NUR 2459 MENTAL HEALTH LATEST 2026 EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔explain rationalization - ✔✔creating reasonable and unacceptable explanations for
unacceptable behavior
✔✔example of rationalization - ✔✔A boy justifies cheating in a card game because he
said everyone cheats.
✔✔explain reaction formation - ✔✔preventing unacceptable thoughts or behaviors from
being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
✔✔example of reaction formation - ✔✔A girl is angry with someone, but expresses
exaggerated friendliness when she sees her.
✔✔explain regression - ✔✔sudden use of childlike or earlier developmental behaviors
that do not correlate with age or developmental stage.
✔✔example of regression - ✔✔An adult throws a temper tantrum when she doesn't get
her way.
✔✔explain repression - ✔✔unconsciously putting unacceptable feelings, ideas and
thoughts out of awareness. No memory.
✔✔example of repression - ✔✔A trauma victim is unable to remember anything about
his accident.
✔✔explain suppression - ✔✔voluntary denying or putting away stressful feelings
✔✔example of suppression - ✔✔A student states, "I'll worry about that exam tomorrow."
✔✔explain conversion - ✔✔responding to stress through the unconscious development
of physical manifestations of illnesses.
✔✔example of conversion - ✔✔A girl is unable to speak just before she is to try out for
chorus.
✔✔explain splitting - ✔✔demonstrating an inability to reconcile negative and positive
attributes of self to others.
✔✔example of splitting - ✔✔Someone says she has the best friend ever, until her friend
is not able to attend her party. Then she says she never wants to see her again.
, ✔✔explain sublimation - ✔✔dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by
unconsciously substituting acceptable forms of expression
✔✔example of sublimation - ✔✔A mother whose child has cystic fibrosis, develops a
support group for other parents with children diagnosed with the illness.
✔✔explain undoing - ✔✔performing an act to make up for prior behavior.
✔✔example of undoing - ✔✔A man argues with his wife and the next day brings her
flowers.
✔✔explain the therapeutic nurse patient relationship - ✔✔pre orientation, orientation,
working, termination
✔✔explain what happens during pre orientation phase - ✔✔involves preparation for the
first encounter with the patient.
The nurse obtains information from the chart, significant others, or other team members.
They also may examine one's feelings, fears, and anxieties about working with a
specific patient and how they may affect the ability to care for the patient. no bias
✔✔explain the orientation phase - ✔✔involves the nurse and the patient becoming
acquainted. Introductions.
Creates environment with trust, identifies strengths and limitations and assess and
create goals, discuss the termination phase.
✔✔explain the working phase - ✔✔the therapeutic work of the relationship is
accomplished, and interventions take place. maintain trust and rapport, problem solving,
overcoming resistance saviors, advancing to reaching ones goals.
✔✔explain transference - ✔✔when the patient unconsciously displaces to the nurse
feelings formed to a person from his or her past from feelings or personality that remind
the patient of another person, but also be dependency on the nurse based on unreal
patient expectations.
✔✔explain countertransference - ✔✔the nurse's behavioral and emotional responses in
which the nurse transfers feelings about past experiences to the patient that can
interfere with the relationship
✔✔explain termination phase - ✔✔occurs when the goals are reached, the client is
discharged, or the shift ends.
Can be difficult for all parties involved and therapeutic conclusions must be developed
and feeling of sadness and loss may occur.
✔✔explain what active listening is - ✔✔occurs nonverbally and is important to have a
desire to hear and understand what the patient is saying.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔explain rationalization - ✔✔creating reasonable and unacceptable explanations for
unacceptable behavior
✔✔example of rationalization - ✔✔A boy justifies cheating in a card game because he
said everyone cheats.
✔✔explain reaction formation - ✔✔preventing unacceptable thoughts or behaviors from
being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors.
✔✔example of reaction formation - ✔✔A girl is angry with someone, but expresses
exaggerated friendliness when she sees her.
✔✔explain regression - ✔✔sudden use of childlike or earlier developmental behaviors
that do not correlate with age or developmental stage.
✔✔example of regression - ✔✔An adult throws a temper tantrum when she doesn't get
her way.
✔✔explain repression - ✔✔unconsciously putting unacceptable feelings, ideas and
thoughts out of awareness. No memory.
✔✔example of repression - ✔✔A trauma victim is unable to remember anything about
his accident.
✔✔explain suppression - ✔✔voluntary denying or putting away stressful feelings
✔✔example of suppression - ✔✔A student states, "I'll worry about that exam tomorrow."
✔✔explain conversion - ✔✔responding to stress through the unconscious development
of physical manifestations of illnesses.
✔✔example of conversion - ✔✔A girl is unable to speak just before she is to try out for
chorus.
✔✔explain splitting - ✔✔demonstrating an inability to reconcile negative and positive
attributes of self to others.
✔✔example of splitting - ✔✔Someone says she has the best friend ever, until her friend
is not able to attend her party. Then she says she never wants to see her again.
, ✔✔explain sublimation - ✔✔dealing with unacceptable feelings or impulses by
unconsciously substituting acceptable forms of expression
✔✔example of sublimation - ✔✔A mother whose child has cystic fibrosis, develops a
support group for other parents with children diagnosed with the illness.
✔✔explain undoing - ✔✔performing an act to make up for prior behavior.
✔✔example of undoing - ✔✔A man argues with his wife and the next day brings her
flowers.
✔✔explain the therapeutic nurse patient relationship - ✔✔pre orientation, orientation,
working, termination
✔✔explain what happens during pre orientation phase - ✔✔involves preparation for the
first encounter with the patient.
The nurse obtains information from the chart, significant others, or other team members.
They also may examine one's feelings, fears, and anxieties about working with a
specific patient and how they may affect the ability to care for the patient. no bias
✔✔explain the orientation phase - ✔✔involves the nurse and the patient becoming
acquainted. Introductions.
Creates environment with trust, identifies strengths and limitations and assess and
create goals, discuss the termination phase.
✔✔explain the working phase - ✔✔the therapeutic work of the relationship is
accomplished, and interventions take place. maintain trust and rapport, problem solving,
overcoming resistance saviors, advancing to reaching ones goals.
✔✔explain transference - ✔✔when the patient unconsciously displaces to the nurse
feelings formed to a person from his or her past from feelings or personality that remind
the patient of another person, but also be dependency on the nurse based on unreal
patient expectations.
✔✔explain countertransference - ✔✔the nurse's behavioral and emotional responses in
which the nurse transfers feelings about past experiences to the patient that can
interfere with the relationship
✔✔explain termination phase - ✔✔occurs when the goals are reached, the client is
discharged, or the shift ends.
Can be difficult for all parties involved and therapeutic conclusions must be developed
and feeling of sadness and loss may occur.
✔✔explain what active listening is - ✔✔occurs nonverbally and is important to have a
desire to hear and understand what the patient is saying.
