ATI MENTAL HEALTH PROCTORED TEST 2024
1. primary prevention: interventions to prevent the onset of the disorder
2. What is an example of primary prevention: education before the condition
develops
3. secondary prevention: early detection - screening the community
4. tertiary prevention: interventions that stop/decrease the disorder's effects
rehab and prevention of further problems - support groups
5. partial hospitalization: an approach in which patients receive treatment at a
hospital during the day but return home at night. includes detox programs
6. assertive community treatment: aimed at helping severely mentally ill
wherever they are in the community, each assigned a team member available
any time of the day, visited twice a week by that member. interprofessional
team to reduce rehospitializations and relapses community mental health
centers.
education groups medication dispensing prgrams individual and ftrly counseling
7. psychosocial rehabilitation programs: Residential services, day programs for
older adults
8. classical psychoanalysis: therapeutic process of assessing unconscious
thoughts and feelings and resolving conflict by talking to a psychoanalyst -
focuse on eawrly life
9. psychodynamic psychotherapy: therapy aimed at uncovering the
unconscious motives that underlie psychological problems - emphasis on
current state
10. interpersonal psychotherapy: focuses on helping clients improve current
relationships and specific problems
11. CBT: focusing on individual thoughts and behaviors
12. cognitive reframing: replacing negative thoughts
13. priority restructuring: ID what requires priority, such as pleasurable activities
14. journaling: ID stressors
15. assertive training: helps clients express feelings in a socially acceptable
manner
16. behavioral therapy: decreasing anxiety and avoidant behavior
17. DBT: dialectical behavior therapy for personality disorders
, ATI MENTAL HEALTH PROCTORED TEST 2024
18. systematic desensitization: overcomes fear through gradual exposure while
using relaxation techniques
19. examples of CBT: DBT systematic desensitization aversion therapy
meditation guided imagery
diaphragmatic breathing
muscle relaxation
biofeedback
20. biofeedback: increasing awareness and gaining control of reactiosn to a trigger
21. response prevention: preventing a client from performing a compulsive
behavior with the intent that anxiety will diminish
22. thought stopping: use of aversive stimuli to interrupt or prevent upsetting
thoughts
-OCD
23. prolonged exposure therapy: combines relaxation techniques with exposure
to the traumatic situation through repeated discussion or in real world
situations - results in decreased anxiety
24. EDMR: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - a therapy using
rapid eye movement during desensitization techniques for PTSD
25. contraindications of EDMR: active SI psychosis
severe dissociative
disorders detached retina
glaucoma
severe substance abuse disorder
26. crisis intervention: emergency counseling for crime victims
27. somatic therapy: used for dissociative disorders - increasing awareness of
the present, decreases dissociative episodes
28. hypnotherapy: used for dissociative disorders
29. risk with TMS: seizures
30. transcranial magnetic stimulation: a treatment that involves placing a
powerful pulsed magnet over a person's scalp, which alters neuronal activity in
the brain
31. risk for ECT: confusion retrograde amnesia short term memory loss
32. SADPERSONS: sex
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age depression past
attempts excessive
drug use rational
thinking loss social
supports lacking
organized plan
no spouse sickness
33. bleuler's As for psychosis: affect disturbance autism
associative looseness
ambivalence
34. SIGECAPS: - for depression sleep - lack of quality of sleep interests - apathy
and loss guilt - hopelessness energy - anergia
concentration - indecision, inability,
alterations appetite - decreases psychomotor
retardation suicide
35. DIGFAST: - for bipolar mania
Distractibility
Indiscretion - esp about sex
Grandiosity
Flight of Ideas
Activity - increase
Sleep - decrease
Talkative
36. DELIRIUM mnemonic: Dementia
Electrolyte imbalance, dehydration
Liver lungs kidney heart disease
Infection
Rx - drugs
Injury pain stress surgery
Unfamiliar environment
Metabolic reasons
37. A's for Alzheimers: amnesia aphasia apraxia agnosia
1. primary prevention: interventions to prevent the onset of the disorder
2. What is an example of primary prevention: education before the condition
develops
3. secondary prevention: early detection - screening the community
4. tertiary prevention: interventions that stop/decrease the disorder's effects
rehab and prevention of further problems - support groups
5. partial hospitalization: an approach in which patients receive treatment at a
hospital during the day but return home at night. includes detox programs
6. assertive community treatment: aimed at helping severely mentally ill
wherever they are in the community, each assigned a team member available
any time of the day, visited twice a week by that member. interprofessional
team to reduce rehospitializations and relapses community mental health
centers.
education groups medication dispensing prgrams individual and ftrly counseling
7. psychosocial rehabilitation programs: Residential services, day programs for
older adults
8. classical psychoanalysis: therapeutic process of assessing unconscious
thoughts and feelings and resolving conflict by talking to a psychoanalyst -
focuse on eawrly life
9. psychodynamic psychotherapy: therapy aimed at uncovering the
unconscious motives that underlie psychological problems - emphasis on
current state
10. interpersonal psychotherapy: focuses on helping clients improve current
relationships and specific problems
11. CBT: focusing on individual thoughts and behaviors
12. cognitive reframing: replacing negative thoughts
13. priority restructuring: ID what requires priority, such as pleasurable activities
14. journaling: ID stressors
15. assertive training: helps clients express feelings in a socially acceptable
manner
16. behavioral therapy: decreasing anxiety and avoidant behavior
17. DBT: dialectical behavior therapy for personality disorders
, ATI MENTAL HEALTH PROCTORED TEST 2024
18. systematic desensitization: overcomes fear through gradual exposure while
using relaxation techniques
19. examples of CBT: DBT systematic desensitization aversion therapy
meditation guided imagery
diaphragmatic breathing
muscle relaxation
biofeedback
20. biofeedback: increasing awareness and gaining control of reactiosn to a trigger
21. response prevention: preventing a client from performing a compulsive
behavior with the intent that anxiety will diminish
22. thought stopping: use of aversive stimuli to interrupt or prevent upsetting
thoughts
-OCD
23. prolonged exposure therapy: combines relaxation techniques with exposure
to the traumatic situation through repeated discussion or in real world
situations - results in decreased anxiety
24. EDMR: eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - a therapy using
rapid eye movement during desensitization techniques for PTSD
25. contraindications of EDMR: active SI psychosis
severe dissociative
disorders detached retina
glaucoma
severe substance abuse disorder
26. crisis intervention: emergency counseling for crime victims
27. somatic therapy: used for dissociative disorders - increasing awareness of
the present, decreases dissociative episodes
28. hypnotherapy: used for dissociative disorders
29. risk with TMS: seizures
30. transcranial magnetic stimulation: a treatment that involves placing a
powerful pulsed magnet over a person's scalp, which alters neuronal activity in
the brain
31. risk for ECT: confusion retrograde amnesia short term memory loss
32. SADPERSONS: sex
, ATI MENTAL HEALTH PROCTORED TEST 2024
age depression past
attempts excessive
drug use rational
thinking loss social
supports lacking
organized plan
no spouse sickness
33. bleuler's As for psychosis: affect disturbance autism
associative looseness
ambivalence
34. SIGECAPS: - for depression sleep - lack of quality of sleep interests - apathy
and loss guilt - hopelessness energy - anergia
concentration - indecision, inability,
alterations appetite - decreases psychomotor
retardation suicide
35. DIGFAST: - for bipolar mania
Distractibility
Indiscretion - esp about sex
Grandiosity
Flight of Ideas
Activity - increase
Sleep - decrease
Talkative
36. DELIRIUM mnemonic: Dementia
Electrolyte imbalance, dehydration
Liver lungs kidney heart disease
Infection
Rx - drugs
Injury pain stress surgery
Unfamiliar environment
Metabolic reasons
37. A's for Alzheimers: amnesia aphasia apraxia agnosia
