ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHIATRIC
MENTAL STUDY GUIDE WITH TESTED
SOLUTIONS
◉ What does the Unconscious (id) compose of?. Answer: primitive
feelings, drives, and memories, especially those that are unbearable
and traumatic
◉ What is the Ego (sense of self)?. Answer: Problem solver and
reality tester. (uses defense mechanisms like repression, denial, and
rationalization)
◉ What is the Superego (conscience)?. Answer: Moral component
◉ what is the purpose of Freud's psychoanalytic therapy?. Answer:
to reveal unconscious mind and repressed memories.
◉ Transference. Answer: occurs as the patient projects intense
feelings onto the therapist related to unfinished work from previous
relationships
◉ Countertransference. Answer: Psychodynamic therapists have
unconscious emotional responses to the patient.
,◉ Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory. Answer: The purpose of all
behavior is to get needs met through interpersonal interactions and
to decrease or avoid anxiety.
◉ therapeutic model. Answer: Therapists ("participant observers")
actively guide and challenge maladaptive behaviors and distorted
views
◉ what is the ascending order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?.
Answer: physiological needs, safety needs, belonging and love needs,
esteem needs, self-actualization, and self-transcendence
◉ Carl Roger's person-centered Therapy. Answer: People have
innate self-actualizing tendencies (to grow, develop, and realize their
full potential) with and emphasis on self-awareness and the present
◉ Beck's cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Answer: Seeks to
modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and
actions
◉ what is schemata?. Answer: Automatic thoughts (often irrational,
false assumptions)
Also known as Cognitive distortions
, ◉ Biological model. Answer: mental disorders are believed to have
physical causes
◉ Most effective therapies resulting in brain changes for select
disorders. Answer: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Dialectic behavior therapy (DBT)
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IP)
◉ Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory. Answer: progression
from primitive awareness to complex thought
◉ what theory of psychosocial development says that the stage a
patient is in and in which a trauma occurs, frequently causes the
patient to get stuck in that stage of development?. Answer: Erikson's
8 stages of development
◉ influence of behavioral theories and therapies on nursing care.
Answer: promoting adaptive behaviors through reinforcement
◉ influence of cognitive theories and therapies on nursing care.
Answer: helping patients identify negative thought patterns
MENTAL STUDY GUIDE WITH TESTED
SOLUTIONS
◉ What does the Unconscious (id) compose of?. Answer: primitive
feelings, drives, and memories, especially those that are unbearable
and traumatic
◉ What is the Ego (sense of self)?. Answer: Problem solver and
reality tester. (uses defense mechanisms like repression, denial, and
rationalization)
◉ What is the Superego (conscience)?. Answer: Moral component
◉ what is the purpose of Freud's psychoanalytic therapy?. Answer:
to reveal unconscious mind and repressed memories.
◉ Transference. Answer: occurs as the patient projects intense
feelings onto the therapist related to unfinished work from previous
relationships
◉ Countertransference. Answer: Psychodynamic therapists have
unconscious emotional responses to the patient.
,◉ Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory. Answer: The purpose of all
behavior is to get needs met through interpersonal interactions and
to decrease or avoid anxiety.
◉ therapeutic model. Answer: Therapists ("participant observers")
actively guide and challenge maladaptive behaviors and distorted
views
◉ what is the ascending order of Maslow's hierarchy of needs?.
Answer: physiological needs, safety needs, belonging and love needs,
esteem needs, self-actualization, and self-transcendence
◉ Carl Roger's person-centered Therapy. Answer: People have
innate self-actualizing tendencies (to grow, develop, and realize their
full potential) with and emphasis on self-awareness and the present
◉ Beck's cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT). Answer: Seeks to
modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and
actions
◉ what is schemata?. Answer: Automatic thoughts (often irrational,
false assumptions)
Also known as Cognitive distortions
, ◉ Biological model. Answer: mental disorders are believed to have
physical causes
◉ Most effective therapies resulting in brain changes for select
disorders. Answer: Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Dialectic behavior therapy (DBT)
Psychodynamic psychotherapy
Interpersonal psychotherapy (IP)
◉ Piaget's Cognitive Developmental Theory. Answer: progression
from primitive awareness to complex thought
◉ what theory of psychosocial development says that the stage a
patient is in and in which a trauma occurs, frequently causes the
patient to get stuck in that stage of development?. Answer: Erikson's
8 stages of development
◉ influence of behavioral theories and therapies on nursing care.
Answer: promoting adaptive behaviors through reinforcement
◉ influence of cognitive theories and therapies on nursing care.
Answer: helping patients identify negative thought patterns
