QMHA END OF COURSE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔Identify the correct answer
One of the easiest ways to implement a strength-based approach with clients is to:
a. Ask clients about their prior success and how they achieved them.
b. Observe both the client's strengths and weaknesses and review those with the client
in a fair and honest assessment.
c. Give the client an assignment to write down all of their strengths and bring that
homework assignment in for review. - ✔✔a
✔✔Identify the correct answer
Which of the following is the BEST example of an open-ended question:
a. Did you have a good day today?
b. Are you feeling suicidal?
c. Can you tell me how you've been doing over the past week? - ✔✔c
✔✔Identify the correct answer
Which of the following is within the QMHA scope of practice?
a. Making recommendations for alternative medications to discuss with their prescriber
when clients are dissatisfied with their current medications.
b. Interviewing clients and family members, collecting data, to be used in the formulation
of a QMHP diagnostic assessment.
c. Assessing the legitimacy of a client's statements regarding alleged child abuse and if
deemed legitimate making a report of those allegations to the authorities. - ✔✔b
✔✔Identify the correct answer.
, Trauma informed care means:
a. Processing a client's traumatic history in a structured way that helps facilitate insight
and interpersonal growth.
b. Being mindful of agency and service procedures that may re-traumatize clients as a
result of their traumatic histories.
c. Exploring a client's traumatic life events to uncover how it impacts their current
functioning. - ✔✔b
✔✔Identify the correct answer
Informed consent is:
a. The same thing as a Mental Health Declaration.
b. Forms that a client must sign to enter services, which gives consent to contact payors
to receive reimbursement for services.
c. Explaining the nature of services before the client agrees to participate. - ✔✔c
✔✔What are the four domains of research-based mental health associate
competencies? - ✔✔Clinical competence, professional responsibility, safety,
administrative responsibility
✔✔Engaging Consumers: Provide the definition and give a real life example in your
work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers may vary.
Establishes a helping relationship with the consumer receiving services by
demonstrating empathy, respect, and genuineness in order to build trust.
✔✔Orienting Consumers: Provide the definition and give a real life example in your
work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers may vary.
Orients the consumer receiving services to the program including rules and
expectations.
✔✔Collecting Information for Assessment: Provide the definition and give a real life
example in your work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers
may vary. Assists in gathering information about basic and community living
characteristics of the person receiving services for assessment purposes
✔✔Supporting Consumer Inclusion: Provide the definition and give a real life example in
your work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers may vary.
Works as part of a treatment team to assist the consumer in formulating measurable
service/recovery goals.
SURE A+
✔✔Identify the correct answer
One of the easiest ways to implement a strength-based approach with clients is to:
a. Ask clients about their prior success and how they achieved them.
b. Observe both the client's strengths and weaknesses and review those with the client
in a fair and honest assessment.
c. Give the client an assignment to write down all of their strengths and bring that
homework assignment in for review. - ✔✔a
✔✔Identify the correct answer
Which of the following is the BEST example of an open-ended question:
a. Did you have a good day today?
b. Are you feeling suicidal?
c. Can you tell me how you've been doing over the past week? - ✔✔c
✔✔Identify the correct answer
Which of the following is within the QMHA scope of practice?
a. Making recommendations for alternative medications to discuss with their prescriber
when clients are dissatisfied with their current medications.
b. Interviewing clients and family members, collecting data, to be used in the formulation
of a QMHP diagnostic assessment.
c. Assessing the legitimacy of a client's statements regarding alleged child abuse and if
deemed legitimate making a report of those allegations to the authorities. - ✔✔b
✔✔Identify the correct answer.
, Trauma informed care means:
a. Processing a client's traumatic history in a structured way that helps facilitate insight
and interpersonal growth.
b. Being mindful of agency and service procedures that may re-traumatize clients as a
result of their traumatic histories.
c. Exploring a client's traumatic life events to uncover how it impacts their current
functioning. - ✔✔b
✔✔Identify the correct answer
Informed consent is:
a. The same thing as a Mental Health Declaration.
b. Forms that a client must sign to enter services, which gives consent to contact payors
to receive reimbursement for services.
c. Explaining the nature of services before the client agrees to participate. - ✔✔c
✔✔What are the four domains of research-based mental health associate
competencies? - ✔✔Clinical competence, professional responsibility, safety,
administrative responsibility
✔✔Engaging Consumers: Provide the definition and give a real life example in your
work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers may vary.
Establishes a helping relationship with the consumer receiving services by
demonstrating empathy, respect, and genuineness in order to build trust.
✔✔Orienting Consumers: Provide the definition and give a real life example in your
work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers may vary.
Orients the consumer receiving services to the program including rules and
expectations.
✔✔Collecting Information for Assessment: Provide the definition and give a real life
example in your work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers
may vary. Assists in gathering information about basic and community living
characteristics of the person receiving services for assessment purposes
✔✔Supporting Consumer Inclusion: Provide the definition and give a real life example in
your work at Cascadia Health that pertains to this competency - ✔✔Answers may vary.
Works as part of a treatment team to assist the consumer in formulating measurable
service/recovery goals.
