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Which statement is most likely from a patient with anorexia nervosa?
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Correct Answer: Im fat and ugly
Treatment of communication disorders is normally the domain of speech therapists and related disciplines, and a range of successful treatment programmes and equipment are available for disabilities such as phonological disorder and stuttering (Saltuklaroglu & Kalinowski, 2005; Law, Garrett & Nye, 2004). For example, hand-held equipment can provide which of the following?
Expert Explanatory Rationale
Correct Answer: Altered auditory feedback (AAF)
A 19-year-old woman, prescribed a triphasic oral contraceptive for the first time one month ago, complains of frequent spotting. Which one of the following is the most appropriate management?
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Correct Answer: Continue the medication and review in two months.
The nurse is explaining to the family of a patient diagnosed with schizophrenia that the disorder is considered to have neurobiological origins. When the patient's mother asks, 'What part of the brain is dysfunctional?' the nurse should reply, 'Research has implicated the:
Expert Explanatory Rationale
Correct Answer: prefrontal and limbic cortices.'
If a person suffering from schizophrenia has an identical twin, that twin
Expert Explanatory Rationale
Correct Answer: will have a 46 percent chance of becoming schizophrenic
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