MENTAL HEALTH CERTIFICATION REVIEW
What is the alternate name for a mhtc - Answers -psychiatric aide
What does mhtc participate in - Answers -planning and implementing of individual
patient treatment plans
What are some of the career responsibilities - Answers -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 - Answers -an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally
ill.
Case management - Answers -coordination of a variety of community services,
monitoring the services, and advocating for individuals suffering from ongoing mental
health issues
Deinstitutionalization - Answers -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
What can long term alcohol use cause - Answers -dementia and severe liver damage
Duties of mental health worker during patient withdrawal - Answers --take vital signs,
-observe patient for signs of detoxification,
-question patient about unseeable symptoms
-obtain urine for drug screen
-operate breath alcohol analyzer
-observe for suicidal ideation
-offer support
-document using DAR charting
DAR charting - Answers -Data- info about patient you can see and hear
Action- treatment administered
Response- to treatment and MTH worker conclusions
Is patient admission to drug use in a facility voluntary? - Answers -yes
Who issues a standing order to administer a drug UDA - Answers -the doctor
How do you appropriately label specimen (urine, etc) - Answers -patient name, ID
number, time collected and facility completed at
,What do you do with a patient that you highly suspect of drug use but do not have a
standing order for the drug testing? - Answers -ask to be provided with a specimen
(voluntarily) and hold it in a refrigerator until a order is issued
Witnessed UDA - Answers -worker observes the UDA collection, same gender between
patient and worker
Amphetamines common name - Answers -speed
What are amphetamines used for - Answers -therapeutic uses such as diet suppression
How are amphetamines taken - Answers -orally, intravenously or by nasal inhalation
With amphetamines, what occurs after the "rush" wears off - Answers -user crashes and
experiences anxiety, tremors, fatigue, depression, leaving them craving for more
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal with amphetamines - Answers -depression,
irritability, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, psycho motor agitation, paranoia, tactile
hallucinations, olfactory hallucinations, suicidal ideation, violent or aggressive behaviors
THC can also be known as what? - Answers -a gateway drug
Signs and symptoms of THC withdrawal - Answers -depression, irritability and insomnia
Cocaine creates what? - Answers -the euphoria- extreme happiness
How can cocaine be ingested - Answers -snorted, smoked as freebase or crack
cocaine, ingested intravenously, or chewed
What can snorting cocaine cause - Answers -septal perforation
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal with cocaine - Answers -depression, irritability,
anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, paranoia, aggressive or violent behavior and suicidal
indeation
What do hallucinogens cause - Answers -"tripping"
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal of hallucinogens - Answers -rage, disoriented and
behavioral issues
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal from opiates and opioids - Answers -lacrimation,
impaired judgement, pupil dilation, sweating, diarrhea, tachycardia, fever, insomnia,
rhinorrhea, irritability, tremors, muscle and joint pain, restlessness and hypertension
Example of opiates and opioids - Answers -morphine, heroin
, What is PCP known as - Answers -angel dust
What does PCP cause - Answers -floating sensation
What could PCP result in - Answers -coma or death
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal from PCP - Answers -belligerence, impulsivity,
hallucinations, paranoia, suicidal ideation, violent behavior, abnormal strength, muscle
rigidity, ataxia, seizures, depressions, irritability and nervousness
Examples of sedatives/hypnotics/anxiolytics - Answers -sleeping or anti-anxiety pills:
Restoril, Xanax, Dalmane, Ativan
What can sedatives/hypnotics/anxiolytics cause - Answers -dis inhibition, impaired
judgement, impaired memory, slurred speech, lack of coordination, unsteady gait
Signs and symptoms of sedative withdrawal - Answers -nausea, weakness, tachycardia,
sweating, anxiety, irritability, orthostatic hypotension, hand, eye, and tongue tremors
and insomnia
Endogenous - Answers -internal cause or origin
Exogenous - Answers -developing from external origin
Ego defense mechanism - Answers -to deal with conflict and problems in life, Freud
stated that the ego employs a range of defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms
operate at an unconscious level and help ward off unpleasant feelings (i.e., anxiety) or
make good things feel better for the individual.
Examples of defense mechanisms - Answers -denial, repression, projection,
displacement, regression, sublimation
Denial - Answers -blocking external events from awareness
Repression - Answers -unconscious mechanism, keep disturbing or threatening events
from becoming conscious
Mental disorder - Answers -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 - Answers -used by professionals to describe features of mental
disorders and indicate how disorder can be distinguished from other, similar problems
What is the alternate name for a mhtc - Answers -psychiatric aide
What does mhtc participate in - Answers -planning and implementing of individual
patient treatment plans
What are some of the career responsibilities - Answers -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 - Answers -an institution offering shelter and support to people who are mentally
ill.
Case management - Answers -coordination of a variety of community services,
monitoring the services, and advocating for individuals suffering from ongoing mental
health issues
Deinstitutionalization - Answers -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
What can long term alcohol use cause - Answers -dementia and severe liver damage
Duties of mental health worker during patient withdrawal - Answers --take vital signs,
-observe patient for signs of detoxification,
-question patient about unseeable symptoms
-obtain urine for drug screen
-operate breath alcohol analyzer
-observe for suicidal ideation
-offer support
-document using DAR charting
DAR charting - Answers -Data- info about patient you can see and hear
Action- treatment administered
Response- to treatment and MTH worker conclusions
Is patient admission to drug use in a facility voluntary? - Answers -yes
Who issues a standing order to administer a drug UDA - Answers -the doctor
How do you appropriately label specimen (urine, etc) - Answers -patient name, ID
number, time collected and facility completed at
,What do you do with a patient that you highly suspect of drug use but do not have a
standing order for the drug testing? - Answers -ask to be provided with a specimen
(voluntarily) and hold it in a refrigerator until a order is issued
Witnessed UDA - Answers -worker observes the UDA collection, same gender between
patient and worker
Amphetamines common name - Answers -speed
What are amphetamines used for - Answers -therapeutic uses such as diet suppression
How are amphetamines taken - Answers -orally, intravenously or by nasal inhalation
With amphetamines, what occurs after the "rush" wears off - Answers -user crashes and
experiences anxiety, tremors, fatigue, depression, leaving them craving for more
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal with amphetamines - Answers -depression,
irritability, anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, psycho motor agitation, paranoia, tactile
hallucinations, olfactory hallucinations, suicidal ideation, violent or aggressive behaviors
THC can also be known as what? - Answers -a gateway drug
Signs and symptoms of THC withdrawal - Answers -depression, irritability and insomnia
Cocaine creates what? - Answers -the euphoria- extreme happiness
How can cocaine be ingested - Answers -snorted, smoked as freebase or crack
cocaine, ingested intravenously, or chewed
What can snorting cocaine cause - Answers -septal perforation
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal with cocaine - Answers -depression, irritability,
anxiety, fatigue, insomnia, paranoia, aggressive or violent behavior and suicidal
indeation
What do hallucinogens cause - Answers -"tripping"
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal of hallucinogens - Answers -rage, disoriented and
behavioral issues
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal from opiates and opioids - Answers -lacrimation,
impaired judgement, pupil dilation, sweating, diarrhea, tachycardia, fever, insomnia,
rhinorrhea, irritability, tremors, muscle and joint pain, restlessness and hypertension
Example of opiates and opioids - Answers -morphine, heroin
, What is PCP known as - Answers -angel dust
What does PCP cause - Answers -floating sensation
What could PCP result in - Answers -coma or death
Signs and symptoms of withdrawal from PCP - Answers -belligerence, impulsivity,
hallucinations, paranoia, suicidal ideation, violent behavior, abnormal strength, muscle
rigidity, ataxia, seizures, depressions, irritability and nervousness
Examples of sedatives/hypnotics/anxiolytics - Answers -sleeping or anti-anxiety pills:
Restoril, Xanax, Dalmane, Ativan
What can sedatives/hypnotics/anxiolytics cause - Answers -dis inhibition, impaired
judgement, impaired memory, slurred speech, lack of coordination, unsteady gait
Signs and symptoms of sedative withdrawal - Answers -nausea, weakness, tachycardia,
sweating, anxiety, irritability, orthostatic hypotension, hand, eye, and tongue tremors
and insomnia
Endogenous - Answers -internal cause or origin
Exogenous - Answers -developing from external origin
Ego defense mechanism - Answers -to deal with conflict and problems in life, Freud
stated that the ego employs a range of defense mechanisms. Defense mechanisms
operate at an unconscious level and help ward off unpleasant feelings (i.e., anxiety) or
make good things feel better for the individual.
Examples of defense mechanisms - Answers -denial, repression, projection,
displacement, regression, sublimation
Denial - Answers -blocking external events from awareness
Repression - Answers -unconscious mechanism, keep disturbing or threatening events
from becoming conscious
Mental disorder - Answers -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 - Answers -used by professionals to describe features of mental
disorders and indicate how disorder can be distinguished from other, similar problems
