ATI LPN
ATI LPN Mental Health Exam V Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
A nurse is providing care to a client is who is recovering from an episode of dissociative amnesia. The nurse should expect the client to exhibit which of the following manifestations?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Guilt is common post-dissociative amnesia due to memory gaps. Anhedonia, hallucinations, and delusions are linked to other disorders.
Question 2 of 5
A nurse is reinforcing teaching with a newly licensed nurse who is caring for a client undergoing cognitive behavioral therapy for the treatment of aggression. Which of the following statements by the newly licensed nurse about aggressive behaviors indicates an understanding of the teaching? (Select All that Apply.)
Correct Answer: A,B,C,D,F
Rationale: Prenatal smoking, pollution, financial stress, high-crime areas, and low-income housing increase aggression risk. Suburban living does not.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is caring for a client who describes extreme fear of having or acquiring a disease. The client is also exhibiting behaviors like repeated body checking. The nurse should identify that the client is exhibiting manifestations of which of the following disorders?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Illness anxiety involves excessive disease fear and checking without symptoms. Functional neurological involves deficits, somatic symptom involves distress from symptoms, and factitious involves faking.
Question 4 of 5
A nurse is caring for a client who is crying and states they are depressed and feel like they are "going crazy." Which of the following client statements indicates the client is experiencing emotional abuse? (Select All that Apply.)
Correct Answer: A,B,E
Rationale: Body-shaming, belittling, and gaslighting indicate emotional abuse. Work changes, divorce, and grief are stressful but not abusive.
Question 5 of 5
A nurse is caring for a client who has been newly diagnosed with schizophrenia. Which of the following findings is true regarding this disorder?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Males are diagnosed earlier (teens to early 20s) than females (late 20s to 30s). Schizophrenia doesn’t inherently increase violence, and diagnosis is rare under 12.