You are the Psychiatric Technician in charge and you are responsible for educating the staff about the proper care of clients with spinal cord injury. Your education will include positioning a client with a spinal cord injury. Which technique is the best?

The Psychiatric Technician is admitting a client with protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to AIDS. Which intervention should be the Psychiatric Technician’s first intervention? 

A patient is receiving gabapentin (Neurontin), an anticonvulsant, but has no history of seizures. The nurse expects that the patient is receiving this drug as adjuvant therapy for which condition?

Excerpts from The Case of Frank:  (Role Play in Class, posted under Readings) THERAPIST: What sorts of problems have been troubling you during the past month?FRANK: I’m beginning to have a lot of marital problems. I was married about 9 months ago, butI’ve been really tense around the house and we’re having a lot of arguments…….During the first 10 minutes or so of the interview, Frank seemed to be quite tense and anxious and would often look down at the floor while he talked, glancing up only occasionally to make eye contact. Sometimes, his right leg would twitch a bit. Frank was also closing his eyes very tightly for a period of 2 to 3 seconds. It was during these periods when his eyes were closed that his right leg would twitch. …….The interview proceeded for the next half hour; by this time he was talking freely and looking up a little more at the therapist, but he was continuing to close his eyes and twitch his right leg. ………… THERAPIST: Are you thinking about anything when you close your eyes?FRANK: Well, actually I’m trying not to think about something. …………….What is the presenting problem?

Every time somebody flushes a toilet in the house, the shower becomes very cold and causes the person to jump back. Over time, the person begins to jump back automatically after hearing the flush, before the water temperature changes. This is an example of ______.

The developing diagnostic classification system whose criteria include a focus on neuroscience is the:

We watched a video clip in the class of Maryam being treated by a therapist for her snake phobia.  Which example of the therapist’s behavior is correctly paired with the psychological technique he is using? 

Clinical psychologist Dr. Jaysen uses mindfulness-based “new wave” cognitive therapy techniques.  Her clients would MOST likely be encouraged to:

Clinical researchers do all of the following as part of their work EXCEPT

Lee tries to avoid doing bad things because he feels guilty when he does. Lee also wants to live up to his parents’ expectations. According to psychoanalytic theory, Lee has a well-developed: