A 26-Year-Old Man Is Brought to the Emergency Department by Police

question 20

Multiple Choice

A 26-year-old man is brought to the emergency department by police after assaulting customers in a restaurant.  He explains that he meant no harm and was just trying to talk to people and touch them to "heal their pain."  The patient has been up all night for the past 10 days devising a global strategy to end world hunger and has written a hundred-page manifesto documenting his ideas.  Over this same period, he began hearing a voice telling him that he is "God's true son" and will need to sacrifice his life.  The patient has no psychiatric or medical history.  He drinks alcohol socially but does not use illicit drugs.  Physical examination is normal.  On mental status examination, the patient paces continuously.  His mood is very irritable, and his speech is loud, rapid, and difficult to interrupt.  Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis in this patient?

• A)Bipolar I disorder with psychotic features
• B)Bipolar II disorder
• C)Brief psychotic disorder
• D)Delusional disorder
• E)Schizophreniform disorder
• F)Substance-induced psychotic disorder

Recognize examples of global consumer culture and its influence on individual consumer choices.

Describe the concept of an antiglobal consumer and their characteristics.

Define and conceptualize the idea of a global agnostic.

Identify and explain the process of creolization in the context of global and local cultural integration.

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Definitions:

Morpheme

The smallest unit of meaning in a language.

Language Development

The process by which infants and children acquire the ability to understand and produce spoken language.

Mean Length Of Utterance

A measurement used in the study of child language development that calculates the average number of morphemes per sentence in a child's speech sample.

MLU

Mean Length of Utterance, a measure used in language development research to estimate the complexity of children's speech.