Cultural Considerations in Assessment — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is a specific type of acculturation strategy characterized by integrating others' cultures

Answer: Integration

Flashcard 2: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2) is an objective personality test which has _____ scales and validity scales

Answer: clinical

Flashcard 3: _____ is a culturally related disorder which consists of a fear that the penis (labia, nipples, or breasts in females) is shrinking or retracting and will disappear into the abdomen

Answer: Koro

Flashcard 4: Avoidance of distressing memories and avoidance of external reminders are _____ symptoms seen in post-traumatic stress disorder

Answer: avoidance

Flashcard 5: Patients with _____ mental disability are trainable and can do unskilled and semiskilled work under supervision

Answer: moderate (level)

Flashcard 6: _____ is a specific type of acculturation strategy characterized by splitting from the host culture

Answer: Separation

Flashcard 7: Sentence completion test is a projective personality test used to identify worries and problems using _____ associations

Answer: verbal

Flashcard 8: 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 9: Rorschach's inkblot test, is a projective personality test that focuses on the _____ aspects of personality.

Answer: unconscious

Flashcard 10: _____ is the most crucial factor in art of interviewing

Answer: building of rapport

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