Exam Questions with Answers for Principles of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing 7th Edition. Graded
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Mental health - Answers Described by the American Psychiatric Association as the foundation for
emotions, thinking, communication, learning, resilience, and self-esteem, key to well-being and
community contribution.
Mental illness - Answers Health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior,
associated with distress and problems in social, work, or family activities.
Causes of Mental Illness - Answers Include traumatic life events, genetics, chemical imbalances, physical
illness, substance use, medications, environment, and loneliness/isolation.
Ancient Mental Health Treatments - Answers Trephination, bloodletting, purging, isolation, insulin coma
therapy, Merazol therapy, electroconvulsive therapy, and lobotomies.
Modern Mental Health Treatment - Answers Evolved in the 1950s with the introduction of more
effective medication and treatments, leading to deinstitutionalization.
Mental Health Disorders - Answers Diagnostic term for a group of mental illness manifestations,
categorized by symptomology, including anxiety disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia spectrum
disorders, and more.
Mental Health Continuum - Answers Ranges from illness (in crisis) to wellness (excelling), with a self-
check tool to categorize patients based on their mental state.
Outpatient Services - Answers Include primary care provider's office, mental health clinics, case
management, home-based services, and mental health crisis teams.
Inpatient Services - Answers Comprise crisis stabilization facilities, community-based hospital facilities,
state hospital facilities, and long-term facilities for acutely ill patients.
DSM-5-TR - Answers The principal diagnostic tool for defining mental health conditions, providing
criteria and clinical manifestations for disorders, and harmonized with the WHO International
Classification of Disease.
Disparities, Bias, and Stigma - Answers Stigma involves negative attitudes, bias includes prejudice and
stereotypes, and disparities are negative differences in outcomes and experiences among different
groups.
Cultural humility - Answers Practice of appreciating and respecting another individual's culture and its
role in their life and health practices, recognizing power imbalances
Trauma Informed - Answers Interacting with clients in a compassionate way, especially those affected by
adverse childhood experiences, treating with dignity, respect, and compassion
, Recovery Oriented - Answers Shifting focus from symptom management to life goals, individualizing
services, and affirming the value of the patient's life
Rehabilitation Oriented - Answers Focus on independence development in intellectual, spiritual,
physical, and psychological aspects, ensuring services availability
Privacy Rule in Mental Health - Answers Adds protection for psychotherapy notes due to sensitive
mental health information, with exceptions like duty to warn and mandated reporting
HIPAA - Answers Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act of 1996, protecting sensitive health
information requiring client consent for disclosure
Healthy People 2030 - Answers Identified priorities in mental health to enhance clients' well-being,
focusing on prevention, screening, assessment, and treatment of mental health disorders
Systems Theory - Answers Foundation for understanding client behavior in specific contexts, considering
human growth and development through various theories
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - Answers Involving ID (primitive part), Superego (good part), and Ego
(balancing part), with stages of development like Oral, Anal, Phallic, Latency, and Genital
Interpersonal Theory - Sullivan - Answers Based on interpersonal relationships shaping an individual's
self, with concepts of 'good me,' 'bad me,' and 'not me'
Bad Me - Answers Based on social interactions; represents the unknown
Anxiety - Answers Generated in social interactions, affecting personality development
Self-esteem - Answers Uses security operations to defend against anxiety and maintain self-worth
Hildegard Peplau - Answers Developed nursing theory based on Sullivan's interpersonal theory
Behavioral Theory - Answers Focuses on modifying maladaptive behaviors through conditioning
Classical Conditioning - Answers Pavlov's method of associative learning with stimuli and rewards
Operant Conditioning - Answers BJ Skinner's theory involving consequences for behaviors
Behaviorism - Answers John Watson's study of observed behavior and child development
Behavioral Therapy - Answers Modifies maladaptive behaviors into adaptive responses
Cognitive Theory - Answers Human behaviors influenced by individual thought processes
Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy - Answers Focuses on correcting faulty thinking and maladaptive
behaviors
Humanism - Answers Focuses on individual's innate goodness and self-actualization
