NURS 665 exam 2 review questions with answers
dissociative amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔a sudden loss of memory
for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting.
localized amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Failure to recall events
during a circumscribed period of time.
selective amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The inability to recall only
certain incidents associated with a traumatic event for a specific period following the event.
generalized amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔total inability to recall
any aspect of one's life.
continuous amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔failure to recall successive
events as they occur
systemized amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔failure to recall certain
categories of information
During a mental examination of dissociative amnesia, if pt answers yes to any of the
questions, what 2 things should the provider do next? - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔-Ask the patient to describe the event.
-Make sure to specify that the symptoms does not occur during an episode of intoxication.
What are nonclassic presentation of dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Depression, mood swings, substance abuse, sleep disturbances,
Anxiety, and panic attack.
, What are differential diagnosis of dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Ordinary forgetfulness, Dementia, delirium, substance related amnesia
What is the main focus of treatment of dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Restoring the patients memory loss to conciousness as soon as possible
What happens if memory is not restored in pt with dissociative amnesia? - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The repressed memory may form a nucleus in the
unconscious mind.
Treatment of Dissociative Amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-Cognitive
behavioral therapy
-Hypnosis
-group Therapy ( veterans w/ PTSD)
Can somatic therapy be used to treat dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Somatic therapy will only be used to facilitate an interview.
What are some somatic therapy that is helpful with facilitating interview in dissociative
amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Diazepam, sodium amobarbital,
thiopental and amphetamines.
IV barbital and valium are helpful in what type of dissociative amnesia cases? - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Refractory cases of chronic dissociative amnesia when
patients are unresponsive to other interventions.
How does cognitive therapy work for dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Identifies the specific cognitive distortions that are based in the
trauma may provide an entree into autobiographical memory.
dissociative amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔a sudden loss of memory
for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting.
localized amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Failure to recall events
during a circumscribed period of time.
selective amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The inability to recall only
certain incidents associated with a traumatic event for a specific period following the event.
generalized amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔total inability to recall
any aspect of one's life.
continuous amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔failure to recall successive
events as they occur
systemized amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔failure to recall certain
categories of information
During a mental examination of dissociative amnesia, if pt answers yes to any of the
questions, what 2 things should the provider do next? - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔-Ask the patient to describe the event.
-Make sure to specify that the symptoms does not occur during an episode of intoxication.
What are nonclassic presentation of dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Depression, mood swings, substance abuse, sleep disturbances,
Anxiety, and panic attack.
, What are differential diagnosis of dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰
✔✔Ordinary forgetfulness, Dementia, delirium, substance related amnesia
What is the main focus of treatment of dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Restoring the patients memory loss to conciousness as soon as possible
What happens if memory is not restored in pt with dissociative amnesia? - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔The repressed memory may form a nucleus in the
unconscious mind.
Treatment of Dissociative Amnesia - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔-Cognitive
behavioral therapy
-Hypnosis
-group Therapy ( veterans w/ PTSD)
Can somatic therapy be used to treat dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Somatic therapy will only be used to facilitate an interview.
What are some somatic therapy that is helpful with facilitating interview in dissociative
amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Diazepam, sodium amobarbital,
thiopental and amphetamines.
IV barbital and valium are helpful in what type of dissociative amnesia cases? - **🔰
VERIFIED ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Refractory cases of chronic dissociative amnesia when
patients are unresponsive to other interventions.
How does cognitive therapy work for dissociative amnesia? - **🔰 VERIFIED
ANSWERS🔰 ✔✔Identifies the specific cognitive distortions that are based in the
trauma may provide an entree into autobiographical memory.
