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Behavioral Health Technician Practice
The provider must be aware of physical signs and symptoms of depression because these are often the first, sometimes overlooked signs of the disorder. Physical signs and symptoms of depression include: - ✔ ✔ Abdominal Pain
One of the major goals of therapy for adolescents with chemical dependency is: - ✔ ✔ Replacing the use of chemicals with effective coping skills
Most psychosomatic problems and somatoform disorders begin in: - ✔ ✔ Childhood
A woman goes to a late movie with her friends and gets home after midnight. She is scheduled to play in a tennis tournament early the next morning and loses all her matches. She blames the line judge for her loss, rather than her poor play. Which coping mechanism best describes her response to losing the match? - ✔ ✔ Rationalization
Children who do not fully develop the ability to respond and communicate their needs and therefore sometimes remain dependent upon others throughout their lives are most accurately described as having: - ✔ ✔ Autism
Culture includes common beliefs and practices in areas such as religion, economics, diet, health, and: - ✔ ✔ Pattern of communication
What mental health disorder was electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) most often used to treat? - ✔ ✔ Severe depression
Addiction to recreational drugs, such as crack, cocaine, and heroin, combined with the use of psychotherapeutic drugs is associated with - ✔ ✔ Permanent Psychotic Disorder
A client is continually late for his appointments at the mental health clinic. What is a likely reason for his lack of punctuality? - ✔ ✔ Time orientation
Written documentation that specifies medical treatment for a competent patient should the patient become unable to make decisions is called: - ✔ ✔ An advance directive
A male client is seeking help in a mental health clinic for anger management problems. He voices that he is fearful that his wife may divorce him because of his anger problems, and he is willing to do "whatever it takes" to control his anger. Later in the week, the client's wife also seeks assistance because she is going to divorce her husband. The provider who is caring for both of these client's tries to decide the correct action to take. The provider is experiencing: - ✔ ✔ An ethical conflict
The technician is aware that he or she may be administering the new anti-anxiety medication pregabalin (Lyrica) to clients without an anxiety disorder for the purpose of treating - ✔ ✔ Neuropathic Pain
Dissociative disorders most often results when an individual is attempting to cope with: - ✔ ✔ Extreme emotional anxiety or distress
During the provider assessment before admission to a mental health facility, the client states that he was found to have driven his car to
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
Adult disorders such as chronic anxiety and depression often are associated with childhood: - ✔ ✔ Abuse
It is important to be aware that ______ % of individuals over the age of 45 years old take prescription, over the counter, or a combination of these medications. - ✔ ✔ 95%
What is the main issue for adolescents with Anorexia? - ✔ ✔ Body Image
Which of the following is considered a primary provider diagnosis for a client with dissociative disorder? - ✔ ✔ Personal identity, disturbed
With regard to the environment, it is important for the tech to be aware of lighting for some clients. Clients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia may be bothered by lights that are flickering because this may trigger: - ✔ ✔ Photophobia
The medication donepezil (Aricept) is used frequently to treat the early stage symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. When administering this particular medication, the Nurse, should be especially alert to assess the client for: - ✔ ✔ Weight Changes
Flat Affect - ✔ ✔ Unresponsive Emotions
Ability to respond to life's circumstances in an appropriate manner and to be accountable for one's actions. - ✔ ✔ Maturity
Bright colors in the environment of the client are often - ✔ ✔ Frightening
Side effect that can occur while the client is taking antipsychotic medication, causing muscle rigidity, high fever, unstable vital signs, confusion, and agitation. - ✔ ✔ Drug Induced Parkinsonsim
If a client is involuntarily committed to a mental health care facility indefinitely, the law requires that the case must be reviewed every - ✔ ✔ 3 months
During an admission assessment, a male client states he has been having auditory hallucinations and difficulty concentrating at work. This type of data is referred to as - ✔ ✔ Subjective
The provider is administering medications to a client with a diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia. The provider would expect to see which medication ordered for the client? - ✔ ✔ Risperdal
A female client has been taking an antipsychotic medication for several years. It is of vital importance for the provider to observe the client for tardive dyskinesia. Signs of symptoms of tardive dyskinesia include: - ✔ ✔ Repetitious, involuntary muscle movements in the face and extremities
Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive disorder can occur in children as young as: - ✔ ✔ 3 years old
An elderly man has serious vision problems and is no longer able to obtain a driver's license. He has been very independent until this time. Which nursing diagnosis is most appropriate for this situation? - ✔ ✔ Self-esteem, risk for situational low
Clients who are taking lithium must monitor their water and salt intake because: - ✔ ✔ Lithium is excreted by the kidneys more rapidly than sodium
Children should undergo further evaluation when their weight is ____% above their height. - ✔ ✔ 20%
