ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (PMH-BC) Certification Exam Guide – Study Tips &
Practice Resources
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - (ANSWER)evaluates for the presence and degree of subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale - (ANSWER)Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education
and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window - (ANSWER)Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware, by considering
perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale - (ANSWER)measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest
functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
Psychoanalysis - (ANSWER)Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts patients to tap
into unconscious experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and behaviors.
Systematic Desensitization - (ANSWER)Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus
to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification - (ANSWER)operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more adaptive,
less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - (ANSWER)Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality
disorders
Benzodiazepines - (ANSWER)medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in alcohol
withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target - (ANSWER)neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of psychotic
conditions.
, ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (PMH-BC) Certification Exam Guide – Study Tips &
Practice Resources
Flooding - (ANSWER)An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and repeatedly exposes a
person to a feared stimulus.
Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant? - (ANSWER)marplan (MAOI), oxazepam
(benzodiazepine), tofranil (tricyclic), buspar(nonaddicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning - (ANSWER)Technique proposed by cognitive behavioral therapists as a means of
logically challenging one's perception about belief's.
Multimodal Therapy - (ANSWER)variants of different theories used to facilitate positive change.
Family Therapy - (ANSWER)Many variations, the family is the center of the psychotherapeutic
intervention.
Play Therapy - (ANSWER)specialized form of practice that illuminates issues of concern within children
who, because of developmental ages or issues, have not attained sophisticated language skills.
Long acting benzodiazepine:
klonopin, ativan, xanax, halcion? - (ANSWER)Klonipin (clonzepam) long-acting Bz, Xanax and ativan are
intermediate-acting, halcion is short-acting GABA enhancer.
sublingual neruoleptic:
invega, saphris, fanapt, zyprexa? - (ANSWER)Saphris is sublingual
Glioblastoma - (ANSWER)tumor of glial cells; these "glue-like" cells hold neuronal circutis in proper
spaces, thereby affording proper transportation of electrical stimuli within neuronal networks.
Astrocytes - (ANSWER)Provide nutrients transportation to glial cells
Practice Resources
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - (ANSWER)evaluates for the presence and degree of subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale - (ANSWER)Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education
and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window - (ANSWER)Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware, by considering
perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale - (ANSWER)measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest
functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
Psychoanalysis - (ANSWER)Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts patients to tap
into unconscious experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and behaviors.
Systematic Desensitization - (ANSWER)Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus
to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification - (ANSWER)operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more adaptive,
less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - (ANSWER)Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality
disorders
Benzodiazepines - (ANSWER)medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in alcohol
withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target - (ANSWER)neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of psychotic
conditions.
, ANCC Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing (PMH-BC) Certification Exam Guide – Study Tips &
Practice Resources
Flooding - (ANSWER)An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and repeatedly exposes a
person to a feared stimulus.
Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant? - (ANSWER)marplan (MAOI), oxazepam
(benzodiazepine), tofranil (tricyclic), buspar(nonaddicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning - (ANSWER)Technique proposed by cognitive behavioral therapists as a means of
logically challenging one's perception about belief's.
Multimodal Therapy - (ANSWER)variants of different theories used to facilitate positive change.
Family Therapy - (ANSWER)Many variations, the family is the center of the psychotherapeutic
intervention.
Play Therapy - (ANSWER)specialized form of practice that illuminates issues of concern within children
who, because of developmental ages or issues, have not attained sophisticated language skills.
Long acting benzodiazepine:
klonopin, ativan, xanax, halcion? - (ANSWER)Klonipin (clonzepam) long-acting Bz, Xanax and ativan are
intermediate-acting, halcion is short-acting GABA enhancer.
sublingual neruoleptic:
invega, saphris, fanapt, zyprexa? - (ANSWER)Saphris is sublingual
Glioblastoma - (ANSWER)tumor of glial cells; these "glue-like" cells hold neuronal circutis in proper
spaces, thereby affording proper transportation of electrical stimuli within neuronal networks.
Astrocytes - (ANSWER)Provide nutrients transportation to glial cells
