NFDN 2007 Midterm questions with accurate
answers
How did WW2 impact mental health? Ans✓✓✓ After WW2
government policy increased focus community-based services to treat
mental illness.
What are admission certificates? Ans✓✓✓ treat the client as voluntary,
holds the patient for 24 hours.
What are Anti-Anxiety drugs? Ans✓✓✓ drugs used to control anxiety
and agitation
What are Anticonvulsant drugs? Ans✓✓✓ used to prevent or treat
seizures or convulsions by controlling abnormal electrical activity in the
brain.
What are antidepressants? Ans✓✓✓ used to treat depression. TCA,
SSRI, MAOI.
What are antipsychotic drugs? Ans✓✓✓ Used to treat acute psychosis
or severe agitation. increases risk for neurological side effects.
What are benzodiazepines? Ans✓✓✓ Act as a positive modulator at
GABA ion channels, increasing the ease of GABA binding to the site.
, What are biologic theories? Ans✓✓✓ Factors such as trauma, prenatal
and postnatal stress, and adverse child experiences have the potential to
change gene expression.
What are erotomanic delusions? Ans✓✓✓ a form of delusional disorder
in which an individual believes that another person, usually of higher
status, is in love with him.
What are extrapyramidal side effects? Ans✓✓✓ dyskinesias; repetitive,
involuntary, and purposeless body or facial movements
What are flights of ideas? Ans✓✓✓ Rapid continuous verbalization
with frequent shifting from one topic to another (A person might deliver
a 10-minute monologue during which he or she jumps from talking
about childhood, to a favorite advertisement)
What are grandiose delusion? Ans✓✓✓ unfounded or inaccurate beliefs
that one has special powers, wealth, mission, or identity.
What are hallucinations? Ans✓✓✓ False sensory perceptions not
associated with external stimulus
What are jealous delusions? Ans✓✓✓ a psychiatric phenomenon in
which an individual has a delusional belief that their spouse (or sexual
partner) is being unfaithful
answers
How did WW2 impact mental health? Ans✓✓✓ After WW2
government policy increased focus community-based services to treat
mental illness.
What are admission certificates? Ans✓✓✓ treat the client as voluntary,
holds the patient for 24 hours.
What are Anti-Anxiety drugs? Ans✓✓✓ drugs used to control anxiety
and agitation
What are Anticonvulsant drugs? Ans✓✓✓ used to prevent or treat
seizures or convulsions by controlling abnormal electrical activity in the
brain.
What are antidepressants? Ans✓✓✓ used to treat depression. TCA,
SSRI, MAOI.
What are antipsychotic drugs? Ans✓✓✓ Used to treat acute psychosis
or severe agitation. increases risk for neurological side effects.
What are benzodiazepines? Ans✓✓✓ Act as a positive modulator at
GABA ion channels, increasing the ease of GABA binding to the site.
, What are biologic theories? Ans✓✓✓ Factors such as trauma, prenatal
and postnatal stress, and adverse child experiences have the potential to
change gene expression.
What are erotomanic delusions? Ans✓✓✓ a form of delusional disorder
in which an individual believes that another person, usually of higher
status, is in love with him.
What are extrapyramidal side effects? Ans✓✓✓ dyskinesias; repetitive,
involuntary, and purposeless body or facial movements
What are flights of ideas? Ans✓✓✓ Rapid continuous verbalization
with frequent shifting from one topic to another (A person might deliver
a 10-minute monologue during which he or she jumps from talking
about childhood, to a favorite advertisement)
What are grandiose delusion? Ans✓✓✓ unfounded or inaccurate beliefs
that one has special powers, wealth, mission, or identity.
What are hallucinations? Ans✓✓✓ False sensory perceptions not
associated with external stimulus
What are jealous delusions? Ans✓✓✓ a psychiatric phenomenon in
which an individual has a delusional belief that their spouse (or sexual
partner) is being unfaithful
