Items of Interest for Test #1

Last Updated:  02/07/09

You have found a very important page for the Clinical Psychiatry course.  The following ideas are important concepts for you to be familiar with.  It is suggested that if the concepts are not fully clear to you, that you use your textbook as one possible resource.  The following topics will very likely be addressed on EXAM I. Please refer to your lecture notes, outlines and notes available on the Web page and your text to supplement your knowledge base in each of the following areas. This list is not exhaustive but should give you some specific direction.  This list is subject to being updated.  Last update:  02/07/09 06:47 AM

Test questions will come from lectures, case presentations (limited), and suggested readings that relate to the cognitive objectives for the course.  Tests are designed to sample students understanding of the material and relate to the specific cognitive objectives under each section.  Most test questions will come from the the textbook, lectures and class discussions.

Case #1 and Case #2

Purpose of a psychiatric history

DSMIV TR Classification System (What goes on which Axis)

MMPI Scales of over reporting and under reporting symptoms

Freud’s Defense Mechanisms (repression, denial, projection, reaction formation, displacement)

Effective Clinical Interviews (what goes into these)

Psych Tests: Rorschach, MMPI, FIRO-B, TAT, GCS, GOAT, WAIS (what do they measure)

MMPI scale for Paranoid Ideas or Thinking

Cortical Lobe Functioning

Evidence Based Practice - Effective Tx of Psych Disorders

Difficult patients (characteristics)

Posttraumatic Stress disorder (DSMIV criteria)

Erik Erickson’s Stages of Life (trust vs mistrust)

Neuropsychological Assessment (what it is used for)

Dementia/Delirium (DSMIV TR Criteria)

Psychosis (definition)

Diagnosing a Physlical Illness Vs a Mental Illness

Schizophrenia and brain chemicals (most commonly associated)

Illness Behaviors

Sexual Identity (definition)

Gender Identity Disorder

MMPI validity and clinical scales (normal profile vs chronic pain profile)

Sexual Response Cycle (familiar with the stages)

Paraphelias (Which are which)

Sexual Pain disorders

Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Obesity (Familiar with diagnostic criteria)

Freud's Definition of Id, Ego, and Super-Ego

The role and function of neurotransmitters (basic information)

Understand the basic functions involved in the different brain regions

Generalized Anxiety

Treatment of Adjustment Disorders

Definition of a Chief Complaint

Percentage of Schizophrenics that recover

DSMIV TR Criteria for Substance Abuse

FIRO-B measures what three dynamics

Cocaine Intoxication

Commonly Abused Substances

Depression (characteristics, prevalence, gender difference,  treatment issues, etc)

At what age does a child begin to talk, walk, & feed self?

Assessment of Coma.

Common Psychiatric Lab Tests

Transexualism

Characteristics of Obesity

Paraphelias

Dementia

Alcoholism Prevalence

Anxiety Disorder Prevalence

Left Hemisphere Functions

Vitamin B12

Traumatic Brain Injury

Symptoms of Alcoholism

Personality changes and frontal lobe functioning

Onset and familial characteristics of Schizophrenia

Alcohol use by 12-20 year olds

Dissociative Disorders

Sleep Disorders

Common Sexual Disorders

Dopamine and Serotonin Receptor Antagonists

Psychosexual Factors in Sex Disorders

Commonly Used SSRIs

Commonly Used Tricyclic Antidepressants

Adjustment Disorders, DSMIV TR Criteria

Postpartum Depression

Characteristics of Fibromyalgia

The different measures of IQ

Projective vs Objective testing