NR 326 MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 2
COMPLEX ADULT HEALTH 2026 EXAM
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⩥ Mental Illness. Answer: Maladaptive responses to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms and
interfere with the individual's social, occupational, or physical
functioning
⩥ Psychological theories. Answer: help us to explain behavior (why)
⩥ Psychological therapies. Answer: treatments based on these theories
(RN)
⩥ Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud). Answer: Developed psychoanalysis
Application to Nursing:
- Cause of suffering, value of talk sessions,
- correct inappropriate learning patterns
,⩥ Psychosocial Development (Erickson). Answer: Application to
Nursing:
- Individualize care to patient's developmental level
⩥ Interpersonal theory (Sullivan). Answer: -Believed that individual
behavior and personality development are the direct result of
interpersonal relationships.
- Human behavior could be observed in social interaction with others.
Application to Nursing:
- Relationship based therapy
⩥ Humanistic Theory (Maslow). Answer:
⩥ Modeling. Answer: What is it used for?
- Leading by example
How is it used?
- Staff demonstration, examples
⩥ Operant Conditioning. Answer: What is it used for?
- Positive behavior is reinforced
, How is it used?
- Reward system
⩥ Systematic Desensitization. Answer: What is it used for?
- Anxiety Disorders
How is it used?
- Patients are taught techniques and then exposed
⩥ Cognitive Therapy (Beck). Answer: A type of psychotherapy based on
identifying negative thinking/emotions and restructuring them into
positive.
Usually a time limited therapy
Effective: Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders
⩥ cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Answer: a blend of cognitive and
behavioral therapeutic strategies
⩥ dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Answer: a form of therapy used to
treat borderline personality disorder
COMPLEX ADULT HEALTH 2026 EXAM
SCRIPT WITH MOST TESTED QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS
⩥ Mental Illness. Answer: Maladaptive responses to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms and
interfere with the individual's social, occupational, or physical
functioning
⩥ Psychological theories. Answer: help us to explain behavior (why)
⩥ Psychological therapies. Answer: treatments based on these theories
(RN)
⩥ Psychoanalytic Theory (Freud). Answer: Developed psychoanalysis
Application to Nursing:
- Cause of suffering, value of talk sessions,
- correct inappropriate learning patterns
,⩥ Psychosocial Development (Erickson). Answer: Application to
Nursing:
- Individualize care to patient's developmental level
⩥ Interpersonal theory (Sullivan). Answer: -Believed that individual
behavior and personality development are the direct result of
interpersonal relationships.
- Human behavior could be observed in social interaction with others.
Application to Nursing:
- Relationship based therapy
⩥ Humanistic Theory (Maslow). Answer:
⩥ Modeling. Answer: What is it used for?
- Leading by example
How is it used?
- Staff demonstration, examples
⩥ Operant Conditioning. Answer: What is it used for?
- Positive behavior is reinforced
, How is it used?
- Reward system
⩥ Systematic Desensitization. Answer: What is it used for?
- Anxiety Disorders
How is it used?
- Patients are taught techniques and then exposed
⩥ Cognitive Therapy (Beck). Answer: A type of psychotherapy based on
identifying negative thinking/emotions and restructuring them into
positive.
Usually a time limited therapy
Effective: Depression, Anxiety, Eating Disorders
⩥ cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Answer: a blend of cognitive and
behavioral therapeutic strategies
⩥ dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Answer: a form of therapy used to
treat borderline personality disorder
