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Patient is commonly unarousable.
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Which of the following is true of hypoactive delirium?
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Psychotic symptoms are rare.
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It responds poorly to antipsychotics.
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* It is frequently missed in practice.
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It has a better prognosis than agitated delirium.
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Patient is commonly unarousable.
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Which of the following is true of Korsakoff syndrome?
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* It can be caused by continuous vomiting.
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Confabulation is always present.
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Disorientation is usually present.
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Clouding of consciousness is characteristic.
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Immediate memory is affected.
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Which of the following is true regarding competency?
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Most depressed patients are mentally incompetent.
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Cognitively impaired patients do not have the capacity to make decisions.
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Competency is a clinical determination.
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Capacity and competency are the same.
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* Capacity to consent is specific to the issue and the situation.
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Which of the following is true regarding denial in patients on renal dialysis?
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It is rarely present.
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* It may cause problems with compliance.
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It is always pathological.
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If denial is low, less mood dysfunction occurs.
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High denial results in rapid readjustment.
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Which of the following is true regarding geriatric depression?
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Minor depression rarely progresses to major depression.
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It always requires antidepressants.
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* It should not be treated until DSM-IV criteria are met.
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It may worsen physical illness.
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It is frequently overtreated.
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Which of the following is true regarding late-onset psychosis?
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First-rank symptoms must be present:
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There is no enlargement of the ventricles.
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* Delusions are more common than hallucinations.
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Twenty percent of cases have a family history of schizophrenia.
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Patients usually have a good premorbid personality.
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Which of the following is true regarding mental disorders in patients with epilepsy?
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Ictal psychosis is more common than interictal psychosis.
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Violence is common during a seizure.
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* Rates of attempted suicide are increased in people with epilepsy.
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Mood symptoms are more common than schizophrenia-like symptoms.
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No correct answer
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Which of the following is true regarding psychiatric illness in cancer patients?
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Twenty-five percent of patients with cancer develop a psychiatric illness.
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Depression is the most common psychiatric diagnosis.
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* Suicide is rare among patients with cancer.
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Patients with pancreatic cancer are at highest risk of suicide.
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No correct answer
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Which of the following is true regarding suicide in the elderly?
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Suicide is associated with depression in about 40% of patients.
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Substance abuse is as common as in the younger age groups.
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Attempts are associated with a low degree of intent.
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Hypochondriasis and insomnia are rare.
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* Attempts are a strong predictor of successful suicide.
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Which of the following is true regarding the management of delirium?
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Iatrogenic causes are rare.
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Involvement of the patient in management should be discouraged.
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Antipsychotics are effective due to their sedative actions.
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* Reduction of risk factors can prevent further episodes.
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No correct answer
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Which of the following is true regarding the treatment of depression in hepatic disease?
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Tricyclic antidepressants are safe in the presence of liver disease.
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* Lithium is the mood stabilizer of choice in the presence of liver disease.
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SSRIs are contraindicated in liver disease.
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MAOIs are safe in hepatitis B.
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Half-lives of drugs are reduced in liver disease.
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Which type of dementia is typically seen in patients with HIV?
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Alzheimer's dementia
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* Subcortical dementia
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Lewy body dementia
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Infectious dementia
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Vascular dementia
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With which of the following is exogenous administration of steroids most commonly associated?
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* Mania
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Psychosis
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Depression
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Panic attacks
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Anxiety
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Basic function of psychological nocifensors :
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avoidance of fear
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* avoidance of alarm
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protecting is from a neurosis
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protecting is from a psychosis
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facilitation to social life
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Basic function of psychological nocifensors :
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avoidance of fear
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* avoidance of alarm
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protecting is from a neurosis
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protecting is from a psychosis
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facilitation to social life
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Circumstances capable to cause cramps :
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laughter
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deprivation
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overhydration
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reading
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*No correct answer
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A meal seems deprived to taste ("as grass").
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Paresthesia
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* Hypesthesia
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Senestopatia
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Pareydolia
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Pseudohallucinations
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A patient suffers from the unsettled family with a spiteful vindictive father which he however, loves.
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fixing
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dissociation
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resistance
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* change
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renewal
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A patient asks to close window shades, as daylight blinds his/her eyes. Set the diagnosis
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Paresthesias
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Derealization
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Depersonalisation
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Pareydolia
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* Hyperesthesia
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) – III refers to:
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psyho-sexual violation
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* dissociative violation
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traumatic neuroses
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convertion violation
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violation of simulations (factitious disorders)
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The complication after a surgical operation is:
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young woman which yielded to cosmetic surgery
|
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* a patient`s depression
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a patient is with schizophrenia in a remission
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patient which did not have a pre-operative alarm
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a patient is with strong domestic copulas
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After a quarrel with a man a patient lost ability suddenly to move and talk. In an hour he began to move, but could not talk, pantomimed. Your conclusion:
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Depressed stupor
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* Hysterical stupor
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Catatonic stupor
|
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Normal state
|
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Not enough data for a diagnosis
|
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Patient complains that the linen irritates and scratches the body. Your diagnosis:
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* hyperesthesia
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Psyhosensoric disorders
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Pareydolia
|
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Pseudohallucinations
|
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No correct answer
|
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A patient suffers from permanent burdensome ideas about possible insolvency in a sexual sphere. Your diagnosis:
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perseveration
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nosomania
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overvalued ideas
|
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*obtrusiveness
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psychical automatisms
|
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Patients` eye stopped to distinguish colors. Possible reason:
|
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Senestopatia
|
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* Hysterical amaurosis
|
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Metamorfopsia
|
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Parejdolic illusions
|
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Pseudohallucinations
|
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A patient obtained great successes in psychotherapy, but then began to be late on sessions and seem displeased at it by an internist
|
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fixing
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* resistancy
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dissociation
|
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change
|
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renewal
|
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The therapeutic technique of free associations includes everything AFTER EXCEPTION:
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* a frequent task of direct questions is for the exposure of injuring material
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approval of utterance of any ideas which came
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permission to the patient to know sense of the producted material
|
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instruction to express opinions a patient in the that order, in what they come
|
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suggestion of not many direct interpretations
|
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Description of hysterical composition of face (of hysterical personality) includes:
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self - awareness
|
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psychological dependence is on those which surround
|
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* search of the realized attention
|
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dramatization and over-reaction
|
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No correct answer
|
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What types of impulses do generate a fobic reaction?
|
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* aggressive
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sexual
|
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acvisitive
|
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altruism
|
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No correct answer
|
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What types of impulses do generate a fobic reaction?
|
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* aggressive
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sexual
|
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acvisitive
|
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altruism
|
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No correct answer
|
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A term "suggestion of prestige"(prestige suggestion) can be certain as:
|
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suggestion the third person to the patient, that his doctor is a persondear in the medical world
|
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suggestion to the patient of the high qualification a doctor
|
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suggestion which caused a change to the face of patient
|
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* direct or indirect suggestion which a pathological symptom disappeared after
|
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nothing of above-stated
|
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According to classic principles of psychotherapy, at the grant of help unpsychotic, but the emotionally staggered patient, doctor, it follows:
|
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to give direct advices from the improvement of the interpersonal relations
|
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* to help a patient to choose the own plan of actions
|
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to go out on a direct contact with persons - participants of conflict
|
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to cause feeling of safety, brightly expressing liking
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