PN 103: Mental Health/Exam-Questions and Answers 100%
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Mental Illness - ✔✔Inability to cope with a situation related to a distortion of thought,
behavior and feelings.
Stress - ✔✔Non-specific response to the body for any demand made of it. (Good and bad)
Coping - ✔✔The way one adapts psychologically, physically and behaviorally to a stressor.
A patient will feel happier and calmer 2 weeks into an anti-depressant treatment.
True/False. - ✔✔False. A course of anti-depressant takes at least 3-4 weeks to see a change
and 6-8 weeks to determine a result.
Name 4 Communication Blocks for mental health patients... - ✔✔*Agreeing/Disagreeing
*Asking "Why?"
*Changing the subject
*Giving advice
*Giving approval/disapproval
*Giving false reassurance
*Focusing on nurse
*Double-bind messages
Anxiety - ✔✔The feeling of dread or uneasiness in response to extreme or prolonged stress.
Anxiety Disorders - ✔✔Disorders where the central feeling is anxiety.
*Phobias
*Panic Disorders
*Generalized Anxiety Disorder
*OCD
*PTSD
, *Eating disorders
Mood Disorders - ✔✔*Major depression
*Bipolar disorder
Anhedonia - ✔✔Loss of pleasure
Most at risk population for suicide... - ✔✔Elderly white men.
Second leading cause of death for 15 - 19 year olds... - ✔✔Suicide.
Schizophrenia - ✔✔Severe chronic brain disorder of thought and association. Unable to
distinguish between reality and not.
Schizoid Personality - ✔✔Loner, indifferent, cold, aloof. Does not always progress to
schizophrenia.
Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia - ✔✔Behavior becomes eccentric, perception and
ideation changing, poor hygiene, difficulty communicating. *Usually diagnosed in this
phase.*
Schizophrenia Phase - ✔✔Active phase: hallucinating, psychotic, delusions, impaired
relationships.
Residual Phase of Schizophrenia - ✔✔Flat affect. Loner, indifferent, reserved.
"Positive" Symptoms - ✔✔Added behaviors
"Negative" Symptoms - ✔✔Behaviors that decrease or disappear.
Pass/Verified
Mental Illness - ✔✔Inability to cope with a situation related to a distortion of thought,
behavior and feelings.
Stress - ✔✔Non-specific response to the body for any demand made of it. (Good and bad)
Coping - ✔✔The way one adapts psychologically, physically and behaviorally to a stressor.
A patient will feel happier and calmer 2 weeks into an anti-depressant treatment.
True/False. - ✔✔False. A course of anti-depressant takes at least 3-4 weeks to see a change
and 6-8 weeks to determine a result.
Name 4 Communication Blocks for mental health patients... - ✔✔*Agreeing/Disagreeing
*Asking "Why?"
*Changing the subject
*Giving advice
*Giving approval/disapproval
*Giving false reassurance
*Focusing on nurse
*Double-bind messages
Anxiety - ✔✔The feeling of dread or uneasiness in response to extreme or prolonged stress.
Anxiety Disorders - ✔✔Disorders where the central feeling is anxiety.
*Phobias
*Panic Disorders
*Generalized Anxiety Disorder
*OCD
*PTSD
, *Eating disorders
Mood Disorders - ✔✔*Major depression
*Bipolar disorder
Anhedonia - ✔✔Loss of pleasure
Most at risk population for suicide... - ✔✔Elderly white men.
Second leading cause of death for 15 - 19 year olds... - ✔✔Suicide.
Schizophrenia - ✔✔Severe chronic brain disorder of thought and association. Unable to
distinguish between reality and not.
Schizoid Personality - ✔✔Loner, indifferent, cold, aloof. Does not always progress to
schizophrenia.
Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia - ✔✔Behavior becomes eccentric, perception and
ideation changing, poor hygiene, difficulty communicating. *Usually diagnosed in this
phase.*
Schizophrenia Phase - ✔✔Active phase: hallucinating, psychotic, delusions, impaired
relationships.
Residual Phase of Schizophrenia - ✔✔Flat affect. Loner, indifferent, reserved.
"Positive" Symptoms - ✔✔Added behaviors
"Negative" Symptoms - ✔✔Behaviors that decrease or disappear.
