New! NUR 253 - Mental Health Exam 3 with Actual
Complete Questions and Correct Detailed Answer with
Rationales Already Graded A+ | 2026/2027 Updated
A child diagnosed with autism will demonstrate impaired development in which area?
Social interactions and communication skills
When a nurse assesses the style of behavior a child habitually uses to cope with the demands
and expectations of the environment.
What is Temperament
What is nursing education provided to parents on Tic disorders?
Tics are sudden, nonrhythmic and rapid motor movements or vocalizations. Tics usually involve
the head, torso or limbs and change in location, frequency and severity over time.
Characteristics of a resilient child
- Adaptive temperament
- Ability to form nurturing relationships
with surrogate parental figures
- Ability to distance self from emotional
chaos in parents and family
- Good social intelligence and problem-solving
skills
- Ability to perceive a future
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders are evidenced by
- Inattentiveness
- Hyperactivity
- Impulsivity that are developmentally inappropriate
Dyscalculia
Difficulty understanding math
,Side effects of medication (Stimulant) for ADD
Insomnia, appetite suppression, headache, abdominal pain and lethargy
What symptom can the nurse expect a client diagnosed with depersonalization disorder to
manifest?
A feeling of detachments from one's body or mental processes.
Depersonalization is characterized by a sense of unreality or self-estrangement
Empathic listening is therapeutic because it focuses on making the patient feel?
Lessening feelings of isolation
Empathic listening can be healing because it can help minimize feelings of isolation.
Symptoms of adjustment disorder can include which characteristics?
Depression, guilt, anger, social withdrawal.
SX of adjustment disorder can run the gamut of all forms of distress. These feelings may be
combined with other manifestations (physical complaints, social withdrawal, or work/academic
inhibition.)
What information should the nurse give to the family of a client who has a dissociate episode?
What is it? What causes it?
Dissociation is a method for coping with severe stress. Dissociative symptoms are not under the
person’s conscious control.
Childhood, physical, sexual or emotional abuse and other traumatic events are associated with
adults experiencing dissociative symptoms.
Trauma interventions for a child with PTSD
- Establish trust and safety
- Use developmentally appropriate language to explore feelings
- Teach relaxation techniques before trauma exploration
- Help identify and cope with feelings through the use of art and play to promote expression
- Involve the parents/caregivers in 1:1 unless they are the cause of trauma
- Educate children and parents about the grief process and response to the trauma.
- Assist the parents in resolving their emotional distress about the trauma.
Attachment theory describes
The importance and dynamics of the infant/caregiver relationship and how this early
relationship can affect the individual throughout their life. (Positive and negative)
, Presence of 2 or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control of behavior
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A women suddenly finds she cannot see but seems unconcerned about her symptoms and tells
her husband "Don't worry dear, things will all work out." Her attitude is an example of what
process?
La belle indifference
La belle indifference
An attitude of unconcern about symptoms that is unconsciously used to lower anxiety.
The primary difference between unconscious and conscious somatic disorders are?
Unconscious not under the patients voluntary control (Headache, N/V, sweating, GI)
Conscious has symptomatology that is controlled by the client.
Factitious disorders and malingering in contrast to other somatic disorders and under conscious
control.
Nursing assessment for pts with somatic symptom disorders
- Assess for nature, location, onset, characteristics and duration of sx.
- Explore past hx of adverse childhood events
- Identify sx of anxiety, depression and past trauma
- Determine current quality of life, social support and coping skills
- identify any secondary gains
- explore the pts cognitive style and ability to communicate feelings/needs
- assess current psychosocial and biological needs
- screen for misuse of prescribed mediations and or substance abuse
Which disorder is characterized by the pts misinterpretations of physical sensations or feelings?
Illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis.)
Can be obsessive, thoughts about illness may be intrusive and difficult to dismiss, even when
the pt recognizes that his or her fears are unrealistic.
Pt presents with neurological symptoms in the absence of a neurological diagnosis. Deficits in
voluntary motor or sensory function, paralysis, blindness, movement disorder, numbness,
paresthesia, loss of vision or hearing.
Conversion Disorder
What is secondary gain?
Complete Questions and Correct Detailed Answer with
Rationales Already Graded A+ | 2026/2027 Updated
A child diagnosed with autism will demonstrate impaired development in which area?
Social interactions and communication skills
When a nurse assesses the style of behavior a child habitually uses to cope with the demands
and expectations of the environment.
What is Temperament
What is nursing education provided to parents on Tic disorders?
Tics are sudden, nonrhythmic and rapid motor movements or vocalizations. Tics usually involve
the head, torso or limbs and change in location, frequency and severity over time.
Characteristics of a resilient child
- Adaptive temperament
- Ability to form nurturing relationships
with surrogate parental figures
- Ability to distance self from emotional
chaos in parents and family
- Good social intelligence and problem-solving
skills
- Ability to perceive a future
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders are evidenced by
- Inattentiveness
- Hyperactivity
- Impulsivity that are developmentally inappropriate
Dyscalculia
Difficulty understanding math
,Side effects of medication (Stimulant) for ADD
Insomnia, appetite suppression, headache, abdominal pain and lethargy
What symptom can the nurse expect a client diagnosed with depersonalization disorder to
manifest?
A feeling of detachments from one's body or mental processes.
Depersonalization is characterized by a sense of unreality or self-estrangement
Empathic listening is therapeutic because it focuses on making the patient feel?
Lessening feelings of isolation
Empathic listening can be healing because it can help minimize feelings of isolation.
Symptoms of adjustment disorder can include which characteristics?
Depression, guilt, anger, social withdrawal.
SX of adjustment disorder can run the gamut of all forms of distress. These feelings may be
combined with other manifestations (physical complaints, social withdrawal, or work/academic
inhibition.)
What information should the nurse give to the family of a client who has a dissociate episode?
What is it? What causes it?
Dissociation is a method for coping with severe stress. Dissociative symptoms are not under the
person’s conscious control.
Childhood, physical, sexual or emotional abuse and other traumatic events are associated with
adults experiencing dissociative symptoms.
Trauma interventions for a child with PTSD
- Establish trust and safety
- Use developmentally appropriate language to explore feelings
- Teach relaxation techniques before trauma exploration
- Help identify and cope with feelings through the use of art and play to promote expression
- Involve the parents/caregivers in 1:1 unless they are the cause of trauma
- Educate children and parents about the grief process and response to the trauma.
- Assist the parents in resolving their emotional distress about the trauma.
Attachment theory describes
The importance and dynamics of the infant/caregiver relationship and how this early
relationship can affect the individual throughout their life. (Positive and negative)
, Presence of 2 or more distinct personality states that recurrently take control of behavior
Dissociative Identity Disorder
A women suddenly finds she cannot see but seems unconcerned about her symptoms and tells
her husband "Don't worry dear, things will all work out." Her attitude is an example of what
process?
La belle indifference
La belle indifference
An attitude of unconcern about symptoms that is unconsciously used to lower anxiety.
The primary difference between unconscious and conscious somatic disorders are?
Unconscious not under the patients voluntary control (Headache, N/V, sweating, GI)
Conscious has symptomatology that is controlled by the client.
Factitious disorders and malingering in contrast to other somatic disorders and under conscious
control.
Nursing assessment for pts with somatic symptom disorders
- Assess for nature, location, onset, characteristics and duration of sx.
- Explore past hx of adverse childhood events
- Identify sx of anxiety, depression and past trauma
- Determine current quality of life, social support and coping skills
- identify any secondary gains
- explore the pts cognitive style and ability to communicate feelings/needs
- assess current psychosocial and biological needs
- screen for misuse of prescribed mediations and or substance abuse
Which disorder is characterized by the pts misinterpretations of physical sensations or feelings?
Illness anxiety disorder (hypochondriasis.)
Can be obsessive, thoughts about illness may be intrusive and difficult to dismiss, even when
the pt recognizes that his or her fears are unrealistic.
Pt presents with neurological symptoms in the absence of a neurological diagnosis. Deficits in
voluntary motor or sensory function, paralysis, blindness, movement disorder, numbness,
paresthesia, loss of vision or hearing.
Conversion Disorder
What is secondary gain?
