CLINICAL MODALITIES EXAM 3
QUESTIONS & ACCURATE ANSWERS
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What is the scale that rates stressful events in a person's life? - Correct Answer ✔✔
rahe-holmes
Acute Stress Disorder is associated with presence of
_____________________________ symptoms. - Correct Answer ✔✔ dissociative
symptoms
Name a type of crisis that arises internally; follow different stages of growth that humans
experience; happens each time a person enters a new stage of life, they realize their old
coping skills are inadequate. - Correct Answer ✔✔ maturational crisis
The most reliable outcome for crisis intervention with regard to post-crisis level of
functioning is to determine that the patient is at their ___________________ - Correct
Answer ✔✔ pre-crisis level of functioning
The best was to assess a patients coping skills is to inquire about
_______________________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ how they
handled crisis in the past
Primary goal of PTSD treatment is to help them what? - Correct Answer ✔✔ place the
trauma in the larger perspectives of their lives.
What are Caplan's 4 stages of crisis? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Phase 1 = problem arises
that increases anxiety levels. You would most likely observe anxiety.
Phase 2= Usual problem solving techniques don't work, anxiety rises. Trial and error
attempts are made to restore balance.
Phase 3= Trial and error attempts fail and anxiety rises to severe or panic levels.
Phase 4= when these measures don't reduce anxiety, the anxiety overwhelms the
person and leads to serious disorganization. This signals the patient is in crisis.
What is a set of procedures called that help facilitate survivors' adaptive coping in a
disaster? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Psychological first aid
The PMHNP can best help a person who receives devastating news by
___________________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ asking if a supportive
person can be with them the next few days
,It is important for the PMHNP to understand that when a patient is in crisis they are in a
state of ________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ disequilibrium
What is the most appropriate modality to use with schizoid personality disorder? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ individual psychotherapy
The best response by PMHNP when speaking with a client with BPD and wants to cut
themselves is to_____________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ assist the
client in identifying appropriate coping strategies
If a BPD client who has been making progress has an anxiety producing event arise
and cuts again this is __________________________________________ ? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ dysfunctional behavior but mostly the patient's best effort to cope
A client with borderline personality disorder dramatically expresses feelings about each
nurse on the staff, stating that only one nurse is understanding and trustworthy — the
nurse the client is talking to at the time. This client is demonstrating which behavior? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ splitting
___________________________ is mainly due to fear of abandonment or the increase
of independence? - Correct Answer ✔✔ self mutilation
BPD is often characterized by an inability to tolerate __________________________? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ perceived rejections
Patients will respond better to limit setting if the PMHNP can reflect back to the client an
understanding and validation of ______________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔
their emotional distress
Client's with BPD have not successfully achieved the developmental stage of
________________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔ separation-individualization
Name the personality disorder described below: A pervasive distrust and
suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent,
beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. A person who has a
longstanding feeling of mistrust or suspicion, no hallucinations, no delusions, and no
antisocial behavior? - Correct Answer ✔✔ paranoid personality disorder
Clients with which disorder do not trust easily and its best to use a respectful neutral
approach? - Correct Answer ✔✔ paranoid personality disorder
Clients with paranoid personality disorder are critical of others because they
_____________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔ project blame for their own
shortcomings on others
, characterized by inflated or grandiose sense of themselves and an extreme need for
admiration (expect others to notice their special qualities, even when their
accomplishments are ordinary, and they enjoy basking in the light of adulation; self-
absorbed, lack empathy for others; strong sense of entitlement; tend to be preoccupied
with fantasies of success and power, ideal love, or recognition for brilliance or beauty) -
Correct Answer ✔✔ narcissitic personality disorder
Conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world is
__________________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔ schemas
What is the modality that prioritizes a client's schema? - Correct Answer ✔✔ cognitive
therapy
Being alert, mentally present, and cognitively flexible while going through life's everyday
activities and tasks. - Correct Answer ✔✔ mindfulness
Self-mutilation occurs because a client may feel that
___________________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ pain is better than
not feeling anything at all
Self mutilation results from feelings of ________________________ - Correct Answer
✔✔ abandonment
Self mutilation can be a _______________________gesture? - Correct Answer ✔✔
manipulative
Self mutilation can occur after a ______________ _______________ is put in place? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ safety plan
Which modality helps replace irrational thoughts? - Correct Answer ✔✔ DBT
What is the only psychotherapy to demonstrate any efficacy in treatment of ANY PDs? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Dialectal behavioral therapy
Respecting a patients ______________________ is important in establishing a
therapeutic relationship with a patient with BPB. - Correct Answer ✔✔ boundaries
Name the personality disorders described below: A person who gets others to assume
responsibility, has difficulty expressing disagreement, and often has an abusive
spouse?
A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of
separation, and an ongoing need to be taken care of. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dependent
personality disorder
View a situation in only two categories instead of on a continuum (all or none; black or
white) - Correct Answer ✔✔ dichotomous thinking
QUESTIONS & ACCURATE ANSWERS
PASSED 100% UPDATED VERSION
What is the scale that rates stressful events in a person's life? - Correct Answer ✔✔
rahe-holmes
Acute Stress Disorder is associated with presence of
_____________________________ symptoms. - Correct Answer ✔✔ dissociative
symptoms
Name a type of crisis that arises internally; follow different stages of growth that humans
experience; happens each time a person enters a new stage of life, they realize their old
coping skills are inadequate. - Correct Answer ✔✔ maturational crisis
The most reliable outcome for crisis intervention with regard to post-crisis level of
functioning is to determine that the patient is at their ___________________ - Correct
Answer ✔✔ pre-crisis level of functioning
The best was to assess a patients coping skills is to inquire about
_______________________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ how they
handled crisis in the past
Primary goal of PTSD treatment is to help them what? - Correct Answer ✔✔ place the
trauma in the larger perspectives of their lives.
What are Caplan's 4 stages of crisis? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Phase 1 = problem arises
that increases anxiety levels. You would most likely observe anxiety.
Phase 2= Usual problem solving techniques don't work, anxiety rises. Trial and error
attempts are made to restore balance.
Phase 3= Trial and error attempts fail and anxiety rises to severe or panic levels.
Phase 4= when these measures don't reduce anxiety, the anxiety overwhelms the
person and leads to serious disorganization. This signals the patient is in crisis.
What is a set of procedures called that help facilitate survivors' adaptive coping in a
disaster? - Correct Answer ✔✔ Psychological first aid
The PMHNP can best help a person who receives devastating news by
___________________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ asking if a supportive
person can be with them the next few days
,It is important for the PMHNP to understand that when a patient is in crisis they are in a
state of ________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ disequilibrium
What is the most appropriate modality to use with schizoid personality disorder? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ individual psychotherapy
The best response by PMHNP when speaking with a client with BPD and wants to cut
themselves is to_____________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ assist the
client in identifying appropriate coping strategies
If a BPD client who has been making progress has an anxiety producing event arise
and cuts again this is __________________________________________ ? - Correct
Answer ✔✔ dysfunctional behavior but mostly the patient's best effort to cope
A client with borderline personality disorder dramatically expresses feelings about each
nurse on the staff, stating that only one nurse is understanding and trustworthy — the
nurse the client is talking to at the time. This client is demonstrating which behavior? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ splitting
___________________________ is mainly due to fear of abandonment or the increase
of independence? - Correct Answer ✔✔ self mutilation
BPD is often characterized by an inability to tolerate __________________________? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ perceived rejections
Patients will respond better to limit setting if the PMHNP can reflect back to the client an
understanding and validation of ______________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔
their emotional distress
Client's with BPD have not successfully achieved the developmental stage of
________________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔ separation-individualization
Name the personality disorder described below: A pervasive distrust and
suspiciousness of others such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent,
beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts. A person who has a
longstanding feeling of mistrust or suspicion, no hallucinations, no delusions, and no
antisocial behavior? - Correct Answer ✔✔ paranoid personality disorder
Clients with which disorder do not trust easily and its best to use a respectful neutral
approach? - Correct Answer ✔✔ paranoid personality disorder
Clients with paranoid personality disorder are critical of others because they
_____________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔ project blame for their own
shortcomings on others
, characterized by inflated or grandiose sense of themselves and an extreme need for
admiration (expect others to notice their special qualities, even when their
accomplishments are ordinary, and they enjoy basking in the light of adulation; self-
absorbed, lack empathy for others; strong sense of entitlement; tend to be preoccupied
with fantasies of success and power, ideal love, or recognition for brilliance or beauty) -
Correct Answer ✔✔ narcissitic personality disorder
Conceptual frameworks a person uses to make sense of the world is
__________________________ ? - Correct Answer ✔✔ schemas
What is the modality that prioritizes a client's schema? - Correct Answer ✔✔ cognitive
therapy
Being alert, mentally present, and cognitively flexible while going through life's everyday
activities and tasks. - Correct Answer ✔✔ mindfulness
Self-mutilation occurs because a client may feel that
___________________________________ - Correct Answer ✔✔ pain is better than
not feeling anything at all
Self mutilation results from feelings of ________________________ - Correct Answer
✔✔ abandonment
Self mutilation can be a _______________________gesture? - Correct Answer ✔✔
manipulative
Self mutilation can occur after a ______________ _______________ is put in place? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ safety plan
Which modality helps replace irrational thoughts? - Correct Answer ✔✔ DBT
What is the only psychotherapy to demonstrate any efficacy in treatment of ANY PDs? -
Correct Answer ✔✔ Dialectal behavioral therapy
Respecting a patients ______________________ is important in establishing a
therapeutic relationship with a patient with BPB. - Correct Answer ✔✔ boundaries
Name the personality disorders described below: A person who gets others to assume
responsibility, has difficulty expressing disagreement, and often has an abusive
spouse?
A personality disorder characterized by a pattern of clinging and obedience, fear of
separation, and an ongoing need to be taken care of. - Correct Answer ✔✔ Dependent
personality disorder
View a situation in only two categories instead of on a continuum (all or none; black or
white) - Correct Answer ✔✔ dichotomous thinking
