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Nursing 341 - Mental Health Exam 1 (Ch. 1-11) questions with correct answers
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Nursing 341 - Mental Health Exam 1 (Ch. 1-11) questions with correct answers
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Nursing 341 - Mental Health Exam 1 (Ch. 1-11)questions with correct answers
Traits of mental health: Correct Answer-Ability to:
- think rationally
- communicate appropriately
- learn
- grow emotionally
- be resilient
- have a healthy self-esteem
What is a mental illness? Correct Answer-Disorder with definable
diagnosis
- significant dysfunction in mental functioning related to developmental,
biologic, and/or physiological disturbances
Resilience: Correct Answer-- ability and capacity to secure resources
needed in order to support well-being
- optimism, sense of mastery, competence
- essential to recovery
Diathesis-Stress Model: Correct Answer-- most accepted explanation for
mental illness (combination of the two)
- Diathesis = biological predisposition
- Stress = environmental stress or trauma
,Which mental health problem has the highest annual prevalence in the
US? Correct Answer-Major depressive disorder
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory:
- what are the levels of awareness? Correct Answer-1. Conscious =
contains all the material a person is aware of at any one time, including
perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, and feelings
2. Preconscious = contains material that can be retrieved rather easily
through conscious effort
3. Unconscious = includes all repressed memories, passions, and
unacceptable urges lying deep below the surface
Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory:
- What are the personality structures? Correct Answer-1. Id (devil)
- pleasure principle
- reflex action
- primary process
(ex: a hungry, screaming infant)
2. Ego (mediator between the devil and angel - moral conscious)
- problem solver
- reality tester
3. Superego (angel)
- moral component
(ex: an idealist and a perfectionist)
,Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory:
- what does it say about defense mechanisms and anxiety? Correct
Answer-- operate on unconscious level
- deny, falsify, or distort reality to make it less threatening
Transference:
- what is it? Correct Answer-- patient to nurse
- when the patient unconsciously and inappropriately displaces
(transfers) onto the nurse feelings and behaviors related to significant
figures in the patient's past
Countertransference:
- what is it? Correct Answer-- nurse to patient
- when the nurse unconsciously and inappropriately displaces onto the
patient feelings and behaviors related to significant figures in the nurses'
past
Erikson's Ego Theory:
- what does it include?
- why is this important to mental health? Correct Answer-- eight stages
of development
- people with mental health issues do not progress through certain
stages; also aids nursing assessment to determine type of interventions
that would be most effective
, Erikson's Ego Theory:
- what are the 8 stages and age timeframes? Correct Answer-1. Trust vs.
mistrust (age 0-1.5)
2. Autonomy vs. shame and doubt (age 1.5-3)
3. Initiative vs. guilt (age 3-6)
4. Industry vs. inferiority (age 6-12)
5. Identity vs. role confusion (age 12-20)
6. Intimacy vs. isolation (age 20-35)
7. Generativity vs. self-absorption (age 35-65)
8. Integrity vs. despair (age 65+)
Which theorist most influenced the professional practice of psychiatric
mental health nursing? Correct Answer-Hildegard Peplau
Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relationships in Nursing:
- what does his theory compare? Correct Answer-- the art of nursing vs.
the science of nursing
Peplau's Theory of Interpersonal Relationships in Nursing:
- what does he say about the art of nursing? Correct Answer-- provide
care, compassion, and advocacy
- enhance comfort and well-being
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