NURS 640 FINALS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
1. According to the structural family systems therapy, boundaries that are permeable tend
to describe relationships in
- Enmeshed families
2. At the end of the PMHNP program it is expected that the NP candidate be ________ to
two forms of psychotherapy.
- Competent
3. Erikson developmental theories differ from Freud in that Erikson place greater
emphasis on
- Interpersonal relations
4. Attempts to apply positive psychotherapy with children and adolescents have found that
- treatment increases well-being and decreases behavior problems.
5. A person centered group therapist is best described as a
- facilitator
6. Second-order cybernetics focuses primarily on
- the impact of the family therapist on the family system.
7. What are the techniques used during the stabilization stage sometimes referred to?
- Supportive therapy
, 8. Which of the following results from the emotional experience gained by the family
through enactment of the directive?
- Behavioral change
9. A patient verbalizes that "when people see me they think I'm a loser" is most often used
directly in the
- cognitive therapy
10. A woman was married in 1975 to John then widowed in 1981. She married Dennis in
1993 then divorced in 2004. In 2021 she remarried Sean. How should the unions between
John and the woman be drawn on the genogram?
There should be a "X" drawn on the single line to illustrate this union
11. A full life is
- More than the sum of pleasure, engagement, and meaning
12. Hellenist physicians believed that the organ contributing to mental illness was the
- Brain
13. Interpersonal therapy developed as part of a
- A therapy arm for a clinical trial evaluating antidepressant efficiency
14. According to genogram rules the male spouse should be drawn
- on the left of the female spouse
15. Which of the following is NOT a behavioral technique?
1. According to the structural family systems therapy, boundaries that are permeable tend
to describe relationships in
- Enmeshed families
2. At the end of the PMHNP program it is expected that the NP candidate be ________ to
two forms of psychotherapy.
- Competent
3. Erikson developmental theories differ from Freud in that Erikson place greater
emphasis on
- Interpersonal relations
4. Attempts to apply positive psychotherapy with children and adolescents have found that
- treatment increases well-being and decreases behavior problems.
5. A person centered group therapist is best described as a
- facilitator
6. Second-order cybernetics focuses primarily on
- the impact of the family therapist on the family system.
7. What are the techniques used during the stabilization stage sometimes referred to?
- Supportive therapy
, 8. Which of the following results from the emotional experience gained by the family
through enactment of the directive?
- Behavioral change
9. A patient verbalizes that "when people see me they think I'm a loser" is most often used
directly in the
- cognitive therapy
10. A woman was married in 1975 to John then widowed in 1981. She married Dennis in
1993 then divorced in 2004. In 2021 she remarried Sean. How should the unions between
John and the woman be drawn on the genogram?
There should be a "X" drawn on the single line to illustrate this union
11. A full life is
- More than the sum of pleasure, engagement, and meaning
12. Hellenist physicians believed that the organ contributing to mental illness was the
- Brain
13. Interpersonal therapy developed as part of a
- A therapy arm for a clinical trial evaluating antidepressant efficiency
14. According to genogram rules the male spouse should be drawn
- on the left of the female spouse
15. Which of the following is NOT a behavioral technique?
