NUR 256 Exam 3 Mental Health Nursing
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Questions & Answers – GALEN
PTSD treatment - Correct answer Psychotherapy: EDMR, CBT
Psychopharmacology: Clonidine (catapress) - hyper arousal, and/or antidepressants,
anti anxiety
Acute stress disorder - Correct answer Similar to PTSD but PTSD Has symptoms for at
least a month.
ASD happens RIGHT after the event and persists for 3 days (this will improve OR turn
into PTSD)
Adjustment Disorder - Correct answer Criteria A- development emotional or
behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor occurring in 3 months of
the onset of the stressors
Criteria B- These symptoms are different as evidence by distress is out of proportion
to the intensity of the stressor and significant impairment in work, life etc.
,Dissociative Amnesia - Correct answer Inability to recall important information often
of a traumatic event, might be the entire event or selective information.
Dissociative Fugue - Correct answer powerpoint
Dissociative Identity Disorder - Correct answer
Which prescription medication would the nurse expect to be prescribed for a patient
diagnosed with a somatic symptom disorder? - Correct answer Antidepressant
medications to treat co-morbid depression
Somatic symptom disorder - Correct answer psychological disorder in which the
symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. Response to
trauma by expressing anxiety through the body.
Dissociative disorders - Correct answer Response to trauma by altering
consciousness and recall and awareness of self
, Factitious disorder - Correct answer Condition in which a person acts as if he or she
has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick.
OR imposed on another such as munchausen by proxy, harming another for gains,
caregiver to someone vulnerable
Malingering Disorder - Correct answer Intentionally pretending to be sick or injured to
avoid work or responsibility. Ex. To reduce prison time
Dual diagnosis - Correct answer the client with both substance abuse and mental
disorder
Conversion disorder - Correct answer a disorder in which a person experiences very
specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. La
belle indifference (lack of emotional concern about often dramatic symptoms)
paralysis, blindness, tingling in response to dramatic event
(Latest )100% Correct
Questions & Answers – GALEN
PTSD treatment - Correct answer Psychotherapy: EDMR, CBT
Psychopharmacology: Clonidine (catapress) - hyper arousal, and/or antidepressants,
anti anxiety
Acute stress disorder - Correct answer Similar to PTSD but PTSD Has symptoms for at
least a month.
ASD happens RIGHT after the event and persists for 3 days (this will improve OR turn
into PTSD)
Adjustment Disorder - Correct answer Criteria A- development emotional or
behavioral symptoms in response to an identifiable stressor occurring in 3 months of
the onset of the stressors
Criteria B- These symptoms are different as evidence by distress is out of proportion
to the intensity of the stressor and significant impairment in work, life etc.
,Dissociative Amnesia - Correct answer Inability to recall important information often
of a traumatic event, might be the entire event or selective information.
Dissociative Fugue - Correct answer powerpoint
Dissociative Identity Disorder - Correct answer
Which prescription medication would the nurse expect to be prescribed for a patient
diagnosed with a somatic symptom disorder? - Correct answer Antidepressant
medications to treat co-morbid depression
Somatic symptom disorder - Correct answer psychological disorder in which the
symptoms take a somatic (bodily) form without apparent physical cause. Response to
trauma by expressing anxiety through the body.
Dissociative disorders - Correct answer Response to trauma by altering
consciousness and recall and awareness of self
, Factitious disorder - Correct answer Condition in which a person acts as if he or she
has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick.
OR imposed on another such as munchausen by proxy, harming another for gains,
caregiver to someone vulnerable
Malingering Disorder - Correct answer Intentionally pretending to be sick or injured to
avoid work or responsibility. Ex. To reduce prison time
Dual diagnosis - Correct answer the client with both substance abuse and mental
disorder
Conversion disorder - Correct answer a disorder in which a person experiences very
specific genuine physical symptoms for which no physiological basis can be found. La
belle indifference (lack of emotional concern about often dramatic symptoms)
paralysis, blindness, tingling in response to dramatic event
