Exam - Week 11
Course NRNP-6645-1- Psychotherapy with Multiple Modalities
Test Exam - Week 11
Status Completed
Attempt Score 71 out of 100 points
Time Elapsed 2 hour, 20 minutes out of 2 hours and 30 minutes
The advanced practice psychiatric nurse encourages a patient with gambling addiction to develop a
relapse prevention plan. Which of the following is true about a relapse prevention plan?
A relapse prevention plan includes identifying triggers to thepatient’s gambling and a
A variety of coping strategies to avoid or successfully manage triggers without .
reverting to gambling. B A relapse prevention plan should be completed during
theinitial stage of treatment.
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C themain focus of a relapse prevention plan is on changing behaviors.
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D themain focus of a relapse prevention plan is on cognitive or thought processes to
decrease thedesire to gamble
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Which of the following is consistent with the psychotherapeutic approach used by existential
psychotherapists?
A theexistential approach has a specific set of techniques used.
. B theexistential relies on thepatient to drive thetherapeutic
direction.
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C theexistential therapist presents broad existential themes but avoids
in-depth
questioning.
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D theexistential psychotherapist is free to draw on techniques from
other psychotherapeutic models .
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According to Dearing, Stuewig, and Tangney (2005), understanding thedifference between guilt and
shame and its impact on an individual’s motivation is critical to hope and therecovery process.
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,Which of thefollowing is true regarding guilt and shame?
A Shame drives a person to engage in treatment while guilt drives a person to avoid
treatment.
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B Shame causes a person to perceive self as a failure and guilt causes avoidance of
treatment.
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C Guilt causes a person to perceive himself as a loser and shame drives a person to
avoid treatment.
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D Shame drives avoidance from treatment, Guilt often motivates a person to seek
treatment.
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Which of thefollowing is not consistent with what is known about relapse?
A Relapse indicates treatment failure.
. B Relapse is a persistent risk in
addiction.
. C Relapse is a characteristic of all chronic medical
diseases.
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D Relapse is thereturn to substance use or addictive behaviors after
periods of abstinence.
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The advanced practice psychiatric nurse proficient in Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) is working
with an older adult who does not realize she has depression. Which of thefollowing is true?
A IPT is not an appropriate model for treating depression in older adults.
. B This is a common IPT issue with older adults during theinitial
sessions.
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C theadvanced practice psychiatric nurse should consider using a standardized scale
to quantify thedepression and use this to educate thepatient and thefamily.
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D B and C
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The patient in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) complains theskills being taught in DBT don’t
work, struggles with keeping diary cards, and doing assigned homework. This is consistent with
which stage of treatment within theDBT model?
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, A Stage
1
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B Stage
2
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C Stage
3
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D Stage
4
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The existential concept of an openness, readiness, and flexibility to grow and change, which necessitates
a capacity to choose alternatives, and shape one’s own destiny as authors of creating their own world is
which of thefollowing?
A Freedom
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B Responsibili
ty
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C Authenticity
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D Meaning
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Which of thefollowing is not consistent with a family-centered approach in child therapy?
A In family-centered treatment, thefamily is thefocus of treatment.
. B Family- centered treatment is appropriate to improve family
interactions.
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C Family-centered treatment is appropriate to keep families engaged in services
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D Family-centered treatment is appropriate to increase family knowledge about
mental health.
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The Gestalt therapist notices thepatient is fidgeting with fingers, legs are shaking and asks
the patient “What are you experiencing right now in your body?” This is a type of creative experimentation
known as which of thefollowing?
A Focusing
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B Body awareness
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C Language of
responsibility .
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, D Empty-chair
dialogue .
The advanced practice psychiatric nurse is working with a group of patients in an outpatient substance
abuse treatment program. One patient comes to theadvanced practice psychiatric nurse after thegroup
session and asks if theadvanced practice psychiatric nurse would meet at a nearby Starbucks to clarify a
couple of questions that came up at theend of thesession and fears relapse. Which of thefollowing would
be consistent with thetraditional therapeutic frame?
A Given concerns about relapse it would be important to meet with thepatient
just this . one time and just for 10 minutes but meet in your office.
B Remind thepatient that one of therules is not having contact outside of
therapy
sessions.
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C Agree to meet with patient alone in thegroup room to resolve any
outstanding concerns from thegroup.
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D Agree to meet with thepatient at Starbucks briefly to discuss theunresolved issues,
but only this once and only for 10 minutes.
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Which of thefollowing statements would not be consistent with thehumanistic-existential concept of
“holism” ?
A People are unique.
. B thewhole is greater than thesum of
its parts.
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C Mind, body, spirit work in a unified
synergistic fashion.
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D Dysfunctions such as a chemical
imbalance must be
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Which of thefollowing statements would not be consistent with thehumanistic-existential concept of
“holism” ?
A People are unique.
. B thewhole is
greater than thesum
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