ANCC Review Psychiatric Mental Health
Nurse Review
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - correct answer-evaluates for the presence and degree of
subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale - correct answer-Assesses adolescent issues HOME and
environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window - correct answer-Assessment tool that helps a person become more
self-aware, by considering perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale - correct answer-measures from 100 (highest
functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
Psychoanalysis - correct answer-Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts
patients to tap into unconscious experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and
behaviors.
Systematic Desensitization - correct answer-Technique that gradually exposes a person to a
feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification - correct answer-operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape
more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - correct answer-Specialized approach for patients with
borderline personality disorders
Benzodiazepines - correct answer-medications that work to induce relaxation and are used
in alcohol withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target - correct answer-neuroleptics target both negative and positive
symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Flooding - correct answer-An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and
repeatedly exposes a person to a feared stimulus.
Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant? - correct answer-marplan (MAOI),
oxazepam (benzodiazepine), tofranil (tricyclic), buspar(nonaddicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning - correct answer-Technique proposed by cognitive behavioral therapists
as a means of logically challenging one's perception about belief's.
Multimodal Therapy - correct answer-variants of different theories used to facilitate positive
change.
Nurse Review
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - correct answer-evaluates for the presence and degree of
subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale - correct answer-Assesses adolescent issues HOME and
environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window - correct answer-Assessment tool that helps a person become more
self-aware, by considering perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale - correct answer-measures from 100 (highest
functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
Psychoanalysis - correct answer-Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts
patients to tap into unconscious experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and
behaviors.
Systematic Desensitization - correct answer-Technique that gradually exposes a person to a
feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification - correct answer-operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape
more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - correct answer-Specialized approach for patients with
borderline personality disorders
Benzodiazepines - correct answer-medications that work to induce relaxation and are used
in alcohol withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target - correct answer-neuroleptics target both negative and positive
symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Flooding - correct answer-An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and
repeatedly exposes a person to a feared stimulus.
Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant? - correct answer-marplan (MAOI),
oxazepam (benzodiazepine), tofranil (tricyclic), buspar(nonaddicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning - correct answer-Technique proposed by cognitive behavioral therapists
as a means of logically challenging one's perception about belief's.
Multimodal Therapy - correct answer-variants of different theories used to facilitate positive
change.
