Mental Health Practice Exam (exam 1) –
Questions & Answers
What statement about mental illness is true?
a. mental illness is a matter of individual nonconformity with societal norms
b. mental illness is present when individual irrational and illogical behavior
occurs
c. mental illness changes with culture, time in history, political system, and
group defining it
d. mental illness is evaluated solely by considering individual control over
behavior and appraisal of reality - -c. mental illness changes with culture,
time in history, political system, and group defining it
-A nursing student new to psychiatric nursing asks a peer what resource
he/she can use to figure out which symptom are part of the picture of a
specific psychiatric disorder. The best answer would be:
a. nursing intervention classifications
b. nursing intervention outcomes
c. NANDA nursing diagnosis
d. DSM-V - -d. DSM-V
-Why is it important for the nurse to be aware of multiple factors that can
influence an individual's mental health?
a. rates of illness differ among various groups
b. the DSM-V cannot be used without this information
c. a holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
d. the nurse must contribute this data for epidemiological research - -c. a
holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
-Which statement best describes a major difference between a DSM-V
diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis?
a. there is no functional difference between the two. both serve to identify a
human deviance.
b. the DSM-V diagnosis disregards culture, whereas the nursing diagnosis
takes culture into account
c. the DSM-V is associated with present distress of disability, whereas a
nursing diagnosis considers past and present responses to actual mental
health problems
d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the choice of medical treatment, whereas
the nursing diagnosis offers a framework for identifying interventions for
, phenomena a client is experiencing - -d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the
choice of medical treatment, whereas the nursing diagnosis offers a
framework for identifying interventions for phenomena a client is
experiencing
-Resilience, the capacity to rebound from stressors via adaptive coping, is
associated with positive mental health. Your friend has just been laid off from
his job. Which of the following responses on your part most likely contribute
to enhanced resilience?
a. using your connection to set up an interview with you employer.
b. connecting him with a friend with the family who owns his own business
c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and completing multiple
interviews
d. helping him to understand that the layoff resulted from troubles in the
economy and is not his fault - -c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for,
and completing multiple interviews
-Which of the following situations best supports the stress-diathesis model of
mental development?
a. the rate of suicide increases during times of national disaster and despair
b. four of five siblings in the Jones family develop bipolar disorder by the age
of 30
c. a man with no prior mental health problems experiences sadness after his
divorce
d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains free of
mental illness - -d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin
remains free of mental illness
-After severe therapeutic encounters with a client who recently attempted
suicide, the behavior that would cause the nurse to consider the possibility of
countertransference is that:
a. the client's reactions toward the nurse seem realistic and appropriate
b. the client states the nurse is concerned about her, just like her father
c. the nurse develops a trusting relationship with the client
d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift -
-d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift
-Termination of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with a client has
been handled successfully when the nurse:
a. gives the client his personal telephone number and permission to call after
discharge
Questions & Answers
What statement about mental illness is true?
a. mental illness is a matter of individual nonconformity with societal norms
b. mental illness is present when individual irrational and illogical behavior
occurs
c. mental illness changes with culture, time in history, political system, and
group defining it
d. mental illness is evaluated solely by considering individual control over
behavior and appraisal of reality - -c. mental illness changes with culture,
time in history, political system, and group defining it
-A nursing student new to psychiatric nursing asks a peer what resource
he/she can use to figure out which symptom are part of the picture of a
specific psychiatric disorder. The best answer would be:
a. nursing intervention classifications
b. nursing intervention outcomes
c. NANDA nursing diagnosis
d. DSM-V - -d. DSM-V
-Why is it important for the nurse to be aware of multiple factors that can
influence an individual's mental health?
a. rates of illness differ among various groups
b. the DSM-V cannot be used without this information
c. a holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
d. the nurse must contribute this data for epidemiological research - -c. a
holistic nursing assessment requires this awareness
-Which statement best describes a major difference between a DSM-V
diagnosis and a nursing diagnosis?
a. there is no functional difference between the two. both serve to identify a
human deviance.
b. the DSM-V diagnosis disregards culture, whereas the nursing diagnosis
takes culture into account
c. the DSM-V is associated with present distress of disability, whereas a
nursing diagnosis considers past and present responses to actual mental
health problems
d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the choice of medical treatment, whereas
the nursing diagnosis offers a framework for identifying interventions for
, phenomena a client is experiencing - -d. the DSM-V diagnosis impacts the
choice of medical treatment, whereas the nursing diagnosis offers a
framework for identifying interventions for phenomena a client is
experiencing
-Resilience, the capacity to rebound from stressors via adaptive coping, is
associated with positive mental health. Your friend has just been laid off from
his job. Which of the following responses on your part most likely contribute
to enhanced resilience?
a. using your connection to set up an interview with you employer.
b. connecting him with a friend with the family who owns his own business
c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for, and completing multiple
interviews
d. helping him to understand that the layoff resulted from troubles in the
economy and is not his fault - -c. supporting him in arranging, preparing for,
and completing multiple interviews
-Which of the following situations best supports the stress-diathesis model of
mental development?
a. the rate of suicide increases during times of national disaster and despair
b. four of five siblings in the Jones family develop bipolar disorder by the age
of 30
c. a man with no prior mental health problems experiences sadness after his
divorce
d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin remains free of
mental illness - -d. a man develops schizophrenia, but his identical twin
remains free of mental illness
-After severe therapeutic encounters with a client who recently attempted
suicide, the behavior that would cause the nurse to consider the possibility of
countertransference is that:
a. the client's reactions toward the nurse seem realistic and appropriate
b. the client states the nurse is concerned about her, just like her father
c. the nurse develops a trusting relationship with the client
d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift -
-d .the nurse feels exceptionally happy when the client's mood begins to lift
-Termination of the therapeutic nurse-client relationship with a client has
been handled successfully when the nurse:
a. gives the client his personal telephone number and permission to call after
discharge
