Child PRITE 2019(latest update)
questions well answered to pass (67)
Which of the following acutely inhibits the release of glucocorticoids in the adrenal glands?
a. GABA
b. Cortisol
c. Estrogen
d. Serotonin
e. Acetylcholine - correct answer ✔✔a. GABA
A teacher assigns the children in class to solve as many math problems as they can on their own in 20
minute period. Teacher makes a note of each student's progress, divides the class into groups to further
work on the problems together, and provides help to each group when members are stuck. This strategy
most directly makes use of which of the following educational concepts?
a. Transfer of learning
b. Collective socialization
c. attunement to learning styles
d. transformative learning theory
e. zone of proximal development - correct answer ✔✔e. zone of proximal development
By age of 3 years, toddlers can typically perform which of the following tasks?
a. tie shoelaces
b. fasten buttons
c. close a zipper
d. manipulate scissors
,e. draw a person with realistic proportions - correct answer ✔✔d. manipulate scissors
An adolescent boy was engaged in therapy lasting 10 weeks. During this therapy the boy was able to
relate to his test taking anxiety, chronic feeling of interpersonal inadequacy, and inaccurate sense of
physical unattractiveness to an earlier relationship with his father who was often critical and harsh, and
unpredictably embarrassed the boy in social settings. Which of the following therapies was most likely
utilized?
a. behavioral
b. cognitive behavioral
c. dialectical behavioral
d. motivational interviewing
e. short term psychodynamic - correct answer ✔✔e. short term psychodynamic
During psychiatric evaluation, which of the following methods would best help develop the therapeutic
alliance between a psychiatric and a new immigrant patient and family?
a. consulting with the immigrant family's traditional healers
b. conducting the initial appointment with the identified patient only
c. relying on previous clinical experiences with this immigrant population
d. using a qualified interpreter who has proficiency in the family's language of origin
e. maintaining consistent individualistic boundary practices across spectrum of cultures - correct answer
✔✔d. using a qualified interpreter who has proficiency in family's language of origin
Children typically demonstrate the most overt sexual interest and behavior during which of the following
developmental stages?
a. infancy
b. toddlerhood
c. preschool
d. early school age
,e. late school age - correct answer ✔✔c. preschool
research on typical development has focused on acquisition of language as a foundation for cognitive
and other areas of development. which of the following has been demonstrated to be most significantly
related to language proficiency in preschoolers in the US?
a. parental age
b. geographical location
c. socioeconomic status
d. parental native language
e. contact with other children - correct answer ✔✔c. socioeconomic status
youth who has been on long term risperidone treatment develops TD which continues despite initially
reducing dose, and then sequential optimal trials of aripiprazole, olanzapine, quetiapine, each for
sufficient duration and dose. Most appropriate next step is to start which of the following treatments?
a. switch neuroleptic to clozapine
b. add Vit E to neuroleptic use
c. switch neuroleptic to fluphenazine
d. add benztropine to neuroleptic use
e. add botox injections to neuroleptic use - correct answer ✔✔a. switch neuroleptic to clozapine
7 y.o. presents with speech difficulties. On exam, examples of child's speech include pronouncing "dat"
for cat and "pay" for play. Parents report that this problem bothers their child and also results in child
being bullied at school. The child has no hearing difficulties, and otherwise excels in academics. Which of
the following is the most likely dx?
a. stuttering
b. normal development
c. speech sound disorder
d. childhood apraxia of speech
, e. social (pragmatic) communication disorder - correct answer ✔✔c. speech sound disorder
According to DSM, dx of premenstrual dysphoric disorder should be confirmed by...
a. daily rating of severity of problems
b. prospective symptom rating log over 2 months
c. premenstrual tension syndrome rating scale
d. visual analogue scales of premenstrual mood symptoms
e. validated depression rating scale during week prior to menses - correct answer ✔✔b. prospective
symptom rating log over 2 months
longitudinal, prospective study of a large group of healthy infants of mothers with postpartum
depression finds that 3% of the study population meet criteria for a mood disorder by age 6 yrs, a
proportion that increased to 6% by age 12. This measure of mood disorder occurrence among the
children is best described as the...
a. base rate
b. odds ratio
c. prevalence
d. cumulative incidence
e. positive predictive value - correct answer ✔✔d. cumulative incidence
Which of the following is the most important guide when arranging the infrastructure necessary to
provide telepsychiatric consultation to a school?
a. Rehabilitation act
b. family educational rights and privacy act
c. patient protection and affordable care act
d. health information portability and accountability act
e. individuals with disabilities education improvement act - correct answer ✔✔b. family educational
rights and privacy act
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