BCPP Exam Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) What is the GAD7? - Correct Answers ✅Patient self rated screener for anxiety (doesn't measure tx response) What are GAD7 cutoffs? - Correct Answers ✅5= mild 10= moderate 15= severe What is the HAM A? - Correct Answers ✅Clinician rated anxiety scale Measures tx response
What are HAM A cutoffs? - Correct Answers ✅Mild: 0-17
Mod: 18-24
Severe: 25-30
Remission: 70% imp
Improved: 50% imp
Partial: 25-49%
Starting dose of sertraline in elderly and children? - Correct Answers ✅12.5-25 mg Starting dose of venlafaxine in children and elderly? - Correct Answers ✅37.5 mg 1 / 4
BCPP Exam Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) How should BZDs be discontinued? - Correct Answers ✅25% reduction per week until 50% of dose is reached, then reduce by 1/8 every 4-7 days
Therapy > 8 weeks: 2-3 weeks
Therapy > 6 months: 4-8 weeks
Therapy > 1 year: slow taper over 2-4 months
What is the DI between omeprazole and diazepam? - Correct Answers ✅Omeprazole increases half life and concentration of diazepam Which SGAs can be used as augmenting agents in GAD? - Correct Answers ✅Olanzapine, quetiapine, risperidone.Quetiapine XR can be used as early as 2nd line What are first line treatments for panic disorder - Correct
Answers ✅CBT: evidence does NOT show superiority of
pharm over non-pharm SSRI Venlafaxine BZD Clomipramine, imipramine
2nd line: mirtazepine 2 / 4
BCPP Exam Questions and Verified Answers, 100% Guarantee Pass (Latest 2025) Can consider sga augmentation or MAOI after failure of ssri, Snri, and tca What are first line treatments for ptsd - Correct Answers
✅Trauma focused psychotherapy: exposure based, emdr,
anxiety management or cbt. Emphasized in recent guidelines.
SSRI: paroxetine, sertraline and fluoxetine have strong
evidence Venlafaxine Consider alternative agents or augmentation after 3 failed
trials: Tcas, mirtazepine, phenelzine, AEDs
NO BZDs or SGAs What is the YBOCS? - Correct Answers ✅Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive scale Clinician rated Used for diagnosis and to assess response How is the YBOCS interpreted? - Correct Answers ✅0-7 sub clinical 8-15 mild 16-23 moderate 24-31 severe 32-40 very severe 3 / 4
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Response: 25%
Remission: score <8
What are first line treatments for OCD? - Correct Answers ✅CBT or SSRI. CBT + pharmacotherapy not better than CBT alone, but is better than pharmacotherapy alone.
2nd line: venlafaxine XR, clomipramine, mirtazepine.
Clomipramine may be more effective, but less tolerated.
Adjunctive: aripiprazole, risperidone *esp in pts with tics!
How should SSRIs be dosed in OCD? - Correct Answers ✅Dose higher than usual At least 12 weeks needed for response How long to continue pharmacotherapy in OCD? - Correct Answers ✅1-2 years. Life long after 2-4 relapses.How are SGAs used in OCD? - Correct Answers ✅Augmentation, hapiperidol or aripiprazole or risperidone, after failing 2 antidepressants.Clomipramine monitoring parameters and AES? - Correct Answers ✅Cardiotoxic in overdose Epilepsy- inc risk of seizures
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