NU 345 Mental Health Exam 1 UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Mental Health Parity Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Enacted in 2008 ensures that there are
no mental health limitations from insurance.
Mental Health - CORRECT ANSWER - A continuum.
Mental Illness - CORRECT ANSWER - Shaped by cultural norms, societal values,
political climate, and even reimbursement.
Mentally Healthy Adult - CORRECT ANSWER - Resilience, accepts strengths and
limitations, perceives reality accurately, engages in independent thinking and action, exhibits
environmental mastery.
Diathesis-Stress Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Theory that explains behavior
Attachment Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Describes the importance of the early
relationship between infant and caretaker. Different schema include secure, avoidant. ambivalent,
and disorganized attachment styles.
Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER - Positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or
regain mental health despite adversity. Factors that enhance resilience include presence of
supportive relationships and attachments and avoidance of frequent and prolonged stress.
Child Assessment Trauma Related - CORRECT ANSWER - Child Dissociative Checklist,
Trauma Symptoms Checklist for Children, and the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory, Denver II
Developmental Screening Test (Developmental Assessment).
, Child Diagnosis Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER - Risk for impaired parent/child
attachment, Risk for delayed development.
Window of Tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER - Balance between sympathetic and
parasympathetic arousal.
Child Implementation Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing safety and stabilization,
Reducing arousal and regulating emotion, Developmental skills catch up through enhancing
problem-solving skills.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - CORRECT ANSWER - First line
treatment for traumatized children (and adults). EBT processes traumatic memories through an
eight-phase protocol that allows the person to think about the traumatic event while attending to
other stimuli ex. eye movements, audio tones, or tapping.
PTSD - CORRECT ANSWER - Persistent re-experiencing of a highly traumatic event that
involves actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others, to which the person
responded with intense fear, helplessness, or horror ex. military combat, natural disasters.
PTSD Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Re-experiencing of the trauma. 2.
Avoidance of stimuli associated w/the trauma. 3. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal 4.
Alterations in mood.
Medications for PTSD - CORRECT ANSWER - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
(SSRI) (ex. Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft), Serotonin Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitor (SNRI) (ex.
Effexor), Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs), Remeron- DEPRESSION/ ANXIETY Clonidine
(Catapress), Prazosin (Minipress)- Alpha Agonist, INTRUSIVE
THOUGHTS/HYPERAROUSAL Propranolol (Inderol)- Beta Blocker, HYPERAROUSAL/
PANIC
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - CORRECT ANSWER - Develops after exposure to a
highly traumatic event, must display 8 out of 14 symptoms, during or after the traumatic event.
Diagnosed 3 days- 1 month after event.
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Mental Health Parity Act - CORRECT ANSWER - Enacted in 2008 ensures that there are
no mental health limitations from insurance.
Mental Health - CORRECT ANSWER - A continuum.
Mental Illness - CORRECT ANSWER - Shaped by cultural norms, societal values,
political climate, and even reimbursement.
Mentally Healthy Adult - CORRECT ANSWER - Resilience, accepts strengths and
limitations, perceives reality accurately, engages in independent thinking and action, exhibits
environmental mastery.
Diathesis-Stress Model - CORRECT ANSWER - Theory that explains behavior
Attachment Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Describes the importance of the early
relationship between infant and caretaker. Different schema include secure, avoidant. ambivalent,
and disorganized attachment styles.
Resilience - CORRECT ANSWER - Positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or
regain mental health despite adversity. Factors that enhance resilience include presence of
supportive relationships and attachments and avoidance of frequent and prolonged stress.
Child Assessment Trauma Related - CORRECT ANSWER - Child Dissociative Checklist,
Trauma Symptoms Checklist for Children, and the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory, Denver II
Developmental Screening Test (Developmental Assessment).
, Child Diagnosis Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER - Risk for impaired parent/child
attachment, Risk for delayed development.
Window of Tolerance - CORRECT ANSWER - Balance between sympathetic and
parasympathetic arousal.
Child Implementation Trauma - CORRECT ANSWER - Providing safety and stabilization,
Reducing arousal and regulating emotion, Developmental skills catch up through enhancing
problem-solving skills.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - CORRECT ANSWER - First line
treatment for traumatized children (and adults). EBT processes traumatic memories through an
eight-phase protocol that allows the person to think about the traumatic event while attending to
other stimuli ex. eye movements, audio tones, or tapping.
PTSD - CORRECT ANSWER - Persistent re-experiencing of a highly traumatic event that
involves actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others, to which the person
responded with intense fear, helplessness, or horror ex. military combat, natural disasters.
PTSD Symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Re-experiencing of the trauma. 2.
Avoidance of stimuli associated w/the trauma. 3. Persistent symptoms of increased arousal 4.
Alterations in mood.
Medications for PTSD - CORRECT ANSWER - Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor
(SSRI) (ex. Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft), Serotonin Norepinephrine Re-uptake Inhibitor (SNRI) (ex.
Effexor), Tricyclic Antidepressants (TCAs), Remeron- DEPRESSION/ ANXIETY Clonidine
(Catapress), Prazosin (Minipress)- Alpha Agonist, INTRUSIVE
THOUGHTS/HYPERAROUSAL Propranolol (Inderol)- Beta Blocker, HYPERAROUSAL/
PANIC
Acute Stress Disorder (ASD) - CORRECT ANSWER - Develops after exposure to a
highly traumatic event, must display 8 out of 14 symptoms, during or after the traumatic event.
Diagnosed 3 days- 1 month after event.
