Exam 1
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1. What is mental health?: - able to recognize their own potential
- copes with normal stress
- works productively
- contributes to the community
2. Traits of mental health: - think rationally
- communicate appropriately
- learn and grow emotionally
- be resilient
- health self-esteem
- realistic goals & reasonable function within individual's role
3. Factors affecting mental health: - all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses
- physical health
-Genetrics/biological predisposition
- resilience, coping skills, temperament
- socioeconomic and support systems
- environmental influences
4. mental health continuum: Mental Health and Mental Illness occupy opposite ends of the mental health
continuum. The midpoint on the continuum represents normal mental health.
-an individual can still experience stress w/o serious impairment
5. Mental Illness is clinically significant when marked by:: - patients distress
- disability
- loss of freedom
- culturally defined
6. Resilience: - ability & capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being
- found in children of poverty and abuse who seek trusted adults
- people that are effective at regulating their emotions and not falling victim to negative thoughts
7. Diathesis Stress model: - most accepted explanation for mental illness
- combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressor
- Diathesis: biological predisposition
- Stress: environmental stress or trauma
- Nature + nurture
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8. Mental Health Parity Act: requires insurance companies to offer the same level of coverage for mental
health care that they provide for medical and surgical care
9. Epidemiology of Mental Disorders: Study distribution of mental disorders
Identify high-risk groups
Identify high-risk factors
Incidence: # of new cases in a given time
Prevalence: # of cases regardless of when they began
- only way to get out of prevalence group= mortality or cure
10. Leading cause of disability?: major depressive disorder
11. DSM-5: The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
-diagnostic criteria for psychiatric mental health disorders
- mental disorders considered manifestations of the individuals functional ability in one or more:
a. behavioral, psychological, biological
b. identifies disorders based on specific criteria
c. collects epidemiological statistics about the dx of disorders.
12. Levels of Psychiatric Nursing Practice: 1. Basic Level RN
2. Psychiatric-Mental Health RN
3. Psychiatric mental health advanced practice RN
13. Basic Level RN: A professional who has completed a nursing program, passed the state licensure examina-
tion, and is qualified to work in almost any general or specialty area.
- can work as staff nurse, case manager, home care nurse
14. Psychiatric Mental Health RN: possesses a diploma, an associates or bachelors and chooses to work
in the specialty of psychiatric.
- works in psych facility
15. Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced practice RN: licensed RN with MSN or DNP.
- can function autonomously depending on the state and is eligible for specialty privileges.
16. RN-BC: after 2 years full time work in psych setting (2,000 hours), 30 hr of continuing psychiatric education, take
certification exam (ANCC) to be board certified
17. Freud's psychoanalytic theory: Levels of Awareness: 1. Conscious: contains all the mate-
rial a person is aware of at any one time including perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings
2. Preconscious: material that can be retrieved rather easily through conscious effort
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1. What is mental health?: - able to recognize their own potential
- copes with normal stress
- works productively
- contributes to the community
2. Traits of mental health: - think rationally
- communicate appropriately
- learn and grow emotionally
- be resilient
- health self-esteem
- realistic goals & reasonable function within individual's role
3. Factors affecting mental health: - all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses
- physical health
-Genetrics/biological predisposition
- resilience, coping skills, temperament
- socioeconomic and support systems
- environmental influences
4. mental health continuum: Mental Health and Mental Illness occupy opposite ends of the mental health
continuum. The midpoint on the continuum represents normal mental health.
-an individual can still experience stress w/o serious impairment
5. Mental Illness is clinically significant when marked by:: - patients distress
- disability
- loss of freedom
- culturally defined
6. Resilience: - ability & capacity for people to secure the resources they need to support their well-being
- found in children of poverty and abuse who seek trusted adults
- people that are effective at regulating their emotions and not falling victim to negative thoughts
7. Diathesis Stress model: - most accepted explanation for mental illness
- combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressor
- Diathesis: biological predisposition
- Stress: environmental stress or trauma
- Nature + nurture
, Exam 1
Study online at https://quizlet.com/_a01drb
8. Mental Health Parity Act: requires insurance companies to offer the same level of coverage for mental
health care that they provide for medical and surgical care
9. Epidemiology of Mental Disorders: Study distribution of mental disorders
Identify high-risk groups
Identify high-risk factors
Incidence: # of new cases in a given time
Prevalence: # of cases regardless of when they began
- only way to get out of prevalence group= mortality or cure
10. Leading cause of disability?: major depressive disorder
11. DSM-5: The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
-diagnostic criteria for psychiatric mental health disorders
- mental disorders considered manifestations of the individuals functional ability in one or more:
a. behavioral, psychological, biological
b. identifies disorders based on specific criteria
c. collects epidemiological statistics about the dx of disorders.
12. Levels of Psychiatric Nursing Practice: 1. Basic Level RN
2. Psychiatric-Mental Health RN
3. Psychiatric mental health advanced practice RN
13. Basic Level RN: A professional who has completed a nursing program, passed the state licensure examina-
tion, and is qualified to work in almost any general or specialty area.
- can work as staff nurse, case manager, home care nurse
14. Psychiatric Mental Health RN: possesses a diploma, an associates or bachelors and chooses to work
in the specialty of psychiatric.
- works in psych facility
15. Psychiatric Mental Health Advanced practice RN: licensed RN with MSN or DNP.
- can function autonomously depending on the state and is eligible for specialty privileges.
16. RN-BC: after 2 years full time work in psych setting (2,000 hours), 30 hr of continuing psychiatric education, take
certification exam (ANCC) to be board certified
17. Freud's psychoanalytic theory: Levels of Awareness: 1. Conscious: contains all the mate-
rial a person is aware of at any one time including perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings
2. Preconscious: material that can be retrieved rather easily through conscious effort
