CMHT EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The term "sandwich generation" best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A male client is in the process of being admitted to a mental
health facility. He is sure that the nurse is the administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's
insistence that he is a staff nurse on the unit. This client is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A client with the diagnosis of depersonalization disorder
notices that he experiences periods of depersonalization when confronted with certain stressors.
When developing the care plan, the nurse is aware that one of the most helpful activities in self-
control for this client is for the client to:
Select one:
a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his thoughts and feelings every time he is
confronted with a stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his stress level.
,c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅For children older than 4 years, separation anxiety should
last for no longer than:
Select one:
a. A few days
b. A few weeks
c. A few months
d. 1 year
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The nurse begins discharge planning measures with a
hospitalized client:
Select one:
a. Near the time of discharge
b. At the time of admission
c. 3 days into the hospital stay
d. On the day before discharge
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅During a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a terminal
illness, the nurse is trying to determine what the client's history is with regard to losses. Which
question will best assess this area?
Select one:
a. "How easily do you adapt to new situations?"
b. "What is your understanding of the current situation?"
c. "Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?"
d. "How is this situation affecting your family?"
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅While performing a search of an adult male's home based on
suspicion of criminal activity, the police find pictures of him with young children between the
ages of 5 and 10. The pictures are sexual in nature. The man is suspected of:
Select one:
a. Voyeurism
,b. Sexual sadism
c. Pedophilia
d. Necrophilia
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Toddlers often express their anger through:
Select one:
a. Crying
b. Manipulation
c. Temper tantrums
d. Direct aggression
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The client was injured in a work accident. He now has a
fused spine and moves with difficulty. He wonders if he will ever be able to be intimate with his
wife. What is the nurse's most accurate response?
Select one:
a. "You will not be able to engage in sexual activity."
b. "You can enjoy a satisfying sex life with some adaptation."
c. "You eventually will return to the preinjury level of functioning."
d. "You will become more sexually active after you recover from the injuries."
a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The CMA is administering an antianxiety medication to a
client. Monitoring side effects is the responsibility of which member of the health care team?
Select one:
a. Nurse
b. CMA
c. Physician
d. Therapist
, b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A client response to the termination phase of the therapeutic
relationship is withdrawal. This response most often is manifested by client behaviors such as:
Select one:
a. Bringing up new problems
b. Being absent from appointments
c. Returning to maladaptive behavior
d. Having increased anxiety
A - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅When reviewing the nursing notes from the previous shift,
the nurse notices notations indicating that the client was experiencing a somnolent level of
consciousness. The client's behavior would be described as:
Select one:
a. Falling asleep easily and only awakening with strong verbal stimuli
b. Frequently sleeping and awakening only to strong physical stimuli
c. Unresponsive to any verbal or painful stimuli
d. Having alternating periods of excitability and drowsiness
***Not C - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅When care is provided for a dying client in pain,
addiction to analgesics is:
Select one:
a. Not an issue
b. To be evaluated daily
c. To be carefully avoided
d. To be prevented with pain management techniques
a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A client in an inpatient mental health setting is scheduled to
be discharged, with follow-up at a community mental health center. His family is concerned that
his inpatient stay was not long enough, and he will be re-admitted in the near future. The nurse
knows that the average length of inpatient stay is:
Select one:
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The term "sandwich generation" best describes adults:
Select one:
a. Caught between adulthood and late adulthood
b. Caring for their children and aging parents
c. Caring for their children and grandchildren
d. Caught between young adulthood and adulthood
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A male client is in the process of being admitted to a mental
health facility. He is sure that the nurse is the administrator of the hospital, despite the nurse's
insistence that he is a staff nurse on the unit. This client is experiencing:
Select one:
a. Acute confusion
b. Visual hallucinations
c. Delusions
d. Auditory hallucinations
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A client with the diagnosis of depersonalization disorder
notices that he experiences periods of depersonalization when confronted with certain stressors.
When developing the care plan, the nurse is aware that one of the most helpful activities in self-
control for this client is for the client to:
Select one:
a. Contact a treatment team member to discuss his thoughts and feelings every time he is
confronted with a stressor.
b. Keep a daily journal of his thoughts and feelings, paying special attention to thoughts and
feelings during stressful times.
c. Recall periods of stressful times in his life during his clinic visit.
d. Join an exercise program that will help to decrease his stress level.
,c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅For children older than 4 years, separation anxiety should
last for no longer than:
Select one:
a. A few days
b. A few weeks
c. A few months
d. 1 year
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The nurse begins discharge planning measures with a
hospitalized client:
Select one:
a. Near the time of discharge
b. At the time of admission
c. 3 days into the hospital stay
d. On the day before discharge
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅During a crisis assessment due to the diagnosis of a terminal
illness, the nurse is trying to determine what the client's history is with regard to losses. Which
question will best assess this area?
Select one:
a. "How easily do you adapt to new situations?"
b. "What is your understanding of the current situation?"
c. "Who or what has helped you through crisis situations in the past?"
d. "How is this situation affecting your family?"
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅While performing a search of an adult male's home based on
suspicion of criminal activity, the police find pictures of him with young children between the
ages of 5 and 10. The pictures are sexual in nature. The man is suspected of:
Select one:
a. Voyeurism
,b. Sexual sadism
c. Pedophilia
d. Necrophilia
c - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Toddlers often express their anger through:
Select one:
a. Crying
b. Manipulation
c. Temper tantrums
d. Direct aggression
b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The client was injured in a work accident. He now has a
fused spine and moves with difficulty. He wonders if he will ever be able to be intimate with his
wife. What is the nurse's most accurate response?
Select one:
a. "You will not be able to engage in sexual activity."
b. "You can enjoy a satisfying sex life with some adaptation."
c. "You eventually will return to the preinjury level of functioning."
d. "You will become more sexually active after you recover from the injuries."
a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The CMA is administering an antianxiety medication to a
client. Monitoring side effects is the responsibility of which member of the health care team?
Select one:
a. Nurse
b. CMA
c. Physician
d. Therapist
, b - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A client response to the termination phase of the therapeutic
relationship is withdrawal. This response most often is manifested by client behaviors such as:
Select one:
a. Bringing up new problems
b. Being absent from appointments
c. Returning to maladaptive behavior
d. Having increased anxiety
A - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅When reviewing the nursing notes from the previous shift,
the nurse notices notations indicating that the client was experiencing a somnolent level of
consciousness. The client's behavior would be described as:
Select one:
a. Falling asleep easily and only awakening with strong verbal stimuli
b. Frequently sleeping and awakening only to strong physical stimuli
c. Unresponsive to any verbal or painful stimuli
d. Having alternating periods of excitability and drowsiness
***Not C - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅When care is provided for a dying client in pain,
addiction to analgesics is:
Select one:
a. Not an issue
b. To be evaluated daily
c. To be carefully avoided
d. To be prevented with pain management techniques
a - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅A client in an inpatient mental health setting is scheduled to
be discharged, with follow-up at a community mental health center. His family is concerned that
his inpatient stay was not long enough, and he will be re-admitted in the near future. The nurse
knows that the average length of inpatient stay is:
Select one:
