UNIT I & II GENERAL CONCEPTS OF PSYCHIATRIC NURSING 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q1. Enlist the members of Mental Health Team
Ans : Mental Health Team or Multidisciplinary approach refers to collaboration
between members of different disciplines who provide specific services to the patient .
Members of Mental Health Team : are
• A Psychiatrist
• A Psychiatric Nurse
• A clinical psychologist
• A psychiatric social worker
• An occupational therapist or an activity therapist
• A Pharmacist and a Dietitian
• A counselor
A Psychiatrist is a medical doctor with special training in psychiatry. He is
accountable for the medical diagnosis and treatment of patient.
A Psychiatrist nurse is a registered nurse with specialized training in the care and
treatment of psychiatric patients ,
Q2. Enlist the goals of National Mental Health Program
Ans : The Govt of India launch the National Mental Health Programme in 1982.
• To ensure availability and accessibility of minimum mental health care for
all in the foreseeable future , particularly to the most vulnerable and
underprivileged sections of population .
• To encourage application of mental health knowledge in general health
care and in social development .
• To promote community participation in the mental health service
development and to stimulate efforts towards self –help in the community .
• To distribute all the available resources of mental health services on equal
basis .
Q3. Define Mental Health Nursing
Ans : Introduction
,It provides services to individuals whose primary health needs are related to mental,
emotional and developmental problems.
Definition
Psychiatric nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice , employing the wide range
of explanatory theories of human behaviour as its science and purposeful use of self as
its art and diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental
health problems .
Q4. Define Confabulation
Ans : Definition
Confabulation is the unconscious filling of memory gaps by imagined or untrue
experiences due to memory impairment .
Types of Confabulation
a. Provoked Confabulation
b. Spontaneous Confabulation
Symptoms of Confabulation
• A lack of awareness that memory is false or distorted
• No attempt to deceive or lie
Q5. Differentiate Circumstantiality and Tangentiality
Ans :
Circumstantiality Tangentiality
Disturbance in the associative thought Client uses two words with a similar
and speech processes in which a patient sound , ie his choice of words is
digresses in to unnecessary details determined by their sound and not by
before communicating the central idea. their meaning .
Its seen in Schizophrenia , Dementia & Its seen Schizophrenia or Mania
Obsessional disturbances
Q6. Describe Denial with example
Ans : A person may refuse to face reality and protects himself from unacceptable pain
or conflict by rejecting reality is called Denial .
Example
, • A person who frequently suffers from abdominal pain knows that there is
something wrong with her health but tries to deny this by becoming more pre
occupied with her work.
Q7. Describe Projection with example
Ans : This is placing blame for one's difficulties upon others or attributing one's own
unethical desires to others is called Projection .
Example
• The student who fails in the examination may feel that the teacher was unfair.
Q8. Differentiate Suppression and Repression with example
Ans :
Repression Suppression
Repression is nothing but 'selective Suppression is the conscious
forgetting' whereby threatening or process of pushing unwanted ,
painful thoughts and desires are anxiety provoking thoughts ,
excluded from consciousness. memories , emotions and desires
Example out of awareness .
A student, who is caught cheating in the Example
examination hall, may exclude these A person has been unkind to
painful experiences from consciousness another and then avoids thinking
and become 'amnesic' with regard to the about it .
guilty incident.
Q9. Define delusion and list down the types
Ans : Delusion is a false , unshakeable belief not true to fact and not ordinarily
accepted by other members explanation
Types of Delusion : are
a. Delusion of Grandeur
b. Delusion of Guilt
, c. Delusion of Persecution
d. Delusion of Reference
e. Delusion of Infidelity
Q10. Describe types of auditory hallucination
Ans : Hallucination is a false sensory perception in the absence of an actual external
stimulus .
Auditory Hallucination
It is a false perception of sound usually voices but also other noises such as music .
Types of Auditory Hallucination : are
a. Second person hallucination : Voice speaking to the person addressing him as
you .
b. Third person hallucination : Voice talking about the person as he or she .
c. Thought echo : Hearing one’s own thoughts spoken aloud .
Q11. Define Amnesia and its types
Ans : Amnesia is a pathological impairment of memory .
Types of Amnesia : are
a. Anterograde Amnesia : Amnesia of events occurring after the episode which
precipitated the disorder .
b. Retrograde Amnesia : Amnesia of events occurring prior to the episode which
precipitated the disorder .
Q12. Differentiate Hallucination and Illusion
Ans :
Hallucination Illusion
Hallucination is a false sensory Misinterpretation of a real , external
perception in the absence of an sensory experience .
actual external stimulus .
Example Example
A crawling feeling on the skin or A rope in the dark and its shadow is
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q1. Enlist the members of Mental Health Team
Ans : Mental Health Team or Multidisciplinary approach refers to collaboration
between members of different disciplines who provide specific services to the patient .
Members of Mental Health Team : are
• A Psychiatrist
• A Psychiatric Nurse
• A clinical psychologist
• A psychiatric social worker
• An occupational therapist or an activity therapist
• A Pharmacist and a Dietitian
• A counselor
A Psychiatrist is a medical doctor with special training in psychiatry. He is
accountable for the medical diagnosis and treatment of patient.
A Psychiatrist nurse is a registered nurse with specialized training in the care and
treatment of psychiatric patients ,
Q2. Enlist the goals of National Mental Health Program
Ans : The Govt of India launch the National Mental Health Programme in 1982.
• To ensure availability and accessibility of minimum mental health care for
all in the foreseeable future , particularly to the most vulnerable and
underprivileged sections of population .
• To encourage application of mental health knowledge in general health
care and in social development .
• To promote community participation in the mental health service
development and to stimulate efforts towards self –help in the community .
• To distribute all the available resources of mental health services on equal
basis .
Q3. Define Mental Health Nursing
Ans : Introduction
,It provides services to individuals whose primary health needs are related to mental,
emotional and developmental problems.
Definition
Psychiatric nursing is a specialized area of nursing practice , employing the wide range
of explanatory theories of human behaviour as its science and purposeful use of self as
its art and diagnosis and treatment of human responses to actual or potential mental
health problems .
Q4. Define Confabulation
Ans : Definition
Confabulation is the unconscious filling of memory gaps by imagined or untrue
experiences due to memory impairment .
Types of Confabulation
a. Provoked Confabulation
b. Spontaneous Confabulation
Symptoms of Confabulation
• A lack of awareness that memory is false or distorted
• No attempt to deceive or lie
Q5. Differentiate Circumstantiality and Tangentiality
Ans :
Circumstantiality Tangentiality
Disturbance in the associative thought Client uses two words with a similar
and speech processes in which a patient sound , ie his choice of words is
digresses in to unnecessary details determined by their sound and not by
before communicating the central idea. their meaning .
Its seen in Schizophrenia , Dementia & Its seen Schizophrenia or Mania
Obsessional disturbances
Q6. Describe Denial with example
Ans : A person may refuse to face reality and protects himself from unacceptable pain
or conflict by rejecting reality is called Denial .
Example
, • A person who frequently suffers from abdominal pain knows that there is
something wrong with her health but tries to deny this by becoming more pre
occupied with her work.
Q7. Describe Projection with example
Ans : This is placing blame for one's difficulties upon others or attributing one's own
unethical desires to others is called Projection .
Example
• The student who fails in the examination may feel that the teacher was unfair.
Q8. Differentiate Suppression and Repression with example
Ans :
Repression Suppression
Repression is nothing but 'selective Suppression is the conscious
forgetting' whereby threatening or process of pushing unwanted ,
painful thoughts and desires are anxiety provoking thoughts ,
excluded from consciousness. memories , emotions and desires
Example out of awareness .
A student, who is caught cheating in the Example
examination hall, may exclude these A person has been unkind to
painful experiences from consciousness another and then avoids thinking
and become 'amnesic' with regard to the about it .
guilty incident.
Q9. Define delusion and list down the types
Ans : Delusion is a false , unshakeable belief not true to fact and not ordinarily
accepted by other members explanation
Types of Delusion : are
a. Delusion of Grandeur
b. Delusion of Guilt
, c. Delusion of Persecution
d. Delusion of Reference
e. Delusion of Infidelity
Q10. Describe types of auditory hallucination
Ans : Hallucination is a false sensory perception in the absence of an actual external
stimulus .
Auditory Hallucination
It is a false perception of sound usually voices but also other noises such as music .
Types of Auditory Hallucination : are
a. Second person hallucination : Voice speaking to the person addressing him as
you .
b. Third person hallucination : Voice talking about the person as he or she .
c. Thought echo : Hearing one’s own thoughts spoken aloud .
Q11. Define Amnesia and its types
Ans : Amnesia is a pathological impairment of memory .
Types of Amnesia : are
a. Anterograde Amnesia : Amnesia of events occurring after the episode which
precipitated the disorder .
b. Retrograde Amnesia : Amnesia of events occurring prior to the episode which
precipitated the disorder .
Q12. Differentiate Hallucination and Illusion
Ans :
Hallucination Illusion
Hallucination is a false sensory Misinterpretation of a real , external
perception in the absence of an sensory experience .
actual external stimulus .
Example Example
A crawling feeling on the skin or A rope in the dark and its shadow is
