MHTC EVALUATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔On what is Western medicine primarily based? - ✔✔Scientific research
✔✔Clients with bipolar or cyclothymiacs disorders exhibit different types of: - ✔✔Mania
✔✔Theories that view depression as a group of learned responses are called ____
theories. - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔The client lives life by rapidly bouncing from feelings of great joy. The client's
diagnosis is most likely: - ✔✔Bipolar disorder
✔✔Which patient right may a client with mental health disorders lose during their
treatment? - ✔✔freedom from restraint or seclusion
✔✔Sexually transmitted diseases (STD's), including HIV/AIDS and pregnancy rates are
highest for: - ✔✔Adolescents
✔✔A group of sexual variations that depart from society's traditional and acceptable
models of seeking sexual gratification is: - ✔✔paraphilias
✔✔A 4 year old client in a pediatric unit is imitating the actions of the provider. The
provider knows according to Erik Erikson's theory, that this child is displaying a
characteristic seen during which developmental stage? - ✔✔Genital-locomotor
✔✔A newly admitted elderly client seems to become confused and agitated every
evening after dinner. This client is most likely suffering from: - ✔✔Sundown syndrome
, ✔✔In preparing discharge planning for a client who has been prescribed lithium for the
treatment of bipolar disorder, it is important that the client demonstrate an
understanding of the need to monitor his or her diet for intake of: - ✔✔sodium
✔✔The tech witnesses different personalities emerging in the client with Dissociative
Identity Disorder (DID). The primary personality is referred to as the: - ✔✔Host
✔✔The provider is planning the discharge of a client who has been prescribed an
antipsychotic medication for paranoid schizophrenia. The provider knows that the client
is most at risk for: - ✔✔noncompliance
✔✔The _____ constitute a class of drugs that are commonly prescribed for cardiac
arrhythmias but also have been found to be effective in the treatment for social phobias.
- ✔✔Beta blockers
✔✔What helps the rational left side of the brain bond with a traumatic memory from the
emotional right side of the brain? - ✔✔Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR)
✔✔A female client is taking an antipsychotic medication for her schizophrenia. The
provider monitors this client for the peripheral nervous system side effects of: -
✔✔tremors and inability to sit still
✔✔Behaviors associated with mental illnesses were more accurately recorded by
professionals. This practice led to _____ for different abnormal behaviors. -
✔✔classifications
✔✔Adult disorders such as chronic anxiety and depression often are associated with
childhood: - ✔✔abuse
✔✔Psychotherapeutic drug therapy works primarily by: - ✔✔Altering chemical balances
within the nervous system
✔✔A female college student is seeking help from the counseling center for test anxiety.
She reports that during an exam, she "freezes and feels like the time I have to take the
exam is racing by and I can't answer any of the questions when I know the answers".
Which level of anxiety is the client experiencing? - ✔✔severe
✔✔Poverty influences the growth and development of children and is often a precursor
to mental health disorders in children. Nearly ____ of children in the US come from
families that live at the poverty level. - ✔✔20%
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔On what is Western medicine primarily based? - ✔✔Scientific research
✔✔Clients with bipolar or cyclothymiacs disorders exhibit different types of: - ✔✔Mania
✔✔Theories that view depression as a group of learned responses are called ____
theories. - ✔✔Behavioral
✔✔The client lives life by rapidly bouncing from feelings of great joy. The client's
diagnosis is most likely: - ✔✔Bipolar disorder
✔✔Which patient right may a client with mental health disorders lose during their
treatment? - ✔✔freedom from restraint or seclusion
✔✔Sexually transmitted diseases (STD's), including HIV/AIDS and pregnancy rates are
highest for: - ✔✔Adolescents
✔✔A group of sexual variations that depart from society's traditional and acceptable
models of seeking sexual gratification is: - ✔✔paraphilias
✔✔A 4 year old client in a pediatric unit is imitating the actions of the provider. The
provider knows according to Erik Erikson's theory, that this child is displaying a
characteristic seen during which developmental stage? - ✔✔Genital-locomotor
✔✔A newly admitted elderly client seems to become confused and agitated every
evening after dinner. This client is most likely suffering from: - ✔✔Sundown syndrome
, ✔✔In preparing discharge planning for a client who has been prescribed lithium for the
treatment of bipolar disorder, it is important that the client demonstrate an
understanding of the need to monitor his or her diet for intake of: - ✔✔sodium
✔✔The tech witnesses different personalities emerging in the client with Dissociative
Identity Disorder (DID). The primary personality is referred to as the: - ✔✔Host
✔✔The provider is planning the discharge of a client who has been prescribed an
antipsychotic medication for paranoid schizophrenia. The provider knows that the client
is most at risk for: - ✔✔noncompliance
✔✔The _____ constitute a class of drugs that are commonly prescribed for cardiac
arrhythmias but also have been found to be effective in the treatment for social phobias.
- ✔✔Beta blockers
✔✔What helps the rational left side of the brain bond with a traumatic memory from the
emotional right side of the brain? - ✔✔Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing (EMDR)
✔✔A female client is taking an antipsychotic medication for her schizophrenia. The
provider monitors this client for the peripheral nervous system side effects of: -
✔✔tremors and inability to sit still
✔✔Behaviors associated with mental illnesses were more accurately recorded by
professionals. This practice led to _____ for different abnormal behaviors. -
✔✔classifications
✔✔Adult disorders such as chronic anxiety and depression often are associated with
childhood: - ✔✔abuse
✔✔Psychotherapeutic drug therapy works primarily by: - ✔✔Altering chemical balances
within the nervous system
✔✔A female college student is seeking help from the counseling center for test anxiety.
She reports that during an exam, she "freezes and feels like the time I have to take the
exam is racing by and I can't answer any of the questions when I know the answers".
Which level of anxiety is the client experiencing? - ✔✔severe
✔✔Poverty influences the growth and development of children and is often a precursor
to mental health disorders in children. Nearly ____ of children in the US come from
families that live at the poverty level. - ✔✔20%
