CORRECT WELL DETAILED ANSWERS|LATEST
UPDATE!!!!2025/2026|GUARANTEED
Mental health tools - ANSWER me, meds, environment
Psychiatric treatments - ANSWER 1. Use of words
2. Drugs
3. Environment
4. Somatic therapies
5. Behavioral conditioning
Environmental elements to consider psychotherapy - ANSWER safety, structure,
norms, limit setting, balance
When a mental health problem is suspected, it must be - ANSWER confirmed
Why may a person be admitted to an mental institution? - ANSWER -danger to self
and others
-gravely disabled
-acutely psychotic
-suicidal/homicidal
Role of nurses in a psychiatric setting - ANSWER assess individual's current level of
functioning and direct or escort individual to appropriate resources
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,Types of hospital-based care - ANSWER locked units. Open/unlocked units, psychiatric
icus, specialty units (adult, geriatric, child and adolescent, substance abuse)
Types of long term care - ANSWER nursing homes, group homes, halfway homes,
apartment living, foster care, jails
Person providing counseling - ANSWER psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psych
nurse practitioner, nurse, etc
Why do many psych pts seek help from PCP - ANSWER stigma, lack of knowledge, and
reduced access
Discharge planning begins - ANSWER admission
Types of community based care - ANSWER -residential services
-outpatient services
-self-help resources
What are the eras of psychiatric nursing - ANSWER -preenlightenment
-enlightenment (1790s)
-scientific study (1870s)
-psychotropic drugs (1950s)
-community mental health (1960s)
-brain (1990s)
Preenlightnement - ANSWER -mentally ill treated no better than animals
-thought to be immune to normal biological stressors
-restricted, chained, made to perform
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, Enlightenment - ANSWER pinel and tuke
-human dignity upheld
-asylum movement developed
Scientific study - ANSWER -freud (early life experiences)
-kraepelin (studied the brain)
-mental illness could be studied
-study of mind and treatment approaches to psych conditions flourished
Psychotropic drugs - ANSWER -1949: lithium // 1950: thorazine // 1952 MAOIS //
1958: tcas ?? 1960 Benzodiazepines
-mental disorders caused by a chemical imbalance and that can be restored
-destigmatization
Community mental health era - ANSWER -community mental health centers act
- people have right to be treated in own community
-advantage: economical, accessible
-disadvantage: deinstitutionalization led to homelessness
The community mental health era began as a result of - ANSWER -hostility toward
state hospitals
-psychotropic drugs from previous era
-civil rights
-financial incentives
Decade of the brain - ANSWER -congressional mandate
-understand brain leads to helping many people
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UPDATE!!!!2025/2026|GUARANTEED
Mental health tools - ANSWER me, meds, environment
Psychiatric treatments - ANSWER 1. Use of words
2. Drugs
3. Environment
4. Somatic therapies
5. Behavioral conditioning
Environmental elements to consider psychotherapy - ANSWER safety, structure,
norms, limit setting, balance
When a mental health problem is suspected, it must be - ANSWER confirmed
Why may a person be admitted to an mental institution? - ANSWER -danger to self
and others
-gravely disabled
-acutely psychotic
-suicidal/homicidal
Role of nurses in a psychiatric setting - ANSWER assess individual's current level of
functioning and direct or escort individual to appropriate resources
1
,Types of hospital-based care - ANSWER locked units. Open/unlocked units, psychiatric
icus, specialty units (adult, geriatric, child and adolescent, substance abuse)
Types of long term care - ANSWER nursing homes, group homes, halfway homes,
apartment living, foster care, jails
Person providing counseling - ANSWER psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, psych
nurse practitioner, nurse, etc
Why do many psych pts seek help from PCP - ANSWER stigma, lack of knowledge, and
reduced access
Discharge planning begins - ANSWER admission
Types of community based care - ANSWER -residential services
-outpatient services
-self-help resources
What are the eras of psychiatric nursing - ANSWER -preenlightenment
-enlightenment (1790s)
-scientific study (1870s)
-psychotropic drugs (1950s)
-community mental health (1960s)
-brain (1990s)
Preenlightnement - ANSWER -mentally ill treated no better than animals
-thought to be immune to normal biological stressors
-restricted, chained, made to perform
2
, Enlightenment - ANSWER pinel and tuke
-human dignity upheld
-asylum movement developed
Scientific study - ANSWER -freud (early life experiences)
-kraepelin (studied the brain)
-mental illness could be studied
-study of mind and treatment approaches to psych conditions flourished
Psychotropic drugs - ANSWER -1949: lithium // 1950: thorazine // 1952 MAOIS //
1958: tcas ?? 1960 Benzodiazepines
-mental disorders caused by a chemical imbalance and that can be restored
-destigmatization
Community mental health era - ANSWER -community mental health centers act
- people have right to be treated in own community
-advantage: economical, accessible
-disadvantage: deinstitutionalization led to homelessness
The community mental health era began as a result of - ANSWER -hostility toward
state hospitals
-psychotropic drugs from previous era
-civil rights
-financial incentives
Decade of the brain - ANSWER -congressional mandate
-understand brain leads to helping many people
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