MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE EXAM
(EXAM 1) QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
PASSED ANSWERS RATED 100%
CORRECT
What statement about mental illness is true?
a. mental illness is a matter of individual nonconformity with societal norms
b. mental illness is present when individual irrational and illogical behavior occurs
c. mental illness changes with culture, time in history, political system, and group
defining it
d. mental illness is evaluated solely by considering individual control over behavior and
appraisal of reality - Correct Answer ✔✔ c. mental illness changes with culture, time in
history, political system, and group defining it
A nursing student new to psychiatric nursing asks a peer what resource he/she can use
to figure out which symptom are part of the picture of a specific psychiatric disorder. The
best answer would be:
a. nursing intervention classifications
b. nursing intervention outcomes
c. NANDA nursing diagnosis
d. DSM-V - Correct Answer ✔✔ d. DSM-V
Why is it important for the nurse to be aware of multiple factors that can influence an
individual's mental health?
a. rates of illness differ among various groups
b. the DSM-V cannot be used without this information
c. a holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
d. the nurse must contribute this data for epidemiological research - Correct Answer ✔✔
c. a holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
Which statement best describes a major difference between a DSM-V diagnosis and a
nursing diagnosis?
a. there is no functional difference between the two. both serve to identify a human
deviance.
b. the DSM-V diagnosis disregards culture, whereas the nursing diagnosis takes culture
into account
, c. the DSM-V is associated with present distress of disability, whereas a nursing
diagnosis considers past and present responses to actual mental health problems
d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the choice of medical treatment, whereas the nursing
diagnosis offers a framework for identifying interventions for phenomena a client is
experiencing - Correct Answer ✔✔ d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the choice of
medical treatment, whereas the nursing diagnosis offers a framework for identifying
interventions for phenomena a client is experiencing
Resilience, the capacity to rebound from stressors via adaptive coping, is associated
with positive mental health. Your friend has just been laid off from his job. Which of the
following responses on your part most likely contribute to enhanced resilience?
a. using your connection to set up an interview with you employer.
b. connecting him with a friend with the family who owns his own business
c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and completing multiple interviews
d. helping him to understand that the layoff resulted from troubles in the economy and is
not his fault - Correct Answer ✔✔ c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and
completing multiple interviews
Which of the following situations best supports the stress-diathesis model of mental
development?
a. the rate of suicide increases during times of national disaster and despair
b. four of five siblings in the Jones family develop bipolar disorder by the age of 30
c. a man with no prior mental health problems experiences sadness after his divorce
d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains free of mental illness -
Correct Answer ✔✔ d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains
free of mental illness
After severe therapeutic encounters with a client who recently attempted suicide, the
behavior that would cause the nurse to consider the possibility of countertransference is
that:
a. the client's reactions toward the nurse seem realistic and appropriate
b. the client states the nurse is concerned about her, just like her father
c. the nurse develops a trusting relationship with the client
d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift - Correct
Answer ✔✔ d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift
Termination of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with a client has been handled
successfully when the nurse:
a. gives the client his personal telephone number and permission to call after discharge
b. avoids upsetting the client by focusing on other clients beginning q week before the
client's discharge
(EXAM 1) QUESTIONS & VERIFIED
PASSED ANSWERS RATED 100%
CORRECT
What statement about mental illness is true?
a. mental illness is a matter of individual nonconformity with societal norms
b. mental illness is present when individual irrational and illogical behavior occurs
c. mental illness changes with culture, time in history, political system, and group
defining it
d. mental illness is evaluated solely by considering individual control over behavior and
appraisal of reality - Correct Answer ✔✔ c. mental illness changes with culture, time in
history, political system, and group defining it
A nursing student new to psychiatric nursing asks a peer what resource he/she can use
to figure out which symptom are part of the picture of a specific psychiatric disorder. The
best answer would be:
a. nursing intervention classifications
b. nursing intervention outcomes
c. NANDA nursing diagnosis
d. DSM-V - Correct Answer ✔✔ d. DSM-V
Why is it important for the nurse to be aware of multiple factors that can influence an
individual's mental health?
a. rates of illness differ among various groups
b. the DSM-V cannot be used without this information
c. a holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
d. the nurse must contribute this data for epidemiological research - Correct Answer ✔✔
c. a holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
Which statement best describes a major difference between a DSM-V diagnosis and a
nursing diagnosis?
a. there is no functional difference between the two. both serve to identify a human
deviance.
b. the DSM-V diagnosis disregards culture, whereas the nursing diagnosis takes culture
into account
, c. the DSM-V is associated with present distress of disability, whereas a nursing
diagnosis considers past and present responses to actual mental health problems
d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the choice of medical treatment, whereas the nursing
diagnosis offers a framework for identifying interventions for phenomena a client is
experiencing - Correct Answer ✔✔ d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the choice of
medical treatment, whereas the nursing diagnosis offers a framework for identifying
interventions for phenomena a client is experiencing
Resilience, the capacity to rebound from stressors via adaptive coping, is associated
with positive mental health. Your friend has just been laid off from his job. Which of the
following responses on your part most likely contribute to enhanced resilience?
a. using your connection to set up an interview with you employer.
b. connecting him with a friend with the family who owns his own business
c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and completing multiple interviews
d. helping him to understand that the layoff resulted from troubles in the economy and is
not his fault - Correct Answer ✔✔ c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and
completing multiple interviews
Which of the following situations best supports the stress-diathesis model of mental
development?
a. the rate of suicide increases during times of national disaster and despair
b. four of five siblings in the Jones family develop bipolar disorder by the age of 30
c. a man with no prior mental health problems experiences sadness after his divorce
d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains free of mental illness -
Correct Answer ✔✔ d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains
free of mental illness
After severe therapeutic encounters with a client who recently attempted suicide, the
behavior that would cause the nurse to consider the possibility of countertransference is
that:
a. the client's reactions toward the nurse seem realistic and appropriate
b. the client states the nurse is concerned about her, just like her father
c. the nurse develops a trusting relationship with the client
d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift - Correct
Answer ✔✔ d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift
Termination of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with a client has been handled
successfully when the nurse:
a. gives the client his personal telephone number and permission to call after discharge
b. avoids upsetting the client by focusing on other clients beginning q week before the
client's discharge
