After fully exploring the patient's personal history, the psychiatrist proceeds to the next history item by asking, "Is there a family history of psychiatric illness, for example, suicidal behavior, mental retardation, or anxiety, mood, psychotic, substance abuse, or personality disorder?" This would be an example of
A. Excessive direct questions.
B. Preemptive topic shift.
C. Run-on questioning
D. Put-down.
E. Checklist questioning
Ans: C. Run-on questioning
You might also like to view...
What does an implicit test of memory measure?
a. Relative activity of several brain areas b. Recent experiences that people may not remember consciously c. Depth of processing d. People's ability to explain the meaning behind the events they remember
Explain how the presence of others affects performance on easy and hard tasks, and give three explanations to account for these effects
What will be an ideal response?
Nolan was born with a hole in the tube surrounding his spinal cord. Which disorder does Nolan have?
a. German measles b. Teratogenitis c. Spina bifida d. Rubella e. Congenital syphilis
Which element in Freud's personality theory is composed of the conscience and the ego ideal?
a) id b) ego c) superego d) preconscious