ATI Mental Health Proctored
Test Comprehensive Questions
(Frequently Tested) with
Verified Answers Graded A+
primary prevention - Answer: interventions to prevent the onset of the disorder
What is an example of primary prevention - Answer: education before the condition develops
secondary prevention - Answer: early detection - screening the community
tertiary prevention - Answer: interventions that stop/decrease the disorder's effects
rehab and prevention of further problems - support groups
partial hospitalization - Answer: an approach in which patients receive treatment at a hospital
during the day but return home at night. includes detox programs
assertive community treatment - Answer: aimed at helping severely mentally ill wherever they
are in the community, each assigned a team member available any time of the day, visited twice
a week by that member. interprofessional team to reduce rehospitializations and relapses
community mental health centers.
,education groups medication dispensing prgrams individual and ftrly counseling
psychosocial rehabilitation programs - Answer: Residential services, day programs for older
adults
classical psychoanalysis - Answer: therapeutic process of assessing unconscious thoughts and
feelings and resolving conflict by talking to a psychoanalyst - focuse on eawrly life
psychodynamic psychotherapy - Answer: therapy aimed at uncovering the unconscious motives
that underlie psychological problems - emphasis on current state
interpersonal psychotherapy - Answer: focuses on helping clients improve current relationships
and specific problems
CBT - Answer: focusing on individual thoughts and behaviors
cognitive reframing - Answer: replacing negative thoughts
priority restructuring - Answer: ID what requires priority, such as pleasurable activities
journaling - Answer: ID stressors
assertive training - Answer: helps clients express feelings in a socially acceptable manner
behavioral therapy - Answer: decreasing anxiety and avoidant behavior
DBT - Answer: dialectical behavior therapy for personality disorders
,systematic desensitization - Answer: overcomes fear through gradual exposure while using
relaxation techniques
examples of CBT - Answer: DBT
systematic desensitization
aversion therapy
meditation
guided imagery
diaphragmatic breathing
muscle relaxation
biofeedback
biofeedback - Answer: increasing awareness and gaining control of reactiosn to a trigger
response prevention - Answer: preventing a client from performing a compulsive behavior with
the intent that anxiety will diminish
thought stopping - Answer: use of aversive stimuli to interrupt or prevent upsetting thoughts
-OCD
prolonged exposure therapy - Answer: combines relaxation techniques with exposure to the
traumatic situation through repeated discussion or in real world situations - results in decreased
anxiety
EDMR - Answer: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - a therapy using rapid eye
movement during desensitization techniques for PTSD
, contraindications of EDMR - Answer: active SI
psychosis
severe dissociative disorders
detached retina
glaucoma
severe substance abuse disorder
crisis intervention - Answer: emergency counseling for crime victims
somatic therapy - Answer: used for dissociative disorders - increasing awareness of the present,
decreases dissociative episodes
hypnotherapy - Answer: used for dissociative disorders
risk with TMS - Answer: seizures
transcranial magnetic stimulation - Answer: a treatment that involves placing a powerful pulsed
magnet over a person's scalp, which alters neuronal activity in the brain
risk for ECT - Answer: confusion
retrograde amnesia
short term memory loss
SADPERSONS - Answer: sex
age
depression
past attempts
Test Comprehensive Questions
(Frequently Tested) with
Verified Answers Graded A+
primary prevention - Answer: interventions to prevent the onset of the disorder
What is an example of primary prevention - Answer: education before the condition develops
secondary prevention - Answer: early detection - screening the community
tertiary prevention - Answer: interventions that stop/decrease the disorder's effects
rehab and prevention of further problems - support groups
partial hospitalization - Answer: an approach in which patients receive treatment at a hospital
during the day but return home at night. includes detox programs
assertive community treatment - Answer: aimed at helping severely mentally ill wherever they
are in the community, each assigned a team member available any time of the day, visited twice
a week by that member. interprofessional team to reduce rehospitializations and relapses
community mental health centers.
,education groups medication dispensing prgrams individual and ftrly counseling
psychosocial rehabilitation programs - Answer: Residential services, day programs for older
adults
classical psychoanalysis - Answer: therapeutic process of assessing unconscious thoughts and
feelings and resolving conflict by talking to a psychoanalyst - focuse on eawrly life
psychodynamic psychotherapy - Answer: therapy aimed at uncovering the unconscious motives
that underlie psychological problems - emphasis on current state
interpersonal psychotherapy - Answer: focuses on helping clients improve current relationships
and specific problems
CBT - Answer: focusing on individual thoughts and behaviors
cognitive reframing - Answer: replacing negative thoughts
priority restructuring - Answer: ID what requires priority, such as pleasurable activities
journaling - Answer: ID stressors
assertive training - Answer: helps clients express feelings in a socially acceptable manner
behavioral therapy - Answer: decreasing anxiety and avoidant behavior
DBT - Answer: dialectical behavior therapy for personality disorders
,systematic desensitization - Answer: overcomes fear through gradual exposure while using
relaxation techniques
examples of CBT - Answer: DBT
systematic desensitization
aversion therapy
meditation
guided imagery
diaphragmatic breathing
muscle relaxation
biofeedback
biofeedback - Answer: increasing awareness and gaining control of reactiosn to a trigger
response prevention - Answer: preventing a client from performing a compulsive behavior with
the intent that anxiety will diminish
thought stopping - Answer: use of aversive stimuli to interrupt or prevent upsetting thoughts
-OCD
prolonged exposure therapy - Answer: combines relaxation techniques with exposure to the
traumatic situation through repeated discussion or in real world situations - results in decreased
anxiety
EDMR - Answer: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - a therapy using rapid eye
movement during desensitization techniques for PTSD
, contraindications of EDMR - Answer: active SI
psychosis
severe dissociative disorders
detached retina
glaucoma
severe substance abuse disorder
crisis intervention - Answer: emergency counseling for crime victims
somatic therapy - Answer: used for dissociative disorders - increasing awareness of the present,
decreases dissociative episodes
hypnotherapy - Answer: used for dissociative disorders
risk with TMS - Answer: seizures
transcranial magnetic stimulation - Answer: a treatment that involves placing a powerful pulsed
magnet over a person's scalp, which alters neuronal activity in the brain
risk for ECT - Answer: confusion
retrograde amnesia
short term memory loss
SADPERSONS - Answer: sex
age
depression
past attempts
