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NU 345 Mental Health Exam 1 Questions
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Mental Health Parity Act - Answers✔Enacted in 2008 ensures that there are no mental health
limitations from insurance.
Mental Health - Answers✔A continuum.
Mental Illness - Answers✔Shaped by cultural norms, societal values, political climate, and even
reimbursement.
Mentally Healthy Adult - Answers✔Resilience, accepts strengths and limitations, perceives
reality accurately, engages in independent thinking and action, exhibits environmental mastery.
Diathesis-Stress Model - Answers✔Theory that explains behavior
Attachment Theory - Answers✔Describes the importance of the early relationship between
infant and caretaker. Different schema include secure, avoidant. ambivalent, and disorganized
attachment styles.
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Resilience - Answers✔Positive adaptation, or the ability to maintain or regain mental health
despite adversity. Factors that enhance resilience include presence of supportive relationships
and attachments and avoidance of frequent and prolonged stress.
Child Assessment Trauma Related - Answers✔Child Dissociative Checklist, Trauma Symptoms
Checklist for Children, and the Child Sexual Behavior Inventory, Denver II Developmental
Screening Test (Developmental Assessment).
Child Diagnosis Trauma - Answers✔Risk for impaired parent/child attachment, Risk for delayed
development.
Window of Tolerance - Answers✔Balance between sympathetic and parasympathetic arousal.
Child Implementation Trauma - Answers✔Providing safety and stabilization, Reducing arousal
and regulating emotion, Developmental skills catch up through enhancing problem-solving
skills.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Answers✔First line treatment for
traumatized children (and adults). EBT processes traumatic memories through an eight-phase
protocol that allows the person to think about the traumatic event while attending to other
stimuli ex. eye movements, audio tones, or tapping.
PTSD - Answers✔Persistent re-experiencing of a highly traumatic event that involves actual or
threatened death or serious injury to self or others, to which the person responded with
intense fear, helplessness, or horror ex. military combat, natural disasters.
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