CMHT CORRECT TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔The entire motor area of the brain is depressed; individual is staggering, easily
angered, emotional and feels fatigued - ✔✔Typical central nervous system responses
when an individual has drunk five or more alcoholic beverages or has a blood alcohol
content of 0.20% within a 4-hour period include:
✔✔Recidivism - ✔✔A 35-year-old client with a long history of schizophrenia who often
forgets to take his medication is admitted to an inpatient unit after police found him
threatening passengers on a bus. This is his fourth admission in 3 months. This
frequent re-hospitalization is an example of:
✔✔Common - ✔✔Depression in the elderly is:
✔✔Extrapyramidal movements, dry mouth, blurred vision, and photophobia -
✔✔Medications are used with extreme caution in clients with personality disorders
because of their questionable effectiveness. If a client is receiving an antipsychotic
medication, it is especially important for the nurse to monitor the client for side effects
of:
✔✔Adolescence - ✔✔Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia often are first seen in:
✔✔Use simple, concrete language - ✔✔The nurse is talking with a male client with a
diagnosis of schizophrenia who often experiences auditory hallucinations. For this
communication to be most effective, the nurse should:
✔✔Sociological - ✔✔The theory that cites poverty, unemployment, and crime as
sources of violence is known as the ____ theory.
✔✔Shaken baby - ✔✔Whenever there is a history of unexplained lethargy, fussiness, or
irritability in an infant, caregivers should suspect ____ syndrome.
, ✔✔Preventative measures - ✔✔Level one interventions for potentially assaultive clients
should be practiced as:
✔✔Eccentric - ✔✔The group of personality disorders characterized by odd or strange
behaviors is known as the ____ cluster.
✔✔Withdraw and refuse to seek out or enter into another relationship - ✔✔A woman
with a history of chronic mental illness was dating someone for about a month before
they ended the relationship. What is the probable action the woman will take?
✔✔Provide consistent limit setting with the client - ✔✔Two nurses are discussing a new
patient during report. They discover that she has the staff divided on their opinion of her.
One group has had very positive interactions with her and find her to be very
cooperative. The other group has had a difficult time in gaining her compliance in
treatment interventions. What action would be most appropriate in dealing with this
situation?
✔✔Nurse care manager - ✔✔A treatment team member works with a client who is living
in a residential treatment facility who has a diagnosis of severe paranoid schizophrenia.
The team member who collaborates with the physician to coordinate the client's therapy
and medications and necessary referrals is the:
✔✔D - ✔✔In 2006, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) conducted a
comprehensive survey and grading of state mental health care for adults and learned
that the overall grade for care was:
✔✔Childhood - ✔✔Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in:
✔✔12 - ✔✔The signs and symptoms of schizophrenia must be present for at least ____
months before a diagnostic label is assigned.
✔✔Ayurveda - ✔✔A male client of Indian origin practices meditation and yoga, uses
herbs and follows specific diet practices, and practices controlled breathing and
exposure to sunlight. Which type of CAM therapy is this individual practicing?
✔✔Pinel - ✔✔During the latter part of the eighteenth century, psychiatry became a
separate branch of medicine, and inhumane treatment was greatly diminished by the
French hospital director:
✔✔Psychological - ✔✔Theories based on study of the brain and its activities are called:
✔✔15 - ✔✔Restrained clients must be monitored and their condition documented at
least every ____ minutes.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔The entire motor area of the brain is depressed; individual is staggering, easily
angered, emotional and feels fatigued - ✔✔Typical central nervous system responses
when an individual has drunk five or more alcoholic beverages or has a blood alcohol
content of 0.20% within a 4-hour period include:
✔✔Recidivism - ✔✔A 35-year-old client with a long history of schizophrenia who often
forgets to take his medication is admitted to an inpatient unit after police found him
threatening passengers on a bus. This is his fourth admission in 3 months. This
frequent re-hospitalization is an example of:
✔✔Common - ✔✔Depression in the elderly is:
✔✔Extrapyramidal movements, dry mouth, blurred vision, and photophobia -
✔✔Medications are used with extreme caution in clients with personality disorders
because of their questionable effectiveness. If a client is receiving an antipsychotic
medication, it is especially important for the nurse to monitor the client for side effects
of:
✔✔Adolescence - ✔✔Signs and symptoms of schizophrenia often are first seen in:
✔✔Use simple, concrete language - ✔✔The nurse is talking with a male client with a
diagnosis of schizophrenia who often experiences auditory hallucinations. For this
communication to be most effective, the nurse should:
✔✔Sociological - ✔✔The theory that cites poverty, unemployment, and crime as
sources of violence is known as the ____ theory.
✔✔Shaken baby - ✔✔Whenever there is a history of unexplained lethargy, fussiness, or
irritability in an infant, caregivers should suspect ____ syndrome.
, ✔✔Preventative measures - ✔✔Level one interventions for potentially assaultive clients
should be practiced as:
✔✔Eccentric - ✔✔The group of personality disorders characterized by odd or strange
behaviors is known as the ____ cluster.
✔✔Withdraw and refuse to seek out or enter into another relationship - ✔✔A woman
with a history of chronic mental illness was dating someone for about a month before
they ended the relationship. What is the probable action the woman will take?
✔✔Provide consistent limit setting with the client - ✔✔Two nurses are discussing a new
patient during report. They discover that she has the staff divided on their opinion of her.
One group has had very positive interactions with her and find her to be very
cooperative. The other group has had a difficult time in gaining her compliance in
treatment interventions. What action would be most appropriate in dealing with this
situation?
✔✔Nurse care manager - ✔✔A treatment team member works with a client who is living
in a residential treatment facility who has a diagnosis of severe paranoid schizophrenia.
The team member who collaborates with the physician to coordinate the client's therapy
and medications and necessary referrals is the:
✔✔D - ✔✔In 2006, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) conducted a
comprehensive survey and grading of state mental health care for adults and learned
that the overall grade for care was:
✔✔Childhood - ✔✔Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in:
✔✔12 - ✔✔The signs and symptoms of schizophrenia must be present for at least ____
months before a diagnostic label is assigned.
✔✔Ayurveda - ✔✔A male client of Indian origin practices meditation and yoga, uses
herbs and follows specific diet practices, and practices controlled breathing and
exposure to sunlight. Which type of CAM therapy is this individual practicing?
✔✔Pinel - ✔✔During the latter part of the eighteenth century, psychiatry became a
separate branch of medicine, and inhumane treatment was greatly diminished by the
French hospital director:
✔✔Psychological - ✔✔Theories based on study of the brain and its activities are called:
✔✔15 - ✔✔Restrained clients must be monitored and their condition documented at
least every ____ minutes.
