Question: 27 According to Mahler's stage of...

Question: 27

According to Mahler's stage of separation-individuation the phase of "normal autism" occurs during what age range?

A: Birth  to 1 month

B: 10 to 16 months

C:16- 24 months

D: 24- to 36 months

Question 28:

The advanced practice psychiatric nurse may intervene as appropriate with agencies or persons in order to advocate for the patient; do for the patient what he or she cannot do for self, always with an aim toward maximum independence and growth which is consistent with which basic strategy of dynamic supportive therapy?

A.Make connections

B.Encourage patient activity

C.Manipulate the environment

D.Maximize adaptive coping mechanisms

Question 29:

Which of the following is consistent with literature regarding suicide? Check all that apply:

A.     Assessing patient is of paramount importance for the advanced practice psychiatric nurse during the initial patient contact

B.     More than half of those who commit suicide do not have known mental health problem

C.     The highest risk of suicidal is a relationship problem

D.     Suicidality can be assessed by using reliable and valid self-report questionnaires

Question 30:

Common ancestry through which individuals have evolved shared values and customs is knowns as which of the following?

A.     Culture

B.     Ethnicity

C.     Cybernetics

D.     Constructivism

Question 31

The therapist using a CBT approach in which the therapist encourages the patient to investigate whether their thoughts are based on facts or assumptions is known as which of the following?

A.     Labelling of Distortions

B.     Questioning the Evidence

C.     Advantages and Disadvantages

D.     Examining options and Alternatives

         Question 32

Which of the following is not consistent with the underlying assumptions of psychodynamic psychotherapy?

A.     What happened in the past determine what we do today

B.     Psychodynamic psychotherapy is rooted in developmental theory

C.     By changing one's thoughts, emotions and behaviors can be changed

D.     Through understanding the past, the individual is impowered to make more conscious decisions

Question 33

The advanced practice psychiatric nurse is meeting with a patient who is in the process of an unwanted divorce. The patient endorses persistent suicidal ideations, with strong intent. The advanced practice psychiatric nurse recognizes the patient is a high suicide risk and recommends which of the following?

A.     Develop a crisis plan and give emergency numbers.

B.     Hospital psychiatric admission and suicide precautions.

C.     Refer to intensive outpatient therapy and give emergency numbers.

D.     Develop a no-suicide contract and provide emergency numbers.

Question 34:

Which of the following assumptions would the therapist be safe in making about cultural influences in a family?

A.     Cultural context is consistent within family members.

B.     People of the same culture share the same values and assumptions

C.     Everything assumed to be a cultural norm is functional for the family

D.     The cultural context of families is complicated by the fact that most families are influenced by multiple contexts.

Question 35:

The focus of exploration in a relational psychodynamic therapy includes which one of the following?

A.     Then and there

B.     Wish/defense conflicts

C.     Here and now

D.     Sex/and or aggression

Question 36

The CBT therapist ask the patient on the scale of "0 -10 how would you rate your depression today?" " And how that compare to 2 months ago?" This is an example of what type of question type in Socratic dialogue?

A.     Application question

B.     Analysis question

C.     Evaluation question

D.     This would not be a question consistent with Socratic Dialogue

Question 37

Which of the following best describes the difference between standards of care and practice guidelines?

A.     Practice guidelines are legally binding while standards of care are not

B.     Standards of care are legally binding while practice guidelines are not.

C.     There is no difference between standards of care and practice guidelines

D.     Practice guidelines should be followed as written while standards of care are more flexible

Question 38:

Strategies for working with anxiety are central to all therapy approaches. Which strategy would be consistent with a behavioral therapy approach?

A.     Restructuring

B.     Interpretations

C.     Desensitization

D.     Exploring wishes

Question 39:

Which of the following is consistent with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)? Select all that apply:

A.     CBT is a system of psychotherapy based on theoretical framework which maintains how and individual structures one 's experience largely determines how one feels and behaves

B.     Maladaptive thoughts relating to "the cognitive triad" are rooted in irrational or illogical assumptions

C.     By changing one 's thoughts, emotions and behaviors can be changed

D.     A and C

Question 40:

According to Structural Family Therapy model, family structure refers to which of the following?

A.     Birth order

B.     How individuals in the family balance individuality and togetherness.

C.     How individuals in the family experience and express their real feelings

D.     The way families are organized into subsystems separated by emotional boundaries

Question 41:

"They probably think I am stupid" is an example of which type of cognitive distortion?

A.     Comparing

B.     Mind reading

C.     Objectifying the subjective

D.     Externalization of self- worth

Question 42:

In the therapy groups where group members gain through receiving help from group members and giving help to group members, which of Yalom's therapeutic benefits is being realized?

A.     Altruism

B.     Catharsis

C.     Imparting information

D.     Development of socializing techniques

Question 43:

A group member becomes angry with the group leader accusing the leader of being too controlling and showing favoritism. This behavior is consistent with which of Yalom's therapeutic factors?

A.     Catharsis

B.     Interpersonal learning

C.     Development of socializing techniques

D.     The corrective recapitulation of the primary family group.

Question 44:

A group member is relieved to realize that others in the group share feelings of incompetency similar to his own. This is an example of which of the following therapeutic factors?

A.     Altruism

B.     Universality

C.     Imparting of information

D.     Development of socializing techniques.