CMHT CORE EXAM TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
RATED A+
✔✔d - ✔✔Medications are used with extreme caution in clients with personality
disorders because of their questionable effectiveness. If a client is receiving an
antipsychotic medication, it is especially important for the nurse to monitor the client for
side effects of:
Select one:
a. Increased thirst and urination, nausea, and anorexia
b. Dry mouth, altered taste, sexual dysfunction, and dizziness
c. Bone marrow depression, gastrointestinal symptoms, and confusion
d. Extrapyramidal movements, dry mouth, blurred vision, and photophobia
✔✔c - ✔✔The main active ingredient in coffee, black teas, most cola drinks, and many
other bottled beverages that stimulates the nervous system, relieves fatigue, increases
alertness, and increases the body's metabolic rate is:
Select one:
a. Alcohol
b. Cocaine
c. Caffeine
d. Amphetamines
✔✔not b - ✔✔The group best able to accept their losses and grow from their
experiences is:
Select one:
a. Adults
b. Toddlers
c. Adolescents
d. School-age children
✔✔d - ✔✔The parents of a 13-year-old girl are concerned that their daughter has a
gender identity disorder. Which sign or symptom most indicates that their concern is
correct?
Select one:
a. Their daughter is playing sports typically considered boys' sports.
b. Their daughter has more male friends than female friends.
c. Their daughter does not like to change her clothes in front of anyone.
d. Their daughter frequently wears clothes designed for males.
✔✔a - ✔✔A prolonged emotional state that influences one's whole personality and life
functioning is called:
Select one:
a. Mood
b. Feeling
c. Attitude
d. Intellectual response
,✔✔c - ✔✔Which symptom of Alzheimer's disease is associated with disorientation to
time and place?
Select one:
a. Forgetting in what order to put clothes on
b. Forgetting simple words
c. Forgetting where he or she lives
d. Becoming suspicious of others
✔✔d - ✔✔A 9-year-old girl is given the diagnosis of depression. She has low self-
esteem, does not enjoy group therapy, and does not show her emotions. The nurse has
had difficulty establishing rapport with this client and decides to ask for assistance from
another treatment team member. Which team member would be the best choice to
assist in this situation?
Select one:
a. Psychiatric assistant
b. Dietitian
c. Occupational therapist
d. Expressive therapist
✔✔a - ✔✔The Omnibus Budget Reform Act (OBRA) of 1987 prevented the housing of
people with chronic mental illness in:
Select one:
a. Nursing homes
b. State mental health facilities
c. Residential treatment centers
d. Homeless shelters
✔✔c - ✔✔Somatization disorder is a polysymptomatic disorder, which means that the
disorder is associated with ____ symptoms.
Select one:
a. Few signs and
b. Polymorphic
c. Many signs and
d. Specific signs and
✔✔d - ✔✔To implement the concept of the least restrictive treatment environment, care
team members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources.
✔✔b - ✔✔Interventions for assaultive clients that focus on protecting the client and
others from potential harm are level ____ interventions.
, Select one:
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
✔✔a - ✔✔During group therapy, certain group change mechanisms may be observed.
When an individual engages in helping others, resulting in improvement in his or her
own self-esteem, which group change mechanism has the individual experienced?
Select one:
a. Altruism
b. Feedback
c. Expressiveness
d. Communion
✔✔a - ✔✔A male client has had agoraphobia for several years. In the past 2 years, he
has not left his home and only speaks to people on the phone occasionally. Which
nursing diagnosis has the highest priority in this situation?
Select one:
a. Social isolation
b. Thought processes, disturbed
c. Coping, ineffective individual
d. Powerlessness
✔✔b - ✔✔When practicing therapeutic communication with a client, the nurse
demonstrates which of the following listening skills?
Select one:
a. Finishing the client's sentences to indicate listening
b. Not interrupting the client
c. Avoiding taking notes to detract from listening
d. Changing the environment to decrease distractions
✔✔a - ✔✔In the late 1980s, government funding for mental health care dwindled, and
most insurance companies __________ coverage for psychiatric care.
Select one:
a. Withdrew
b. Increased
c. Decreased
d. Added
✔✔a - ✔✔A rule of thumb for recovering from a rape or other violent experience states
that the greater the force or brutality, the greater the psychological harm and:
Select one:
a. Recovery time
b. Legal implications
c. Social dysfunction
RATED A+
✔✔d - ✔✔Medications are used with extreme caution in clients with personality
disorders because of their questionable effectiveness. If a client is receiving an
antipsychotic medication, it is especially important for the nurse to monitor the client for
side effects of:
Select one:
a. Increased thirst and urination, nausea, and anorexia
b. Dry mouth, altered taste, sexual dysfunction, and dizziness
c. Bone marrow depression, gastrointestinal symptoms, and confusion
d. Extrapyramidal movements, dry mouth, blurred vision, and photophobia
✔✔c - ✔✔The main active ingredient in coffee, black teas, most cola drinks, and many
other bottled beverages that stimulates the nervous system, relieves fatigue, increases
alertness, and increases the body's metabolic rate is:
Select one:
a. Alcohol
b. Cocaine
c. Caffeine
d. Amphetamines
✔✔not b - ✔✔The group best able to accept their losses and grow from their
experiences is:
Select one:
a. Adults
b. Toddlers
c. Adolescents
d. School-age children
✔✔d - ✔✔The parents of a 13-year-old girl are concerned that their daughter has a
gender identity disorder. Which sign or symptom most indicates that their concern is
correct?
Select one:
a. Their daughter is playing sports typically considered boys' sports.
b. Their daughter has more male friends than female friends.
c. Their daughter does not like to change her clothes in front of anyone.
d. Their daughter frequently wears clothes designed for males.
✔✔a - ✔✔A prolonged emotional state that influences one's whole personality and life
functioning is called:
Select one:
a. Mood
b. Feeling
c. Attitude
d. Intellectual response
,✔✔c - ✔✔Which symptom of Alzheimer's disease is associated with disorientation to
time and place?
Select one:
a. Forgetting in what order to put clothes on
b. Forgetting simple words
c. Forgetting where he or she lives
d. Becoming suspicious of others
✔✔d - ✔✔A 9-year-old girl is given the diagnosis of depression. She has low self-
esteem, does not enjoy group therapy, and does not show her emotions. The nurse has
had difficulty establishing rapport with this client and decides to ask for assistance from
another treatment team member. Which team member would be the best choice to
assist in this situation?
Select one:
a. Psychiatric assistant
b. Dietitian
c. Occupational therapist
d. Expressive therapist
✔✔a - ✔✔The Omnibus Budget Reform Act (OBRA) of 1987 prevented the housing of
people with chronic mental illness in:
Select one:
a. Nursing homes
b. State mental health facilities
c. Residential treatment centers
d. Homeless shelters
✔✔c - ✔✔Somatization disorder is a polysymptomatic disorder, which means that the
disorder is associated with ____ symptoms.
Select one:
a. Few signs and
b. Polymorphic
c. Many signs and
d. Specific signs and
✔✔d - ✔✔To implement the concept of the least restrictive treatment environment, care
team members:
Select one:
a. Monitor the medications schedule.
b. Assess the client's ability to live alone.
c. Assess available financial resources.
d. Assess available community resources.
✔✔b - ✔✔Interventions for assaultive clients that focus on protecting the client and
others from potential harm are level ____ interventions.
, Select one:
a. One
b. Two
c. Three
d. Four
✔✔a - ✔✔During group therapy, certain group change mechanisms may be observed.
When an individual engages in helping others, resulting in improvement in his or her
own self-esteem, which group change mechanism has the individual experienced?
Select one:
a. Altruism
b. Feedback
c. Expressiveness
d. Communion
✔✔a - ✔✔A male client has had agoraphobia for several years. In the past 2 years, he
has not left his home and only speaks to people on the phone occasionally. Which
nursing diagnosis has the highest priority in this situation?
Select one:
a. Social isolation
b. Thought processes, disturbed
c. Coping, ineffective individual
d. Powerlessness
✔✔b - ✔✔When practicing therapeutic communication with a client, the nurse
demonstrates which of the following listening skills?
Select one:
a. Finishing the client's sentences to indicate listening
b. Not interrupting the client
c. Avoiding taking notes to detract from listening
d. Changing the environment to decrease distractions
✔✔a - ✔✔In the late 1980s, government funding for mental health care dwindled, and
most insurance companies __________ coverage for psychiatric care.
Select one:
a. Withdrew
b. Increased
c. Decreased
d. Added
✔✔a - ✔✔A rule of thumb for recovering from a rape or other violent experience states
that the greater the force or brutality, the greater the psychological harm and:
Select one:
a. Recovery time
b. Legal implications
c. Social dysfunction
