NPN 125 Exam One 2026 Exam
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how would you describe someone as mentally healthy? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Able to fulfill life responsibilities and fxn affectively with daily life,
satisfied with personal relationships and self. Not simply the absents of
disease.
,how would you describe someone as mentally ill? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Dissatisfied with self and relationships, ineffective coping, significant
stress, impaired fxning
what is mental health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o No single, universal definition
o Dynamic, ever-changing state
o Could be our biological make up, self esteem, capacity for growth, ability
to learn and grow, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional
resilience, sense of autonomy or independence, sense of belonging, reality
orientation, ability to cope, stress management techniques
what three factors influence mental health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔individual
(biological makeup, self esteem, etc), interpersonal (communication with
others, intimacy), and social/cultural (sense of community, etc)
what is mental illness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔behavioral or psychological
syndrome or pattern (clinically significant). Association with present distress
or disability or increased risk of death, pain, disability or important loss of
freedom
what are the general criteria for diagnosis of a mental illness? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔-Dissatisfaction with characteristics, abilities, accomplishments
,-Ineffective or unsatisfying relationship
-Dissatisfaction with one's place in the world
-Ineffective coping with life events
-Lack of personal growth, stagnant in one spot
what are three influencing factors for mental illness? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔individual (biological makeup, inability to distinguish reality from
fantasy), interpersonal (ineffective communication, loss of emotional
control), and social/cultural(racism, classism, lack of resources)
what is the DSM-V? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a taxonomy published by the
American Psychiatric Association (APA).
what is a taxonomy? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the science of naming, describing,
and classifying things in an order
why is the DSM-V important? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Standardize nomenclature,
language
-Identify defining characteristics or symptoms to help differentiate different
types of mental illnesses
-Assist in identifying underlying causes
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, mental health in ancient times - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sickness was because of
gods, Aristotle and the four humors, possession by demons
what were aristotles four humors? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔blood is happiness,
water is calmness, yellow bile is anger, and black bile is sadness
what was mental health like during the period of enlightenment (1790's) -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔asylums were created, moral treatment, dorthea dix opened
state hospitals
who came up with the concept of the id, ego, and superego? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Sigmund Freud
What changed mental health care in the 1950's? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the
development of psychotropic drugs, the first of which were chlorpromazine
and lithium
what was the community health movement of 1963? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-
Deinstitutionalization: move from state to community facilities
-Legislation for disability income: SSI and SSDI
Questions and Verified Answers
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how would you describe someone as mentally healthy? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Able to fulfill life responsibilities and fxn affectively with daily life,
satisfied with personal relationships and self. Not simply the absents of
disease.
,how would you describe someone as mentally ill? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Dissatisfied with self and relationships, ineffective coping, significant
stress, impaired fxning
what is mental health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔o No single, universal definition
o Dynamic, ever-changing state
o Could be our biological make up, self esteem, capacity for growth, ability
to learn and grow, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional
resilience, sense of autonomy or independence, sense of belonging, reality
orientation, ability to cope, stress management techniques
what three factors influence mental health? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔individual
(biological makeup, self esteem, etc), interpersonal (communication with
others, intimacy), and social/cultural (sense of community, etc)
what is mental illness? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔behavioral or psychological
syndrome or pattern (clinically significant). Association with present distress
or disability or increased risk of death, pain, disability or important loss of
freedom
what are the general criteria for diagnosis of a mental illness? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔-Dissatisfaction with characteristics, abilities, accomplishments
,-Ineffective or unsatisfying relationship
-Dissatisfaction with one's place in the world
-Ineffective coping with life events
-Lack of personal growth, stagnant in one spot
what are three influencing factors for mental illness? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔individual (biological makeup, inability to distinguish reality from
fantasy), interpersonal (ineffective communication, loss of emotional
control), and social/cultural(racism, classism, lack of resources)
what is the DSM-V? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔a taxonomy published by the
American Psychiatric Association (APA).
what is a taxonomy? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the science of naming, describing,
and classifying things in an order
why is the DSM-V important? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-Standardize nomenclature,
language
-Identify defining characteristics or symptoms to help differentiate different
types of mental illnesses
-Assist in identifying underlying causes
3
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, mental health in ancient times - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔sickness was because of
gods, Aristotle and the four humors, possession by demons
what were aristotles four humors? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔blood is happiness,
water is calmness, yellow bile is anger, and black bile is sadness
what was mental health like during the period of enlightenment (1790's) -
🧠ANSWER ✔✔asylums were created, moral treatment, dorthea dix opened
state hospitals
who came up with the concept of the id, ego, and superego? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Sigmund Freud
What changed mental health care in the 1950's? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔the
development of psychotropic drugs, the first of which were chlorpromazine
and lithium
what was the community health movement of 1963? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔-
Deinstitutionalization: move from state to community facilities
-Legislation for disability income: SSI and SSDI
