THE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW 4TH EDITION CARLAT TEST BANK2024 - 2025
QUESTION AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
THE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW 4TH EDITION
CARLAT TEST BANK 2025 question and verified
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THE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW 4TH
EDITION CARLAT TEST BANK 2025
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(Chapter 1-Chapter 3)The Initial Interview: A Preview Chapter 2: Logistic
Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview
Chapter 3: The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It's Important, and How
to Establish It MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which outcome, focused on recovery, would be expected in the plan of
care for a patient living in the community and diagnosed with serious and
persistent mental illness? Within 3 months, the patient will:
a. deny suicidal ideation.
b. report a sense of well-being.
c. take medications as prescribed.
d. attend clinic appointments
on time. ✔✔CORRECT
✔✔CORRECT
ANSWER: B
Recovery emphasizes managing symptoms, reducing psychosocial disability,
and improving role performance. The goal of recovery is to empower the
individual with mental illness to achieve a sense of meaning and satisfaction
in life and to function at the highest possible level of wellness. The incorrect
options focus on the classic medical model rather than recovery.
2. A patient is hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their
spouse asks for a divorce. Select the nurses most caring comment.
a. Lets discuss some me✔✔CORRECT ANSWER of coping other than
suicide when you have these feelings.
b. I understand why youre so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated
too.
c. You should forget about your marriage and move on with your life.
d. How did you get so depressed that hospitalization
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was necessary? ✔✔CORRECT ANSWER: A
The nurses communication should evidence caring and a commitment to
work with the patient. This commitment lets the patient know the nurse will
help. Probing and advice are not helpful or therapeutic interventions.
3. In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who
wears heavy makeup. Which comment by the nurse who receives the
report best demonstrates advocacy?
a. This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
b. Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
c. Your comments are inconsiderate and inappropriate. Keep the report
objective.
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get
along in society. ✔✔CORRECT ANSWER: D
Accepting patients needs for self-expression and seeking to teach skills that
will contribute to their well-being demonstrate respect and are important
parts of advocacy. The on-coming nurse needs to take action to ensure that
others are not prejudiced against the patient. Humor can be appropriate
within the privacy of a shift report but not at the expense of respect for
patients.
Judging the off-going nurse in a critical way will create conflict. Nurses must
show compassion for each other.
4. A nurse assesses a newly admitted patient diagnosed with major
depressive disorder. Which statement is an example of attending?
a. We all have stress in life. Being in a psychiatric hospital isnt the end of the
world.
b. Tell me why you felt you had to be hospitalized to receive treatment for
your depression.
c. You will feel better after we get some antidepressant medication started for
you.
d. Id like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable
talking with me. ✔✔CORRECT ANSWER: D
Attending is a technique that demonstrates the nurses commitment to the
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relationship and reduces feelings of isolation. This technique shows respect
for the patient and demonstrates caring. Generalizations, probing, and false
reassurances are non-therapeutic.
5. A patient shows the nurse an article from the Internet about a health
problem. Which characteristic of the web sites address most alerts the
nurse that the site may have biased and prejudiced information?
a. Address ends in .org.
b. Address ends in .com.
c. Address ends in .gov.
d. Address ends
in .net.
✔✔CORRE
CT ANSWER:
B
Financial influences on a site are a clue that the information may be biased.
.com at the end of the address indicates that the site is a commercial one.
.gov indicates that the site is maintained by a government entity. .org
indicates that the site is nonproprietary; the site may or may not have
reliable information, but it does not profit from its activities. .net can have
multiple
meanings.
6. A nurse says, When I was in school, I learned to call upset patients by name
to get their attention; however, I read a descriptive research study that says
that this approach does not work. I plan to stop calling patients by name.
Which statement is the best appraisal of this nurses comment?
a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change
practice.
b. Staff nurses apply new research findings only with the help from clinical
nurse specialists.
c. New research findings should be incorporated into clinical algorithms
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QUESTION AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
THE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW 4TH EDITION
CARLAT TEST BANK 2025 question and verified
answers
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QUESTION AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
THE PSYCHIATRIC INTERVIEW 4TH
EDITION CARLAT TEST BANK 2025
question and verified answers
(Chapter 1-Chapter 3)The Initial Interview: A Preview Chapter 2: Logistic
Preparations: What to Do Before the Interview
Chapter 3: The Therapeutic Alliance: What It Is, Why It's Important, and How
to Establish It MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which outcome, focused on recovery, would be expected in the plan of
care for a patient living in the community and diagnosed with serious and
persistent mental illness? Within 3 months, the patient will:
a. deny suicidal ideation.
b. report a sense of well-being.
c. take medications as prescribed.
d. attend clinic appointments
on time. ✔✔CORRECT
✔✔CORRECT
ANSWER: B
Recovery emphasizes managing symptoms, reducing psychosocial disability,
and improving role performance. The goal of recovery is to empower the
individual with mental illness to achieve a sense of meaning and satisfaction
in life and to function at the highest possible level of wellness. The incorrect
options focus on the classic medical model rather than recovery.
2. A patient is hospitalized for depression and suicidal ideation after their
spouse asks for a divorce. Select the nurses most caring comment.
a. Lets discuss some me✔✔CORRECT ANSWER of coping other than
suicide when you have these feelings.
b. I understand why youre so depressed. When I got divorced, I was devastated
too.
c. You should forget about your marriage and move on with your life.
d. How did you get so depressed that hospitalization
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was necessary? ✔✔CORRECT ANSWER: A
The nurses communication should evidence caring and a commitment to
work with the patient. This commitment lets the patient know the nurse will
help. Probing and advice are not helpful or therapeutic interventions.
3. In the shift-change report, an off-going nurse criticizes a patient who
wears heavy makeup. Which comment by the nurse who receives the
report best demonstrates advocacy?
a. This is a psychiatric hospital. Craziness is what we are all about.
b. Lets all show acceptance of this patient by wearing lots of makeup too.
c. Your comments are inconsiderate and inappropriate. Keep the report
objective.
d. Our patients need our help to learn behaviors that will help them get
along in society. ✔✔CORRECT ANSWER: D
Accepting patients needs for self-expression and seeking to teach skills that
will contribute to their well-being demonstrate respect and are important
parts of advocacy. The on-coming nurse needs to take action to ensure that
others are not prejudiced against the patient. Humor can be appropriate
within the privacy of a shift report but not at the expense of respect for
patients.
Judging the off-going nurse in a critical way will create conflict. Nurses must
show compassion for each other.
4. A nurse assesses a newly admitted patient diagnosed with major
depressive disorder. Which statement is an example of attending?
a. We all have stress in life. Being in a psychiatric hospital isnt the end of the
world.
b. Tell me why you felt you had to be hospitalized to receive treatment for
your depression.
c. You will feel better after we get some antidepressant medication started for
you.
d. Id like to sit with you a while so you may feel more comfortable
talking with me. ✔✔CORRECT ANSWER: D
Attending is a technique that demonstrates the nurses commitment to the
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relationship and reduces feelings of isolation. This technique shows respect
for the patient and demonstrates caring. Generalizations, probing, and false
reassurances are non-therapeutic.
5. A patient shows the nurse an article from the Internet about a health
problem. Which characteristic of the web sites address most alerts the
nurse that the site may have biased and prejudiced information?
a. Address ends in .org.
b. Address ends in .com.
c. Address ends in .gov.
d. Address ends
in .net.
✔✔CORRE
CT ANSWER:
B
Financial influences on a site are a clue that the information may be biased.
.com at the end of the address indicates that the site is a commercial one.
.gov indicates that the site is maintained by a government entity. .org
indicates that the site is nonproprietary; the site may or may not have
reliable information, but it does not profit from its activities. .net can have
multiple
meanings.
6. A nurse says, When I was in school, I learned to call upset patients by name
to get their attention; however, I read a descriptive research study that says
that this approach does not work. I plan to stop calling patients by name.
Which statement is the best appraisal of this nurses comment?
a. One descriptive research study rarely provides enough evidence to change
practice.
b. Staff nurses apply new research findings only with the help from clinical
nurse specialists.
c. New research findings should be incorporated into clinical algorithms
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