Nurse Review Questions and Answers (2024)
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Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale
evaluates for the presence and degree of subjective anxiety
HEEADASS Assessment Scale
Assesses adolescent issues HOME and environment, Education and employment, Eating, Activities,
Drugs, Suicide, and Sexuality
Johari Window
Assessment tool that helps a person become more self-aware, by considering perceptions of others
Global Assessment Functioning Scale
measures from 100 (highest functioning) to 1 (lowest functioning) when making a psychiatric
diagnosis
Psychoanalysis
Old, yet relevant technique, developed by Freud. It prompts patients to tap into unconscious
experiences that may be affecting current perceptions and behaviors.
Systematic Desensitization
Technique that gradually exposes a person to a feared stimulus to help him or her control that fear
Behavior Modification
operant and classical conditioning concepts to shape more adaptive, less maladaptive behaviors
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Specialized approach for patients with borderline personality disorders
Benzodiazepines
medications that work to induce relaxation and are used in alcohol withdrawal.
Neuroleptics target
neuroleptics target both negative and positive symptoms of psychotic conditions.
Flooding
An intense type of desensitization therapy that directly and repeatedly exposes a person to a feared
stimulus.
Which of the following is a tricyclic antidepressant?
marplan (MAOI), oxazepam (benzodiazepine), tofranil (tricyclic), buspar(nonaddicting anxiolytic)
Socratic questioning