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Which disorder is characterized by marked distress and impairments within 6 months of a stressor?

All of the following are true regarding the course of panic disorder, except: 

Which of the following disorders is diagnosed when all of the DSM-5-TR criteria for schizophrenia are met but the total duration of the disorder is less than six months?

Which of the following has been found to be associated with erectile disorder?

You are working on an inpatient psychiatry unit and one of the new registered nurses tells you that she is caring for a patient with a diagnosis of a manic episode with mixed features.  She asks you to explain what this means.  You advise the nurse that patients experiencing episodes of bipolar mania, hypomania, and major depression can also experience symptoms of opposite polarity (mixed features).  You explain that a manic episode with mixed features is defined as an episode that meets the diagnostic criteria for mania along with at least three of the defined symptoms being present on most days of the episode.  Which of the following is NOT included in the defined symptoms associated with a manic episode with mixed features? 

A 23-year-old patient complains of multiple physical and mental disorders, including anxiety, irregular menses, neck pain, abdominal cramping, joint pain, frequent and painful urination, headaches, diarrhea, and abdominal distention.  Laboratory and radiologic findings have been negative.  The PMHNP recognizes these signs and symptoms as probable:

What is the proper balance between confidentiality for an adolescent and sufficient communication with the parent?

In the early 1860s, many young Americans became [BLANK-1]; because of their age and the fact that most women gave birth to 8-10 children at the time, many were pregnant or nursing during the time of their mourning. They were expected to wear black and mourn for two and a half years.

The issue of slavery’s future was not decided with the construction of the constitution, but the actions of new governments left clues as to how the issue would be handled in the future. Beginning with [BLANK-1] in 1791 and 1792, a careful balancing act developed with the additions of a free state and slave state. The pattern was repeated over and over again, particularly as northern states began to hold a significant advantage in terms of population and equal representation by slave states in the senate was needed to ensure the perpetuation of slavery. When that pattern was threatened to break in the 1850s, Civil War ensued.

[BLANK-1] during the Civil War included more manpower, wealth, food, industrial capacity, armories, railroad mileage, and a more centralized, federal approach to the war than the enemy’s.