Medical Terminology: A Short Course – (Chapters 1–5) |
Davi-Ellen Chabner | 15th Edition | Complete Exam
Questions & Correct Answers | Latest Update 2025/26
Assessing resiliency is a part of the overall mental health evaluation process and could be
defined as which of the following?
a. Adaptability
b. Resourcefulness
c. self-efficacy
d. the ability to bounce back from negative life experiences
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
Bowlby attachment theory is a developmental perspective about anxiety that consists of
three essential concepts- which of the following is NOT included?
A) Attachment
B) Impotence
C) Seperation
D) Loss
B) Impotence
One of the targets of Healthy People 2020 focuses in the United States in which mental
health promotion issue?
reducing childhood and adolescent suicide
Systemic desensitization involves all of the following except which one?
a. Relaxation techniques
b. Gradual exposure to feared object
c. Resolution of childhood conflicts
d. Mindfulness
c. Resolution of childhood conflicts
What psychotherapeutic modalities that can be most effective for anxiety disorders?
CBT, relaxation with feedback, and mindfulness
Which of the following is most important initial step when a patient is in crisis?
a. Identify whether or not the patient has a home to live in
b. Identify the patients current level of functioning
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,c. Identify other staff that have more training in diagnosing mental health disorders
d. Identify whether the patient has intent to harm himself or others
d. Identify whether the patient has intent to harm himself or others
Which of the following PMHNP activities may contribute to successfully accomplishing the
Healthy People 2020 goals?
a. Teach educators about suicide screening and prevention at the local high school
b. Use the beck depression inventory scale in private practice
c. Provide mental health care to children and adolescents
d. Provide education to high school students and their parents about eating disorder
behaviors. Write a local senator about current NP practice restrictions
a. Teach educators about suicide screening and prevention at the local high school
True or False:Anxiety disorders are more common in people of lower socioeconomic status
False
A client seeks treatment from a solution-focused therapist for somatic complaints. What
would the therapists question to the client most likely be?
A) Can you tell me what happened in your childhood?
B) Tell me about the surgeries you have had
C) When you aren't in terrible pain or visiting your doctor, what are you doing instead
D) What was going on in your life when the pain started?
C) When you aren't in terrible pain or visiting your doctor, what are you doing instead
Ability to cope with stress, religious ties, and frustration tolerance are known as
Internal protective factors
Communication accommodation therapy (CAT) provides a useful framework for examining
the dynamics of patient-practitioner communication and has a particular relevance for
comparing language-discrepant and language congruent communication. In theoretical
terms, what does CAT propose?
A) Speakers attempt to diverge their manner of speaking, to accomplish important social
goals around attaining social approval, identity and so on
B) The extent to which speaks over-talk reflects the need for communication efficiency
C) Convergence is viewed as positive and normative
D) Convergence in manner of speaking reflects a specific intention to do so and is normally
perceived negatively
C) Convergence is viewed as positive and normative
"How did you feel when your mother said that to you?" is an example of which
therapeutic communication technique:
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,Exploring
The learned behaviors and beliefs common among all members of a group is defined as?
Culture
The Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) helps providers integrate
suicide prevention strategies into their practice including which of the following?
a) Assessment of risk factors
b) protective factors that can be enhanced
c) a scale to determine the level of risk and possible interventions
d) All of the answers
d) All of the answers
Thoughts feelings and behaviors associated with early important relationships with
caretakers and significant others that may impact the way the patient treats or interacts
with the therapist are known as
Transference
What are the CLAS standards in healthcare?
Intended to advance health equity improve quality and help eliminate health care disparities
by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and healthcare organizations to
implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS= culturally and
linguistically appropriate services)
What is the definition that best articulates the spirit of empathy?
A process of understanding whereby the nurse enters the patient's perceptual world, The
patient feels understood and confirmation of self occurs as a part of the process.
Which of the following are sings of an APRN's countertransfernce
Denying pathology for the person's best interest, allowing free sessions, and ignoring the
outcome of therapeutic errors.
A biopsychosocial evaluation includes several steps and categories of information gathered
during the patient interview. It also includes the assessment of which category(ies)?
a. Ego functioning
b. Affective development
c. Interpersonal relationships
d. Adult attachments
e. All of the answers
e. All of the answers
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, Assessing ego strength is part of the overall mental health evaluation process. What could
Ego strength be defined as?
a. Adaptability
b. Resourcefulness
c. Self-efficacy
d. Life satisfaction
e. All of the answers
e. All of the answers
Assessing resiliency is a part of the overall mental health evaluation process and could be
defined as which of the following?
a. Adaptability
b. Resourcefulness
c. self-efficacy
d. the ability to bounce back from negative life experiences
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
The PMHNP is assessing a patients ego functioning in the initial assessment. What does an
assessment of ego function include?
a. Socratic questioning
b. Assessment of patient strengths
c. Completing a genogram
d. Assessing for presence of delusions and hallucinations
b) assessment of patient strengths
The range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health
status are known as?
Determinants of Health
There are several approaches for developing a case formulation. Which of the following
best describes this process?
a. It consists of interviewing the patient and completing a screening tool
b. It is a skill set that is very easily learned
c. It is primarily used by physicians and not really necessary for PMHNPS
d. It is a descriptive process that organizes, explains and makes sense of the information
collected
d. It is a descriptive process that organizes, explains and makes sense of the information
collected
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Davi-Ellen Chabner | 15th Edition | Complete Exam
Questions & Correct Answers | Latest Update 2025/26
Assessing resiliency is a part of the overall mental health evaluation process and could be
defined as which of the following?
a. Adaptability
b. Resourcefulness
c. self-efficacy
d. the ability to bounce back from negative life experiences
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
Bowlby attachment theory is a developmental perspective about anxiety that consists of
three essential concepts- which of the following is NOT included?
A) Attachment
B) Impotence
C) Seperation
D) Loss
B) Impotence
One of the targets of Healthy People 2020 focuses in the United States in which mental
health promotion issue?
reducing childhood and adolescent suicide
Systemic desensitization involves all of the following except which one?
a. Relaxation techniques
b. Gradual exposure to feared object
c. Resolution of childhood conflicts
d. Mindfulness
c. Resolution of childhood conflicts
What psychotherapeutic modalities that can be most effective for anxiety disorders?
CBT, relaxation with feedback, and mindfulness
Which of the following is most important initial step when a patient is in crisis?
a. Identify whether or not the patient has a home to live in
b. Identify the patients current level of functioning
1|Page
,c. Identify other staff that have more training in diagnosing mental health disorders
d. Identify whether the patient has intent to harm himself or others
d. Identify whether the patient has intent to harm himself or others
Which of the following PMHNP activities may contribute to successfully accomplishing the
Healthy People 2020 goals?
a. Teach educators about suicide screening and prevention at the local high school
b. Use the beck depression inventory scale in private practice
c. Provide mental health care to children and adolescents
d. Provide education to high school students and their parents about eating disorder
behaviors. Write a local senator about current NP practice restrictions
a. Teach educators about suicide screening and prevention at the local high school
True or False:Anxiety disorders are more common in people of lower socioeconomic status
False
A client seeks treatment from a solution-focused therapist for somatic complaints. What
would the therapists question to the client most likely be?
A) Can you tell me what happened in your childhood?
B) Tell me about the surgeries you have had
C) When you aren't in terrible pain or visiting your doctor, what are you doing instead
D) What was going on in your life when the pain started?
C) When you aren't in terrible pain or visiting your doctor, what are you doing instead
Ability to cope with stress, religious ties, and frustration tolerance are known as
Internal protective factors
Communication accommodation therapy (CAT) provides a useful framework for examining
the dynamics of patient-practitioner communication and has a particular relevance for
comparing language-discrepant and language congruent communication. In theoretical
terms, what does CAT propose?
A) Speakers attempt to diverge their manner of speaking, to accomplish important social
goals around attaining social approval, identity and so on
B) The extent to which speaks over-talk reflects the need for communication efficiency
C) Convergence is viewed as positive and normative
D) Convergence in manner of speaking reflects a specific intention to do so and is normally
perceived negatively
C) Convergence is viewed as positive and normative
"How did you feel when your mother said that to you?" is an example of which
therapeutic communication technique:
2|Page
,Exploring
The learned behaviors and beliefs common among all members of a group is defined as?
Culture
The Suicide Assessment Five-Step Evaluation and Triage (SAFE-T) helps providers integrate
suicide prevention strategies into their practice including which of the following?
a) Assessment of risk factors
b) protective factors that can be enhanced
c) a scale to determine the level of risk and possible interventions
d) All of the answers
d) All of the answers
Thoughts feelings and behaviors associated with early important relationships with
caretakers and significant others that may impact the way the patient treats or interacts
with the therapist are known as
Transference
What are the CLAS standards in healthcare?
Intended to advance health equity improve quality and help eliminate health care disparities
by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and healthcare organizations to
implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS= culturally and
linguistically appropriate services)
What is the definition that best articulates the spirit of empathy?
A process of understanding whereby the nurse enters the patient's perceptual world, The
patient feels understood and confirmation of self occurs as a part of the process.
Which of the following are sings of an APRN's countertransfernce
Denying pathology for the person's best interest, allowing free sessions, and ignoring the
outcome of therapeutic errors.
A biopsychosocial evaluation includes several steps and categories of information gathered
during the patient interview. It also includes the assessment of which category(ies)?
a. Ego functioning
b. Affective development
c. Interpersonal relationships
d. Adult attachments
e. All of the answers
e. All of the answers
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, Assessing ego strength is part of the overall mental health evaluation process. What could
Ego strength be defined as?
a. Adaptability
b. Resourcefulness
c. Self-efficacy
d. Life satisfaction
e. All of the answers
e. All of the answers
Assessing resiliency is a part of the overall mental health evaluation process and could be
defined as which of the following?
a. Adaptability
b. Resourcefulness
c. self-efficacy
d. the ability to bounce back from negative life experiences
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
The PMHNP is assessing a patients ego functioning in the initial assessment. What does an
assessment of ego function include?
a. Socratic questioning
b. Assessment of patient strengths
c. Completing a genogram
d. Assessing for presence of delusions and hallucinations
b) assessment of patient strengths
The range of personal, social, economic, and environmental factors that influence health
status are known as?
Determinants of Health
There are several approaches for developing a case formulation. Which of the following
best describes this process?
a. It consists of interviewing the patient and completing a screening tool
b. It is a skill set that is very easily learned
c. It is primarily used by physicians and not really necessary for PMHNPS
d. It is a descriptive process that organizes, explains and makes sense of the information
collected
d. It is a descriptive process that organizes, explains and makes sense of the information
collected
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