Mental health Nursing Exam 1:
questions n correct answers
4 things needed to be "mental ill" - correct answer ✔✔ 1. ^ Distress. 2. ^Disability 3. ^ risk of
suffering 4. Loss of Freedom
3 types of definable disorder - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Cognitive/thinking: Alzheimer's &
dementia 2. Mood: Depression 3. Behavior: schizophrenia
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats of
significant sources of stress. Resilience is something a person is born with? T or F - correct
answer ✔✔ False: Resilience behaviors, thoughts, and action can be learn
5 ways to to improve resilience - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Get connected
2.Make every day meaningful
3. Learn from experience
4. Remain hopeful, positive self talk
Take care of yourself
Daily physical activity
Get plenty of sleep
Eat a healthy diet
Practice stress management and relaxation techniques
5.Be proactive, move toward your goals
Do something small each day
,Statistic of people with mental illness - correct answer ✔✔ 12 month prevalence of mental
health disorders
1 in 5 adults experience mental illness
13.6 million have serious mental illness
20% 13-18 year olds have disorder
13% in 8-15 year olds
What are the 5 axes used in DSM IV, 3 in DSM V -> 5 used in common practice? - correct answer
✔✔ 1. Clinical disorders
2. Personality disorders
3. General medical conditions
4. Psychosocial or environmental stressors
5. Global assessment of functioning 0-100 (GAF)
Which theorist used Psychosexual stages of development? Ego, ID, and superego? - correct
answer ✔✔ Sigmund Freud:
Ego: the "I", personal identity, deals with reality
Id: source of all drives, meet basic needs ( doing things without thinking)
Superego: moral component ( ethics of thought)
Who is the Mother of psychiatric & mental health nursing? - correct answer ✔✔ Hildegard
Peplau
What is behavioral therapies? - correct answer ✔✔ Pavlov, BF Skinner
Not concerned with inner conflicts
Personality = learned behaviors
, Conditioning
Behavior modification programs
Role model
What is CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - correct answer ✔✔ Active, structured, time
limited
Depression, anxiety, phobias
Automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions
Identify, reality test, correct
What is DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy? - correct answer ✔✔ Mix of east and west
treatment: Yoga or breathing for depression
What are some Myths of Psychotherapy? - correct answer ✔✔ There is one best therapy
Therapy simply does not work
Therapists can read minds
People who go to therapists are crazy, weak, failures
Only the rich can afford therapy
I'm strong/tough --- I'll just do it myself, I don't need help
What are two types of law? - correct answer ✔✔ Statutory = something passed by legislation,
written
Common law - derived by precedent and former rulings, common practice, custom, once =
always
Mentally ill persons have civil rights - can vote, have religious freedom, can sign contracts
questions n correct answers
4 things needed to be "mental ill" - correct answer ✔✔ 1. ^ Distress. 2. ^Disability 3. ^ risk of
suffering 4. Loss of Freedom
3 types of definable disorder - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Cognitive/thinking: Alzheimer's &
dementia 2. Mood: Depression 3. Behavior: schizophrenia
Resilience is the process of adapting well in the face of adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats of
significant sources of stress. Resilience is something a person is born with? T or F - correct
answer ✔✔ False: Resilience behaviors, thoughts, and action can be learn
5 ways to to improve resilience - correct answer ✔✔ 1. Get connected
2.Make every day meaningful
3. Learn from experience
4. Remain hopeful, positive self talk
Take care of yourself
Daily physical activity
Get plenty of sleep
Eat a healthy diet
Practice stress management and relaxation techniques
5.Be proactive, move toward your goals
Do something small each day
,Statistic of people with mental illness - correct answer ✔✔ 12 month prevalence of mental
health disorders
1 in 5 adults experience mental illness
13.6 million have serious mental illness
20% 13-18 year olds have disorder
13% in 8-15 year olds
What are the 5 axes used in DSM IV, 3 in DSM V -> 5 used in common practice? - correct answer
✔✔ 1. Clinical disorders
2. Personality disorders
3. General medical conditions
4. Psychosocial or environmental stressors
5. Global assessment of functioning 0-100 (GAF)
Which theorist used Psychosexual stages of development? Ego, ID, and superego? - correct
answer ✔✔ Sigmund Freud:
Ego: the "I", personal identity, deals with reality
Id: source of all drives, meet basic needs ( doing things without thinking)
Superego: moral component ( ethics of thought)
Who is the Mother of psychiatric & mental health nursing? - correct answer ✔✔ Hildegard
Peplau
What is behavioral therapies? - correct answer ✔✔ Pavlov, BF Skinner
Not concerned with inner conflicts
Personality = learned behaviors
, Conditioning
Behavior modification programs
Role model
What is CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - correct answer ✔✔ Active, structured, time
limited
Depression, anxiety, phobias
Automatic thoughts, cognitive distortions
Identify, reality test, correct
What is DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy? - correct answer ✔✔ Mix of east and west
treatment: Yoga or breathing for depression
What are some Myths of Psychotherapy? - correct answer ✔✔ There is one best therapy
Therapy simply does not work
Therapists can read minds
People who go to therapists are crazy, weak, failures
Only the rich can afford therapy
I'm strong/tough --- I'll just do it myself, I don't need help
What are two types of law? - correct answer ✔✔ Statutory = something passed by legislation,
written
Common law - derived by precedent and former rulings, common practice, custom, once =
always
Mentally ill persons have civil rights - can vote, have religious freedom, can sign contracts
