ANCC REVIEW PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSE REVIEW |LATEST
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Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - correct answer-evaluates for the presence and degree of
subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale - correct answer-Assesses adolescent issues HOME and
environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window - correct answer-Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-
aware, by considering perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale - correct answer-measures from 100 (highest
functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
Psychoanalysis - correct 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 - correct answer-Technique that gradually exposes a person to
a feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification - correct answer-operant and classical conditioning concepts to
shape more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - correct answer-Specialized approach for patients with
borderline personality disorders
Benzodiazepines - correct answer-medications that work to induce relaxation and are used
in alcohol withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target - correct answer-neuroleptics target both negative and positive
symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Flooding - correct 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? - correct answer-mar plan (MAOI),
oxazepam (benzodiazepine), Tofranil (tricyclic), Buspar (no addicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning - correct answer-Technique proposed by cognitive behavioral
therapists as a means of logically challenging one's perception about beliefs.
, Multimodal Therapy - correct answer-variants of different theories used to facilitate
positive change.
Family Therapy - correct answer-Many variations, the family is the center of the
psychotherapeutic intervention.
Play Therapy - correct 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:
looping, Ativan, Xanax, Halcion? - correct answer-Longipin (clonazepam) long-acting Baz,
Xanax and Ativan are intermediate-acting, Halcion is short-acting GABA enhancer.
sublingual neuroleptic:
Invega, Saphris, fan apt, Zyprexa? - correct answer-Saphris is sublingual
Glioblastoma - correct answer-tumor of glial cells; these "glue-like" cells hold neuronal
circuits in proper spaces, thereby affording proper transportation of electrical stimuli
within neuronal networks.
Astrocytes - correct answer-Provide nutrients transportation to glial cells
cytoplasm - correct answer-fluid filled cellular content
Myelin - correct answer-Protective shell-like coating surrounding neurons
UPLOAD |GRADED A+
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale - correct answer-evaluates for the presence and degree of
subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale - correct answer-Assesses adolescent issues HOME and
environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window - correct answer-Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-
aware, by considering perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale - correct answer-measures from 100 (highest
functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
Psychoanalysis - correct 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 - correct answer-Technique that gradually exposes a person to
a feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification - correct answer-operant and classical conditioning concepts to
shape more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy - correct answer-Specialized approach for patients with
borderline personality disorders
Benzodiazepines - correct answer-medications that work to induce relaxation and are used
in alcohol withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target - correct answer-neuroleptics target both negative and positive
symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Flooding - correct 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? - correct answer-mar plan (MAOI),
oxazepam (benzodiazepine), Tofranil (tricyclic), Buspar (no addicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning - correct answer-Technique proposed by cognitive behavioral
therapists as a means of logically challenging one's perception about beliefs.
, Multimodal Therapy - correct answer-variants of different theories used to facilitate
positive change.
Family Therapy - correct answer-Many variations, the family is the center of the
psychotherapeutic intervention.
Play Therapy - correct 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:
looping, Ativan, Xanax, Halcion? - correct answer-Longipin (clonazepam) long-acting Baz,
Xanax and Ativan are intermediate-acting, Halcion is short-acting GABA enhancer.
sublingual neuroleptic:
Invega, Saphris, fan apt, Zyprexa? - correct answer-Saphris is sublingual
Glioblastoma - correct answer-tumor of glial cells; these "glue-like" cells hold neuronal
circuits in proper spaces, thereby affording proper transportation of electrical stimuli
within neuronal networks.
Astrocytes - correct answer-Provide nutrients transportation to glial cells
cytoplasm - correct answer-fluid filled cellular content
Myelin - correct answer-Protective shell-like coating surrounding neurons
