ATI PN Mental Health Proctored Exam
Questions and Answers (Updated Verified
Answers)
• What are cognitive symptoms of psychotic disorders . Answer: -disordered
thinking
-inability to make decisions
-poor problem solving ability
-difficult concentrating to perform tasks
-Memory deficits
• Misconstrues trivial events and attaches personal significance to them, such as
believing that others, who are discussing the next meal, are talking about them .
Answer: ideas of reference
• Feels singled out for harm by others (being hunted down by FBI) . Answer:
Persecution
• Believes that she is all powerful and important like a god . Answer: grandeur
• believes that his body is changing in an unusual way, scubas growing a third arm
. Answer: somatic delusions
• May feel that her spouse is sexually involved with another individual . Answer:
Jealousy
• Believes that a force outside his body is controlling him . Answer: being
controlled
• believes that her thoughts are heard by others . Answer: thought broacasting
• believes that others thoughts are being inserted into his mind . Answer: thought
insertion
• Believe that her thoughts have been removed form her mind by an outside agency
. Answer: thought withdrawal
• is obsessed with religious beliefs . Answer: religiosity
,• The client may say sentence after sentence but each sentence may relate to
another topic and the listeniner is bale to follow the clients thoughts . Answer:
flight of ideas
• Made up words that have meaning only to the client such as i tranged and flitted. .
Answer: neologisms
• What are the standardized screen tools for psychotic disorders . Answer: -Global
assessment of functioning scale
-scale for assessment of negative symptoms
-brief psychiatric rating scale
-Brief psychiatric rating scale
-abnormal involuntary movement scale (AIMS)
• What antidepressants are prescribed for psychotic disorders . Answer: Paxil
(Peroxetine)
-monitor for SI
-Notify for deepened depression
-Do not stop abruptly
• What are the anxiolytics/ benzo's used for psychotic disorders? . Answer: -Ativan
(Lorazepam)
-Klonopin
-sedative effects
-need to get blood tests for ANC
-use caution in older adults
• What are the personality disorders in cluster A . Answer: (Odd and eccentric
traits)
-Paranoid
-Schizoid
-Schizotypal
• Characterized by odd beliefs leading to interpersonal difficulties, an eccentric
appearance, and magical thinking or perceptual distortions that are not clear
delusions or hallucinations . Answer: schizotypal
, • Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others.
Ex: a nurse who lost a family member in a fire is a volunteer firefighter . Answer:
Altruism
• Dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by unconsciously substitute
acceptable forms of expression.
Ex: a person who has feelings of anger and hostility toward his work supervisor
sublimates those feelings by working out vigorously a the gym during his lunch
period . Answer: Sublimation
• Voluntarily denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings.
Ex: A person who has lost his job states he will worry about paying his bills next
week . Answer: Suppression
• Putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of conscious awareness.
Ex: a person who has a fear of the dentist's drill continually "forgets" his dental
appointments. . Answer: Repression
• What are healthy defense mechanisms? . Answer: alturism and sublimation
• what are intermediate defenses . Answer: repression
reaction formation
displacement
rationalization
undoing
• What are immature defenses . Answer: projection
dissociation
splitting
denial
• Shifting feelings related to an object, person, or situation to another less
threatening object, person, or situation
Ex: A person who is angry about losing his job destroys his child's favorite toy .
Answer: displacement
• Overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is felt.
Ex: a person who dislikes her sisters daughter offers to babysit so that her sister
can go out of town . Answer: reaction formation
Questions and Answers (Updated Verified
Answers)
• What are cognitive symptoms of psychotic disorders . Answer: -disordered
thinking
-inability to make decisions
-poor problem solving ability
-difficult concentrating to perform tasks
-Memory deficits
• Misconstrues trivial events and attaches personal significance to them, such as
believing that others, who are discussing the next meal, are talking about them .
Answer: ideas of reference
• Feels singled out for harm by others (being hunted down by FBI) . Answer:
Persecution
• Believes that she is all powerful and important like a god . Answer: grandeur
• believes that his body is changing in an unusual way, scubas growing a third arm
. Answer: somatic delusions
• May feel that her spouse is sexually involved with another individual . Answer:
Jealousy
• Believes that a force outside his body is controlling him . Answer: being
controlled
• believes that her thoughts are heard by others . Answer: thought broacasting
• believes that others thoughts are being inserted into his mind . Answer: thought
insertion
• Believe that her thoughts have been removed form her mind by an outside agency
. Answer: thought withdrawal
• is obsessed with religious beliefs . Answer: religiosity
,• The client may say sentence after sentence but each sentence may relate to
another topic and the listeniner is bale to follow the clients thoughts . Answer:
flight of ideas
• Made up words that have meaning only to the client such as i tranged and flitted. .
Answer: neologisms
• What are the standardized screen tools for psychotic disorders . Answer: -Global
assessment of functioning scale
-scale for assessment of negative symptoms
-brief psychiatric rating scale
-Brief psychiatric rating scale
-abnormal involuntary movement scale (AIMS)
• What antidepressants are prescribed for psychotic disorders . Answer: Paxil
(Peroxetine)
-monitor for SI
-Notify for deepened depression
-Do not stop abruptly
• What are the anxiolytics/ benzo's used for psychotic disorders? . Answer: -Ativan
(Lorazepam)
-Klonopin
-sedative effects
-need to get blood tests for ANC
-use caution in older adults
• What are the personality disorders in cluster A . Answer: (Odd and eccentric
traits)
-Paranoid
-Schizoid
-Schizotypal
• Characterized by odd beliefs leading to interpersonal difficulties, an eccentric
appearance, and magical thinking or perceptual distortions that are not clear
delusions or hallucinations . Answer: schizotypal
, • Dealing with anxiety by reaching out to others.
Ex: a nurse who lost a family member in a fire is a volunteer firefighter . Answer:
Altruism
• Dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by unconsciously substitute
acceptable forms of expression.
Ex: a person who has feelings of anger and hostility toward his work supervisor
sublimates those feelings by working out vigorously a the gym during his lunch
period . Answer: Sublimation
• Voluntarily denying unpleasant thoughts and feelings.
Ex: A person who has lost his job states he will worry about paying his bills next
week . Answer: Suppression
• Putting unacceptable ideas, thoughts, and emotions out of conscious awareness.
Ex: a person who has a fear of the dentist's drill continually "forgets" his dental
appointments. . Answer: Repression
• What are healthy defense mechanisms? . Answer: alturism and sublimation
• what are intermediate defenses . Answer: repression
reaction formation
displacement
rationalization
undoing
• What are immature defenses . Answer: projection
dissociation
splitting
denial
• Shifting feelings related to an object, person, or situation to another less
threatening object, person, or situation
Ex: A person who is angry about losing his job destroys his child's favorite toy .
Answer: displacement
• Overcompensating or demonstrating the opposite behavior of what is felt.
Ex: a person who dislikes her sisters daughter offers to babysit so that her sister
can go out of town . Answer: reaction formation
