PRACTICE PSYCHIATRIC NURSE SECOND
EDITION BY KATHLEEN WHEELER TEST
BANK ACTUAL EXAM PAPER 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Evidence-based practice. Answer: Uses treatments proven by research
with therapist expertise and client needs
⩥ APA. Answer: research on psychotherapy Psychotherapy works;
people in therapy improve more than those who don't
⩥ Therapeutic alliance. Answer: Trusting, cooperative therapist-client
relationship
⩥ Most important therapy outcome factor. Answer: The strength of the
therapeutic alliance
⩥ Psychodynamic therapies emphasize. Answer: Unconscious conflicts
and childhood experiences
⩥ Psychoanalysis. Answer: Freud's therapy to uncover unconscious
thoughts and conflicts
, ⩥ Goal of psychoanalysis. Answer: Make unconscious conflicts
conscious
⩥ Techniques of psychoanalysis. Answer: Free association, dream
analysis, resistance, transference, interpretation
⩥ Dream analysis. Answer: Interpreting dreams to find hidden meanings
⩥ Manifest content. Answer: Literal dream content
⩥ Latent content. Answer: Hidden meaning of the dream
⩥ Transference. Answer: Client projects feelings about others onto the
therapist
⩥ Humanistic therapies emphasize. Answer: Personal growth, self-
understanding, authenticity
⩥ Client-centered therapy. Answer: Rogers' therapy with acceptance,
empathy, genuineness
⩥ Reflective speech. Answer: Therapist mirrors the client's statements