Which of the following places is best to conduct a psychosocial assessment?
B.
When you implement a plan for a patient partly by making the patient feel comfortable and safe by orienting the patient to his rights and responsibilities, selecting specific activities for the patent’s needs, and ensuring that the patient is maintained in the least restrictive environment that safety permits, this is known as which of the following?
A. biological therapy B. integrative therapy
C. milieu therapy
D. psychotherapy
C
Which of the following signs and/or symptoms is least likely to be seen in a patient with a mild to moderate dependency on alcohol?
A.
Which of the following would NOT be a structured aspect of milieu therapy?
A.
Generally, psychiatric symptoms are:
B.
Which of the following statements about crisis and crisis intervention is least accurate?
B.
The etiology of which disorder shows defects in Purkinje cells of the brain?
D.
Sullivan described six stages of personality development. The juvenile stage would include which of the following major developmental tasks?
A. learning to experience a delay in personal gratification without undue anxiety
B. learning to form satisfactory
D. relationships with the opposite gender
C. relief from anxiety through oral gratification of needs
D. learning to form satisfactory peer relationships
D.
There are a number of theories of grieving. Engel’s stages of grieving includes which of the following?
D.
When the client attempts to keep anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings out of awareness by disrupting the interactional process with avoidance, acting out, forgetting, etc., this is which of the following?
B.
If you ask your client to repeat the days of the week backward you are testing his or her
C.
Pender’s Health Promotion Model includes three general areas of concern to health-promoting behavior. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
D.
When a client uses excessive reasoning to isolate a painful feeling she is using which of the following defense mechanisms?
D.
Identify the approach to patient care that can include therapies such as acupuncture or aromatherapy.
C.
Avoidant personality disorder exhibits the characteristic of:
C.
What leaders do or how they conduct themselves is the basis of what theory of leadership?
B.
Which of the following would not be included under the Standards of Professional Performance?
C. (Standards of Practice only)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) must be distinguished from vascular dementia. Vascular dementia has all but which of the following characteristics?
C.
Which of the following age groups has the highest percentage of suicides?
D.
In terms of a psychosocial assessment, a client’s urge to harm himself is part of which component of the assessment?
C.
Which of the following medications would decrease seizure activity in ECT?
A. (All others increase seizure activity)
Which of the following community mental health practice sites is most likely to be associated with tertiary prevention?
C.
When your client is inducing an illness in order to receive attention this is called:
D.
What would cause a person with psychosis to be at a greater risk for violence?
B.
The term opioid refers to a group of compounds that includes opium, opium derivatives, and synthetic substitutes. Which of the following drugs is an opioid derivative?
D.
If a nurse is feeling they need to rescue a patient, which of the following
solutions might be effective?
B.
Thought content is best assessed by:
C.
What might be an appropriate response if the social worker accuses the health care worker of not properly advocating for an uninsured patient?
B.
In terms of group therapy, when members learn to accept painful aspects of life that affect everyone, this is known as which of the following?
