NSG 526 Exam 2 Questions with Correct
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/.Which one of the following is the focus of interpersonal
therapy?
A)
Anxiety management
B)
Belief systems
C)
Faulty cognitions
D)
Social interaction
/.A patient tells the psychiatric advanced practice nurse
she is going to try supplementing her selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor with St. John's wort. Which
action should the psychiatric advanced practice nurse
take first?
a)
Assess the patient for depression and risk for suicide.
b)
Suggest that aromatherapy may produce even better results.
c)
Advise her of the danger of serotonin syndrome.
d)
Suggest she consider decreasing the dosage of her antidepressant
/.Which of the following is not a technique used in cognitive
therapy?
A)
Reattribution
B)
Role-playing
C)
Abreaction
,D)
Developing alternatives
/.The psychiatric advanced practice nurse is developing
the care plan for an 8-year-old child with intermittent
explosive disorder. Based on Piaget, which of the
following goals would be appropriate? The child will:
a)
connect consequences of his behavior with the behavior itself.
b)
generalize the consequences of his anger and aggression to different situations
c)
identify situations in which he is likely to feel abandoned.
d)
experience an increase in autonomous behavior.
/.In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, it is often helpful to view
people as separate from their problems and behaviors. This
empowers them to make changes in their thought patterns
and behaviors. Which type of therapy would utilize this
approach?
A)
Psychoanalysis
B)
Narrative Therapy
C)
Strategic Therapy
D)
Psychodynamic therapy
/.Characteristics of cognitive-behavioral therapy
include:
(Select all that apply.)
a)
Not time limited
b)
Active
c)
Directive
d)
Collaborative
, e)
Unstructured
/.What theorist is considered the "father of CBT"
Aaron Beck
/.who developed the cognitive rational emotive theory and theory of behavior
change
Albert Ellis
/.researched operant conditioning, in which voluntary behaviors are learned
through consequences and behavioral responses are elicited through
reinforcement, which causes a behavior to occur more frequently.
Skinner
/.in this theory, Skinner proposed:
A consequence can be a positive reinforcement, such as receiving a reward
(getting a 3.8 GPA after studying hard all semester), or a negative reinforcement,
such as the removal of an objectionable or aversive stimulus (walking freely
through a park once the vicious dog is picked up by the dogcatcher).
operant conditioning
/.who created the theory of operant conditioning
Skinner
/Who is credited with identifying the 12 factors that make groups therapeutic?
Yalom
/.one of the 12 therapeutic factors (Yalom):
The recognition of shared experiences and feelings among group members and
that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves to remove a
group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise self-
esteem.
Universality
/.One of the 12 therapeutic factors (Yalom):
The group is a place where members can help each other, and the experience of
being able to give something to another person can lift the member's self esteem
and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.
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/.Which one of the following is the focus of interpersonal
therapy?
A)
Anxiety management
B)
Belief systems
C)
Faulty cognitions
D)
Social interaction
/.A patient tells the psychiatric advanced practice nurse
she is going to try supplementing her selective
serotonin reuptake inhibitor with St. John's wort. Which
action should the psychiatric advanced practice nurse
take first?
a)
Assess the patient for depression and risk for suicide.
b)
Suggest that aromatherapy may produce even better results.
c)
Advise her of the danger of serotonin syndrome.
d)
Suggest she consider decreasing the dosage of her antidepressant
/.Which of the following is not a technique used in cognitive
therapy?
A)
Reattribution
B)
Role-playing
C)
Abreaction
,D)
Developing alternatives
/.The psychiatric advanced practice nurse is developing
the care plan for an 8-year-old child with intermittent
explosive disorder. Based on Piaget, which of the
following goals would be appropriate? The child will:
a)
connect consequences of his behavior with the behavior itself.
b)
generalize the consequences of his anger and aggression to different situations
c)
identify situations in which he is likely to feel abandoned.
d)
experience an increase in autonomous behavior.
/.In Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, it is often helpful to view
people as separate from their problems and behaviors. This
empowers them to make changes in their thought patterns
and behaviors. Which type of therapy would utilize this
approach?
A)
Psychoanalysis
B)
Narrative Therapy
C)
Strategic Therapy
D)
Psychodynamic therapy
/.Characteristics of cognitive-behavioral therapy
include:
(Select all that apply.)
a)
Not time limited
b)
Active
c)
Directive
d)
Collaborative
, e)
Unstructured
/.What theorist is considered the "father of CBT"
Aaron Beck
/.who developed the cognitive rational emotive theory and theory of behavior
change
Albert Ellis
/.researched operant conditioning, in which voluntary behaviors are learned
through consequences and behavioral responses are elicited through
reinforcement, which causes a behavior to occur more frequently.
Skinner
/.in this theory, Skinner proposed:
A consequence can be a positive reinforcement, such as receiving a reward
(getting a 3.8 GPA after studying hard all semester), or a negative reinforcement,
such as the removal of an objectionable or aversive stimulus (walking freely
through a park once the vicious dog is picked up by the dogcatcher).
operant conditioning
/.who created the theory of operant conditioning
Skinner
/Who is credited with identifying the 12 factors that make groups therapeutic?
Yalom
/.one of the 12 therapeutic factors (Yalom):
The recognition of shared experiences and feelings among group members and
that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves to remove a
group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise self-
esteem.
Universality
/.One of the 12 therapeutic factors (Yalom):
The group is a place where members can help each other, and the experience of
being able to give something to another person can lift the member's self esteem
and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.
