Psychiatric Nursing – PRELIMS
questions n answers rated A+
a) Health - correct answer ✔✔ It is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (WHO)
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
b) Mental Health - correct answer ✔✔ level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental
illness
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
c) Mental Illness - correct answer ✔✔ a clinically significant behavioral or psychological
syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and is associated with present distress (e.g., a
painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning)
or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of
freedom.
a) Health
b) Mental Health
,c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
b) Mental Health - correct answer ✔✔ It affects how we think, feel, and act. It helps determine
how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
c) Mental Illness - correct answer ✔✔ It is a disorder causing people to display abnormal
behavior more consistently than most people
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
b) Mental Health - correct answer ✔✔ ability to solve problems, fulfill one's capacity for love
and work, cope with crises without assistance beyond the support of family or friends
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
,a) Individual or Genetic - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental health that
includes a person's biologic makeup, autonomy and independence, self-esteem, capacity for
growth, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of
belonging, reality orientation, and coping or stress management abilities.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences
mental health that includes effective communication, ability to help others, intimacy, and a
balance of separateness and connectedness.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences
mental health that includes a sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of
violence, support of diversity among people, mastery of the environment, and a positive, yet
realistic, view of one's world.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
a) Individual - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental illness that includes
biologic makeup, intolerable or unrealistic worries or fears, inability to distinguish reality from
fantasy, intolerance of life's uncertainties, a sense of disharmony in life, and a loss of meaning in
one's life.
, a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural
b) Interpersonal - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental illness that includes
ineffective communication, excessive dependency on or withdrawal from relationships, no
sense of belonging, inadequate social support, and loss of emotional control.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural
c) Social/Cultural - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental illness that
includes lack of resources, violence, homelessness, poverty, an unwarranted negative view of
the world, and discrimination such as stigma, racism, classism, ageism, and sexism.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural
c) Ebersole and Hess - correct answer ✔✔ Who said this quote?
"No one is entirely mentally unhealthy and no one is fully healthy at all times."
a) Maslow
b) Erikson
questions n answers rated A+
a) Health - correct answer ✔✔ It is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellness, not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity. (WHO)
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
b) Mental Health - correct answer ✔✔ level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental
illness
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
c) Mental Illness - correct answer ✔✔ a clinically significant behavioral or psychological
syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and is associated with present distress (e.g., a
painful symptom) or disability (i.e., impairment in one or more important areas of functioning)
or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability, or an important loss of
freedom.
a) Health
b) Mental Health
,c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
b) Mental Health - correct answer ✔✔ It affects how we think, feel, and act. It helps determine
how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
c) Mental Illness - correct answer ✔✔ It is a disorder causing people to display abnormal
behavior more consistently than most people
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
b) Mental Health - correct answer ✔✔ ability to solve problems, fulfill one's capacity for love
and work, cope with crises without assistance beyond the support of family or friends
a) Health
b) Mental Health
c) Mental Illness
d) Psychology
,a) Individual or Genetic - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental health that
includes a person's biologic makeup, autonomy and independence, self-esteem, capacity for
growth, vitality, ability to find meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of
belonging, reality orientation, and coping or stress management abilities.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences
mental health that includes effective communication, ability to help others, intimacy, and a
balance of separateness and connectedness.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences
mental health that includes a sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of
violence, support of diversity among people, mastery of the environment, and a positive, yet
realistic, view of one's world.
a) Individual or Genetic
b) Interpersonal or Childhood Experiences
c) SOCIAL/CULTURAL/LIFE CIRCUMSTANCES
a) Individual - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental illness that includes
biologic makeup, intolerable or unrealistic worries or fears, inability to distinguish reality from
fantasy, intolerance of life's uncertainties, a sense of disharmony in life, and a loss of meaning in
one's life.
, a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural
b) Interpersonal - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental illness that includes
ineffective communication, excessive dependency on or withdrawal from relationships, no
sense of belonging, inadequate social support, and loss of emotional control.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural
c) Social/Cultural - correct answer ✔✔ what type of factor influences mental illness that
includes lack of resources, violence, homelessness, poverty, an unwarranted negative view of
the world, and discrimination such as stigma, racism, classism, ageism, and sexism.
a) Individual
b) Interpersonal
c) Social/Cultural
c) Ebersole and Hess - correct answer ✔✔ Who said this quote?
"No one is entirely mentally unhealthy and no one is fully healthy at all times."
a) Maslow
b) Erikson
