ATI MENTAL HEALTH Exams 2025 Version Questions and Answers. (2025)

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ATI MENTAL HEALTH Exams 2025
Version Questions and Answers.
It is important to ask this during assessment?

- Perception of own health/beliefs about illness and wellness

- how the client passes time

- use of substances/disorders

- cultural beliefs and practices

-spiritual bliefs

Mental Status Exam (MSE)

used to describe LOC

-alert

-lethargy

-stupor

-coma

MSE what is alert?

client is responsive and answers questions spontaneously and appropriately

MSE what is lethargy?

opens eyes and responds but is drowsy and falls asleep readily

,MSE what is stupor?

client requires vigorous or painful stimuli (pinching tendon or rubbing sternum); may not
respond verbally

coma

no response from painful stimuli

-decorticate or decerbrate rigidity may occur

decorticate rigidity

when comatose may have this position:

flexion and internal rotation of upper extremity joints and legs

decerebrate rigidity

when comatose:

may have this position:

neck and elbow extension, wrist and finger flexion

Mood

provides info about the emotion they are feeling

Affect

,objective expression of mood

How to assess memory: immediate

repeat a series of numbers or list of objects

assess memory: recent

recall recent events (visitors from current day) or purpose of appointment/admission

assess memory: remote

state a fact from his past that is verifiable (birth date or mom's maiden name)

assess ability to calculate

count back from 100 by 7

abstract thinking

ability to interpret and demonstrate higher level thought process; don't take cliches literally

Screening tools

Mini mental status exam-assess client's cognitive status

Glasgow Coma Scale- level of consciousness

, Glasgow coma scale

eye, verbal, and motor response is evaluated; highest value= 15...higher the better

Glasgow= Coma state

level 7 or below

Why are mental disorders not easily dx in kids?

- lack of ability or skills to describe what is happening

-a wide variation of "normal" behavior esp during developmental stages

in addition to normal assessments also include these for older adults

- functional ability: get out of a chair?

-economic and social status?

- environmental factors

-physical assessment

For older adults also use these assessment tools:

geriatric depression, michigan alcoholism screening test, mini mental status exam, pain
assessments (visual analog, Wong-Baker FACES, McGill Pain Questionnaire, PAINAD scale