PMHNP certification exam Questions
With Answers
\.denial - Answer- refusal to admit or recognize problem or event- primitive defense
mechanism
\.projection - Answer- taking one's own unacceptable qualities and attributing them to
another- primitive defense mechanism
\.regression - Answer- reverting to patterns of behavior from earlier stage of developement-
immature defense mechanism
\.passive-aggression - Answer- indirectly expressing anger- immature defense mechanism
\.reaction formation - Answer- taking up the opposite feeling to reduce anxiety- neurotic
defense mechanism
\.intelluctualization - Answer- focusing on intellectual component to AVOID anxiety or
thinking about the matter- neurotic defense mechanism
\.repression - Answer- keeping info out of consciousness- neurotic defense mechanism
\.displacement - Answer- taking out frustrations, etc on people or objects less threatening-
neurotic defense mechanism
,\.rationalization - Answer- explaining unacceptable in a rational or logical manner- neurotic
defense mechanism
\.splitting - Answer- seeing things about self or others in extremes, unable to integrate
negative and positive- neurotic defense mechanism
\.sublimation - Answer- converts unacceptable into acceptable (going to gym when angry)-
mature, healthy defense mechanism
\.humor, sublimation, suppression - Answer- mature, healthy defense mechanisms
\.suppression - Answer- removal of unwanted information (thinking about matter later)-
mature, healthy defense mechanism
\.cohort study - Answer- level 3 evidence heirarchy- specific variable and a specific outcome
tested
\.Meta-analysis (systematic review) - Answer- level 1 highest level of evidence- review of high
quality published research
\.RCTs - Answer- level 2 evidence heirarchy
\.case control study - Answer- level 4 evidence heirarchy- retrospective study of cases and
controls compared
\.case series/ reports - Answer- level 5 evidence heirarchyone study or narrative of one
study/patient
, \.editorial/expert opinion - Answer- lowest level (6) of evidence heirarchy- essays
\.herd community - Answer- resistance of group to infectious agent
\.active immunity - Answer- resistance developed in response to an antigen (agent or
vaccine) ;presence of antibody produced by host, years or lifelong
\.passive immunity - Answer- immunity from mother or IG administered; 6-9 months
\.sensitivity - Answer- positive in disease; SnNout- sensitive test when negative rules OUT
disease
\.specificity - Answer- negative in health; SpPin- specific test when positive rules IN disease
\.prevalence - Answer- porportion of individuals possessing the condition at any given time
\.incidence - Answer- NEW cases only
\.AST elevation >40 - Answer- alcohol, statin, tylenol, depakote
\.ALT elevation >40 - Answer- liver stress, depakote
\.GGT elevation > 45 - Answer- possible ETOH
\.CK elevation >240 - Answer- possible NMS
With Answers
\.denial - Answer- refusal to admit or recognize problem or event- primitive defense
mechanism
\.projection - Answer- taking one's own unacceptable qualities and attributing them to
another- primitive defense mechanism
\.regression - Answer- reverting to patterns of behavior from earlier stage of developement-
immature defense mechanism
\.passive-aggression - Answer- indirectly expressing anger- immature defense mechanism
\.reaction formation - Answer- taking up the opposite feeling to reduce anxiety- neurotic
defense mechanism
\.intelluctualization - Answer- focusing on intellectual component to AVOID anxiety or
thinking about the matter- neurotic defense mechanism
\.repression - Answer- keeping info out of consciousness- neurotic defense mechanism
\.displacement - Answer- taking out frustrations, etc on people or objects less threatening-
neurotic defense mechanism
,\.rationalization - Answer- explaining unacceptable in a rational or logical manner- neurotic
defense mechanism
\.splitting - Answer- seeing things about self or others in extremes, unable to integrate
negative and positive- neurotic defense mechanism
\.sublimation - Answer- converts unacceptable into acceptable (going to gym when angry)-
mature, healthy defense mechanism
\.humor, sublimation, suppression - Answer- mature, healthy defense mechanisms
\.suppression - Answer- removal of unwanted information (thinking about matter later)-
mature, healthy defense mechanism
\.cohort study - Answer- level 3 evidence heirarchy- specific variable and a specific outcome
tested
\.Meta-analysis (systematic review) - Answer- level 1 highest level of evidence- review of high
quality published research
\.RCTs - Answer- level 2 evidence heirarchy
\.case control study - Answer- level 4 evidence heirarchy- retrospective study of cases and
controls compared
\.case series/ reports - Answer- level 5 evidence heirarchyone study or narrative of one
study/patient
, \.editorial/expert opinion - Answer- lowest level (6) of evidence heirarchy- essays
\.herd community - Answer- resistance of group to infectious agent
\.active immunity - Answer- resistance developed in response to an antigen (agent or
vaccine) ;presence of antibody produced by host, years or lifelong
\.passive immunity - Answer- immunity from mother or IG administered; 6-9 months
\.sensitivity - Answer- positive in disease; SnNout- sensitive test when negative rules OUT
disease
\.specificity - Answer- negative in health; SpPin- specific test when positive rules IN disease
\.prevalence - Answer- porportion of individuals possessing the condition at any given time
\.incidence - Answer- NEW cases only
\.AST elevation >40 - Answer- alcohol, statin, tylenol, depakote
\.ALT elevation >40 - Answer- liver stress, depakote
\.GGT elevation > 45 - Answer- possible ETOH
\.CK elevation >240 - Answer- possible NMS
