PMHNP ANCC REVIEW COMPREHENSIVE
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● HEEADASS Assessment Scale
Answer: Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education
and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
●● Johari Window
Answer: Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware,
by considering perceptions of others
●● Global Assessment Functioning Scale
Answer: measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest
functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
●● Psychoanalysis
Answer: Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts
patients to tap into unconscious experiences that may be affecting
current perceptions and behaviors.
●● Systematic Desensitization
, Answer: Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus
to help him or her control that fear
●● Behavior Modification
Answer: operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more
adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
●● Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Answer: Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality
disorders
●● Benzodiazepines
Answer: medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in
alcohol withdrawal.
●● Neuroleptics target
Answer: neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of
psychotic conditions.
●● Flooding
Answer: An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and
repeatedly exposes a person to a feared stimulus.
●● Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant?
EXAMINATION TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● HEEADASS Assessment Scale
Answer: Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education
and employment, Eating, Activities, Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
●● Johari Window
Answer: Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware,
by considering perceptions of others
●● Global Assessment Functioning Scale
Answer: measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest
functioning) when making a psychiatric diagnosis
●● Psychoanalysis
Answer: Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts
patients to tap into unconscious experiences that may be affecting
current perceptions and behaviors.
●● Systematic Desensitization
, Answer: Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus
to help him or her control that fear
●● Behavior Modification
Answer: operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more
adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
●● Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Answer: Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality
disorders
●● Benzodiazepines
Answer: medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in
alcohol withdrawal.
●● Neuroleptics target
Answer: neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of
psychotic conditions.
●● Flooding
Answer: An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and
repeatedly exposes a person to a feared stimulus.
●● Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant?
