Psychiatric and mental health advanced practice

The parents of an autistic child consult a psychiatric and mental health advanced practice PMHNP about their failure to relate to their child. The PMHNP decides that some education would be helpful to this family in dealing with the problem. What could the family NOT expect to receive as a result of the PMHNP’s teaching intervention?

Question 11 options:

 

a)An objective perspective

 

 

 

b)Decreased blame and guilt

 

 

 

c)Clarification of expectations

 

 

 

d)A solution to their problems

 

 

Question 12 (1 point)

 

According to Freudian theory, thoughts, feelings, and desires that are not in immediate awareness, but can be recalled to consciousness, are considered:

Question 12 options:

 

a)Conscious

 

 

 

b)Preconscious

 

 

 

c)Subconscious

 

 

 

d)Unconscious

 

 

Question 13 (1 point)

 

The goal of Art therapy and Music therapy is:

Question 13 options:

 

a)To assist clients in passing time in the hospital productively.

 

 

 

b)To teach clients a new skill or hobby.

 

 

 

c)To evaluate clients for possible job training.

 

 

 

d)To stimulate the expression of feelings

 

 

Question 14 (1 point)

 

The focus of Strategic Family Therapy is to:

Question 14 options:

 

a)Emphasize symptoms

 

 

 

b)Change analogies and metaphors in the family

 

 

 

c)Help the family to be more democratic

 

 

 

d)Identify and solve all family problems

 

 

Question 15 (1 point)

 

According to Glasser, the cause of all psychiatric problems is:

Question 15 options:

 

a)Neurosis

 

 

 

b)Irresponsibility

 

 

 

c)Childhood training

 

 

 

d)Irrational beliefs

 

 

Question 16 (1 point)

 

A mother brings her adolescent son in to be seen by a psychiatric and mental health advanced practice PMHNP. The mother wishes to hospitalize the boy. She indicates that she can no longer control his behavior and that he is dating girls of whom she does not approve and staying out past his curfew. Based on the boy’s right to treatment in the least restrictive setting, what is the psychiatric and mental health advanced practice PMHNP’s best response?

Question 16 options:

 

a)Determine the most secure facility to hospitalize the child because he is probably a “run risk.”

 

 

 

b)Seek a Day Treatment Program since the child’s behavior is not dangerous.

 

 

 

c)Offer to work with the mother and son in regard to appropriate expectations and discipline.

 

 

 

d)Tell the mother that all adolescents act that way and that she is wrong to be upset about this normal behavior.

 

 

 

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