A PMHNP is using the CBT model with a client who is depressed. The client has stopped engaging in hobbies they once enjoyed. The PMHNP and client work together to plan and schedule enjoyable activities for the upcoming week. This intervention is called:

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A client in a state of dorsal vagal shutdown would most likely present as:

A client in DBT group is learning the PLEASE skills. They report they have been skipping meals and sleeping only 3-4 hours per night. The PMHNP would identify this as increasing the client’s:

The ‘cognitive revolution’ in psychotherapy shifted the field’s focus toward:

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A client is hesitant to start therapy, stating, ‘I’ve never done this before, and I’m worried you’ll judge me.’ An appropriate assertive and empathetic response from the PMHNP would be:

Which of the following is the most accurate statement about the Native Americans during the colonial period?    a.  There is a strong consensus among historians about the size of the Native American population at the time of arrival of the first European settlers.   b.  Native Americans rarely formed trading alliances with the European settlers.   c.  The significant deterioration of the Native American population occurred after 1825, when the US started to expand to the west.    d.  The susceptibility to disease was one of the primary reasons the Native American population declined.

The development of ‘moral treatment’ by figures like Philippe Pinel was a critical precursor to modern psychotherapy because it:

A client is working on mindfulness skills in DBT. The PMHNP asks them to simply notice their breath without trying to change it and to label the thought ‘thinking’ whenever their mind wanders. This is an exercise in the skill of: