Complete Study Test Bank for Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice, 8th Edition – Mary A. Boyd & Rebecca A. Luebbert | Practice Questions and Correct Answers/ Latest Edition 2026

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Chapter 01: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing and Evidence-Based Practice
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Chapter 02: Mental Health and Mental Disorders
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Chapter 03: Cultural and Spiritual Issues Related to Mental Health Care
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Chapter 04: Patient Rights and Legal Issues
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Chapter 05: Mental Health Care in the Community
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Chapter 06: Ethics, Standards, and Nursing Frameworks
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Chapter 07: Psychosocial Theoretic Basis of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 08: Biologic Foundations of Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 09: Communication and the Therapeutic Relationship
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Chapter 10: The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing Process
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Chapter 11: Psychopharmacology, Dietary Supplements, and Biologic Interventions
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Chapter 12: Cognitive Interventions in Psychiatric Nursing
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Chapter 13: Group Interventionsxl xl xl 50
Chapter 14: Family Assessment and Interventions
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Chapter 15: Mental Health Promotion for Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 16: Mental Health Promotion for Young and Middle-Aged Adults
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Chapter 17: Mental Health Promotion for Older Adults
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Chapter 18: Stress and Mental Health
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Chapter 19: Management of Anger, Aggression, and Violence
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Chapter 20: Crisis, Loss, Grief, Response, Bereavement, and Disaster Management
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Chapter 21: Suicide Prevention: Screening, Assessment, and Intervention
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Chapter 22: Schizophrenia and Related Disorders: Nursing Care of Persons with Thought
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Disorders 84
Chapter 23: Depression: Management of Depressive Moods and Suicidal BehaviorCha 92
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pter 24: Bipolar Disorders: Management of Mood Lability
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Chapter 25: Anxiety Disorders: Management of Anxiety, Phobia, and PanicChapt
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er 26: Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders
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Chapter 27: Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders
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Chapter 28: Personality and Borderline Personality Disorder: Management of Emotion
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alDysregulation and Self-Harm
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Chapter 29: Antisocial Personality and Disruptive, Impulse Control, and Conduct Disorders
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Chapter 30: Addiction and Substance-Related Disorders
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Chapter 31: Eating Disorders: Management of Eating and WeightChapt
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er 32: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders
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Chapter 33: Nursing Care of Persons with Insomnia and Sleep Problems
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Chapter 34: Sexual Disorders: Management of Sexual Dysfunction and Paraphilia
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sChapter 35: Mental Health Assessment of Children and Adolescents
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Chapter 36: Mental Health Disorders of Childhood and AdolescenceCha
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pter 37: Mental Health Assessment of Older Adults
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Chapter 38: Neurocognitive Disorders
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Chapter 39: Caring for Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally Ill C
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hapter 40: Caring for Persons With Co-
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occurring Mental Disorders Chapter 41: Caring for Survivors of Violen
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ce and Abuse
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Chapter 42: Caring for Persons With Mental Illness and Criminal Behavior C
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hapter 43: Caring for Medically Compromised Persons
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,Test Bank - Psychiatric Nursing: Contemporary Practice (8th Edition by Mary Ann Boyd)
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Chapter 01: Psychiatric- xl xl



Mental HealthNursing and Evidence-
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BasedPractice


1. A group of nursing students are reviewing information about t
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heevolution of mental health care and arediscussing the recomm
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endations of the final report of the Joint Commission on
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Mental Illness and Health. The students demonstrate understandi
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ng of this information when they identify that the reportrecomm
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ended an increase in which of the following?
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A) Numbers of mental health hospitals xl xl xl xl


B) State funding for mental health care xl xl xl xl xl


C) Clinics supplemented by general hospital units xl xl xl xl xl


D) Use of psychotherapy by psychiatrists
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2. A nurse is reviewing the American Nurses Association’s
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Statement on Psychiatric Nursing Practice published in 1967,
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which sanctioned the involvement of psychiatricmental health nurses in the provision of holistic n
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ursing care. Integrating knowledge of the various theories and views of mentalhealth and illness, t
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he nurse identifies which of the following as most strongly linked to this holistic approach?
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A) Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory xl xl xl


B) Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing xl xl xl xl


C) Hildegarde
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E) Peplau’s Interpersonal Relations in Nursing xl xl xl xl




3. A nursing instructor is preparing a presentation about key events and people that influenced the develop
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ment of contemporary mental health and illness care. When describing the effects of World WarII, w
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hich of the following would the instructor include?
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A) People began to view mental illness as more commonplace and acceptable.
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B) The biologic understanding of mental illness was almost fully developed.
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C) Deinstitutionalization occurred in response to the community health movement. xl xl xl xl xl xl xl xl


D) Mental illnesses became categorized as psychoses or neuroses.
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4. A nursing student is presenting a discussion of the history of psychiatricmental health nursing and
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itsplace within nursing history. Which of the following would be most appropriate to include?
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A) Certification for the psychiatricmental health nursing specialty was first emphasized by M
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ary Adelaide Nutting. xl xl


B) Psychiatric nurses played a part in seeing that all deinstitutionalized patients got treatment at
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community mental health centers. xl xl xl


C) There is a historical link between the first nursing program to admit male students and the f
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irsttraining school for psychiatric nursing.
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D) The first graduate program in psychiatric nurses was established in response to the publication
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of psychiatric nursing specialty journals.
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5. Two nursing students are discussing psychiatricmental health nursing and the role it has played
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in nursing’s overall history. Which statement is most accurate?
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A) The importance of using therapeutic communication was stressed by Nightingale.
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B) The use of self-care to enhance the immune system was taught by Dorothea Dix.
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C) The moral treatment of mental illness was a primary focus of deinstitutionalization.
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D) Peplau was the first nurse to stress the importance of therapeutic communication.
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6. When reviewing the evolution of mental health and illness care, which event is associated with me
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ntaldisorders beginning to be viewed as illnesses requiring treatment?
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A) Establishment of Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia xl xl xl xl xl

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