PT 110 Cypress College CA PT Board Exam Review -
Psychiatric Nursing Final Exam 160 Detailed Questions with
Answers 2026-2027 Graded A+
The Psychiatric Technician can best assist an individual of a different culture
adjust to life in a new community by:
a. Encouraging the detachment from family and friends.
b. Becoming familiar with the client's communication patterns.
c. Describing the new customs in the community.
d. Immersing the individual in the dominant culture. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-b.
Becoming familiar with the client's communication patterns.
A fifteen year old patient in a psychiatric facility says, "I going to be a Psych Tech."
This is an example of:
a. identification
b. regression
c. reaction formation
d. displacement - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a. identification
,In order to determine the client's perception of the reason for admission to the
psychiatric facility, it will be most appropriate for the psychiatric technician to say:
a. "Did the police bring you here?"
b. "Tell me about your life."
c. "Why did you come here?"
d. "I guess you are pretty confused about all this. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-c. "Why did
you come here?"
In establishing a therapeutic relationship with a client, it is imperative that the
Psychiatric Technician demonstrate the ability to:
a. see the client's world from client's perspective.
b. recognize that the client is bound to the past.
c. focus on content rather than feelings.
d. tell the client that all problems have solutions. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a. see the
client's world from client's perspective.
The client awakens one day and is uncommunicative. There is no response to staff
or peers. The most appropriate approach is to:
a. insist that the client participate in activities.
b. recognize that the behavior is attention seeking and ignore it.
c. sit with the client periodically throughout the shift.
d. encourage verbal responses by telling the patient to ventilate. - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-c. sit with the client periodically throughout the shift.
,Appropriate intervention strategies when working with families include:
a. conveying warmth and acceptance of all members.
b. developing an alliance with the identified patient.
c. advising the family in ways to identify problems and solutions.
d. assisting the family in disengaging as a group. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a. conveying
warmth and acceptance of all members.
Which of the following is characteristic of the initial phase of group development
when developing a functioning group?
a. Most members are comfortable and at ease in the group.
b. Many members will compete for the group leadership role.
c. Feelings of intimacy and closeness are readily apparent.
d. Testing behaviors are not unusual. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-d. Testing behaviors are
not unusual.
The client is observed talking to an imaginary person. The client is most likely
responding to:
a. environmental stimuli.
b. delusional material.
c. hallucinations.
d. ideas of reference. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-c. hallucinations.
, Which of the following will be most useful in assisting the client cope with a
stressful situation?
a. Practicing active listening.
b. Being skillful in the assessment process.
c. Advising the client of effective problem solving techniques.
d. Telling the client that everything will be all right. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a.
Practicing active listening.
Which of the following is most important when caring for the client in the first
phase of alcohol withdrawal?
a. correction of vitamin deficiencies.
b. assist the client in recognition of alcoholism as a problem.
c. provide the care and administer medications which minimize the effects of
delirium tremens.
d. keep the client in a quiet, dark room and discourage contact with other clients.
- ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-c. provide the care and administer medications which
minimize the effects of delirium tremens.
The doctor has ordered the drug naloxone (narcan) to be given stat. The
Psychiatric Technician knows that this preparation will act to:
a. decrease the respiratory rate.
b. enhance the effect of the narcotic analgesic preparations.
Psychiatric Nursing Final Exam 160 Detailed Questions with
Answers 2026-2027 Graded A+
The Psychiatric Technician can best assist an individual of a different culture
adjust to life in a new community by:
a. Encouraging the detachment from family and friends.
b. Becoming familiar with the client's communication patterns.
c. Describing the new customs in the community.
d. Immersing the individual in the dominant culture. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-b.
Becoming familiar with the client's communication patterns.
A fifteen year old patient in a psychiatric facility says, "I going to be a Psych Tech."
This is an example of:
a. identification
b. regression
c. reaction formation
d. displacement - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a. identification
,In order to determine the client's perception of the reason for admission to the
psychiatric facility, it will be most appropriate for the psychiatric technician to say:
a. "Did the police bring you here?"
b. "Tell me about your life."
c. "Why did you come here?"
d. "I guess you are pretty confused about all this. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-c. "Why did
you come here?"
In establishing a therapeutic relationship with a client, it is imperative that the
Psychiatric Technician demonstrate the ability to:
a. see the client's world from client's perspective.
b. recognize that the client is bound to the past.
c. focus on content rather than feelings.
d. tell the client that all problems have solutions. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a. see the
client's world from client's perspective.
The client awakens one day and is uncommunicative. There is no response to staff
or peers. The most appropriate approach is to:
a. insist that the client participate in activities.
b. recognize that the behavior is attention seeking and ignore it.
c. sit with the client periodically throughout the shift.
d. encourage verbal responses by telling the patient to ventilate. - ✔✔ANSWER
✔✔-c. sit with the client periodically throughout the shift.
,Appropriate intervention strategies when working with families include:
a. conveying warmth and acceptance of all members.
b. developing an alliance with the identified patient.
c. advising the family in ways to identify problems and solutions.
d. assisting the family in disengaging as a group. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a. conveying
warmth and acceptance of all members.
Which of the following is characteristic of the initial phase of group development
when developing a functioning group?
a. Most members are comfortable and at ease in the group.
b. Many members will compete for the group leadership role.
c. Feelings of intimacy and closeness are readily apparent.
d. Testing behaviors are not unusual. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-d. Testing behaviors are
not unusual.
The client is observed talking to an imaginary person. The client is most likely
responding to:
a. environmental stimuli.
b. delusional material.
c. hallucinations.
d. ideas of reference. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-c. hallucinations.
, Which of the following will be most useful in assisting the client cope with a
stressful situation?
a. Practicing active listening.
b. Being skillful in the assessment process.
c. Advising the client of effective problem solving techniques.
d. Telling the client that everything will be all right. - ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-a.
Practicing active listening.
Which of the following is most important when caring for the client in the first
phase of alcohol withdrawal?
a. correction of vitamin deficiencies.
b. assist the client in recognition of alcoholism as a problem.
c. provide the care and administer medications which minimize the effects of
delirium tremens.
d. keep the client in a quiet, dark room and discourage contact with other clients.
- ✔✔ANSWER ✔✔-c. provide the care and administer medications which
minimize the effects of delirium tremens.
The doctor has ordered the drug naloxone (narcan) to be given stat. The
Psychiatric Technician knows that this preparation will act to:
a. decrease the respiratory rate.
b. enhance the effect of the narcotic analgesic preparations.
