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All of the following strategies are recommended for use with a hallucinating patient, EXCEPT:

A patient in an acute psychiatric inpatient unit with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder is placed on suicide precautions. The OTA has scheduled 30-minute individual sessions in the patient’s room to begin intervention. Which is the most beneficial activity for the first intervention session? 

After one session with a new patient in a psychosocial treatment setting, it has become apparent to the COTA that the woman is highly distractible and cannot complete a magazine collage when in a group. The best approach for the COTA to use is to:

All of the following are good approaches for therapeutic use of self when dealing with a depressed person, EXCEPT:

Of the following, the activity that is the MOST likely to meet the needs of the paranoid patient is:

An individual with schizophrenia continues to experience hallucinations.  Which action should the OTA take when the individual begins to actively hallucinate during an OT project group?

Cognitive deficit includes impairment in the mental functions except one:

Activities for a patient with ADD & disorganization should be all of these except:

The BEST way of getting the attention of a patient who has an attentional deficit is:

When an acutely ill patient seems to be having difficulty with a task because he is disorganized, the MOST effective approach is generally to: