Mental Health Technician Practice
Exam Questions and Actual
Answers
Assess available community resources. - correct answer ✔✔To implement the concept of the
least restrictive treatment environment, care team members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources.
Caring for their children and aging parents - correct answer ✔✔The term "sandwich generation"
best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood
Delusions - correct answer ✔✔A male client is in the process of being admitted to a mental
health facility. He is sure that the nurse is the administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's
insistence that he is a staff nurse on the unit. This client is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
,c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations
Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times. - correct answer ✔✔A client with the diagnosis of
depersonalization disorder notices that he experiences periods of depersonalization when
confronted with certain stressors. When developing the care plan, the nurse is aware that one
of the most helpful activities in self-control for this client is for the client to:
Select one:
a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his thoughts and feelings every time he is
confronted with a stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his stress level.
A few months - correct answer ✔✔For children older than 4 years, separation anxiety should
last for no longer than:
Select one:
a. A few days
b. A few weeks
c. A few months
d. 1 year
At the time of admission - correct answer ✔✔The nurse begins discharge planning measures
with a hospitalized client:
Select one:
a. Near the time of discharge
b. At the time of admission
,c. 3 days into the hospital stay
d. On the day before discharge
"Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?" - correct answer ✔✔During
a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a terminal illness, the nurse is trying to determine
what the client's history is with regard to losses. Which question will best assess this area?
Select one:
a. "How easily do you adapt to new situations?"
b. "What is your understanding of the current situation?"
c. "Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?"
d. "How is this situation affecting your family?"
Pedophilia - correct answer ✔✔While performing a search of an adult male's home based on
suspicion of criminal activity, the police find pictures of him with young children between the
ages of 5 and 10. The pictures are sexual in nature. The man is suspected of:
Select one:
a. Voyeurism
b. Sexual sadism
c. Pedophilia
d. Necrophilia
Temper tantrums - correct answer ✔✔Toddlers often express their anger through:
Select one:
a. Crying
b. Manipulation
c. Temper tantrums
d. Direct aggression
, "You can enjoy a satisfying sex life with some adaptation." - correct answer ✔✔The client was
injured in a work accident. He now has a fused spine and moves with difficulty. He wonders if he
will ever be able to be intimate with his wife. What is the nurse's most accurate response?
Select one:
a. "You will not be able to engage in sexual activity."
b. "You can enjoy a satisfying sex life with some adaptation."
c. "You eventually will return to the preinjury level of functioning."
d. "You will become more sexually active after you recover from the injuries."
Nurse - correct answer ✔✔The CMA is administering an antianxiety medication to a client.
Monitoring side effects is the responsibility of which member of the health care team?
Select one:
a. Nurse
b. CMA
c. Physician
d. Therapist
Being absent from appointments - correct answer ✔✔A client response to the termination
phase of the therapeutic relationship is withdrawal. This response most often is manifested by
client behaviors such as:
Select one:
a. Bringing up new problems
b. Being absent from appointments
c. Returning to maladaptive behavior
d. Having increased anxiety
Exam Questions and Actual
Answers
Assess available community resources. - correct answer ✔✔To implement the concept of the
least restrictive treatment environment, care team members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources.
Caring for their children and aging parents - correct answer ✔✔The term "sandwich generation"
best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood
Delusions - correct answer ✔✔A male client is in the process of being admitted to a mental
health facility. He is sure that the nurse is the administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's
insistence that he is a staff nurse on the unit. This client is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
,c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations
Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times. - correct answer ✔✔A client with the diagnosis of
depersonalization disorder notices that he experiences periods of depersonalization when
confronted with certain stressors. When developing the care plan, the nurse is aware that one
of the most helpful activities in self-control for this client is for the client to:
Select one:
a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his thoughts and feelings every time he is
confronted with a stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his stress level.
A few months - correct answer ✔✔For children older than 4 years, separation anxiety should
last for no longer than:
Select one:
a. A few days
b. A few weeks
c. A few months
d. 1 year
At the time of admission - correct answer ✔✔The nurse begins discharge planning measures
with a hospitalized client:
Select one:
a. Near the time of discharge
b. At the time of admission
,c. 3 days into the hospital stay
d. On the day before discharge
"Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?" - correct answer ✔✔During
a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a terminal illness, the nurse is trying to determine
what the client's history is with regard to losses. Which question will best assess this area?
Select one:
a. "How easily do you adapt to new situations?"
b. "What is your understanding of the current situation?"
c. "Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?"
d. "How is this situation affecting your family?"
Pedophilia - correct answer ✔✔While performing a search of an adult male's home based on
suspicion of criminal activity, the police find pictures of him with young children between the
ages of 5 and 10. The pictures are sexual in nature. The man is suspected of:
Select one:
a. Voyeurism
b. Sexual sadism
c. Pedophilia
d. Necrophilia
Temper tantrums - correct answer ✔✔Toddlers often express their anger through:
Select one:
a. Crying
b. Manipulation
c. Temper tantrums
d. Direct aggression
, "You can enjoy a satisfying sex life with some adaptation." - correct answer ✔✔The client was
injured in a work accident. He now has a fused spine and moves with difficulty. He wonders if he
will ever be able to be intimate with his wife. What is the nurse's most accurate response?
Select one:
a. "You will not be able to engage in sexual activity."
b. "You can enjoy a satisfying sex life with some adaptation."
c. "You eventually will return to the preinjury level of functioning."
d. "You will become more sexually active after you recover from the injuries."
Nurse - correct answer ✔✔The CMA is administering an antianxiety medication to a client.
Monitoring side effects is the responsibility of which member of the health care team?
Select one:
a. Nurse
b. CMA
c. Physician
d. Therapist
Being absent from appointments - correct answer ✔✔A client response to the termination
phase of the therapeutic relationship is withdrawal. This response most often is manifested by
client behaviors such as:
Select one:
a. Bringing up new problems
b. Being absent from appointments
c. Returning to maladaptive behavior
d. Having increased anxiety
