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MENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIAN PRACTICE EXAMTo implement the concept of the least restrictive treatment environment, care team
members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources. - Answers -Assess available community
resources.
The term "sandwich generation" best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood - Answers -Caring for their children
and aging parents
A male client is in the process of being admitted to a mental health facility. He is sure
that the nurse is the administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's insistence that he
is a staff nurse on the unit. This client is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations - Answers -Delusions
A client with the diagnosis of depersonalization disorder notices that he experiences
periods of depersonalization when confronted with certain stressors. When developing
the care plan, the nurse is aware that one of the most helpful activities in self-control for
this client is for the client to:
Select one:
a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his thoughts and feelings every time he
is confronted with a stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts
and feelings during stressful times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his stress level. - Answers -Keep
a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times.
A client has constant thoughts about locking his front door every time he leaves his
house. This client is experiencing a(n):
Select one:
,a. Compulsion
b. Phobia
c. Obsession
d. Anxiety reaction - Answers -Obsession
A physically or mentally impaired older woman who is living with a relative and has a
history of unexplained bruises or injuries, burns in unusual places, or poor personal
hygiene is likely a victim of:
Select one:
a. Neglect
b. Child abuse
c. Elder abuse
d. Adolescent abuse - Answers -Elder abuse
What is the main function of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine (NCCAM)?
Select one:
a. To seek scientific validation of CAM and also be a resource for the public for CAM
therapies
b. To investigate and develop new CAM therapies
c. To produce a monthly newsletter on new CAM therapies
d. To monitor the production of dietary and herbal supplements used in CAM therapies -
Answers -To seek scientific validation of CAM and also be a resource for the public for
CAM therapies
The theory that cites poverty, unemployment, and crime as sources of violence is
known as the ____ theory.
Select one:
a. Feminist
b. Sociological
c. Anthropological
d. Psychiatric/mental illness - Answers -Sociological
Which nurse response is the best example of the therapeutic principle of respect?
Select one:
a. "I'm interested in what you have to say."
b. "Describe how you are feeling for me."
c. "I hear how worried you are about your future and can imagine how you feel."
d. "You signed a contract stating that you would let me know when you have those
thoughts." - Answers -"I hear how worried you are about your future and can imagine
how you feel."
A female client with a diagnosis of a dissociative disorder who attends group meetings
at a community mental health clinic often voices that her boss at work frequently
complains that she is working at a level below her capabilities. The client also states
,that she feels that she "never gets anything done." Which nursing diagnosis best
addresses these issues?
Select one:
a. Self-esteem, low
b. Social isolation
c. Body-image, disturbed
d. Memory, impaired - Answers -Self-esteem, low
A female client with obsessive-compulsive disorder is undergoing treatment in an
outpatient setting and is attending group therapy sessions. She is working on controlling
the compulsion of touching her head three times every time she talks. To maintain the
therapeutic relationship established with the client, by which action can the nurse show
acceptance?
Select one:
a. Ignoring the compulsion during the group therapy session and talking with the client
privately about the behavior
b. Asking the group to remind the client every time she touches her head to help her
consciously stop the compulsion
c. Pointing out the compulsion to the group each time the client exhibits the behavior
d. Asking the client to stop talking during the group session until she has learned to
control her compulsion - Answers -Ignoring the compulsion during the group therapy
session and talking with the client privately about the behavior
The home mental health nurse visits a female client to assess her ability to care for
herself at home after discharge from an inpatient setting. Which component of the case
management system does this demonstrate?
Select one:
a. Consultation
b. Crisis intervention
c. Resource linkage
d. Psychosocial rehabilitation - Answers -Psychosocial rehabilitation
A disorder that interrupts normal sleep patterns and is characterized by repeated, brief
jerks of the arms and legs that occur every 20 to 60 seconds during the beginning of
sleep is called:
Select one:
a. Insomnia
b. Narcolepsy
c. Hypersomnia
d. Nocturnal myoclonus - Answers -Nocturnal myoclonus
The average time that a person with Alzheimer's disease lives after diagnosis is _____
years.
Select one:
a. 2
b. 8
, c. 10
d. 20 - Answers -8
When the environment lacks security or presents dangers, the perception that life will be
short or will end in violence is most compelling for:
Select one:
a. Children
b. Adolescents
c. Young adults
d. Middle-aged adults - Answers -Adolescents
In the early 1900s the first theory of mental illness that showed behavior could be
changed is attributed to:
Select one:
a. Beers
b. Dix
c. Freud
d. Pinel - Answers -Freud
The nurse knows that the major concept of the systems theory is that individuals are
viewed as functioning:
Select one:
a. Within a set of interacting and related units
b. According to activities of attention, language, and imagery
c. According to unmet needs
d. Within accepted social aspects of behavior - Answers -**Not B
The nurse is preparing an adult male client, who has been successfully treated for a
social phobia, for the termination phase of the therapeutic relationship. During their last
meeting, the client told the nurse that he noticed he has developed a nervous habit that
started a few days ago of checking his door at home several times a day to be sure it is
locked. This client is exhibiting the client response to termination known as:
Select one:
a. Continuation
b. Regression
c. Withdrawal
d. Confabulation - Answers -Continuation
When one is developing the care plan for a female adolescent with an eating disorder,
the primary issue to consider as the underlying cause is:
Select one:
a. Control
b. Body image
c. Self-esteem
d. Coping skills - Answers -Control
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