VATI MENTAL HEALTH 2025 EXAM SCRIPT
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Primary nursing focus in biological model. Answer: Monitor
medication effectiveness, side effects, adherence, and patient safety
⩥ Serotonin function. Answer: Regulates mood, sleep, appetite, and
anxiety
⩥ Low serotonin. Answer: Associated with depression, anxiety, and
OCD
⩥ High serotonin. Answer: Can cause serotonin syndrome (agitation,
fever, diarrhea)
⩥ Medication refusal rule. Answer: Clients may refuse meds unless
court-ordered or an emergency danger to self or others
⩥ Therapeutic communication technique. Answer: Open-ended
questions, reflection, clarification, and silence
, ⩥ Avoid in therapeutic communication. Answer: Why questions, advice,
judgment, false reassurance
⩥ Transference. Answer: Client projects feelings about others onto the
nurse
⩥ Countertransference. Answer: Nurse projects personal feelings onto
the client
⩥ Anxiety becomes a disorder when. Answer: It interferes with
functioning and persists beyond expected stressor
⩥ First-line therapy for anxiety. Answer: Cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT)
⩥ Systematic desensitization. Answer: Gradual exposure to anxiety-
provoking stimulus paired with relaxation
⩥ Flooding (imploding). Answer: Prolonged exposure to feared stimulus
until anxiety decreases
⩥ Benzodiazepine purpose. Answer: Short-term relief of acute anxiety
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Primary nursing focus in biological model. Answer: Monitor
medication effectiveness, side effects, adherence, and patient safety
⩥ Serotonin function. Answer: Regulates mood, sleep, appetite, and
anxiety
⩥ Low serotonin. Answer: Associated with depression, anxiety, and
OCD
⩥ High serotonin. Answer: Can cause serotonin syndrome (agitation,
fever, diarrhea)
⩥ Medication refusal rule. Answer: Clients may refuse meds unless
court-ordered or an emergency danger to self or others
⩥ Therapeutic communication technique. Answer: Open-ended
questions, reflection, clarification, and silence
, ⩥ Avoid in therapeutic communication. Answer: Why questions, advice,
judgment, false reassurance
⩥ Transference. Answer: Client projects feelings about others onto the
nurse
⩥ Countertransference. Answer: Nurse projects personal feelings onto
the client
⩥ Anxiety becomes a disorder when. Answer: It interferes with
functioning and persists beyond expected stressor
⩥ First-line therapy for anxiety. Answer: Cognitive behavioral therapy
(CBT)
⩥ Systematic desensitization. Answer: Gradual exposure to anxiety-
provoking stimulus paired with relaxation
⩥ Flooding (imploding). Answer: Prolonged exposure to feared stimulus
until anxiety decreases
⩥ Benzodiazepine purpose. Answer: Short-term relief of acute anxiety
