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Norms - CORRECT ANS✔✔ are considered the "right" patterns of behavior
for a society
Event interpretation - CORRECT ANS✔✔ should be included for problem-solving therapy for
a child with
conduct disorder.
Family therapy - CORRECT ANS✔✔ can promote the greatest change in an
adolescent's behavior.
The Developmental Theoretical approach - CORRECT ANS✔✔ describes a family's progression
through the
lifecycle.
Establishing a therapeutic alliance - CORRECT ANS✔✔ is important because acceptance and
trust convey a
feeling of security in an adolescent.
Most children will adopt the same world view - CORRECT ANS✔✔ as their parents (ex. If a child
was brought
up by parents who thought the world was hostile they would most likely adopt this view as they
grow older.
Bibliotherapy - CORRECT ANS✔✔ uses books and a librarian as resources.
When conducting a counseling session for a group of at risk adolescents on drug use - CORRECT
ANS✔✔ it is important to have their peers involved in teaching some problem-solving skills.
Play therapy is important - CORRECT ANS✔✔ because it allows the child to play out their fears
and frustrations.
Therapeutic drawing is a helpful technique - CORRECT ANS✔✔ is a child feels self-blame
regarding their parent's divorce.
,Objective observations - CORRECT ANS✔✔ help the most in evaluating outcomes of child therapy.
Schizoid personality disorder - CORRECT ANS✔✔ Individual psychotherapy is the appropriate
modality to use with this disorder.
The best response by the PMHNP when speaking with a client with BPD who has been in
counseling for management of self-harm behaviors who now wants to cut themselves is -
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Understand that if a client with BPD who was making progress but recently had an anxiety
producing situation arise and now cut herself is that even though this behavior is dysfunctional, -
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Self-mutilation is mainly due to - CORRECT ANS✔✔ fear of abandonment or the increase of
independence
BPD is often characterized by - CORRECT ANS✔✔ an inability to tolerate perceived rejection.
Patients will respond better to limit setting if - CORRECT ANS✔✔ the PMHNP can reflect back to the
client an understanding and validation of their emotional distress.
Clients with BPD have not successfully achieved - CORRECT ANS✔✔ the
developmental stage of separation-individuation.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANS✔✔ do not trust others easily, and it's best to use a
respectful neutral approach.
Paranoid Personality Disorder are - CORRECT ANS✔✔ critical of others because they project
blame for their own shortcomings onto others.
, Self-mutilation occurs because - CORRECT ANS✔✔ a client may feel that pain is better than not
feeling anything, it also results from feelings of abandonment, it can be a manipulative gesture,
and it is also happens when a safety plan has been put in place.
DBT helps to - CORRECT ANS✔✔ replace irrational thoughts.
Respecting a client's boundaries - CORRECT ANS✔✔ important in establishing a therapeutic
relationship with a patient with BPD
providing a safe environment - CORRECT ANS✔✔ is the priority for any client who is a victim of
a serious crime/assault
MCI Expectant category - CORRECT ANS✔✔ Injuries are extensive and chances of survival are
unlikely even with definitive care. Persons in this group should be separated from other
casualties, but not abandoned. Comfort measures should be provided when possible
Black MCI CATEGORY - CORRECT ANS✔✔ Unresponsive patients with penetrating head
wounds, high spinal cord injuries, wounds involving multiple anatomical sites and organs,
2nd/3rd degree burns in excess of 60% of body surface area, seizures or vomiting within 24 hr
after radiation exposure, profound shock with multiple injuries, agonal respirations; no pulse, no
BP, pupils fixed and dilated.
Mindfulness - CORRECT ANS✔✔ The essential part of all skills taught in skills group are the core
mindfulness skills. Mindfulness is the capacity to pay attention, non-judgmentally to the present
moment. It is derived from teachings of the Buddha, the Zen tradition being perhaps one of its
most well-known proponents. Mindfulness is all about living in the moment, experiencing your
emotions and all your senses and being aware of them.
The psych NP needs to - CORRECT ANS✔✔ foster a child's healthy characteristics and existing
environmental supports no matter how negative (ex a child lives in a homeless shelter).
children from different cultures - CORRECT ANS✔✔ develop at different rates