Mental Health Technician Certification Exam (AMCA)
questions with verified answers
Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in Ans✓✓ -
childhood
Children should undergo further evaluation when their weight is _______above
their height Ans✓✓ -20%
A female client's husband in whom a chronic illness was recently diagnosed is
hospitalized. She states that she can't stop worrying about what is going to
happen with her husband's treatment and how they are going to pay the bills
because he is not working. What reaction is the client most likely experiencing?
Ans✓✓ -Anxiety
The parents of a 14 year old girl have noticed that over the past couple months,
their daughter has not been enjoying participating in the track team, which she
previously enjoyed. She often makes statements about how ugly she feels and she
dropped a letter grade in two of her classes. Base don these symptoms, this client
may be diagnosed with: Ans✓✓ -Depressive disorder
In preparing discharge planning for a client who has been prescribed lithium for
the treatment of bipolar disorder, it is important that the client demonstrate an
understanding of the need to monitor his or her diet for intake of: Ans✓✓ -
Sodium
_______is a side effect that can occur while the client is taking antipsychotic
medications, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital signs, confusion
and agitation. Ans✓✓ -neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)
, A female college student is seeking help from the counseling center for text
anxiety. She reports that during an exam, she "freezes and feels like the time I
have to take the exam is racing by and I can't answer any of the questions when i
know the answers". Which level of anxiety is the client experiencing? Ans✓✓ -
Severe
Behaviors associated with mental illnesses were more accurately recorded by
professionals. This practice led to _______for different abnormal behaviors.
Ans✓✓ -Classifications
A 10 year old male client with autism experiences loneliness and social anxiety as
a result of his disease. Which CAM therapy will the caregiver suggest to help out
this client the most with these feelings? Ans✓✓ -Animal assisted therapy
A woman goes to a late movie with her friends and gets home after midnight. She
is scheduled to play in a tennis tournament early the next morning and loses all
her matches. She blames the line judge for her loss, rather than her poor play.
Which coping mechanism best describes her response to losing the matches?
Ans✓✓ -Rationalization
Poverty influences the growth and development of children and is often a
precursor to mental health disorders in children. Nearly _______of the children in
the US come from families that live at the poverty level. Ans✓✓ -20%
The provider is administering medications to a client with a diagnosis of paranoid
schizophrenia. The provider would expect to see which medication ordered for
the client? Ans✓✓ -Risperdal
questions with verified answers
Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in Ans✓✓ -
childhood
Children should undergo further evaluation when their weight is _______above
their height Ans✓✓ -20%
A female client's husband in whom a chronic illness was recently diagnosed is
hospitalized. She states that she can't stop worrying about what is going to
happen with her husband's treatment and how they are going to pay the bills
because he is not working. What reaction is the client most likely experiencing?
Ans✓✓ -Anxiety
The parents of a 14 year old girl have noticed that over the past couple months,
their daughter has not been enjoying participating in the track team, which she
previously enjoyed. She often makes statements about how ugly she feels and she
dropped a letter grade in two of her classes. Base don these symptoms, this client
may be diagnosed with: Ans✓✓ -Depressive disorder
In preparing discharge planning for a client who has been prescribed lithium for
the treatment of bipolar disorder, it is important that the client demonstrate an
understanding of the need to monitor his or her diet for intake of: Ans✓✓ -
Sodium
_______is a side effect that can occur while the client is taking antipsychotic
medications, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital signs, confusion
and agitation. Ans✓✓ -neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS)
, A female college student is seeking help from the counseling center for text
anxiety. She reports that during an exam, she "freezes and feels like the time I
have to take the exam is racing by and I can't answer any of the questions when i
know the answers". Which level of anxiety is the client experiencing? Ans✓✓ -
Severe
Behaviors associated with mental illnesses were more accurately recorded by
professionals. This practice led to _______for different abnormal behaviors.
Ans✓✓ -Classifications
A 10 year old male client with autism experiences loneliness and social anxiety as
a result of his disease. Which CAM therapy will the caregiver suggest to help out
this client the most with these feelings? Ans✓✓ -Animal assisted therapy
A woman goes to a late movie with her friends and gets home after midnight. She
is scheduled to play in a tennis tournament early the next morning and loses all
her matches. She blames the line judge for her loss, rather than her poor play.
Which coping mechanism best describes her response to losing the matches?
Ans✓✓ -Rationalization
Poverty influences the growth and development of children and is often a
precursor to mental health disorders in children. Nearly _______of the children in
the US come from families that live at the poverty level. Ans✓✓ -20%
The provider is administering medications to a client with a diagnosis of paranoid
schizophrenia. The provider would expect to see which medication ordered for
the client? Ans✓✓ -Risperdal
