RASMUSSEN MENTAL HEALTH FINAL
EXAM LATEST REAL EXAM ALL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS|AGRADE
Milieu Therapy correct answersMilieu refers to the environment in which holistic
treatment occurs and includes all members of the treatment team in a positive
physical setting, with interactions among those who are hospitalized and activities that
promote recovery.
The psychiatric mental health registered nurse provides, structures, and maintains
safe, therapeutic, recovery oriented environment collaboration with health care
consumers, families, and other health care clinicians.
Among other things milieu management includes orienting patients to their rights
and responsibilities. Milieu management also includes informing patients in a
culturally competent manner about the need for structure, maintenance of a safe
environment, and limits set on the unit.
The nurse selects activities (both individual and group) that meets the patient's
physical and mental health needs. The patient should always be maintained in the
least restrictive environment.
Mental health correct answersSuccessful performance of mental functions, resulting
in the ability to engage in productive activities, enjoy fulfilling relationships, adapt to
change, and cope with adversity.
Mental health is the foundation of thinking, communication skills, learning,
emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem throughout the life span.
It is a STATE OF WELL-BEING in which individuals are able to realize their abilities as
well as contribute to their community within the context of life stressors.
Mental illness correct answersActual diagnoses, gets in the way of obtaining
mental health.
Medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate
to others, and daily functioning. Basically, mental illness can be seen as the result
of flawed biological, psychological, or social processes.
,Fortunately mental illnesses are treatable, and individuals can experience
symptom relief, and complete cure in some cases, with treatment and support.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs correct answersNeeds are placed conceptually on
a pyramid, with the most basic and important needs on the lower level.
The higher levels, the more distinctly human needs, occupy the top sections of the
pyramid. According to Maslow, when lower level needs are met, higher level needs are
able to emerge.
**Physiological needs first, safety second
Physiological needs correct answersFood, water, oxygen, elimination, rest, and sex
Safety needs correct answersSecurity, protection, stability, structure, order, and limits.
Love and belonging needs correct answersAffiliation, affectionate relationships,
and love
Esteem needs correct answersSelf-esteem related to competency, achievement, and
esteem from others.
Self-actualization needs correct answersBecoming everything one is capable of.
Self-transcendence correct answersWhen a person experiences a sense of identity
that transcends or extends beyond the personal self.
The Id correct answersThe primitive, pleasure-seeking part of our personalities that
lurks in the unconscious mind.
The Ego correct answersOur sense of self. (Also unconscious mind)
Acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego
defense mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization.
The Superego correct answersConscious mind.
Our conscience (our sense of what is right or wrong) and is greatly influenced by
our parents' or caregivers' moral and ethical stances.
Freud's contribution to mental health correct answersFreud believed that personality
development is based on stages. During these stages, the id focuses on an
erogenous zone of the body. These zones are oral, anal, and phallic. Fixation through
overindulgence or frustration results in pathologic conditions and personality
disorders. Freud's work has been criticized for a variety of reasons. One of the
harshest criticism
,stems from the concept of penis envy in which females suffer from feelings of
inferiority for not having male genitalia.
Freud - Oral—birth to 1½ years correct answersPleasure-pain principle
Id, the instinctive and primitive mind, is dominant
Demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, trustful, omnipotent, and
dependent Primary thought processes
Unconscious instincts—source-energy-aim-object
Mouth—primary source of pleasure
Immediate release of tension/anxiety and immediate gratification through
oral gratification
Task—develop a sense of trust that needs will be met
Freud - Anal—1½ to 3 years correct answersReality principle—postpone immediate
discharge of energy and seek actual object to satisfy needs
Learning to defer pleasure
Gaining satisfaction from tolerating some tension-mastering impulses
Focus on toilet training—retaining/letting go; power struggle
Ego development—functions of the ego include problem-solving skills, perception,
ability to mediate id impulses
Task—delay immediate gratification
Freud - Phallic—3 to 7 years correct answersSuperego develops via incorporating
moral values, ideals, and judgments of right and wrong that are held by parents;
superego is primarily unconscious and functions on the reward and punishment
principle (sexual identity attained via resolving oedipal conflict)
Conflict differs for boy and girl masturbatory activity
Task—develop sexual identity through identification with same-sex parent
Freud - Latency—7 to 12 years correct answersDesexualization; libido diffused
Involved in learning social skills, exploring, building, collecting, accomplishing, and
hero worship
, Peer group loyalty begins
Gang and scout behavior
Growing independence from family
Task—sexuality is repressed during this time; learn to form close relationship(s) with
same-sex peers
Freud - Genital phase (adolescence)—13 to 20 years correct answersFluctuation
regarding emotion stability and physical maturation
Very ambivalent and labile, seeking life goals and emancipation from
parents Dependence vs. independence
Reappraisal of parents and self; intense peer loyalty
Task—form close relationships with members of the opposite sex based on genuine
caring and pleasure in the interaction
Verbal communication correct answersWords we speak, clear, honest, convey interest
and understanding
Non-verbal communication correct answersThe tone and pitch of a person's voice
and the manner in which a person paces speech
Body language
Physical appearance
Facial expressions
Body posture
Amount of eye
contact
Eye cast (emotion expressed in the eyes)
Hand gestures
Sighs
Fidgeting
EXAM LATEST REAL EXAM ALL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS|AGRADE
Milieu Therapy correct answersMilieu refers to the environment in which holistic
treatment occurs and includes all members of the treatment team in a positive
physical setting, with interactions among those who are hospitalized and activities that
promote recovery.
The psychiatric mental health registered nurse provides, structures, and maintains
safe, therapeutic, recovery oriented environment collaboration with health care
consumers, families, and other health care clinicians.
Among other things milieu management includes orienting patients to their rights
and responsibilities. Milieu management also includes informing patients in a
culturally competent manner about the need for structure, maintenance of a safe
environment, and limits set on the unit.
The nurse selects activities (both individual and group) that meets the patient's
physical and mental health needs. The patient should always be maintained in the
least restrictive environment.
Mental health correct answersSuccessful performance of mental functions, resulting
in the ability to engage in productive activities, enjoy fulfilling relationships, adapt to
change, and cope with adversity.
Mental health is the foundation of thinking, communication skills, learning,
emotional growth, resilience, and self-esteem throughout the life span.
It is a STATE OF WELL-BEING in which individuals are able to realize their abilities as
well as contribute to their community within the context of life stressors.
Mental illness correct answersActual diagnoses, gets in the way of obtaining
mental health.
Medical conditions that affect a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate
to others, and daily functioning. Basically, mental illness can be seen as the result
of flawed biological, psychological, or social processes.
,Fortunately mental illnesses are treatable, and individuals can experience
symptom relief, and complete cure in some cases, with treatment and support.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs correct answersNeeds are placed conceptually on
a pyramid, with the most basic and important needs on the lower level.
The higher levels, the more distinctly human needs, occupy the top sections of the
pyramid. According to Maslow, when lower level needs are met, higher level needs are
able to emerge.
**Physiological needs first, safety second
Physiological needs correct answersFood, water, oxygen, elimination, rest, and sex
Safety needs correct answersSecurity, protection, stability, structure, order, and limits.
Love and belonging needs correct answersAffiliation, affectionate relationships,
and love
Esteem needs correct answersSelf-esteem related to competency, achievement, and
esteem from others.
Self-actualization needs correct answersBecoming everything one is capable of.
Self-transcendence correct answersWhen a person experiences a sense of identity
that transcends or extends beyond the personal self.
The Id correct answersThe primitive, pleasure-seeking part of our personalities that
lurks in the unconscious mind.
The Ego correct answersOur sense of self. (Also unconscious mind)
Acts as an intermediary between the id and the world by using ego
defense mechanisms, such as repression, denial, and rationalization.
The Superego correct answersConscious mind.
Our conscience (our sense of what is right or wrong) and is greatly influenced by
our parents' or caregivers' moral and ethical stances.
Freud's contribution to mental health correct answersFreud believed that personality
development is based on stages. During these stages, the id focuses on an
erogenous zone of the body. These zones are oral, anal, and phallic. Fixation through
overindulgence or frustration results in pathologic conditions and personality
disorders. Freud's work has been criticized for a variety of reasons. One of the
harshest criticism
,stems from the concept of penis envy in which females suffer from feelings of
inferiority for not having male genitalia.
Freud - Oral—birth to 1½ years correct answersPleasure-pain principle
Id, the instinctive and primitive mind, is dominant
Demanding, impulsive, irrational, asocial, selfish, trustful, omnipotent, and
dependent Primary thought processes
Unconscious instincts—source-energy-aim-object
Mouth—primary source of pleasure
Immediate release of tension/anxiety and immediate gratification through
oral gratification
Task—develop a sense of trust that needs will be met
Freud - Anal—1½ to 3 years correct answersReality principle—postpone immediate
discharge of energy and seek actual object to satisfy needs
Learning to defer pleasure
Gaining satisfaction from tolerating some tension-mastering impulses
Focus on toilet training—retaining/letting go; power struggle
Ego development—functions of the ego include problem-solving skills, perception,
ability to mediate id impulses
Task—delay immediate gratification
Freud - Phallic—3 to 7 years correct answersSuperego develops via incorporating
moral values, ideals, and judgments of right and wrong that are held by parents;
superego is primarily unconscious and functions on the reward and punishment
principle (sexual identity attained via resolving oedipal conflict)
Conflict differs for boy and girl masturbatory activity
Task—develop sexual identity through identification with same-sex parent
Freud - Latency—7 to 12 years correct answersDesexualization; libido diffused
Involved in learning social skills, exploring, building, collecting, accomplishing, and
hero worship
, Peer group loyalty begins
Gang and scout behavior
Growing independence from family
Task—sexuality is repressed during this time; learn to form close relationship(s) with
same-sex peers
Freud - Genital phase (adolescence)—13 to 20 years correct answersFluctuation
regarding emotion stability and physical maturation
Very ambivalent and labile, seeking life goals and emancipation from
parents Dependence vs. independence
Reappraisal of parents and self; intense peer loyalty
Task—form close relationships with members of the opposite sex based on genuine
caring and pleasure in the interaction
Verbal communication correct answersWords we speak, clear, honest, convey interest
and understanding
Non-verbal communication correct answersThe tone and pitch of a person's voice
and the manner in which a person paces speech
Body language
Physical appearance
Facial expressions
Body posture
Amount of eye
contact
Eye cast (emotion expressed in the eyes)
Hand gestures
Sighs
Fidgeting
