NUR2459 MENTAL HEALTH EXAM
2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - ANS Summarizing the goals and
objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies, reviewing situations
that occurred and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - ANS Maintaining the relationship,
gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome
resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - ANS Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has
schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - ANS A health environment, combined with
a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those
with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - ANS Focus on the
patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a
friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
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, Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - ANS Reassuring, giving advice,
giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - ANS "Tell me more about
that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - ANS Paraphrasing,
summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? - ANS "Don't
worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique - ANS Patient: "I
wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? - ANS Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - ANS Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - ANS Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration? - ANS Repeating the same words in response to different questions
What is judgement? - ANS Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate decisions
What is autonomy? - ANS Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions (Big
choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to take your medicine
with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
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2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
100% PASS
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - ANS Summarizing the goals and
objectives achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies, reviewing situations
that occurred and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - ANS Maintaining the relationship,
gathering data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome
resistance, evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - ANS Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has
schemata-unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - ANS A health environment, combined with
a healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those
with mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - ANS Focus on the
patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a
friend" or meeting the needs of the nurse
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026
, Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - ANS Reassuring, giving advice,
giving approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - ANS "Tell me more about
that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - ANS Paraphrasing,
summarizing, clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? - ANS "Don't
worry everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique - ANS Patient: "I
wish I were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
What is affect? - ANS Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - ANS Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - ANS Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration? - ANS Repeating the same words in response to different questions
What is judgement? - ANS Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate decisions
What is autonomy? - ANS Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions (Big
choices: Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to take your medicine
with?) =CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
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