Autumn 1996
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Illegibility will be penalised.
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TWO QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED
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ONE FROM SECTION A AND ONE FROM SECTION B
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Section A - General Psychiatry
| A1 | Cognitive-behaviour therapy is now the only viable treatment to offer a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Discuss this assertion critically. |
| A2 | There are some countries which do not have an up to date mental health law. Imagine you are asked to draft new mental health legislation for such a country. Give the elements you would like to see incorporated into a new act with reasons for each point. Give also a list of pitfalls to be avoided, again with argued reasons. |
Section B - Psychiatric Specialties
| B1 | Adopted children have higher rates of psychiatric disorders than the general population. Discuss the possible reasons for this. |
| B2 | “A time of burden”. Critically discuss this description of old age with particular reference to psychiatric conditions in the senium. |
