Behavioral Health Technician
Practice Questions and Actual
Answers
Photophobia - correct answer ✔✔With regard to the environment, it is important for the tech
to be aware of lighting for some clients. Clients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia may be
bothered by lights that are flickering because this may trigger:
Weight Changes - correct answer ✔✔The medication donepezil (Aricept) is used frequently to
treat the early stage symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. When administering this particular
medication, the Nurse, should be especially alert to assess the client for:
Unresponsive Emotions - correct answer ✔✔Flat Affect
Maturity - correct answer ✔✔Ability to respond to life's circumstances in an appropriate
manner and to be accountable for one's actions.
Frightening - correct answer ✔✔Bright colors in the environment of the client are often
Drug Induced Parkinsonsim - correct answer ✔✔Side effect that can occur while the client is
taking antipsychotic medication, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital signs,
confusion, and agitation.
3 months - correct answer ✔✔If a client is involuntarily committed to a mental health care
facility indefinitely, the law requires that the case must be reviewed every
, Subjective - correct answer ✔✔During an admission assessment, a male client states he has
been having auditory hallucinations and difficulty concentrating at work. This type of data is
referred to as
Risperdal - correct answer ✔✔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?
Repetitious, involuntary muscle movements in the face and extremities - correct answer ✔✔A
female client has been taking an antipsychotic medication for several years. It is of vital
importance for the provider to observe the client for tardive dyskinesia. Signs of symptoms of
tardive dyskinesia include:
3 years old - correct answer ✔✔Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder can occur in
children as young as:
Self-esteem, risk for situational low - correct answer ✔✔An elderly man has serious vision
problems and is no longer able to obtain a driver's license. He has been very independent until
this time. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate for this situation?
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔During a session with a female client with a diagnosis of social
phobia, she talks about how proud she is of herself because she was finally able to shop at the
grocery store. The provider documents the events and knows that this would be considered
which phase of the provider process?
Intervention - correct answer ✔✔A provider administers antidepressant medication to a client
in an assisted living facility. This is an example of which phase of the nursing process?
Behavioral - correct answer ✔✔Theories that view depression as a group of learned responses
are called ____ theories.
Practice Questions and Actual
Answers
Photophobia - correct answer ✔✔With regard to the environment, it is important for the tech
to be aware of lighting for some clients. Clients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia may be
bothered by lights that are flickering because this may trigger:
Weight Changes - correct answer ✔✔The medication donepezil (Aricept) is used frequently to
treat the early stage symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. When administering this particular
medication, the Nurse, should be especially alert to assess the client for:
Unresponsive Emotions - correct answer ✔✔Flat Affect
Maturity - correct answer ✔✔Ability to respond to life's circumstances in an appropriate
manner and to be accountable for one's actions.
Frightening - correct answer ✔✔Bright colors in the environment of the client are often
Drug Induced Parkinsonsim - correct answer ✔✔Side effect that can occur while the client is
taking antipsychotic medication, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital signs,
confusion, and agitation.
3 months - correct answer ✔✔If a client is involuntarily committed to a mental health care
facility indefinitely, the law requires that the case must be reviewed every
, Subjective - correct answer ✔✔During an admission assessment, a male client states he has
been having auditory hallucinations and difficulty concentrating at work. This type of data is
referred to as
Risperdal - correct answer ✔✔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?
Repetitious, involuntary muscle movements in the face and extremities - correct answer ✔✔A
female client has been taking an antipsychotic medication for several years. It is of vital
importance for the provider to observe the client for tardive dyskinesia. Signs of symptoms of
tardive dyskinesia include:
3 years old - correct answer ✔✔Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder can occur in
children as young as:
Self-esteem, risk for situational low - correct answer ✔✔An elderly man has serious vision
problems and is no longer able to obtain a driver's license. He has been very independent until
this time. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate for this situation?
Evaluation - correct answer ✔✔During a session with a female client with a diagnosis of social
phobia, she talks about how proud she is of herself because she was finally able to shop at the
grocery store. The provider documents the events and knows that this would be considered
which phase of the provider process?
Intervention - correct answer ✔✔A provider administers antidepressant medication to a client
in an assisted living facility. This is an example of which phase of the nursing process?
Behavioral - correct answer ✔✔Theories that view depression as a group of learned responses
are called ____ theories.
