2025\2026 A+ Grade
Primary Goals of Practice
- correct answer know the mental health needs of the client
agonists effects on neurotransmitters
- correct answer increases the neurotransmitter effect
what lobe of the brain is for judgement, reasoning, conceptual planning, and abstract thinking?
- correct answer Frontal Lobe
A client who is experiencing difficulties with working memory planning and prioritizing insight into his
problems, and impulse control presents for assessment. In planning his care, the PMHNP should apply
his or her knowledge that these symptoms represent problems with the
- correct answer Frontal Lobe
stage of development of low self esteem poor self control self doubt and high dependency level?
- correct answer early childhood
a client is displaying low self esteem poor self control, self doubt, and a high level of dependency. these
behaviors indicate developmental failure of which of the following stages of development
- correct answer early childhood
brain structure for making new memories
- correct answer Hippocampus
syndromes with Coprrolalia
- correct answer tourette's, schizophrenia, manic syndrome, neuroinfections, kleine-Levin syndrome,
post stroke period
,erickson's basic struggle of early childhood
- correct answer autonomy versus shame and doubt
aphasia disturbance of what function
- correct answer communication -both written and spoken language--SPEECH
correct sequence of psycho sexual stages
- correct answer oral anal phallic, latent genital
lobe of brain where visuospatial processing occurs
- correct answer parietal lobe
managing a childs excitability who has FAS
- correct answer no medications are approved specifically -Stimulants for poor impulse control ,
behavior issues, problems paying attention-
Amphetamines (Adderall)
Methylphenidate (Focalin
Vyvanse
therapy-parents and children together
four elements of informed consent
- correct answer 1-must have the capacity to make the decision
2-medical provider must disclose information on the treatment test or procedure in questions including
the expected benefits and risks and likelihood benefits and risks will occur
3-you must comprehend the relevant infomation
4-you must voluntarily grant consent without coercion or duress
most common form of a learning disorder
- correct answer reading
, erikson's major developmental task in adolescence
- correct answer identity versus role confusion
sensory and relay center of the brain
- correct answer thalamus
therapeutic interventions for maintaining the milieu with adolescents and younger children
- correct answer *Getting patients medications
*setting and enforcing boundaries
*educating patients about health and tx
*contributing to a supportive environment
*encouraging patient autonomy and decision making skills as appropriate
animistic thinking
- correct answer belief that objects posses living characteristics
system that incorporates amygdala, hippocampus, nucleus accumbens and thalamus
- correct answer limbic system
lobe of the brain that is though to have lesions in autism
- correct answer temporal and prefrontal cortex
principles of adult learning theory
- correct answer self direction, transformation, experience, mentorship, orientation, motivation, and
readiness to learn
ways of establishing trust with a child/adolescent
- correct answer give them candy
area of the brain in which damage can lead to Parkinson's, Huntington's chorea and tourette's
- correct answer basal ganglia