NSG 221 Exam 1 Study Guide 2025: Mental Health Nursing Practice Questions

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Exam 1: NSG 221 / NSG221 (Latest 2025 Updates

STUDY BUNDLE WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS) Mental

Health Reviews | Questions and Verified Answers |

All Units Covered | 100% Correct | Grade A - Herzing

Mental Health Influencing Factors: Individual

.....ANSWER.....Include a person's biologic makeup, autonomy and

independence, self-esteem, capacity for growth, vitality, ability

to find meaning in life, emotional resilience or hardiness, sense of

belonging, reality orientation, and coping or stress management

abilities

Mental Health Influencing Factors: Interpersonal

.....ANSWER.....Include effective communication, ability to help

others, intimacy, and a balance of separateness and

connectedness

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Mental Health Influencing Factors: Social/Cultural

.....ANSWER.....Include a sense of community, access to adequate

resources, intolerance of violence, support of diversity among

people, mastery of the environment, and a positive, yet realistic,

view of one's world

Mental Illness Definition .....ANSWER.....Disorders that affect

mood, behavior, and thinking, such as depression, schizophrenia,

anxiety disorders, and addictive disorders.

Mental Illness Influencing Factors: Individual

.....ANSWER.....Include biologic makeup, intolerable or unrealistic

worries or fears, inability to distinguish reality from fantasy,

intolerance of life's uncertainties, a sense of disharmony in life,

and a loss of meaning in one's life

Mental Illness Influencing Factors: Interpersonal

.....ANSWER.....Include ineffective communication, excessive

dependency on or withdrawal from relationships, no sense of

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belonging, inadequate social support, and loss of emotional

control

Mental Illness Influencing Factors: Social/Cultural

.....ANSWER.....Include lack of resources, violence, homelessness,

poverty, an unwarranted negative view of the world, and

discrimination such as stigma, racism, classism, ageism, and sexism

Frontal Lobe Function .....ANSWER.....Controls the organization of

thought, body movement, memories, emotions, and moral

behavior. The integration of all this information regulates

arousal, focuses attention, and enables problem-solving and

decision-making. Abnormalities in the frontal lobes are

associated with schizophrenia, ADHD, and dementia

Parietal Lobe Function .....ANSWER.....Interprets sensations of

taste and touch and assist in spatial orientation

Temporal Lobe Function .....ANSWER.....Center for the senses of

smell and hearing and for memory and emotional expression

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Occipital Lobe Function .....ANSWER.....Assist in coordinating

language generation and visual interpretation, such as depth

perception

What system in the brain affects mental health?

.....ANSWER.....Limbic System (Hippocampus, Amygdala,

Cingulate Gyrus)

Dopamine Physiological Effect .....ANSWER.....Controls complex

movements, motivation, cognition; regulates emotional response

Norepinephrine Physiological Effect .....ANSWER.....Causes

changes in attention, learning, and memory, sleep and

wakefulness, mood

Serotonin Physiological Effect .....ANSWER.....Control food intake,

sleep and wakefulness, temperature regulation, pain control,

sexual behaviors, regulation of emotions

Components of Personality According to Freud: ID

.....ANSWER.....Innate desires, pleasure-seeking behavior,