Nursing 302 Exam 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

Dorthea Dix correct answer: Started state hospitals to reform mental health treatments; wanted to make things more therapeutic Linda Richards correct answer: Pioneer of psychiatric nursing (late 1800s), first nurse in America When did the term "lunatic" emerge? correct answer: During the renaissance; related to the word moon How was mental health viewed during early civilization? correct answer: Seen as related to demons and magic (witchcraft) How was mental health viewed during the Renaissance? correct answer: Related to the moon; excluded and punished, not treatment How was mental health viewed during the 18th and 19th centuries? correct answer: Use of Asylums and prisons; multiple theories about what caused mental health crises What does custodial mean in terms of mental health care? correct answer: Criminalized and keeping people alive (NO TREATMENT) What developed in the 1930s? correct answer: Somatic Therapies What are some examples of somatic therapies? correct answer: Insulin therapy, lobotomy, electroconvulsive therapy What are somatic therapies? correct answer: Focuses on body/mind connection; the use of both psychotherapies and holistic methods What is the National Institute of Mental Health? (1946) correct answer: Educates on and researches topics related to mental health Who created the NIMH? correct answer: President Truman What is Thorazine? correct answer: The first antipsychotic medicine to hit the market (1952) Chemical Lobotomy What is the Community Mental Health Center Act (1963)? correct answer: An act passed by Kennedy that deinstitutionalized asylums and added 3 billion community centers What happened during the 1960s? correct answer: Massive anti-asylum (deinstitutionalization) What happened during the 1970s and 1980s to mental health? correct answer: Managed care, decrease federal funding Who is Henri Laborit? correct answer: French physician who