Rating Scales and Questionnaires — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Intellectual insight i.e. awareness of being ill, and that the symptoms are due to own particular irrational feelings and thoughts is graded _____ on the insight scale

Answer: 5

Extra: ### Six Levels of Insight (Standard Psychiatric Grading) 1. **Grade 1**: Complete denial of illness. 2. **Grade 2**: Slight awareness of being sick and needing help but denying it at the same time. 3. **Grade 3**: Awareness of being sick but blaming it on others, external factors, or organic factors. 4. **Grade 4**: Awareness that illness is due to something unknown in the patient themselves. 5. **Grade 5 (Intellectual Insight)**: Admission that the patient is ill and that symptoms are due to their own particular irrational feelings and thoughts, but without applying this knowledge to future experiences. 6. **Grade 6 (True Emotional Insight)**: Emotional awareness of the motive and feelings within, which leads to a basic change in personality or future behavior.

Flashcard 2: Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE, also known as _____ test) is a score out of 30 and is used to measure cognitive impairment.

Answer: Folstein's

Flashcard 3: Under DSM-5, _____ behaviour (conceptual, social, and practical skills) is considered more significant than calculated IQ level for determining severity of intellectual disability

Answer: adaptive

Flashcard 4: The risk factors for suicide completion may be remembered with the mnemonic "SAD PERSONS": S: Sex (_____)A: Age (teenage or elderly)D: DepressionP: Previous attempt (highest risk factor)E: Ethanol or drug useR: Rational thinking impaired (psychosis)S: Sickness (medical illness)O: Organized planN: No spouse or other social supportS: Stated future intent

Answer: male

Flashcard 5: Pyromania and kleptomania are classified under _____ disorders in DSM-5

Answer: disruptive, impulse control and conduct

Flashcard 6: According to Mental Health Act 1987, for the diagnosis of mental illness, an individual can be kept in a psychiatric hospital for _____ days

Answer: 10

Flashcard 7: According to the CAM diagnostic algorithm, which features should be present so that delirium can be diagnosed ? _____

Answer: features 1 and 2 along with either 3 or 4

Flashcard 8: Rorschach's inkblot test, is a projective personality test that focuses on the _____ aspects of personality.

Answer: unconscious

Flashcard 9: _____ is the most crucial factor in art of interviewing

Answer: building of rapport

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Flashcard 10: IQ >_____ is classified as genius

Answer: 140

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