Galen Mental Health Exam 1 with verified
answers
Challenging Leaders in Group: Democratic Leader - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔decide
how to do it or make decisions as a group
What is mental health? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o State of well being
o People are able to realize their own potential, cope with normal stress of life, work
productively, make contributions to community and able to function normally
o Able to find help when stressed and deal with life's problems
o With mental illness, there is significant dysfunction of daily living
What is resilience? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Ability and capacity to secure
resources needed to support well-being
o Essential to recovery. We have to learn to be resilient and work through things.
Diathesis-Stress Model - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o biological predisposition or
genetics
(First degree relative who suffers from illness predisposes us to suffering from the same
illness)
o Stress: environmental stress or trauma
(Ex hurricane Katrina and those survivors never being the same again)
o Most accepted explanation for mental illness
o Combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
,DSM 5 Book - "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition" - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Official medical guidelines of the American Psychiatric
Association for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
o Criteria for diagnosing someone with a psychiatric disorder
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1950s - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Thorazine: First medication developed that would help calm down
agitated/aggressive patients. Sedation
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1960s - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Community Mental Health Centers Act: Deinstitutionalization
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1980s - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o
Carters Commission on Mental Health - recommended more community based care
Affordable Care Act - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔2010: Insurance available to those
who didn't have it before. People were able to be covered for mental health issues
Primary Prevention Strategy - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Occurs before problem is
manifested
§ Seeks to reduce the incidence of new cases
§ Educating them about their disease, coping strategies
Secondary Prevention Strategy - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Aimed at reducing the
prevalence of new and old cases
§ Early identification of problems, screening, prompt, and effective tx = 2nd prevention
§ Doesn't prevent disorder, but may delay or avert progression to symptomatic stage
Tertiary Prevention Strategy - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Seeks to prevent the
progress to a severe course, disability or death
,§ treatment
Types of Outpatient Psychiatric care - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Primary care
providers
o Specialty psychiatric care providers
o Patient-centered health/medical homes
o Community clinics
o Psychiatric home care
Easy Access outpatient psychiatric care - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Telephone
crisis counseling
§ Telephone outreach
§ Internet
§ Tele psychiatry
Characteristics of Outpatient Psych Nurses - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Strong
problem-solving and clinical skills
§ Cultural competence
§ Flexibility
§ Knowledge of community resources
§ Autonomy
Roles of Outpatient Psych Nurses - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Biopsychosocial
assessment
§ Case management
§ Promoting continuation of treatment
§ Teamwork and collaboration
, What are some reasons individuals would be admitted to Inpatient Pysch Facilities? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Suicidal
§ Homicidal
§ Extremely disabled and in need of short-term acute care
Do patients lose their rights while being admitted to an inpatient psych facility? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Patients reserve their rights ALWAYS
o Patients need for safety must be balanced against patients' rights as a citizen
o Mental health facilities have written statements of patients right and applicable state laws
o Refusal, medications, visitation, informed consent, confidentiality
A 95-year-old woman is reported by neighbors for leaving her front door wide open all night
long and noticing the smell of gas consistently because the stove is not being turned off. She
is deemed to be a danger to herself. Would she need inpatient or outpatient care? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Inpatient
What does "milieu" mean? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The unit - a therapeutic
environment. "The milieu is organized and calm today."
Culturally competent care: Western Tradition - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o More
scientific. Identity found in individuality.
o Values: autonomy, independence, self-reliance
o Mind and body separate
Culturally Competent Care: Eastern Tradition - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Family is
basis for identity
o Body-mind-spirit one entity
o Time is circular and recurring
o Born into a fate; duty to comply
answers
Challenging Leaders in Group: Democratic Leader - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔decide
how to do it or make decisions as a group
What is mental health? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o State of well being
o People are able to realize their own potential, cope with normal stress of life, work
productively, make contributions to community and able to function normally
o Able to find help when stressed and deal with life's problems
o With mental illness, there is significant dysfunction of daily living
What is resilience? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Ability and capacity to secure
resources needed to support well-being
o Essential to recovery. We have to learn to be resilient and work through things.
Diathesis-Stress Model - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o biological predisposition or
genetics
(First degree relative who suffers from illness predisposes us to suffering from the same
illness)
o Stress: environmental stress or trauma
(Ex hurricane Katrina and those survivors never being the same again)
o Most accepted explanation for mental illness
o Combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
,DSM 5 Book - "The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition" - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Official medical guidelines of the American Psychiatric
Association for diagnosing psychiatric disorders
o Criteria for diagnosing someone with a psychiatric disorder
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1950s - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Thorazine: First medication developed that would help calm down
agitated/aggressive patients. Sedation
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1960s - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS
**✔✔Community Mental Health Centers Act: Deinstitutionalization
Social Influences on psychiatric care settings: 1980s - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o
Carters Commission on Mental Health - recommended more community based care
Affordable Care Act - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔2010: Insurance available to those
who didn't have it before. People were able to be covered for mental health issues
Primary Prevention Strategy - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Occurs before problem is
manifested
§ Seeks to reduce the incidence of new cases
§ Educating them about their disease, coping strategies
Secondary Prevention Strategy - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Aimed at reducing the
prevalence of new and old cases
§ Early identification of problems, screening, prompt, and effective tx = 2nd prevention
§ Doesn't prevent disorder, but may delay or avert progression to symptomatic stage
Tertiary Prevention Strategy - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Seeks to prevent the
progress to a severe course, disability or death
,§ treatment
Types of Outpatient Psychiatric care - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Primary care
providers
o Specialty psychiatric care providers
o Patient-centered health/medical homes
o Community clinics
o Psychiatric home care
Easy Access outpatient psychiatric care - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Telephone
crisis counseling
§ Telephone outreach
§ Internet
§ Tele psychiatry
Characteristics of Outpatient Psych Nurses - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Strong
problem-solving and clinical skills
§ Cultural competence
§ Flexibility
§ Knowledge of community resources
§ Autonomy
Roles of Outpatient Psych Nurses - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Biopsychosocial
assessment
§ Case management
§ Promoting continuation of treatment
§ Teamwork and collaboration
, What are some reasons individuals would be admitted to Inpatient Pysch Facilities? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Suicidal
§ Homicidal
§ Extremely disabled and in need of short-term acute care
Do patients lose their rights while being admitted to an inpatient psych facility? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔§ Patients reserve their rights ALWAYS
o Patients need for safety must be balanced against patients' rights as a citizen
o Mental health facilities have written statements of patients right and applicable state laws
o Refusal, medications, visitation, informed consent, confidentiality
A 95-year-old woman is reported by neighbors for leaving her front door wide open all night
long and noticing the smell of gas consistently because the stove is not being turned off. She
is deemed to be a danger to herself. Would she need inpatient or outpatient care? - **
VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔Inpatient
What does "milieu" mean? - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔The unit - a therapeutic
environment. "The milieu is organized and calm today."
Culturally competent care: Western Tradition - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o More
scientific. Identity found in individuality.
o Values: autonomy, independence, self-reliance
o Mind and body separate
Culturally Competent Care: Eastern Tradition - ** VERIFIED ANSWERS **✔✔o Family is
basis for identity
o Body-mind-spirit one entity
o Time is circular and recurring
o Born into a fate; duty to comply
