Exam 3: NU160 / NU 160 (Latest
2025 / 2026) Mental Health Concepts | Questions with Answers | 100 % Correct | Grade A - Galen
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What is the least desirable side effect of antipsychotics, reason why many people stop taking them or don't take them
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Weight Gain
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Four risk factors for schizophrenia
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genetics complications during pregnancy/birth biochemical imbalances environmental factors
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Theories of Psychophysical Disorders: Stress Response Theory
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Individuals are biochemically patterned to react to stress
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Theories of Psychophysical Disorders: Organic Weakness
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Every individual has one body system that is more sensitive than other systems
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Theories of Psychophysical Disorders: Psychoanalytic Theory
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Focuses on symbolism attached to symptom or illness, Carl Jung
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Theories of Psychophysical Disorders: Psychodynamic Theories
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Certain personality types are prone to develop certain illnesses
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Somatization
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feeling physical symptoms either in the absence of disease or out of proportion to an ailment, stress reducing mechanism
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Somatic Symptom Disorder
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persistent symptoms suggest the presence of a medical illness, but no physical causes can be found
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Polysymptomatic Disorder
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associated with many s/s, begins before age 30, possess a long history of vague problems GI tract and sexual problems, pain, and false neurological symptoms are most common anxiety and depression common, involvement of multiple organ systems, early onset and chronic course, absence of any significant lab values
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