ANCC Review Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse
Review questions and verified answers (detailed &
elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TESTS!!
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale
Ans: evaluates for the presence and degree of subjective anxiety
Quiz HEEADASS Assessment Scale
Ans: Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities,
Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Quiz Johari Window
Ans: Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware, by considering perceptions of
others
Quiz Global Assessment Functioning Scale
Ans: measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric
diagnosis
Quiz Psychoanalysis
, Ans: Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts patients to tap into unconscious
experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and behaviors.
Quiz Systematic Desensitization
Ans: Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Quiz Behavior Modification
Ans: operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Quiz Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Ans: Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality disorders
Quiz Benzodiazepines
Ans: medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in alcohol withdrawal.
Quiz Neuroleptics target
Ans: neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Quiz Flooding
Review questions and verified answers (detailed &
elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TESTS!!
Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale
Ans: evaluates for the presence and degree of subjective anxiety
Quiz HEEADASS Assessment Scale
Ans: Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities,
Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Quiz Johari Window
Ans: Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware, by considering perceptions of
others
Quiz Global Assessment Functioning Scale
Ans: measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric
diagnosis
Quiz Psychoanalysis
, Ans: Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts patients to tap into unconscious
experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and behaviors.
Quiz Systematic Desensitization
Ans: Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Quiz Behavior Modification
Ans: operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Quiz Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Ans: Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality disorders
Quiz Benzodiazepines
Ans: medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in alcohol withdrawal.
Quiz Neuroleptics target
Ans: neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Quiz Flooding
