Chapter 1 Essential of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Guide
Questions with correct Answers
Mental Health Maslow - correct answers-Mental health is associated with an individual's motivation
toward self-actualization.
Self-actualization the state of being psychologically healthy, fully human, highly evolved, and fully
mature
Black and Andreasen view about Mental Health - correct answersSuccessful performance of mental
function such as adaptation to change, coping with stressors,fullfilling relationships with others, and
accomplishing productive activities
Towsen& Morgan define Mental Health - correct answers-Successful adaptation to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are and congruent
with local and cultural norms.
Mental Illness (Horwitz) - correct answersThe definition of how individual define mental illness is
affection by two elements:
-Incomprehensibility: inability to a general population to understand the motivation behind the behavior
(labeling)
-Cultural relativity: behaviors are conceived within individual by their particular culture or social norms.
The American Psychiatric association definition of Mental Illness/disorder - correct answersDisturbance
in an individual cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the
psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning. Mental disorder is
associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activity.
Townsen & Morgan define Mental Illness - correct answersMaladaptive response to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feeling and behaviors that are incongruent
with the local and cultural norms, and interference with the individual's social, occupational, and/or
physical functioning.
Physical and Physiological Responses to Stress (Hans Selye) - correct answersThe state manifested by a
specific syndrome which consists of all nonspecifically induced changes within a biological system. "Fight
or Flight syndrome"
Questions with correct Answers
Mental Health Maslow - correct answers-Mental health is associated with an individual's motivation
toward self-actualization.
Self-actualization the state of being psychologically healthy, fully human, highly evolved, and fully
mature
Black and Andreasen view about Mental Health - correct answersSuccessful performance of mental
function such as adaptation to change, coping with stressors,fullfilling relationships with others, and
accomplishing productive activities
Towsen& Morgan define Mental Health - correct answers-Successful adaptation to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are and congruent
with local and cultural norms.
Mental Illness (Horwitz) - correct answersThe definition of how individual define mental illness is
affection by two elements:
-Incomprehensibility: inability to a general population to understand the motivation behind the behavior
(labeling)
-Cultural relativity: behaviors are conceived within individual by their particular culture or social norms.
The American Psychiatric association definition of Mental Illness/disorder - correct answersDisturbance
in an individual cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the
psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning. Mental disorder is
associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activity.
Townsen & Morgan define Mental Illness - correct answersMaladaptive response to stressors from the
internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feeling and behaviors that are incongruent
with the local and cultural norms, and interference with the individual's social, occupational, and/or
physical functioning.
Physical and Physiological Responses to Stress (Hans Selye) - correct answersThe state manifested by a
specific syndrome which consists of all nonspecifically induced changes within a biological system. "Fight
or Flight syndrome"
