BRAIN STORY CERTIFICATION TEST 2026
EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CERTIFICATION REVIEW STUDY SHEET
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
⩥ what does MhTC participate in. Answer: planning and implementing
of individual patient treatment plans
⩥ what are some of the career responsibilities. Answer: care for mentally
impaired or emotionally disturbed people, hygiene of patients, patients
pulse, temperature, an respiration, issue medications from dispensary
and maintain records, lead prescribed individual or group therapy
sessions as part of therapeutic procedures, assist patients with daily
living activities
⩥ asylum. Answer: an institution offering shelter and support to people
who are mentally ill.
⩥ case management. Answer: coordination of a variety of community
services, monitoring the services, and advocating for individuals
suffering from ongoing mental health issues
⩥ deinstitutionalization. Answer: The process of transferring patients
with mental disorders or developmental disabilities from long-term
,institutions, which isolate the patient, to more integrated community-
based mental health services
⩥ mental disorder. Answer: clinically significant behavior or
psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and is
associated with present distress, disability or with significantly increases
risk of suffering, death, pain, disability or an important loss of freedom
⩥ DSM-IV codes. Answer: used by professionals to describe features of
mental disorders and indicate how disorder can be distinguished from
other, similar problems
⩥ Mental health in the 1790's. Answer: period of enlightenment
concerning persons with mental illness
⩥ who formulated the concept of asylum as a safe refuge. Answer:
Phillippe Pinel and William Turkes
⩥ what percentage of countries have no clear federal policy that
addresses mental health issues. Answer: 50%
⩥ Dorothea Dix. Answer: began a crusade to reform the treatment of
mental illness after visiting Tuke's institution in England. She advocated
adequate shelter, nutritious food and warm clothing
,⩥ Benjamin Rush. Answer: took the philsophy of Pinel and Tuke and
realized that more progressive treatments were needed
⩥ Eugene Bleuler, Sigmund Freud, Emil Kraepelin. Answer: study of
psychiatry, the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness started
⩥ Adolf Meyer. Answer: promoted establishment of psychiatric research
center
⩥ Patients Bill of Rights. Answer: protect mentally ill
⩥ akathisia. Answer: movement disorder characterized by a feeling of
inner restlessness and inability to stay still.
⩥ anticholinergic side effects. Answer: dry mouth and related dental
problems, blurred vision, tendency toward overheating (hyperpyrexia),
and in some cases, dementia-like symptoms.
⩥ anticholinergic. Answer: Opposing the actions of the neurotransmitter
acetylcholine
⩥ black box warning. Answer: strictest warning put in the labeling of
prescription drugs or drug products by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) when there is reasonable evidence of an
association of a serious hazard with the drug.
, ⩥ dopamine. Answer: a compound present in the body as a
neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including
epinephrine.
⩥ extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Answer: caused by anti psychotic
medications, include acute dyskinesias and dystonic reactions, tardive
dyskinesia, Parkinsonism, akinesia, akathisia, and neuroleptic malignant
syndrome.mood
⩥ MRI. Answer: magnetic resonance imaging, produced detailed images
of organs, noninvasive
⩥ efficacy. Answer: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
⩥ CT. Answer: computed tomography, detailed images of internal
organs, bones, soft tissues, blood vessels
⩥ dystonia. Answer: abnormal muscle tone, muscular spasm, usually
due to neurological disease
⩥ limbic system. Answer: a complex system of nerves and networks in
the brain, involving several areas near the edge of the cortex concerned
with instinct and mood. It controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure,
anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring).
EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
CERTIFICATION REVIEW STUDY SHEET
VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
⩥ what does MhTC participate in. Answer: planning and implementing
of individual patient treatment plans
⩥ what are some of the career responsibilities. Answer: care for mentally
impaired or emotionally disturbed people, hygiene of patients, patients
pulse, temperature, an respiration, issue medications from dispensary
and maintain records, lead prescribed individual or group therapy
sessions as part of therapeutic procedures, assist patients with daily
living activities
⩥ asylum. Answer: an institution offering shelter and support to people
who are mentally ill.
⩥ case management. Answer: coordination of a variety of community
services, monitoring the services, and advocating for individuals
suffering from ongoing mental health issues
⩥ deinstitutionalization. Answer: The process of transferring patients
with mental disorders or developmental disabilities from long-term
,institutions, which isolate the patient, to more integrated community-
based mental health services
⩥ mental disorder. Answer: clinically significant behavior or
psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and is
associated with present distress, disability or with significantly increases
risk of suffering, death, pain, disability or an important loss of freedom
⩥ DSM-IV codes. Answer: used by professionals to describe features of
mental disorders and indicate how disorder can be distinguished from
other, similar problems
⩥ Mental health in the 1790's. Answer: period of enlightenment
concerning persons with mental illness
⩥ who formulated the concept of asylum as a safe refuge. Answer:
Phillippe Pinel and William Turkes
⩥ what percentage of countries have no clear federal policy that
addresses mental health issues. Answer: 50%
⩥ Dorothea Dix. Answer: began a crusade to reform the treatment of
mental illness after visiting Tuke's institution in England. She advocated
adequate shelter, nutritious food and warm clothing
,⩥ Benjamin Rush. Answer: took the philsophy of Pinel and Tuke and
realized that more progressive treatments were needed
⩥ Eugene Bleuler, Sigmund Freud, Emil Kraepelin. Answer: study of
psychiatry, the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness started
⩥ Adolf Meyer. Answer: promoted establishment of psychiatric research
center
⩥ Patients Bill of Rights. Answer: protect mentally ill
⩥ akathisia. Answer: movement disorder characterized by a feeling of
inner restlessness and inability to stay still.
⩥ anticholinergic side effects. Answer: dry mouth and related dental
problems, blurred vision, tendency toward overheating (hyperpyrexia),
and in some cases, dementia-like symptoms.
⩥ anticholinergic. Answer: Opposing the actions of the neurotransmitter
acetylcholine
⩥ black box warning. Answer: strictest warning put in the labeling of
prescription drugs or drug products by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) when there is reasonable evidence of an
association of a serious hazard with the drug.
, ⩥ dopamine. Answer: a compound present in the body as a
neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including
epinephrine.
⩥ extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Answer: caused by anti psychotic
medications, include acute dyskinesias and dystonic reactions, tardive
dyskinesia, Parkinsonism, akinesia, akathisia, and neuroleptic malignant
syndrome.mood
⩥ MRI. Answer: magnetic resonance imaging, produced detailed images
of organs, noninvasive
⩥ efficacy. Answer: the ability to produce a desired or intended result.
⩥ CT. Answer: computed tomography, detailed images of internal
organs, bones, soft tissues, blood vessels
⩥ dystonia. Answer: abnormal muscle tone, muscular spasm, usually
due to neurological disease
⩥ limbic system. Answer: a complex system of nerves and networks in
the brain, involving several areas near the edge of the cortex concerned
with instinct and mood. It controls the basic emotions (fear, pleasure,
anger) and drives (hunger, sex, dominance, care of offspring).
