NUR2459 MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
NURSING UPDATED 2026 EXAM REVIEW PAPER
WITH VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship . Answer:
Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving
skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate
problems and goals
◉Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) . Answer: Theory behind this
therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others,
and the world around them
◉What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? . Answer: A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient
or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
◉Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client
relationship . Answer: Focus on the patient's problems and concerns
encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a friend" or
meeting the needs of the nurse
,◉Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques . Answer:
Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the
subject
◉What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? .
Answer: "Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
◉What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? .
Answer: Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence,
touch
◉What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication
technique? . Answer: "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be
fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
◉What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication
technique . Answer: Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what
you mean."
◉What is affect? . Answer: Client's emotional display of mood being
experienced
, ◉What are levels of consciousness? . Answer: Alert, Lethargic,
Stuporous
◉What is "flight of ideas"? . Answer: Rapid changes from one thought
to another related thought
◉What is perseveration? . Answer: Repeating the same words in
response to different questions
◉What is judgement? . Answer: Ability to evaluate choices and make
appropriate decisions
◉What is autonomy? . Answer: Respecting the rights of others to make
their own decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little
choices: What would you like to take your medicine with?)
=CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
◉What are the reasons to use seclusion? . Answer: Being a harm to self
or others, decreasing sensory overload, patient request
◉What is a violation of the patient's rights? . Answer: Forcing client to
eat, wash, or dress self
◉What is "Duty to Warn"? . Answer: Informing medical staff about a
client's threat to harm a specific individual
NURSING UPDATED 2026 EXAM REVIEW PAPER
WITH VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS
◉"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship . Answer:
Maintaining the relationship, gathering data, promoting problem solving
skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance, evaluate
problems and goals
◉Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) . Answer: Theory behind this
therapy: Everyone has schemata-unique assumptions about self, others,
and the world around them
◉What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? . Answer: A health
environment, combined with a healthy social structure within a inpatient
or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with mental illness
◉Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client
relationship . Answer: Focus on the patient's problems and concerns
encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a friend" or
meeting the needs of the nurse
,◉Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques . Answer:
Reassuring, giving advice, giving approval, disapproving, changing the
subject
◉What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? .
Answer: "Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
◉What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? .
Answer: Paraphrasing, summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence,
touch
◉What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication
technique? . Answer: "Don't worry everything will be alright", "You'll be
fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
◉What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication
technique . Answer: Patient: "I wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what
you mean."
◉What is affect? . Answer: Client's emotional display of mood being
experienced
, ◉What are levels of consciousness? . Answer: Alert, Lethargic,
Stuporous
◉What is "flight of ideas"? . Answer: Rapid changes from one thought
to another related thought
◉What is perseveration? . Answer: Repeating the same words in
response to different questions
◉What is judgement? . Answer: Ability to evaluate choices and make
appropriate decisions
◉What is autonomy? . Answer: Respecting the rights of others to make
their own decisions (Big choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little
choices: What would you like to take your medicine with?)
=CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
◉What are the reasons to use seclusion? . Answer: Being a harm to self
or others, decreasing sensory overload, patient request
◉What is a violation of the patient's rights? . Answer: Forcing client to
eat, wash, or dress self
◉What is "Duty to Warn"? . Answer: Informing medical staff about a
client's threat to harm a specific individual
