AMCA MENTAL HEALTH TECH TEST STUDY
GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH
RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. At what stage of childhood, do imaginary playmates disappear? - ANSWER
✓ Stage 4 (5-12 years)
2. According to Erikson, if mothers establish a sense of trust and security,
children will develop a sense of - ANSWER ✓ Auntonmy
3. In Stage 3 (preschoolers) begin to show what skills? - ANSWER ✓
Language skills
4. What is known as the reliance on something for well being or perceived well
being? - ANSWER ✓ Dependency
5. The cognitive disorder is defined as a progressive mental disorder that
changes personality behavior and interferes with a person's ability to care for
themselves - ANSWER ✓ Dementia
6. This type of disability interferes with the developmental process and often
causes individuals to withdraw into their own world - ANSWER ✓ Autism
7. If the mental health worker is using the DAR method of charting, what does
the "R" represent? - ANSWER ✓ Response
8. The acronym "UDS" stays for - ANSWER ✓ Urine Drug Screen
9. The use of the term "mainlining" refers to - ANSWER ✓ Direct IV use to
get the rush
,10.What terms given to people who are overwhelmingly preoccupied about
their health and will manifest symptoms to appear - ANSWER ✓
Hypochondriasis
11.Certain clients are going to experience abnormal or founder fear. The feeling
that everyone is out to get them. This is known as - ANSWER ✓ Paranoia
12.Transference and countertransference are important aspects of working in
the mental health field. which one of these is defined as the stage member
having negative feelings toward the patient? - ANSWER ✓
Countertransference
13.A young patient presents at the clinic for a well visit. As you are taking her
vitals, she says to you "I love my Daddy. I am going to marry him
someday." Which one of Freud's stages of development is she most likely
demonstrating - ANSWER ✓ Phallic
14.A toddler's ability to take in or acknowledge changes in the environment is
called: - ANSWER ✓ Assimilation- the process of taking in information
15.The condition of judging a person or situation before all the facts are know
is called: - ANSWER ✓ Prejudice
16.Which of the following is not a behavior noted in the crisis phase of crisis? -
ANSWER ✓ Felling of well being
17.A young teen client presents with attempted suicide. It is noted that the
client overdosed on Wellbutrin. You know medications such as wellbutrin: -
ANSWER ✓ Are antidepressants and may increase suicidal risk.
18.Percent of Americans suffering from diagnosable mental disorder? -
ANSWER ✓ 26% PERCENT
19.Percent of countries with NO clear federal policies addressing mental health
issues? - ANSWER ✓ 50% PERCENT
,20.What percent of of the population needed drug / alcohol treatment -
ANSWER ✓ 8.4% PERCENT
21.Percentage of people needing treatment ACTUALLY received treatment?? -
ANSWER ✓ 10.8% PERCENT
22.PERCENT OF ADULTS 18+ IN THE UNITED STATES WHO HAD ANY
MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE PAST YEAR?? - ANSWER ✓ 20%
PERCENT
23.WHAT IS THE PERCENT OF ADULTS REPORTING AN UNMET
NEED for mental health care in the past year? - ANSWER ✓ 4.9%
PERCENT
24.PERCENT of people cannot afford mental health services? - ANSWER ✓
43.7% PERCENT
25.Percent of people who needed treatment for SUBSTANCE ABUSE, couldn't
afford it? - ANSWER ✓ 32% PERCENT
26.What is the main personality called for someone who has DID Disorder?
(DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER) - ANSWER ✓ HOST
27.What stage of KESSLERS body reactions reduce function to shunt blood for
areas needed for defense? - ANSWER ✓ RESISTANCE REACTION -
STAGE 2
28.Client seen in clinic with clinical manifestations of an INABILITY TO SIT
STILL and RIGID POSTURE, sides effects correctly identified as? -
ANSWER ✓ AKATHISIA
29.What is the first step of NURSING PROCESS. - ANSWER ✓
ASSESMENT - FIRST STEP.
30.Final step of NURSING PROCESS?? - ANSWER ✓ EVALUATION -
FINAL STEP.
, 31.MODERATE level anxiety traits? - ANSWER ✓ Decreased Perceptual field
and FOCUSING ON IMMEDIATE TASK ONLY.
32.PANIC level of anixety medical term?? - ANSWER ✓ Can involve loss of
rational thought, DELUSIONS, HALLUCINATIONS, and COMPLETE
PHYSICAL IMMOBILITY / MUTENESS.
33.Neurochemical process RESPONSIBLE FOR DEPRESSION??? -
ANSWER ✓ DECREASED SEROTONIN AND NOREPINEPHRINE
ACTIVITY.
34.Example of MALPRACTICE in workplace with mental health workers? -
ANSWER ✓ Ex : PATIENT COMPLETING SUICIDE ATTEMPT IN
BATHROOM
35.Who provided the establishment of the PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
CENTER? - ANSWER ✓ Adolf Meyer
36.What is a NORMAL PULSE RANGE when doing vitals??? - ANSWER ✓
60 - 100 BPM (beats per minute)
37.Definition of ADJUSTMENT DISORDER? - ANSWER ✓ Maladaptive
reaction to event.
38.considered within the realm of normal almost a mild PTSD.
39.Definition of ADOLESCENT ONSET? - ANSWER ✓ Child begins the
delinquent acts after the age of ten and tends to be less aggressive.
40.CONSTANT OBSERVATION definition??? - ANSWER ✓ (CO) they must
always remain within an arm's length of the patient, except for breaks.
41.Define GESTATIONAL DISORDERS? - ANSWER ✓ HEREDITARY and
ENVIRONMENTAL influences occurring in UTERO.
42.Define ENVIRONMENTAL DISORDER ??? - ANSWER ✓ Resulting from
CULTURAL and SOCIAL conditions before and after birth
GUIDE 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND
VERIFIED CORRECT SOLUTIONS WITH
RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS
<RECENT VERSION>
1. At what stage of childhood, do imaginary playmates disappear? - ANSWER
✓ Stage 4 (5-12 years)
2. According to Erikson, if mothers establish a sense of trust and security,
children will develop a sense of - ANSWER ✓ Auntonmy
3. In Stage 3 (preschoolers) begin to show what skills? - ANSWER ✓
Language skills
4. What is known as the reliance on something for well being or perceived well
being? - ANSWER ✓ Dependency
5. The cognitive disorder is defined as a progressive mental disorder that
changes personality behavior and interferes with a person's ability to care for
themselves - ANSWER ✓ Dementia
6. This type of disability interferes with the developmental process and often
causes individuals to withdraw into their own world - ANSWER ✓ Autism
7. If the mental health worker is using the DAR method of charting, what does
the "R" represent? - ANSWER ✓ Response
8. The acronym "UDS" stays for - ANSWER ✓ Urine Drug Screen
9. The use of the term "mainlining" refers to - ANSWER ✓ Direct IV use to
get the rush
,10.What terms given to people who are overwhelmingly preoccupied about
their health and will manifest symptoms to appear - ANSWER ✓
Hypochondriasis
11.Certain clients are going to experience abnormal or founder fear. The feeling
that everyone is out to get them. This is known as - ANSWER ✓ Paranoia
12.Transference and countertransference are important aspects of working in
the mental health field. which one of these is defined as the stage member
having negative feelings toward the patient? - ANSWER ✓
Countertransference
13.A young patient presents at the clinic for a well visit. As you are taking her
vitals, she says to you "I love my Daddy. I am going to marry him
someday." Which one of Freud's stages of development is she most likely
demonstrating - ANSWER ✓ Phallic
14.A toddler's ability to take in or acknowledge changes in the environment is
called: - ANSWER ✓ Assimilation- the process of taking in information
15.The condition of judging a person or situation before all the facts are know
is called: - ANSWER ✓ Prejudice
16.Which of the following is not a behavior noted in the crisis phase of crisis? -
ANSWER ✓ Felling of well being
17.A young teen client presents with attempted suicide. It is noted that the
client overdosed on Wellbutrin. You know medications such as wellbutrin: -
ANSWER ✓ Are antidepressants and may increase suicidal risk.
18.Percent of Americans suffering from diagnosable mental disorder? -
ANSWER ✓ 26% PERCENT
19.Percent of countries with NO clear federal policies addressing mental health
issues? - ANSWER ✓ 50% PERCENT
,20.What percent of of the population needed drug / alcohol treatment -
ANSWER ✓ 8.4% PERCENT
21.Percentage of people needing treatment ACTUALLY received treatment?? -
ANSWER ✓ 10.8% PERCENT
22.PERCENT OF ADULTS 18+ IN THE UNITED STATES WHO HAD ANY
MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE PAST YEAR?? - ANSWER ✓ 20%
PERCENT
23.WHAT IS THE PERCENT OF ADULTS REPORTING AN UNMET
NEED for mental health care in the past year? - ANSWER ✓ 4.9%
PERCENT
24.PERCENT of people cannot afford mental health services? - ANSWER ✓
43.7% PERCENT
25.Percent of people who needed treatment for SUBSTANCE ABUSE, couldn't
afford it? - ANSWER ✓ 32% PERCENT
26.What is the main personality called for someone who has DID Disorder?
(DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER) - ANSWER ✓ HOST
27.What stage of KESSLERS body reactions reduce function to shunt blood for
areas needed for defense? - ANSWER ✓ RESISTANCE REACTION -
STAGE 2
28.Client seen in clinic with clinical manifestations of an INABILITY TO SIT
STILL and RIGID POSTURE, sides effects correctly identified as? -
ANSWER ✓ AKATHISIA
29.What is the first step of NURSING PROCESS. - ANSWER ✓
ASSESMENT - FIRST STEP.
30.Final step of NURSING PROCESS?? - ANSWER ✓ EVALUATION -
FINAL STEP.
, 31.MODERATE level anxiety traits? - ANSWER ✓ Decreased Perceptual field
and FOCUSING ON IMMEDIATE TASK ONLY.
32.PANIC level of anixety medical term?? - ANSWER ✓ Can involve loss of
rational thought, DELUSIONS, HALLUCINATIONS, and COMPLETE
PHYSICAL IMMOBILITY / MUTENESS.
33.Neurochemical process RESPONSIBLE FOR DEPRESSION??? -
ANSWER ✓ DECREASED SEROTONIN AND NOREPINEPHRINE
ACTIVITY.
34.Example of MALPRACTICE in workplace with mental health workers? -
ANSWER ✓ Ex : PATIENT COMPLETING SUICIDE ATTEMPT IN
BATHROOM
35.Who provided the establishment of the PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH
CENTER? - ANSWER ✓ Adolf Meyer
36.What is a NORMAL PULSE RANGE when doing vitals??? - ANSWER ✓
60 - 100 BPM (beats per minute)
37.Definition of ADJUSTMENT DISORDER? - ANSWER ✓ Maladaptive
reaction to event.
38.considered within the realm of normal almost a mild PTSD.
39.Definition of ADOLESCENT ONSET? - ANSWER ✓ Child begins the
delinquent acts after the age of ten and tends to be less aggressive.
40.CONSTANT OBSERVATION definition??? - ANSWER ✓ (CO) they must
always remain within an arm's length of the patient, except for breaks.
41.Define GESTATIONAL DISORDERS? - ANSWER ✓ HEREDITARY and
ENVIRONMENTAL influences occurring in UTERO.
42.Define ENVIRONMENTAL DISORDER ??? - ANSWER ✓ Resulting from
CULTURAL and SOCIAL conditions before and after birth
