby
d)Anna Freud
Questions from chapter 2
5)The majority of mental health laws and statutes that apply to mental health practitioners fallwithin the realm of civil rather than criminal law.
a)True
b)False
6)Correlations vary from
a)-1 to 1
b)0 to 100
c)32 to 212
d)there is no limit
7)Studying several age groups of children at the same time and then following these groups for several years is an example of which type of design?
a)longitudinal
b)accelerated longitudinal
c)cross-sectional
d)repeated cross-sectional
8)The families social and financial context is know as the
a)mesosystem
b)microsystem
c)macrosystem
d)exosystem
Questions from chapter 3
9)The DSM was originally published in
a)1932
b)1942
c)1952
d)1963
10)All the following use the dimensional classification approach EXCEPT
a)ASEBA
b)K-SADS
c)BASC-2
d)Conners Rating Scales
11)Which was NOT mentioned as a reason to use a multimodal assessment model?
a)budgetary constraints
b)the nature of the problem
c)developmental limitations
d)the need to verify the impact of situational influence
12)What term taken from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is used as a analogy to demonstrate the lack of research support for specificity of treatment effects?
a)Tweedledum's case
b)The Mad Hatter's Logic
c)The Dodo Verdict
d)The Queen's Gambit
Questions from chapter 4
13)The onset of an intellectual disability can occur at any age.
a)True
b)False
14) Which severity level for intellectual disability would involve independent employment with mentoring?
a) Mild
b) Moderate
c) Severe
d) Profound
15)Which measures adaptive behavior in 4 domains: communication, daily living skills, socialization and motor skills?
a)AAMR
b)ABAS
c)Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales
d)Differential Abilities Test
16) Which assessment measure for Pervasive Developmental Disorders has an Asperger quotient and 5 scales?
a)GARS
b)CARS
c)ASDS
d)GADS
Questions from chapter 5
17)Which is not a presentation of ADHD?
a)primarily hyperactive
b)primarily inattentive
c)primarily hyperactive – impulsive
d)combined type
18) In the DSM-5, symptoms of ADHD must be evident prior to what age?
a)3
b)5
c)7
d)12
19)Approximately what percent of children with ADHD have a parent with ADHD?
a)50%
b)60%
c)70%
d)80%
20) As many as _____ of children with ADHD will repeat a grade, as many as _____ will be placed in Special Education programs, and as many as _____ may never finish High School.
a) 20, 30, 40
b) 30, 40 30
c) 10, 30, 50
d) 20, 20, 20
Questions from chapter 6
21) The DSM-5 acknowledges SLD in all the following areas EXCEPT
a)Written Expression
b)Mathematics
c)Reading
d)Oral Expression
22)Gresham & Elliott (1990) suggest ways social competence can be undermined which include all EXCEPT
a)skill deficit
b)opportunity deficit
c)performance deficit
d)self-control deficit
23)What is the most common form of SLD?
a)Dyslexia
b)Dysgraphia
c)Dyscalculia
d)Dyspraxia
24)According to Morris et al. (1998) what is the most specific factor in predicting dyslexia?
a)access to Sesame Street as an infant
b)nutrition
c)socioeconomic status
d)phonology
Questions from chapter 7
25) Which is a fear of having panic attacks?
a)SAD
b)GAD
c)Specific Phobia
d)Panic Disorder
26)Pervasive, excess worry and anxiety describes which anxiety disorder?
a)OCD
b)PTSD
c)SAD
d)GAD
27) Which is a family-based cognitive behavioral therapy program used to treat OCD?
a)STOP
b)FOCUS
c)THINK
d)CHECK
Questions from chapter 8
28)For a diagnosis of PDD in child populations, a pervasive depressed mood or irritability has to be evident for at least
a)6 months
b)9 months
c)1 year
d)2 years
29) Which new classification in the DSM-5 was established to distinguish between children who evidenced symptoms of "severe and persistent irritability" from those who exhibited more classic episodic symptoms of bipolar disorder?
a) SAD
b) BPD-C
c)DMDD
d) IRRD
30)Which is a scale for ages 7-14 years, has 20 items, and assesses depression based on DSM-IV criteria?
a)The Depression Scale of Beck Youth Inventories
b)The Hopelessness Scale for Children
c)Child Depression Inventory
d)Depression and Anxiety in Youth Scale
31)Geller and colleagues (2001) believe that by combining which features of mania into 1 necessary criterion, they can distinguish between Bipolar Disorder and ADHD?
a)grandiosity and pressured speech
b)pressured speech and distractibility
c)elation and grandiosity
d)distractibility and elation
Questions from chapter 9
32)If a child is feigning symptoms of illness or injury but is not malingering for material gain, this is
a)illness anxiety disorder
b)a conversion disorder
c)somatization disorder
d)a factitious disorder
33)What is a condition that consists of a single somatic symptom that impacts on normal motor or sensory function?
a)somatization disorder
b)hypochondriasis
c)pain disorder
d)conversion disorder
34)Siegel and Barthel (1986) found that as many as _____ of children with conversion disorder had encountered a recent and significant stressor at home or school.
a)30%
b)50%
c)70%
d)90%
35)All three versions of this instrument (parent, teacher and self-report) contains a somatization scale.
a)CPRS-R:L
b)ASEBA
c)BASC-2
d)PIY
Questions from chapter 10
36)Which is NOT one of the four conduct disorder categories?
a)argumentative with parents
b)acts of aggression towards others and animals
c)destruction of property
d)rule violations
37)All the following are potential subtypes of CD suggested by Loeber & Keenan (1994) EXCEPT
a)authority and conflict pathway
b)covert pathway
c)peer conflict pathway
d)triple pathway
38) In which quadrant of aggressive behaviors is "Oppositional: stubborn, argumentative"?
a)Covert Nondestructive
b)Overt Nondestructive
c)Covert Destructive
d)Overt Destructive
Questions from chapter 11
39) What describes consuming 1 or more nonnutritive substance regularly for at least 1 month?
a)grazing disorder
b)pica
c)rumination disorder
d)feeding disorder of childhood
40)What percent of people with anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa will be females?
a)60%
b)70%
c)80%
d)90%
41)Which is a self-report instrument that assesses common psychological and behavioral traits associated with bulimia and anorexia?
a)EDI-2
b)ABS-I
c)EAT-R
d)AN/BN-3
Questions from chapter 12
42)Which is NOT a characteristic of substance abuse?
a)failure to fulfill a major obligation
b)engaging in physically high risk behaviors
c)legal problems
d)tolerance
43)Which is a slang term for LSD?
a)little wing
b)hey joe
c)foxy lady
d)purple haze
44)The DARE program has been researched extensively and found to be effective in the prevention of drug use and abuse.
a)True
b)False
Questions from chapter 13
45)An adjustment disorder lasts no longer than how long after the stressor is removed?
a)1 month
b)3 months
c)6 months
d)1 year
46) In the DSM-5, there are now two sets of criteria for a diagnosis of PTSD – the standard criteria and the criteria for
a)refugees
b)preschool children
c)survivors of mass trauma
d)first responders
47) In which stage of the Trauma Accommodation Syndrome would one see reenactment?
a)Stage 1
b)Stage 2
c)Stage 3
d)Stage 4
Questions from chapter 14
48) In the DSM-5, _____ represent ways of expressing distress that may differ between cultures.
a)idioms
b)cultural syndromes
c)tells
d)cultural emissions
49) Which females aged 15 to 24 years have the highest suicide rate in the country?
a)Asian Pacific Islanders
b)African Americans
c)American Indians
d)Latino/Hispanic Americans
50)What word do Japanese use to describe the first generation to arrive in the United States?
a)Nisei
b)Sansei
c)Issei
d)Yonsei
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