Mental Health Technician Certification
Exam (AMCA) 2024/2025 Exam
Questions and Answers | A+ Score
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Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔childhood
Children should undergo further evaluation when their weight is
_______above their height - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔20%
A female client's husband in whom a chronic illness was recently
diagnosed is hospitalized. She states that she can't stop worrying about
what is going to happen with her husband's treatment and how they are
going to pay the bills because he is not working. What reaction is the client
most likely experiencing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anxiety
The parents of a 14 year old girl have noticed that over the past couple
months, their daughter has not been enjoying participating in the track
team, which she previously enjoyed. She often makes statements about
how ugly she feels and she dropped a letter grade in two of her classes.
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,Base don these symptoms, this client may be diagnosed with: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Depressive disorder
In preparing discharge planning for a client who has been prescribed
lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder, it is important that the client
demonstrate an understanding of the need to monitor his or her diet for
intake of: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sodium
_______is a side effect that can occur while the client is taking
antipsychotic medications, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital
signs, confusion and agitation. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔neuroleptic malignant
syndrome (NMS)
A female college student is seeking help from the counseling center for text
anxiety. She reports that during an exam, she "freezes and feels like the
time I have to take the exam is racing by and I can't answer any of the
questions when i know the answers". Which level of anxiety is the client
experiencing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Severe
Behaviors associated with mental illnesses were more accurately recorded
by professionals. This practice led to _______for different abnormal
behaviors. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Classifications
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, A 10 year old male client with autism experiences loneliness and social
anxiety as a result of his disease. Which CAM therapy will the caregiver
suggest to help out this client the most with these feelings? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Animal assisted therapy
A woman goes to a late movie with her friends and gets home after
midnight. She is scheduled to play in a tennis tournament early the next
morning and loses all her matches. She blames the line judge for her loss,
rather than her poor play. Which coping mechanism best describes her
response to losing the matches? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rationalization
Poverty influences the growth and development of children and is often a
precursor to mental health disorders in children. Nearly _______of the
children in the US come from families that live at the poverty level. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔20%
The provider is administering medications to a client with a diagnosis of
paranoid schizophrenia. The provider would expect to see which
medication ordered for the client? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risperdal
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Exam (AMCA) 2024/2025 Exam
Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured
Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔childhood
Children should undergo further evaluation when their weight is
_______above their height - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔20%
A female client's husband in whom a chronic illness was recently
diagnosed is hospitalized. She states that she can't stop worrying about
what is going to happen with her husband's treatment and how they are
going to pay the bills because he is not working. What reaction is the client
most likely experiencing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Anxiety
The parents of a 14 year old girl have noticed that over the past couple
months, their daughter has not been enjoying participating in the track
team, which she previously enjoyed. She often makes statements about
how ugly she feels and she dropped a letter grade in two of her classes.
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,Base don these symptoms, this client may be diagnosed with: - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Depressive disorder
In preparing discharge planning for a client who has been prescribed
lithium for the treatment of bipolar disorder, it is important that the client
demonstrate an understanding of the need to monitor his or her diet for
intake of: - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Sodium
_______is a side effect that can occur while the client is taking
antipsychotic medications, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital
signs, confusion and agitation. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔neuroleptic malignant
syndrome (NMS)
A female college student is seeking help from the counseling center for text
anxiety. She reports that during an exam, she "freezes and feels like the
time I have to take the exam is racing by and I can't answer any of the
questions when i know the answers". Which level of anxiety is the client
experiencing? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Severe
Behaviors associated with mental illnesses were more accurately recorded
by professionals. This practice led to _______for different abnormal
behaviors. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Classifications
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, A 10 year old male client with autism experiences loneliness and social
anxiety as a result of his disease. Which CAM therapy will the caregiver
suggest to help out this client the most with these feelings? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Animal assisted therapy
A woman goes to a late movie with her friends and gets home after
midnight. She is scheduled to play in a tennis tournament early the next
morning and loses all her matches. She blames the line judge for her loss,
rather than her poor play. Which coping mechanism best describes her
response to losing the matches? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rationalization
Poverty influences the growth and development of children and is often a
precursor to mental health disorders in children. Nearly _______of the
children in the US come from families that live at the poverty level. -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔20%
The provider is administering medications to a client with a diagnosis of
paranoid schizophrenia. The provider would expect to see which
medication ordered for the client? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Risperdal
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