HOSMERIT
MHTC EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 2025
Ineffective attempts to cope. Doing other activities to avoid dealing with stress - ✅✅-When
anxiety is a maladaptive response in an individual, it has the characteristic of
Feelings of relative comfort and safety. Relaxed, calm appearance and voice. Performance is
automatic, habitual behaviors occur - ✅✅-When aclient has a mild level of anxiety, his or her
emotional response is
Severe - ✅✅-A female college student is seeking help from the counseling for test anxiety. She
reports that during an exam, she freezes &says It feels like the time I have to take the exam is
racing by, and I can't answer any of the questions.This is what level
Become pale, B/P decreases-hypotension, muscle coordination poor. Pain, hearing sensations
minimal - ✅✅-A male client with an anxiety disorder sometimes experiences panic attacks
following high levels of anxiety. The nurse would expect his physiological responses to include:
Signal anxiety - ✅✅-A learned response to an anticipated event, such aswhen the person who
does not like to fly experiences nausea and sweaty palms before boarding the airplane, is best
described as:
Physical - ✅✅-A client tells the nurse that exercising in the gym helps himkeep his stress level
reduced. Which type of coping mechanism best describes this situation?
Substitution - ✅✅-A nurse who talks to teens about the dangers of tanning beds in causing skin
cancer but loves to tan herself and does sobefore she goes on vacation is using which defense
mechanism?
, Interpersonal model - ✅✅-The nurse is aware that several theories have been proposed to
explain anxiety. Which theory explains anxiety as a resultof interactions with others?
Avoidance behavior, situational anxiety - ✅✅-A married couple who has separated and is
planning to divorce seeks counseling for their 9-year-old daughter. The daughter has been
experiencing symptoms of severe anxietyduring insignificant situations and refuses to discuss the
divorce with her parents
Expressing themselves inappropriately (running away, theft, angry/defiant, aggressive,
manipulative, drugs, high-risk behaviors) - ✅✅-Adolescents who ineffectively cope with
anxiety often express their anxiety through:
Somatize - ✅✅-What is the term for physical expression of anxiety by an individual in ways
such as nausea or headaches?
Generalized anxiety disorder - ✅✅-Which term best describes an individual's feelings of anxiety
that are broad, long-lasting, and excessive?
Agoraphobia - ✅✅-A female client tells the nurse that she is terrified to go to the grocery store.
The nurse is aware that this client most likely has:
OCD - ✅✅-A client has constant thoughts about locking his front doorevery time he leaves his
house. This client is experiencing a/an:
Flashbacks - ✅✅-Which is a typical symptom of posttraumatic stressdisorder?
Systematic desentization (step by step) - ✅✅-The treatment team and amale client in whom
obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with handwashing has been diagnosed decide on a
treatment plan for the disorder.The nurse implement the plan by having the pt gradually extend
the time b/w hand washes
This is a GI side effect - ✅✅-A female client is taking a benzodiazepine for her anxiety
disorder. She complains of anorexia and nausea since shestarted taking the medication a few days
ago. What is the nurse's best response?
MHTC EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS 2025
Ineffective attempts to cope. Doing other activities to avoid dealing with stress - ✅✅-When
anxiety is a maladaptive response in an individual, it has the characteristic of
Feelings of relative comfort and safety. Relaxed, calm appearance and voice. Performance is
automatic, habitual behaviors occur - ✅✅-When aclient has a mild level of anxiety, his or her
emotional response is
Severe - ✅✅-A female college student is seeking help from the counseling for test anxiety. She
reports that during an exam, she freezes &says It feels like the time I have to take the exam is
racing by, and I can't answer any of the questions.This is what level
Become pale, B/P decreases-hypotension, muscle coordination poor. Pain, hearing sensations
minimal - ✅✅-A male client with an anxiety disorder sometimes experiences panic attacks
following high levels of anxiety. The nurse would expect his physiological responses to include:
Signal anxiety - ✅✅-A learned response to an anticipated event, such aswhen the person who
does not like to fly experiences nausea and sweaty palms before boarding the airplane, is best
described as:
Physical - ✅✅-A client tells the nurse that exercising in the gym helps himkeep his stress level
reduced. Which type of coping mechanism best describes this situation?
Substitution - ✅✅-A nurse who talks to teens about the dangers of tanning beds in causing skin
cancer but loves to tan herself and does sobefore she goes on vacation is using which defense
mechanism?
, Interpersonal model - ✅✅-The nurse is aware that several theories have been proposed to
explain anxiety. Which theory explains anxiety as a resultof interactions with others?
Avoidance behavior, situational anxiety - ✅✅-A married couple who has separated and is
planning to divorce seeks counseling for their 9-year-old daughter. The daughter has been
experiencing symptoms of severe anxietyduring insignificant situations and refuses to discuss the
divorce with her parents
Expressing themselves inappropriately (running away, theft, angry/defiant, aggressive,
manipulative, drugs, high-risk behaviors) - ✅✅-Adolescents who ineffectively cope with
anxiety often express their anxiety through:
Somatize - ✅✅-What is the term for physical expression of anxiety by an individual in ways
such as nausea or headaches?
Generalized anxiety disorder - ✅✅-Which term best describes an individual's feelings of anxiety
that are broad, long-lasting, and excessive?
Agoraphobia - ✅✅-A female client tells the nurse that she is terrified to go to the grocery store.
The nurse is aware that this client most likely has:
OCD - ✅✅-A client has constant thoughts about locking his front doorevery time he leaves his
house. This client is experiencing a/an:
Flashbacks - ✅✅-Which is a typical symptom of posttraumatic stressdisorder?
Systematic desentization (step by step) - ✅✅-The treatment team and amale client in whom
obsessive-compulsive disorder associated with handwashing has been diagnosed decide on a
treatment plan for the disorder.The nurse implement the plan by having the pt gradually extend
the time b/w hand washes
This is a GI side effect - ✅✅-A female client is taking a benzodiazepine for her anxiety
disorder. She complains of anorexia and nausea since shestarted taking the medication a few days
ago. What is the nurse's best response?
