PSYCHIATRIC NURSING – PRELIMS
EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
It is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity. (WHO)
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -a) Health
level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -b) Mental Health
a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an
individual and is associated with present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability
(i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly
increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -c) Mental Illness
It affects how we think, feel, and act. It helps determine how we handle stress, relate to
others, and make choices
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -b) Mental Health
It is a disorder causing people to display abnormal behavior more consistently than
most people
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
,d) Psychology - ANSWER -c) Mental Illness
ability to solve problems, fulfill one's capacity for love and work, cope with crises without
assistance beyond the support of family or friends
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -b) Mental Health
what type of factor influences mental health that includes a person's biologic makeup,
autonomy and independence, self-esteem, capacity for growth, vitality, ability to find
meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of belonging, reality
orientation, and coping or stress management abilities.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - ANSWER -a) Individual or Genetic
what type of factor influences mental health that includes effective communication,
ability to help others, intimacy, and a balance of separateness and connectedness.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - ANSWER -b) Interpersonal or
Childhood Experiences
what type of factor influences mental health that includes a sense of community, access
to adequate resources, intolerance of violence, support of diversity among people,
mastery of the environment, and a positive, yet realistic, view of one's world.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - ANSWER -c)
SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
what type of factor influences mental illness that includes biologic makeup, intolerable
or unrealistic worries or fears, inability to distinguish reality from fantasy, intolerance of
life's uncertainties, a sense of disharmony in life, and a loss of meaning in one's life.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural - ANSWER -a) Individual
, what type of factor influences mental illness that includes ineffective communication,
excessive dependency on or withdrawal from relationships, no sense of belonging,
inadequate social support, and loss of emotional control.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural - ANSWER -b) Interpersonal
what type of factor influences mental illness that includes lack of resources, violence,
homelessness, poverty, an unwarranted negative view of the world, and discrimination
such as stigma, racism, classism, ageism, and sexism.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural - ANSWER -c) Social/Cultural
Who said this quote?
"No one is entirely mentally unhealthy and no one is fully healthy at all times."
a) Maslow
b) Erikson
c) Ebersole and Hess - ANSWER -c) Ebersole and Hess
It is an interpersonal process whereby the professional nurse practitioner through the
therapeutic use of self, assist an individual, family, group or community to promote
mental health, to prevent mental illness & suffering, to participate in the treatment &
rehabilitation of the mentally ill & if necessary to find meaning in this experiences.
a) Mental Illness
b) Psychiatric Nursing
c) ADPIE - ANSWER -b) Psychiatric Nursing
It is the science that deals with measures to promote mental health, prevent mental
illness and suffering and facilitate rehabilitation.
a) Mental Hygiene
b) Mental Awareness
c) Mental Assessment - ANSWER -a) Mental Hygiene
It is a theory of psychology explaining human motivation based on the pursuit of
different levels of needs.
a) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
b) Freud's Psychosexual Stages
c) Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - ANSWER -a) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
It is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not merely the absence of
disease or infirmity. (WHO)
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -a) Health
level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -b) Mental Health
a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an
individual and is associated with present distress (e.g., a painful symptom) or disability
(i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning) or with a significantly
increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom.
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -c) Mental Illness
It affects how we think, feel, and act. It helps determine how we handle stress, relate to
others, and make choices
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -b) Mental Health
It is a disorder causing people to display abnormal behavior more consistently than
most people
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
,d) Psychology - ANSWER -c) Mental Illness
ability to solve problems, fulfill one's capacity for love and work, cope with crises without
assistance beyond the support of family or friends
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology - ANSWER -b) Mental Health
what type of factor influences mental health that includes a person's biologic makeup,
autonomy and independence, self-esteem, capacity for growth, vitality, ability to find
meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of belonging, reality
orientation, and coping or stress management abilities.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - ANSWER -a) Individual or Genetic
what type of factor influences mental health that includes effective communication,
ability to help others, intimacy, and a balance of separateness and connectedness.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - ANSWER -b) Interpersonal or
Childhood Experiences
what type of factor influences mental health that includes a sense of community, access
to adequate resources, intolerance of violence, support of diversity among people,
mastery of the environment, and a positive, yet realistic, view of one's world.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - ANSWER -c)
SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
what type of factor influences mental illness that includes biologic makeup, intolerable
or unrealistic worries or fears, inability to distinguish reality from fantasy, intolerance of
life's uncertainties, a sense of disharmony in life, and a loss of meaning in one's life.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural - ANSWER -a) Individual
, what type of factor influences mental illness that includes ineffective communication,
excessive dependency on or withdrawal from relationships, no sense of belonging,
inadequate social support, and loss of emotional control.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural - ANSWER -b) Interpersonal
what type of factor influences mental illness that includes lack of resources, violence,
homelessness, poverty, an unwarranted negative view of the world, and discrimination
such as stigma, racism, classism, ageism, and sexism.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural - ANSWER -c) Social/Cultural
Who said this quote?
"No one is entirely mentally unhealthy and no one is fully healthy at all times."
a) Maslow
b) Erikson
c) Ebersole and Hess - ANSWER -c) Ebersole and Hess
It is an interpersonal process whereby the professional nurse practitioner through the
therapeutic use of self, assist an individual, family, group or community to promote
mental health, to prevent mental illness & suffering, to participate in the treatment &
rehabilitation of the mentally ill & if necessary to find meaning in this experiences.
a) Mental Illness
b) Psychiatric Nursing
c) ADPIE - ANSWER -b) Psychiatric Nursing
It is the science that deals with measures to promote mental health, prevent mental
illness and suffering and facilitate rehabilitation.
a) Mental Hygiene
b) Mental Awareness
c) Mental Assessment - ANSWER -a) Mental Hygiene
It is a theory of psychology explaining human motivation based on the pursuit of
different levels of needs.
a) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
b) Freud's Psychosexual Stages
c) Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory - ANSWER -a) Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
