NURS 3514 Midterm Exam Questions With
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To Understand the Concept of Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mental illness
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was first identified and categorized as serious and persistent - unrelenting and
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progressive that offered a bleak diagnosis
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Learning about the history - the treatment of individuals with mental illness and
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conditions that eventually lead to the development of the concept of Recovery &
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Recovery-Oriented Practice |
Historical Perspectives of Mental Health Care & Mental Illness - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Evil spirits, demonic possessions, brain disturbances
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Individuals were killed, left to die, trephined
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People with mental illness were banished outside the "city walls"
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Belief that people were affected by the moon
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Churches sometimes looked after those with mental illness
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Early Forms of Institutional Care - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1400s - Bethlehem
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(Bedlam) - the oldest hospital for treating the mentally ill
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,The Revolutionary Idea: Humane Treatment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Late 1700s
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→ belief was that the insane were ill and needed treatment + should be under
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the care of physicians
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Pinel in France → efforts to stop abuses - "moral treatment" for the mentally ill
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Social Reformers → Dorthea Dix (1802-1887)
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The 19th and early 20th centuries: an era of asylum building
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Asylum Era: Institutionalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Custodial care
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Overcrowding - numbers grew (no effective treatment) | | | | | |
Patients cut off from society
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Treatments (eg: hydrotherapy, insulin shock, lobotomy)
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Occurrences of abuse | |
Confinement - insanity act | | |
,Significant Influences in the Treatment of Mental Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Sigmund Freud & psychoanalysis
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Introduction of antipsychotic medications - 1950s
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Canadian Mental Health Association (CHHA)
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Mental Health Act - to protect patient rights
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Universal health care| |
New demands: research, education
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Other Significant Theories Influencing Mental Health - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Psychoanalytical theory, Humanistic therapies, Behavioural theories, Cognitive
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theories, Biological theories
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Nurses Role - Historically Nurses Provided Custodial Care - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Medical model of care dominated | | | |
Until Hildegard Peplau's work - nurses only provided custodial care (conditions
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controlled by staff (ie. restraint, behavioural, orderly care)
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, Hildegard Peplau Leader - Psychiatric Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Introduced
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|change in publishing her nursing theory in Interpersonal Relations for Nursing
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(1952) - describing the phases of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship
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Deinstitutionalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Deinstitutionalization" - shift to | | | | | | |
community care - 1970s | | |
The Vision of Community Mental Health Care - availability and equal access to all
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levels of mental health prevention, treatment and services would be available to
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those experiencing mental health problems
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Mental Health Issues - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Stigma of Mental Illness
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Stigma: "Negative, discriminatory, and rejecting attitudes and behaviour toward a
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characteristic or element exhibited by an individual or group..."
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Often the stigma of mental illness has a greater negative impact on an individual
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than the illness itself
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Aspects of Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Public or social stigma - stereotyping
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Labelling - "schizophrenic" | |
Avoidance of seeking care | | |
Correct Answers
To Understand the Concept of Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Mental illness
| | | | | | | | | |
was first identified and categorized as serious and persistent - unrelenting and
| | | | | | | | | | | |
progressive that offered a bleak diagnosis
| | | | |
Learning about the history - the treatment of individuals with mental illness and
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
conditions that eventually lead to the development of the concept of Recovery &
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
Recovery-Oriented Practice |
Historical Perspectives of Mental Health Care & Mental Illness - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Evil spirits, demonic possessions, brain disturbances
| | | | |
Individuals were killed, left to die, trephined
| | | | | |
People with mental illness were banished outside the "city walls"
| | | | | | | | |
Belief that people were affected by the moon
| | | | | | |
Churches sometimes looked after those with mental illness
| | | | | | |
Early Forms of Institutional Care - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1400s - Bethlehem
| | | | | | | | | |
(Bedlam) - the oldest hospital for treating the mentally ill
| | | | | | | | |
,The Revolutionary Idea: Humane Treatment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Late 1700s
| | | | | | | | |
→ belief was that the insane were ill and needed treatment + should be under
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
the care of physicians
| | |
Pinel in France → efforts to stop abuses - "moral treatment" for the mentally ill
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Social Reformers → Dorthea Dix (1802-1887)
| | | | |
The 19th and early 20th centuries: an era of asylum building
| | | | | | | | | |
Asylum Era: Institutionalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Custodial care
| | | | | |
Overcrowding - numbers grew (no effective treatment) | | | | | |
Patients cut off from society
| | | |
Treatments (eg: hydrotherapy, insulin shock, lobotomy)
| | | | |
Occurrences of abuse | |
Confinement - insanity act | | |
,Significant Influences in the Treatment of Mental Illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | | | |
Sigmund Freud & psychoanalysis
| | |
Introduction of antipsychotic medications - 1950s
| | | | |
Canadian Mental Health Association (CHHA)
| | | |
Mental Health Act - to protect patient rights
| | | | | | |
Universal health care| |
New demands: research, education
| | |
Other Significant Theories Influencing Mental Health - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
| | | | | | | |
Psychoanalytical theory, Humanistic therapies, Behavioural theories, Cognitive
| | | | | | |
theories, Biological theories
| |
Nurses Role - Historically Nurses Provided Custodial Care - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-Medical model of care dominated | | | |
Until Hildegard Peplau's work - nurses only provided custodial care (conditions
| | | | | | | | | | |
controlled by staff (ie. restraint, behavioural, orderly care)
| | | | | | |
, Hildegard Peplau Leader - Psychiatric Nursing - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Introduced
| | | | | | | |
|change in publishing her nursing theory in Interpersonal Relations for Nursing
| | | | | | | | | | |
(1952) - describing the phases of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship
| | | | | | | | |
Deinstitutionalization - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"Deinstitutionalization" - shift to | | | | | | |
community care - 1970s | | |
The Vision of Community Mental Health Care - availability and equal access to all
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
levels of mental health prevention, treatment and services would be available to
| | | | | | | | | | | |
those experiencing mental health problems
| | | |
Mental Health Issues - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Stigma of Mental Illness
| | | | | | | |
Stigma: "Negative, discriminatory, and rejecting attitudes and behaviour toward a
| | | | | | | | | |
characteristic or element exhibited by an individual or group..."
| | | | | | | |
Often the stigma of mental illness has a greater negative impact on an individual
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
than the illness itself
| | |
Aspects of Stigma - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Public or social stigma - stereotyping
| | | | | | | | | |
Labelling - "schizophrenic" | |
Avoidance of seeking care | | |
