Mental Health And Mental Illness
According to the DSM-5 definition as "clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning."
What is mental illness or mental disorder?
The early 19th-century physician to become the first American to advocate change in the conditions for individuals with mental illness.
Who is Dr. Benjamin Rush?
An enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about one-self and the environment that is demonstrated in our social and interpersonal relationships.
What is personality?
What is one of the most important characteristics of the nurse in establishing a therapeutic nurse-client relationship?
What is empathy which is the ability to hear what another person is saying.?
What are the three most common eating disorders?
What is:
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
Binge Eating or Compulsive Eating Disorder
A response to a threat or challenge that is actually harmful to one's health. It is a negative stress and demands an exhausting type of energy.
What is distress?
This bill was initiated in 1987 to prevent the inappropriate placement of mentally ill clients into nursing homes.
What is the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA)?
Who was the humanistic psychologist that theorized needs as a hierarchy, in which one acts in response to a perceived internal or external force determined by certain needs that are unchanging and innate in origin?
Who is Abraham Maslow?
What are the three phases of a therapeutic relationship?
What is;
Orientation Phase
Working Phase
Termination Phase
What is the primary symptom of anorexia nervosa?
What is the maintenance of subnormal levels of weight for age and height?
Name the four levels of anxiety.
What are mild, moderate, severe and panic levels?
All clients entering a treatment facility have certain rights that have been documented and must be displayed in a prominent area of the client service units.
What is the Patient Bill of Rights?
Who is the founder of psychoanalytic theory?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Within the therapeutic nurse-client relationship, it is the nurse's responsibility to initiate and maintain limits. What is this called?
What is professional boundaries?
What are the characteristics of bulimia nervosa?
What is binge eating with repeated attacks to self and self induced destructive methods to prevent weight gain?
Name the two types of grief.
What is anticipatory and conventional grief?
Placement of a client in a controlled environment in order to treat a clinical emergency in which the client poses an immediate threat to themselves or to others is called:
What is seclusion?
Freudian theory divides personality formation into three parts. What are they?
What is the Id, Ego and Superego?
Therapeutic relationships are dependent on what things of the individual client?
What is the situation and the needs of the individual client?
What is used by most persons with bulimia to achieve a temporary sense of relief after a binge?
What is purging?
Name the 5 stages of loss/dying that Dr. Kubler-Ross identified.
What is denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance?
Name two of the three behavioral tactics that are used by a client in a correctional facility?
What is manipulation, deceit or devious thinking?
Erik Erikson's theory proposed that we develop in a pattern of eight psychosocial stages throughout our lifespan. Name four of the eight stages.
Stage1= Trust versus Mistrust
Stage 2= Autonomy versus Shame and Doubt
Stage 3= Initiative versus Guilt
Stage 4= Industry versus Inferiority
Stage 5= Identity versus Pole Confusion
Stage 6= Intimacy versus Isolation
Stage 7= Generativity versus Stagnation
Stage 8= Integrity versus Despair
If the nurse is explaining the content of a contract with guidelines for behavior to a client on the nursing unit, which phase of the therapeutic relationship is the nurse facilitating?
What is the orientation phase?
Medications that have been found to be effective in combination with psychotherapy to address the symptoms related to bulimia nervosa are:
What are antidepressants?