Chapter 4: Communicating, Interviewing and Assessing

 

Complete Chapter Questions With Answers

 

Sample Questions Are Posted Below

 

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

 

____     1.   During an initial assessment, the relevant features of communication are its ability to

A.	Promote a therapeutic alliance and increase understanding.
B.	Prompt a disclosure of past successes and failures.
C.	Bring about changes in behavior.
D.	Educate the patient about what is important to disclose.

 

 

____     2.   During the initial assessment of a patient with schizophrenia, in response to the question “What brought you to the clinic today?” a patient’s response of “the van” is an example of

A.	Poverty of speech
B.	Concrete thinking
C.	Oppositional behavior
D.	Tangentiality

 

 

____     3.   Patients’ perceptual difficulties may have an adverse effect on the therapeutic alliance. Which of the following is likely to have the greatest negative effect?

A.	The patient perceives the office seating arrangement as belittling.
B.	The patient perceives the clinician as being part of her delusional system.
C.	The patient perceives the sound in the hall as messages for the patient.
D.	The patient perceives the clinician’s glancing at his watch as nonvalidating.

 

 

____     4.   Open-ended questions

A.	Are useful in obtaining direct responses
B.	Define the focus of interest
C.	Are useful in the beginning of an interview
D.	Define the boundaries of the therapeutic alliance

 

 

____     5.   Closed-ended questions

A.	Are used to gather specific information
B.	Allow the patient to talk without interruption
C.	Are characterized by the use of reflection
D.	Are used to obtain difficult or emotionally laden material

 

Answer Section

 

MULTIPLE CHOICE

 

1. ANS:  A                    PTS:   1

 

2. ANS:  B                    PTS:   1

 

3. ANS:  B                    PTS:   1

 

4. ANS:  C                    PTS:   1

 

5. ANS:  A                    PTS:   1