LMR PMHNP COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rett Syndrome - ✔✔progressive neurological developmental disorder, more in
females, seizure/scoliosis risk, decelerated head growth
✔✔Tx for menopausal women - ✔✔tai chi, flaxseed, soy
✔✔CAT for PTSD - ✔✔Guided imagery
✔✔imagery rehearsal therapy - ✔✔a treatment involving rewriting a nightmare by
visualizing positive images while awake
✔✔EMDR - ✔✔eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (desensitization,
installation, body scan)
✔✔critical incident stress management (CISM) - ✔✔introduction
fact
thought
reaction
symptoms
teaching
re-entry
✔✔adjustment disorder - ✔✔reaction to a specific life event; less than 6 months
✔✔acute stress disorder vs PTSD - ✔✔PTSD >1 month
Acute stress disorder < 1 mont
✔✔MDD diagnosis - ✔✔5 or more symptoms of MSIGECAPS for at least 2 weeks
✔✔SIGECAPS - ✔✔Sleep
Interest
Guilt
, Energy
Concentration
Appetite
Psychomotor
Suicide
✔✔ODD vs. Conduct Disorder - ✔✔ODD is persistent, hostile, defiant behavior without
serious violations of basic rights of other, conduct disorder is with violations of basic
right of others (often legal violations)
✔✔factitious disorder - ✔✔Condition in which a person acts as if he or she has a
physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick.
✔✔Malingering - ✔✔secondary gain is present
✔✔conversion disorder - ✔✔neurological symptoms that cannot be explained by
medical disease or culturally sanctioned behavior
✔✔Somatic Disorders - ✔✔no medical explanation
✔✔brief psychotic disorder - ✔✔Psychotic disturbance involving delusions,
hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior but lasting less than 1 month; often
occurs in reaction to a stressor.
✔✔schizophreniform disorder - ✔✔Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of
schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months.
✔✔Schizophrenia - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional
expression
✔✔schizoaffective disorder - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by the
combination of mood and psychotic symptoms; schizophrenia present for more than 2
weeks without mood disorder symptoms
✔✔delusional disorder - ✔✔a psychotic disorder in which the primary symptom is one or
more delusions; no other symptom, at least 1 month
✔✔DIGFAST for mania - ✔✔Distractibility
Indiscretion
Grandiosity
Flight of ideas
Activity increase
Sleep deficit
Talking increase
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Rett Syndrome - ✔✔progressive neurological developmental disorder, more in
females, seizure/scoliosis risk, decelerated head growth
✔✔Tx for menopausal women - ✔✔tai chi, flaxseed, soy
✔✔CAT for PTSD - ✔✔Guided imagery
✔✔imagery rehearsal therapy - ✔✔a treatment involving rewriting a nightmare by
visualizing positive images while awake
✔✔EMDR - ✔✔eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (desensitization,
installation, body scan)
✔✔critical incident stress management (CISM) - ✔✔introduction
fact
thought
reaction
symptoms
teaching
re-entry
✔✔adjustment disorder - ✔✔reaction to a specific life event; less than 6 months
✔✔acute stress disorder vs PTSD - ✔✔PTSD >1 month
Acute stress disorder < 1 mont
✔✔MDD diagnosis - ✔✔5 or more symptoms of MSIGECAPS for at least 2 weeks
✔✔SIGECAPS - ✔✔Sleep
Interest
Guilt
, Energy
Concentration
Appetite
Psychomotor
Suicide
✔✔ODD vs. Conduct Disorder - ✔✔ODD is persistent, hostile, defiant behavior without
serious violations of basic rights of other, conduct disorder is with violations of basic
right of others (often legal violations)
✔✔factitious disorder - ✔✔Condition in which a person acts as if he or she has a
physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick.
✔✔Malingering - ✔✔secondary gain is present
✔✔conversion disorder - ✔✔neurological symptoms that cannot be explained by
medical disease or culturally sanctioned behavior
✔✔Somatic Disorders - ✔✔no medical explanation
✔✔brief psychotic disorder - ✔✔Psychotic disturbance involving delusions,
hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior but lasting less than 1 month; often
occurs in reaction to a stressor.
✔✔schizophreniform disorder - ✔✔Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of
schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months.
✔✔Schizophrenia - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by delusions,
hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional
expression
✔✔schizoaffective disorder - ✔✔a psychological disorder characterized by the
combination of mood and psychotic symptoms; schizophrenia present for more than 2
weeks without mood disorder symptoms
✔✔delusional disorder - ✔✔a psychotic disorder in which the primary symptom is one or
more delusions; no other symptom, at least 1 month
✔✔DIGFAST for mania - ✔✔Distractibility
Indiscretion
Grandiosity
Flight of ideas
Activity increase
Sleep deficit
Talking increase
