1. Nursing practice specialty committed to promoting mental health through
the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of behavioral problems, mental
disorders, and co-morbid conditions across the lifespan Ans: Psychiatric
Mental Health Nursing
2. when was psychiatric nursing recognized? Ans: 19th century by Linda
Richards in Boston Instrumental
3. Published Interpersonal Relations in Nursing 1952 and established first
graduate program at Rutgers in 1954 Ans: Hildegard Peplau
4. Created the Statement on Psychiatric nursing practice in 1967 and the
scope and standards that were revised in 2014 Ans: American Nurses
Association
5. premoral treatment era Ans: 800 BC-colonial
6. Moral Treatment Era Ans: 1790-1900 belief that environmental changes can
affect the mind and alter behavior
7. Phillippe Pinel Ans: beleived that mental patients were illl and needed to be
treated as such - with kindness and caring; humane treatment
8. William Tuke Ans: An English Quaker who opened the York Retreat, which
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, pioneered new methods of treatment of mentally ill patients; sympathetic
treatment
9. Quakers in the United States Ans: Pioneered reforms for treatment of
mentally ill patients
10. Horace Mann Ans: United States educator who introduced reforms that
significantly altered the system of public education and introduced state
government financing for mental health facilities
11. Dorthea Lynde Dix Ans: Campained for better care of mentally ill.
Implemented expansion of state hospitals which started in MA and spread
across 20 states
12. What was the primary form of treatment for the mentally ill in 1900-1955
Ans: -
Institutionalization
13. Clifford Beers Ans: Wrote book on his experience with mental illness
14. National Committee for Mental Hygiene Ans: It was founded by Clifford
Beers. It was preventative care organization. , Publishers of Statistical Manual for
Use in Hospitals for Mental Diseases--> before DSM, use for statistical record
keeping of mental deficiency, not quite disease (yet)
15. Sigmund Freud Ans: Austrian neurologist known for his work on the
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