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Test Bank for PMHNP Boards Exam Questions and Correct
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What is true of interprofessionality? ✔✔ All health professionals have individual
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professional competencies
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What is the significance of an experimental p-value of 0.05 ✔✔ There is a 5%
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chance of a similar result occurring by chance alone
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What percentage of children with oppositional defiance disorder will develop conduct
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disorder? ✔✔ 30%
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In the DSM-5, selective mutism is now considered what type of disorder? ✔✔
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anxiety disorder
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Symptoms of selective mutism must persist for at least ✔✔ 1 month
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Common competencies ✔✔ overlap more than one health care professional,
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although not necessarily all health care professionals, and are competencies
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expected of all health care professionals
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Complementary competencies ✔✔ enhance the qualities of other professions in
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provision of care
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Collaborative competencies ✔✔ those that each individual profession must possess
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to work with others, including those who practice within different specialties within
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a profession.
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Interpersonal collaboration is b9 b9 centered ✔✔ patient b9 b9




Cognitive therapy is recommended for patients that have ✔✔ negative cognitive
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distortions
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faulty conceptions
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Humanistic Therapy focuses on assisting patients with ✔✔ self-actualization and
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self- directed growth
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Behavioral Therapy focuses on ✔✔ changing maladaptive behaviors through the
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use of behavioral modification techniques
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Existential therapy is for ✔✔ reflection on life
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confronting self
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,120 who got diarrhea ate lettuce. 80 with diarrhea did not eat lettuce. 40 without
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diarrhea ate lettuce. 160 without diarrhea ate lettuce. What is the odds ratio of
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eating lettuce and developing diarrhea? ✔✔ 6 ((120X160)/(80x40))
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The New Freedom Commission on Mental Health (NFCMH) released a report
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that suggested ✔✔ implementation a national campaign to reduce the stigma of
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seeking care
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Focusing on promoting recovery and building resilience
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The efficacy of mental health treatments was found to be well documented in ✔✔
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influential report issued by US Surgeon General in 1999
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State of high negative emotion and pessimism ✔✔ neuroticism
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Commonly known as an optimistic outlook on life They are are outgoing, like
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social interaction, respond to external rewards, have more active dopamine
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networks, and are responsive to positive reinforcement. ✔✔ Extraversion (high
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levels protect from psychiatric illness)
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Introverts are more likely to be b9 motivated and more likely to respond to
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negative (more likely to interact with internal motivation/self-image)
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Interpersonal trait of cooperation, easy going nature. Tend to have smooth
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relationships often at the expense of self-assertion ✔✔ Agreeableness
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Associated with self-control and a focused, organized approach to life. Are
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achievement-oriented goal setters who can delay immediate gratification to obtain
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their long term desired outcome. They are considered responsible, reliable, and
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dependable.
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✔✔ conscientiousness
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In behavioral couples therapy, the initial sessions are spent doing a functional
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analysis of behavior (FAB). What is true about FAB? ✔✔ FAB is concerned only
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with observable stimuli connected to operant behavior
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FAB is based on operant conditioning (identifying antecedent stimuli, operant
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behaviors, and consequent stimuli)
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The goal of FAB is modifying willful operant behavior
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Gestalt theory deals with
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behavior
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Medication that can delay ejaculation in patients with premature ejaculation ✔✔
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Paroxetine (and other SSRIs) b9 b9 b9


(others include:
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Tramadol
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First line treatment for lithium induced diabetes insipidus ✔✔ Amiloride (K potassium
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diuretic) in addition to dc lithium when possible.
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Ways to reduce polyuria associated with lithium toxicity ✔✔ reduce lithium dose to
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minimum effective dose
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take once daily at night (may be 5-30% lower than when given in divided doses
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over the day)
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What is true about ECT in Parkinson's disease ✔✔ it's more likely to cause
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transient delirium (worsened dyskinesias induced by l-dopa)
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Lithium effects with Parkison's disease ✔✔ may worsen tremor
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nonselective MAOIs decrease the efficacy of b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 and increase the risk of a
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hypertensive crisis
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Selegiline is selective for ✔✔ MAO-B b9 b9 b9 b9 b9


(after 10mg there is an increase in risk of serotonin syndrome if given with other
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meds that increase serotonin)
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SSRI's can b9 Parkinsonism tremor ✔✔ worsen (and decrease 'off time') b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9 b9




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✔✔
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loss of memory relating to a particular category of information (inability to recall
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important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature,
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that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting) ✔✔ systematized amnesia
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Lack of memories from a circumscribed period of time, usually immediately following
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a traumatic event ✔✔ localized amnesia
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Person can recall some but not all of events from a particular time period ✔✔
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selective amnesia
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Lack of memory of the patient's entire life ✔✔ generalized
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amnesia The drugs that are FDA approved for GAD ✔✔
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b9 Paroxetine

, Citalopram
Escitalopram
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Venlafaxine
Duloxetine
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Buspar

A surrogate has the right to terminate pregnancy if ✔✔ the pregnancy threatens
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her health or life
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or
she is a genetic parent
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If the surrogate receives both ovum and sperm from couple, she loses the right to ✔✔
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determine whether or not child will be aborted (this is up to the couple)
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Which medication is most effective for treating social phobia/social anxiety disorder,
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especially when refractory? ✔✔ Phenelzine
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A 55-year-old female patient has Stg II HTN. On exam, she has trace pedal
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edema bilaterally, but her lungs are clear. Her ECG reveals 2nd degree heart
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block. Which of the following BP medications should be avoided? ✔✔ Calcium
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Channel Blockers
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3 Contraindications to use a calcium channel blocker ✔✔ 1st or second degree
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heart block
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Bradycardia
CHF
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4 Side effects of calcium channel blockers ✔✔ Headache
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Lower extremity edema
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Bradycardia
Heart Block
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An NP is evaluating a 78 year old female with depression. She suspects the patient
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may have Parkinson's disease. Which of the following is consistent with that
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diagnosis? ✔✔ Postural instability
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Pill-rolling tremor b9


Shuffling Gait
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Mask-like facies (difficulty initiating movement)
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Writhing movements occur with ✔✔ Huntington's chorea
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10 Non-motor manifestations of Parkinsons ✔✔ Autonomic dysfunction
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Gastrointestical dysfunction
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