NURS 753 MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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1. PMHN - ANSWER ✔ Origin, role, scope, standard of practice, interview
skills, DSM 5, health policy.
2. Purpose of ANA's PMHN Scope and Standards Practice - ANSWER ✔
Developed by ANA in collaboration with APNA and ISPN to standardize
advanced psychiatric nursing practice.
3. PMHNP Role in Primary Prevention Care - ANSWER ✔ Acts proactively in
promoting mental health through education, outreach, and screening.
4. Health Policy - ANSWER ✔ Includes legislative (law-making), executive
(implementation), and judicial (interpretation) branches.
5. 1999 Surgeon General's Report - ANSWER ✔ First mental health report for
children and adolescents.
6. 2003 Achieving the Promise - ANSWER ✔ Pushed mental health system
reform.
,7. 2001 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention - ANSWER ✔ National
framework for suicide reduction.
8. 2004 WHO Report - ANSWER ✔ Recognized mental disorders as leading
causes of disability.
9. Goals of Clinical Assessment - ANSWER ✔ To evaluate a patient's mental
health status and needs.
10.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Structural: realigns roles and
boundaries.
11.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Strategic: changes problem-
maintaining patterns.
12.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Bowenian: examines generational
transmission and differentiation of self.
13.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Experiential: emphasizes
emotional expression and spontaneity.
14.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Systems-based: focuses on
homeostasis and feedback loops.
15.The concept of multigenerational transmission process in family system
therapy approach means - ANSWER ✔ Dysfunction has been present for
several generations
,16.The lower the level of family adaptation, the more likely the development of
a triangle refers to Triangles; The level of differentiation of the parents is
usually equal to the level of differentiation for the entire family refers to
nuclear family emotional system; Parents transmits their own level of
differentiation on the most susceptible child refers to family projection
process.
17.Protect the person's______ when he or she is committed to a mental hospital
- ANSWER ✔ freedoms or rights
18.Mr Thomas is a 56 years old client you have been seeing for several weeks
of therapy. While discussing his current concerns of marital stress, he lies on
the floor and assumes the fetal position. This is most likely an example of -
ANSWER ✔ Immature regressive defense mechanism
19.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 - ANSWER ✔ Early
childhood
20.You are the PMHNP treating Jason, a 12 years old child, for social anxiety
disorder. Jason's mother presents with him to his individual therapy session.
At the end of the session his mother says, "Jason's pediatrician had said he
needed some HPV shot on his last visit. I don't know why he will need that?
What do you think?" What is the PMHNP's best response to her question -
ANSWER ✔ "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recommends the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for all boys and girls
at age 10. HPV can cause cancer in both men and women, and the vaccine is
effective in protecting against the virus. Can you tell me your concern about
Jason getting this vaccine.
, 21.Which of the following is not a phase of group formation or development? -
ANSWER ✔ Staring
22.Which of the following is the best rationale for using cognitive behavioral
therapy?
Recognize and change his or her ______ - ANSWER ✔ automatic thoughts
23.The PMHNP is planning to work with the client using an individual therapy
model of care. During the first session, the client makes the following
statement: "This is the third time my son has run away. I've grounded him,
taken away his bike, even tried cutting off his allowance and confining him
to his room. What should I do now? "The most therapeutic response for the
PMHNP to make is - ANSWER ✔ "Maybe that depends on what you are
trying to accompalish."
24.In forming therapeutic relationship with clients, the PMHNP must consider
developing many characteristics that are known to be relationship-building.
Which of the following is an essential part of building a therapeutic
relationship? - ANSWER ✔ authenticity
25.In an attempt to bring the client toward the goal he or she is working on, you
ask the client, "If a miracle were to happen tonight while you slept, and you
awake in the morning and the problem no longer existed, how would you
know, and what would be different?" This technique is used in which type of
therapy? - ANSWER ✔ Solution-focused therapy
26.T or F
Psychodynamics/psychoanalytic psychotherapies are also referred to as
insight- oriented, intensive, exploratory, expressive and dept
psychotherapy.Correct! - ANSWER ✔ T
2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<NEWEST VERSION>
1. PMHN - ANSWER ✔ Origin, role, scope, standard of practice, interview
skills, DSM 5, health policy.
2. Purpose of ANA's PMHN Scope and Standards Practice - ANSWER ✔
Developed by ANA in collaboration with APNA and ISPN to standardize
advanced psychiatric nursing practice.
3. PMHNP Role in Primary Prevention Care - ANSWER ✔ Acts proactively in
promoting mental health through education, outreach, and screening.
4. Health Policy - ANSWER ✔ Includes legislative (law-making), executive
(implementation), and judicial (interpretation) branches.
5. 1999 Surgeon General's Report - ANSWER ✔ First mental health report for
children and adolescents.
6. 2003 Achieving the Promise - ANSWER ✔ Pushed mental health system
reform.
,7. 2001 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention - ANSWER ✔ National
framework for suicide reduction.
8. 2004 WHO Report - ANSWER ✔ Recognized mental disorders as leading
causes of disability.
9. Goals of Clinical Assessment - ANSWER ✔ To evaluate a patient's mental
health status and needs.
10.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Structural: realigns roles and
boundaries.
11.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Strategic: changes problem-
maintaining patterns.
12.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Bowenian: examines generational
transmission and differentiation of self.
13.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Experiential: emphasizes
emotional expression and spontaneity.
14.Family Therapy Approach - ANSWER ✔ Systems-based: focuses on
homeostasis and feedback loops.
15.The concept of multigenerational transmission process in family system
therapy approach means - ANSWER ✔ Dysfunction has been present for
several generations
,16.The lower the level of family adaptation, the more likely the development of
a triangle refers to Triangles; The level of differentiation of the parents is
usually equal to the level of differentiation for the entire family refers to
nuclear family emotional system; Parents transmits their own level of
differentiation on the most susceptible child refers to family projection
process.
17.Protect the person's______ when he or she is committed to a mental hospital
- ANSWER ✔ freedoms or rights
18.Mr Thomas is a 56 years old client you have been seeing for several weeks
of therapy. While discussing his current concerns of marital stress, he lies on
the floor and assumes the fetal position. This is most likely an example of -
ANSWER ✔ Immature regressive defense mechanism
19.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 - ANSWER ✔ Early
childhood
20.You are the PMHNP treating Jason, a 12 years old child, for social anxiety
disorder. Jason's mother presents with him to his individual therapy session.
At the end of the session his mother says, "Jason's pediatrician had said he
needed some HPV shot on his last visit. I don't know why he will need that?
What do you think?" What is the PMHNP's best response to her question -
ANSWER ✔ "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
recommends the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for all boys and girls
at age 10. HPV can cause cancer in both men and women, and the vaccine is
effective in protecting against the virus. Can you tell me your concern about
Jason getting this vaccine.
, 21.Which of the following is not a phase of group formation or development? -
ANSWER ✔ Staring
22.Which of the following is the best rationale for using cognitive behavioral
therapy?
Recognize and change his or her ______ - ANSWER ✔ automatic thoughts
23.The PMHNP is planning to work with the client using an individual therapy
model of care. During the first session, the client makes the following
statement: "This is the third time my son has run away. I've grounded him,
taken away his bike, even tried cutting off his allowance and confining him
to his room. What should I do now? "The most therapeutic response for the
PMHNP to make is - ANSWER ✔ "Maybe that depends on what you are
trying to accompalish."
24.In forming therapeutic relationship with clients, the PMHNP must consider
developing many characteristics that are known to be relationship-building.
Which of the following is an essential part of building a therapeutic
relationship? - ANSWER ✔ authenticity
25.In an attempt to bring the client toward the goal he or she is working on, you
ask the client, "If a miracle were to happen tonight while you slept, and you
awake in the morning and the problem no longer existed, how would you
know, and what would be different?" This technique is used in which type of
therapy? - ANSWER ✔ Solution-focused therapy
26.T or F
Psychodynamics/psychoanalytic psychotherapies are also referred to as
insight- oriented, intensive, exploratory, expressive and dept
psychotherapy.Correct! - ANSWER ✔ T
