2024 2025 PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT FOR
THE PSYCHIATRICMENTAL HEALTH NURSE
PRACTITIONER REVIEW WEEKS 3-4
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS A
GRADE
purposes of personality assessment - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ 1.
description of psychopathology and differential diagnosis
2. description and prediction of everyday behavior
3. inform psychological treatment
4. monitoring of treatment
5. use of personality assessment as treatment
test - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ measure that is administered and
scored according to standardized procedures
- Rorschach
technique - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ measure that does not have
a standardized administration and scoring procedure
- Thematic Apperception Test
,self report - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ measure that asks
respondent to answer a series of questions about themselves
- omnibus
- narrow band
omnibus - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ measures that assess
multiple domains of personality, psychopathology, or functioning
- Personality Assessment Inventory
- allows for broad screening of individual characteristics and
psychopathology
narrow-band - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ measure that only
measures one thing
- Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale
- more suited to measure few characteristics in depth
psychological tests - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ the origin of
modern psychology is intimately connected with the development
of _________________
association method - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ standardized list
of words to which psychiatric patients were asked to free
associate (say whatever came to mind)
,- Jung
MMPI - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ most widely used self report
measure of personality and psychopathology over the past 50
years
personality testing - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ the use of
psychological tests to identify an individuals personality
characteristics
personality assessment - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ involves
integrating many kinds of info into a set of personality based
conclusions and recommendations concerning a person who has
been evaluated
clinical assessments - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ psychologists
are responsible to the person being examined, the person being
examined is seeking some type of help, and the examination is
intended to benefit this person and be responsive to their needs
administrative assessments - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️
psychologists are responsible not to the people they examine, but
to third parties who ordered the test
, - results may or may not meet the examinee's needs
7 components of MSE - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ ABSATTC
Appearance
Behavior
Speech
Affect
Thought process
Thought content
Cognitive examination
Elements of the Mental Status Examination - CORRECT
ANSWER ✔️ What is ABSATTC a mnemonic for?
All Borderline Subjects Are Tough Troubled Characters -
CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ Mnemonic saying for elements of the
MSE
-ABSATTC
Mental Status Examination - CORRECT ANSWER ✔️ MSE
- your evaluation of your patient's current state of cognitive and
emotional functioning
- accomplishes 2 purposes