CMN 350 ACTUAL 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔- Persistent social communication deficits
- Restricted/repetitive behaviors
- Symptoms present in early development
- Significant social/occupational impairment
- Challenges in social interaction, restricted interests, sensory processing differences.
✔✔Personalized approach tailored to the individuals unique strengths, challenges, and
needs.
- ABA, Speech and Language therapy - ✔✔What are some interventions for ASD?
✔✔Applied Behavior Analysis - ✔✔What type of behavioral therapy is used for children
with ASD?
✔✔ABA - ✔✔Focuses on breaking down complex behaviors into smaller, manageable
steps and using positive reinforcement to encourage desired behaviors.
✔✔active listening, empathy, and setting boundaries - ✔✔What are the three steps to
building trust with a patient?
✔✔CD - ✔✔treatment includes: cognitive behavioral therapy, parent management
training, multisystemic therapy, medication (antipsychotic or mood stabilizer), and social
skills training
✔✔ODD - ✔✔treatment includes: parent-child interaction therapy, CBT, family therapy,
positive reinforcement strategies, and social skills training.
✔✔ADHD - ✔✔treatment includes: behavioral therapy, medication (stimulant), parent
training and support, educational interventions, and organizational skills training
✔✔ASD - ✔✔treatment includes: ABA, speech and language therapy, OT, social skills
training, and medication
✔✔ rapid onset, impaired short term memory, secondary to physical insult, fearful,
anxious, slurred speech, reversible with treatment. - ✔✔What are some delirium
characteristics?
✔✔delirium, dementia, lewy bodies, vascular dementia - ✔✔What are some types of
neurocognitive disorders?
✔✔insidious - ✔✔What type of onset is paired with dementia?
, ✔✔in dementia level of consciousness is unchanged - ✔✔What is a main side effect
difference between delirium and dementia?
✔✔Mild Alzheimer's - ✔✔- word finding difficulties
- denial
- decreased decision making, concentration, reasoning, and judgement
- difficulty performing usual activities
- may try to hide or come up with a story on why they did or didn't do something.
Repetitive questioning
✔✔Moderate Alzheimer's - ✔✔- Apraxia, agnosia, aphasia, poor comprehension
- Blunted affect
- Misidentification
- Delusions
- Wanders
- Urinary incontinence
✔✔Severe Alzheimer's - ✔✔- Gait disturbance
- Unable to feed self
- Urinary and bowel incontinence
- Bedridden
- Swallowing difficulty
- 24 hour supervision
✔✔agnosia, aphasia, amnesia, and apraxia - ✔✔What are the four A's of Alzheimer's?
✔✔Agnosia - ✔✔Loss of comprehension of auditory, visual, or other senses.
- Impaired ability to recognize familiar objects and people.
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔- Expressive: inability to express thoughts in words
- Receptive: inability to comprehend what is being said or written
✔✔Amnesia - ✔✔Memory impairment
- inability to learn new information recall previously learned information.
✔✔Apraxia - ✔✔Inability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function.
✔✔decrease neuronal loss - ✔✔Medication for AD aid to _____________________.
✔✔Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors - ✔✔For mild to moderate AD
- Ex. Tacrine, Donepezil, Rivastigmine, Galantamine
✔✔Memantine - ✔✔For moderate to severe disease; the only approved medication for
Alzheimer disease that is not an AChE inhibitor.
- SE: N/D, weight loss, dizziness and fatigue.
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Autism Spectrum Disorder - ✔✔- Persistent social communication deficits
- Restricted/repetitive behaviors
- Symptoms present in early development
- Significant social/occupational impairment
- Challenges in social interaction, restricted interests, sensory processing differences.
✔✔Personalized approach tailored to the individuals unique strengths, challenges, and
needs.
- ABA, Speech and Language therapy - ✔✔What are some interventions for ASD?
✔✔Applied Behavior Analysis - ✔✔What type of behavioral therapy is used for children
with ASD?
✔✔ABA - ✔✔Focuses on breaking down complex behaviors into smaller, manageable
steps and using positive reinforcement to encourage desired behaviors.
✔✔active listening, empathy, and setting boundaries - ✔✔What are the three steps to
building trust with a patient?
✔✔CD - ✔✔treatment includes: cognitive behavioral therapy, parent management
training, multisystemic therapy, medication (antipsychotic or mood stabilizer), and social
skills training
✔✔ODD - ✔✔treatment includes: parent-child interaction therapy, CBT, family therapy,
positive reinforcement strategies, and social skills training.
✔✔ADHD - ✔✔treatment includes: behavioral therapy, medication (stimulant), parent
training and support, educational interventions, and organizational skills training
✔✔ASD - ✔✔treatment includes: ABA, speech and language therapy, OT, social skills
training, and medication
✔✔ rapid onset, impaired short term memory, secondary to physical insult, fearful,
anxious, slurred speech, reversible with treatment. - ✔✔What are some delirium
characteristics?
✔✔delirium, dementia, lewy bodies, vascular dementia - ✔✔What are some types of
neurocognitive disorders?
✔✔insidious - ✔✔What type of onset is paired with dementia?
, ✔✔in dementia level of consciousness is unchanged - ✔✔What is a main side effect
difference between delirium and dementia?
✔✔Mild Alzheimer's - ✔✔- word finding difficulties
- denial
- decreased decision making, concentration, reasoning, and judgement
- difficulty performing usual activities
- may try to hide or come up with a story on why they did or didn't do something.
Repetitive questioning
✔✔Moderate Alzheimer's - ✔✔- Apraxia, agnosia, aphasia, poor comprehension
- Blunted affect
- Misidentification
- Delusions
- Wanders
- Urinary incontinence
✔✔Severe Alzheimer's - ✔✔- Gait disturbance
- Unable to feed self
- Urinary and bowel incontinence
- Bedridden
- Swallowing difficulty
- 24 hour supervision
✔✔agnosia, aphasia, amnesia, and apraxia - ✔✔What are the four A's of Alzheimer's?
✔✔Agnosia - ✔✔Loss of comprehension of auditory, visual, or other senses.
- Impaired ability to recognize familiar objects and people.
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔- Expressive: inability to express thoughts in words
- Receptive: inability to comprehend what is being said or written
✔✔Amnesia - ✔✔Memory impairment
- inability to learn new information recall previously learned information.
✔✔Apraxia - ✔✔Inability to carry out motor activities despite intact motor function.
✔✔decrease neuronal loss - ✔✔Medication for AD aid to _____________________.
✔✔Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors - ✔✔For mild to moderate AD
- Ex. Tacrine, Donepezil, Rivastigmine, Galantamine
✔✔Memantine - ✔✔For moderate to severe disease; the only approved medication for
Alzheimer disease that is not an AChE inhibitor.
- SE: N/D, weight loss, dizziness and fatigue.
