Week 7 Exam: NR607 / NR 607
(Latest Update 2024 / 2025) Diagnosis & Management in Psychiatric-Mental Health III Practicum | Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A - Chamberlain
Question:
Providing Care to Perpetrators of Violence
Answer:
-CBT & relapse prevention care to sex offenders & intimate partner violence offenders • can help reduce recidivism rates -tailor interventions to the perpetrators' unique characteristics, taking into account risk factors • anger or hostility, trauma hx, offending patterns, personality styles, readiness to change, substance abuse -Cultural training may be beneficial for providers working with IPV in LGBTQ relationships -Often, perpetrators mandated to attend therapy instead of a prison sentence or as a condition of parole 1 / 4
• When tx not voluntary, may lack self-motivation to change behaviors • Including motivational strategies such as MI can increase the success of court-mandated therapy
Question:
Duty to Warn
Answer:
-Most states have laws that either require or allow mental health professionals to disclose confidential information to protect others from clients who they believe may become violent -1976 case Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, courts in California imposed a legal duty to warn third parties if clients posed a risk to the parties' safety leading to the passage of duty to warn laws in most other states
Question:
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)
Answer:
-prolonged & repeated trauma may be more severe than symptoms caused by time-limited trauma -have a poorer prognosis and may benefit from different treatments than individuals with PTSD -
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Question:
Complex symptoms of PTSD
Answer:
-Symptoms • emotional dysregulation • dissociation • impaired perception of self or perpetrator • difficulty in relationships • sense of hopelessness or despair • loss of faith
-common in clients who have experienced:
• childhood trauma, including sexual abuse • persons who have been unable to leave a violent situation, such as prisoners of war • prolonged intimate partner violence • victims of human trafficking
Question:
Treatment of CPTSD
Answer:
-cognitive processing therapy (CPT) -prolonged exposure (PE) -Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) 3 / 4
• allows clients the choice in identifying target problems & interventions
Question:
Prolonged exposure
Answer:
a treatment approach in which clients confront not only trauma-related objects and situations, but also their painful memories of traumatic experiences -work to approach things you have steered clear of since the event -challenge the "I can't" rules to prove to self that "you can"
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Cognitive processing therapy (CPT)
Answer:
psychotherapy to build skills to deal with effects of trauma in other areas of life -discuss how "stuck points" (negative thoughts about the trauma) have changed you -practice strategies to change/challenge "stuck points" -usually takes about 3 months of weekly visits
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