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ATI proctored Mental
Health questions and
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USER
[COMPANY NAME]
,Wernicke-Korsakoff Expected Finding -✔✔answer Confusion
Heroin Intoxication Expected Finding -✔✔answer Respiratory Depression
Reaction of Terminal Cancer Diagnosis -✔✔answer Denial
Valproic Acid Teaching -✔✔answer Teach the need to regularly monitor liver function levels due to the
risk of hepatotoxicity
When should Donapezil be taken? -✔✔answer Bedtime to reduce the risks for injury due to bradycardia
and syncope
Methadone is indicated for TX of.... -✔✔answer Opiate use disorder
Phenelzine---Finding to report -✔✔answer Elevated BP: increases risk for hypertensive crisis
This is an MAOI!
Acute Main---Priority Goal -✔✔answer Maintain adequate hydration
Binge-eating expected finding -✔✔answer Abdominal pain
Stage 4 Alzheimers expected finding -✔✔answer Client is able to identify the names of family members
Restricting type anorexia expected finding -✔✔answer Decreased caloric intake due to excessive fear of
weight gain
ECT Potential Complications -✔✔answer Cardiac arryhthmia
Cocaine intoxication expected finding -✔✔answer Dilated pupils
,Benzo---finding that would indicate questioning the provider -✔✔answer Hypotension
Alcohol Withdrawal Medication -✔✔answer Disulfram
Can give____________with lithium -✔✔answer Valproic Acid
Both treat bipolar
Common adverse effect of Buspirone -✔✔answer Dizziness
Confusion develops...... -✔✔answer SLOWLY with alzheimers
What food type to avoid with Disulfram -✔✔answer Pure vanilla extract
Conduct Disorder expected finding -✔✔answer Aggressive behavior toward others
Heroin withdrawal expected findings -✔✔answer Muscle aches
Alcohol withdrawal expected findings -✔✔answer Insomnia and restlessness
Mematine is used to treat -✔✔answer Severe alzheimers
ADHD teaching -✔✔answer Ignore child's attention seeking behaviors that are not dangerous
Rape-Trauma Syndrome finding -✔✔answer Report of intense guilt
Medication that is given during alcohol detox -✔✔answer Diazepam
,ECT expected findings -✔✔answer Memory loss
Nausea
Tachycardia
ECT is given for -✔✔answer Bipolar with rapid cycling
Vagus Nerve Stimulation adverse effects -✔✔answer Voice changes
Dysphagia
Neck pain
Modeling -✔✔answer Allows client to see a demonstration of appropriate behaviors in a stressful
situation. The goal is that the client will imitate the behaviors
Systemic Desentization -✔✔answer Begins with mastering of relaxation techniques. Then a client is
exposed to increasing levels of anxiety-producing stimulus.
Flooding -✔✔answer Exposing the client to a great deal of undesirable stimulus in an attempt to turn
off anxiety response.
Most useful for phobias
Thought Stopping -✔✔answer Teaches a client to say "stop" when a negative thought or compulsive
behavior arises and substitute positive thought. The goal is that the client with time will use command
silently
Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing (EMDR) -✔✔answer Therapy for clients who have PTSD.
Encourages eye focus on a separate stimuli while thinking of or talking about the traumatic event
PTSD expected findings -✔✔answer Hallucinations
Recurring nightmares
,How is seasonal depression treated? -✔✔answer Light therapy
Dysthymic Disorder -✔✔answer Mild form of depression that usually has an early onset, such as in
childhood and lasts at least 2 years in length
St. John's Wort adverse effects -✔✔answer Photosensitivity
Skin rash
Rapid heart rate
GI distress
Abdominal pain
Depressive disorders are most prevalent in... -✔✔answer Adults between ages of 15-40
Transpersonal Communication -✔✔answer Addresses an individual's spiritual needs and providers
interventions to meet those needs
Empathy -✔✔answer UNDERSTANDING of feelings
Rapid Cycling -✔✔answer 4 or more episodes of acute mania within 1 year
Bipolar I -✔✔answer Client has at least one episode of mania alternating with major depression
More severe
Bipolar II -✔✔answer Client has one or more hypomanic episodes alternating with MDD
Bipolar Meds -✔✔answer Lithium=mood stabilizer
Anticonvulsants such as Valproic Acid (Depakote), Clonazapam, Lamitcal, Gabapentin, and Topiramate
Benzos such as Lorazepam used on a short term basis
SSRIs such as Prozac
, A client in a true manic state will... -✔✔answer Not stop moving, and does not eat or drink, or sleep.
This can become a medical emergency
Alogia -✔✔answer Poverty of thought or speech; the client may sit with a visitor but may only mumble
or respond vaguely to questions
Avolition -✔✔answer Lack of motivation in activities and hygiene
Grandeur -✔✔answer Believes that she is all powerful and important, like a god
Somatic Delusionals -✔✔answer Believes that his body is changing in an unusual way, such as growing a
third arm
Depersonalization -✔✔answer Nonspecific feeling that a person has lose their identity, self is different
or unreal
Derealization -✔✔answer Perception that environment has changed
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF Scale) -✔✔answer Helps to determine a client's ability to
perform ADLs and to function independently
Mileu -✔✔answer Safe, structured environment that decreases anxiety and distracts the client from
constant thinking and hallucinations
Atypical Antipsychotics -✔✔answer Treat BOTH positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Abilify
Geodon
Zyprexa
Seroquel
Mental Health Proctored
ATI, ATI MENTAL
HEALTH PROCTORED,
ATI proctored Mental
Health questions and
answers 2025/2026 latest
update
USER
[COMPANY NAME]
,Wernicke-Korsakoff Expected Finding -✔✔answer Confusion
Heroin Intoxication Expected Finding -✔✔answer Respiratory Depression
Reaction of Terminal Cancer Diagnosis -✔✔answer Denial
Valproic Acid Teaching -✔✔answer Teach the need to regularly monitor liver function levels due to the
risk of hepatotoxicity
When should Donapezil be taken? -✔✔answer Bedtime to reduce the risks for injury due to bradycardia
and syncope
Methadone is indicated for TX of.... -✔✔answer Opiate use disorder
Phenelzine---Finding to report -✔✔answer Elevated BP: increases risk for hypertensive crisis
This is an MAOI!
Acute Main---Priority Goal -✔✔answer Maintain adequate hydration
Binge-eating expected finding -✔✔answer Abdominal pain
Stage 4 Alzheimers expected finding -✔✔answer Client is able to identify the names of family members
Restricting type anorexia expected finding -✔✔answer Decreased caloric intake due to excessive fear of
weight gain
ECT Potential Complications -✔✔answer Cardiac arryhthmia
Cocaine intoxication expected finding -✔✔answer Dilated pupils
,Benzo---finding that would indicate questioning the provider -✔✔answer Hypotension
Alcohol Withdrawal Medication -✔✔answer Disulfram
Can give____________with lithium -✔✔answer Valproic Acid
Both treat bipolar
Common adverse effect of Buspirone -✔✔answer Dizziness
Confusion develops...... -✔✔answer SLOWLY with alzheimers
What food type to avoid with Disulfram -✔✔answer Pure vanilla extract
Conduct Disorder expected finding -✔✔answer Aggressive behavior toward others
Heroin withdrawal expected findings -✔✔answer Muscle aches
Alcohol withdrawal expected findings -✔✔answer Insomnia and restlessness
Mematine is used to treat -✔✔answer Severe alzheimers
ADHD teaching -✔✔answer Ignore child's attention seeking behaviors that are not dangerous
Rape-Trauma Syndrome finding -✔✔answer Report of intense guilt
Medication that is given during alcohol detox -✔✔answer Diazepam
,ECT expected findings -✔✔answer Memory loss
Nausea
Tachycardia
ECT is given for -✔✔answer Bipolar with rapid cycling
Vagus Nerve Stimulation adverse effects -✔✔answer Voice changes
Dysphagia
Neck pain
Modeling -✔✔answer Allows client to see a demonstration of appropriate behaviors in a stressful
situation. The goal is that the client will imitate the behaviors
Systemic Desentization -✔✔answer Begins with mastering of relaxation techniques. Then a client is
exposed to increasing levels of anxiety-producing stimulus.
Flooding -✔✔answer Exposing the client to a great deal of undesirable stimulus in an attempt to turn
off anxiety response.
Most useful for phobias
Thought Stopping -✔✔answer Teaches a client to say "stop" when a negative thought or compulsive
behavior arises and substitute positive thought. The goal is that the client with time will use command
silently
Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing (EMDR) -✔✔answer Therapy for clients who have PTSD.
Encourages eye focus on a separate stimuli while thinking of or talking about the traumatic event
PTSD expected findings -✔✔answer Hallucinations
Recurring nightmares
,How is seasonal depression treated? -✔✔answer Light therapy
Dysthymic Disorder -✔✔answer Mild form of depression that usually has an early onset, such as in
childhood and lasts at least 2 years in length
St. John's Wort adverse effects -✔✔answer Photosensitivity
Skin rash
Rapid heart rate
GI distress
Abdominal pain
Depressive disorders are most prevalent in... -✔✔answer Adults between ages of 15-40
Transpersonal Communication -✔✔answer Addresses an individual's spiritual needs and providers
interventions to meet those needs
Empathy -✔✔answer UNDERSTANDING of feelings
Rapid Cycling -✔✔answer 4 or more episodes of acute mania within 1 year
Bipolar I -✔✔answer Client has at least one episode of mania alternating with major depression
More severe
Bipolar II -✔✔answer Client has one or more hypomanic episodes alternating with MDD
Bipolar Meds -✔✔answer Lithium=mood stabilizer
Anticonvulsants such as Valproic Acid (Depakote), Clonazapam, Lamitcal, Gabapentin, and Topiramate
Benzos such as Lorazepam used on a short term basis
SSRIs such as Prozac
, A client in a true manic state will... -✔✔answer Not stop moving, and does not eat or drink, or sleep.
This can become a medical emergency
Alogia -✔✔answer Poverty of thought or speech; the client may sit with a visitor but may only mumble
or respond vaguely to questions
Avolition -✔✔answer Lack of motivation in activities and hygiene
Grandeur -✔✔answer Believes that she is all powerful and important, like a god
Somatic Delusionals -✔✔answer Believes that his body is changing in an unusual way, such as growing a
third arm
Depersonalization -✔✔answer Nonspecific feeling that a person has lose their identity, self is different
or unreal
Derealization -✔✔answer Perception that environment has changed
Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF Scale) -✔✔answer Helps to determine a client's ability to
perform ADLs and to function independently
Mileu -✔✔answer Safe, structured environment that decreases anxiety and distracts the client from
constant thinking and hallucinations
Atypical Antipsychotics -✔✔answer Treat BOTH positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Abilify
Geodon
Zyprexa
Seroquel
