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Mr. Smith is a client newly admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital. The PMHNP on call at the facility plans to perform the initial intake assessment and diagnostic process. Mr. Johnson asks to please talk in his room because, he says “People make me nervous”. His room is at the end of the hallway and is the farthest from the nurses station. The PMHNP’s actions should be based on awareness that the best location to do the assessment is;

Joe is 14 months old and has Down syndrome. His treatment goals include increasing the use of vocalizations, gestures, and gaze to communicate. His clinician decides to first target his use of gaze until he includes looking at his communication partner in his communicative attempts 70% of the time. Then, the clinician will target vocalizations until he includes a vocalization in 70% of his communicative attempts. At that point, the clinician will target increasing his use of gestures. What intervention goal attack strategy is the clinician using?

Key aspects of a developing a therapeutic alliance include:  

All of the following are barriers that prevent access to mental health care EXCEPT: Select the most appropriate

SMART goals must be:

Which of the following is not a major drawback of observational methods?

There are several types of Bipolar Disorder. Which type is characterized by depressive periods of longer duration than hypomanic periods.

Use the following DNA template strand and perform transcription and translation.                                                                                                                                                                  Template DNA Strand: ATG AGC TCG ACG TCG ATC GAT CCG TGA   Transcription: _____________________________________________________   Translation: _____________________________________________________   **HINT: You only need the chart below for half of this question**     

Julie and Tina have a very exclusive club. In order to make new members loyal and really enjoy being part of the club, Julie says new members should be rewarded for their good behaviors in the club. Tina, however, suggests that they use an embarrassing initiation. In this example, Julie is taking a ________ approach, while Tina is taking a ________ approach.

Students in the United States seldom applaud after a lecture, whereas students in Europe often applaud or rap their knuckles on their desks. This cultural difference reflects the power of ________ to influence nonverbal communication.