ME PSS Certification Test Study questions all
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What is the difference between normal and therapeutic communication?
A. Therapeutic communication is a give-and-take relationship
B. Normal communication is focused on the client
C. Therapeutic communication is focused on the client - ✔✔C. Therapeutic communication is
focused on the client
What is feedback? - ✔✔It is the response of the receiver to the sender messages
What is clarification? - ✔✔A request for sender to restate the message in another way
Good communication is ______ one sided...
A. Never
B. Sometimes
C. Always - ✔✔A. Never
The communication circle demonstrates the potential _______ involved in care...
A. Solutions
B. Problems
C. Aspect - ✔✔B. Problems
Which of the below listed is not a potential communication barrier?
A. Letting other staff monopolize your time
B. Offering false hope and reassurances
, C. Asking a clients daughter to gather information about your client - ✔✔C. Asking a clients
daughter to gather information about your client
Looking away signals a desire to _______ contact in American society...
A. Maintain
B. Avoid
C. Continue - ✔✔B. Avoid
Which is the appropriate personal distance to relate to your clients?
A. Intimate
B. Public
C. Social
D. Personal - ✔✔C. Social
Words are often a(n) _________ of how people truly feel...
A. Experience
B. Cover UP
C. Impediment - ✔✔B. Cover Up
Aphasia is:
A. A disease that affects the brain causing someone to be unable to move
B. Damage to the portion of the brain that causes inability to express oneself
C. A brain accident that causes one sided paralysis - ✔✔B. Damage to the portion of the
brain that causes inability to express oneself
Which of the following would be inappropriate to say to a client with Dementia?
A. "Do you remember me?"
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What is the difference between normal and therapeutic communication?
A. Therapeutic communication is a give-and-take relationship
B. Normal communication is focused on the client
C. Therapeutic communication is focused on the client - ✔✔C. Therapeutic communication is
focused on the client
What is feedback? - ✔✔It is the response of the receiver to the sender messages
What is clarification? - ✔✔A request for sender to restate the message in another way
Good communication is ______ one sided...
A. Never
B. Sometimes
C. Always - ✔✔A. Never
The communication circle demonstrates the potential _______ involved in care...
A. Solutions
B. Problems
C. Aspect - ✔✔B. Problems
Which of the below listed is not a potential communication barrier?
A. Letting other staff monopolize your time
B. Offering false hope and reassurances
, C. Asking a clients daughter to gather information about your client - ✔✔C. Asking a clients
daughter to gather information about your client
Looking away signals a desire to _______ contact in American society...
A. Maintain
B. Avoid
C. Continue - ✔✔B. Avoid
Which is the appropriate personal distance to relate to your clients?
A. Intimate
B. Public
C. Social
D. Personal - ✔✔C. Social
Words are often a(n) _________ of how people truly feel...
A. Experience
B. Cover UP
C. Impediment - ✔✔B. Cover Up
Aphasia is:
A. A disease that affects the brain causing someone to be unable to move
B. Damage to the portion of the brain that causes inability to express oneself
C. A brain accident that causes one sided paralysis - ✔✔B. Damage to the portion of the
brain that causes inability to express oneself
Which of the following would be inappropriate to say to a client with Dementia?
A. "Do you remember me?"
