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ATI Mental Health Nursing 12601 Exam Questions
Extract:
Question 1 of 5
An advanced practice nurse determines that a group of clients would benefit from opportunities to practice appropriate social behaviors and learn about basic living skills together. Which of the following interventions would the advanced practice nurse suggest?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Milieu therapy creates a therapeutic environment for practicing social behaviors and living skills in a group setting. Cognitive therapy (
A) targets thoughts, reality therapy (
B) focuses on responsibility, and DBT (
C) emphasizes individual skills.
Question 2 of 5
The nurse is working with a client that is displaying psychotic behavior with poorly controlled emotions. The family of the client asks, 'What part of the brain controls emotions?'
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: The limbic system, including the amygdala and hypothalamus, regulates emotions like fear and aggression. The parietal lobe handles sensory processing, the endocrine system influences hormones, and the occipital lobe processes vision, none of which primarily control emotions.
Question 3 of 5
A nurse is caring for a client with major depressive disorder in a residential facility who refuses to participate in therapies because their parent did not answer the phone when the client called the previous evening. The client told the nurse, 'I know they are mad at me.' The nurse asks the client, 'Are there other reasons you can think of that could have caused your parent not to answer the phone last evening?' In this statement, the nurse is using which type of therapy?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Rational Emotive Therapy challenges irrational beliefs, like assuming the parent’s anger, by exploring alternative explanations, as the nurse does. Cognitive Theory (
B) is broader, Reality Therapy (
C) focuses on responsibility, and Gestalt Therapy (
D) emphasizes present awareness.
Question 4 of 5
An advanced practice nurse determines that a group of clients would benefit from opportunities to practice appropriate social behaviors and learn about basic living skills together. Which of the following interventions would the advanced practice nurse suggest?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Milieu therapy creates a therapeutic environment for practicing social behaviors and living skills in a group setting. Cognitive therapy (
A) targets thoughts, reality therapy (
B) focuses on responsibility, and DBT (
C) emphasizes individual skills.
Question 5 of 5
During a session with a client, the client asks the nurse what the client should do about the client's 'cheating' spouse. The nurse replies, 'You should divorce. You deserve better than that.' The nurse used which nontherapeutic communication technique?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Giving advice, as in suggesting divorce, is nontherapeutic as it imposes the nurse’s opinion rather than exploring the client’s feelings. Agreeing (
A) involves affirming opinions, giving information (
B) provides facts, and verbalizing the implied (
C) articulates unspoken feelings, none of which apply.