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NUR 305 EXAM 1
PREPARATION: 2025/2026
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Evolution of Mental Health Care
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔ancient times: sickness was
indication of displeasure of dieties
- Time of Hippocrates/Aristotle: priests provide
counseling work to mentally ill
- Early Christians: perform exorcisms, if not
successful--> ostracized or killed
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- medieval area: contaminated environ. thought
to cause mental disorder. Removed from "sick"
environment -->asylum
- renaissance: mental illness caused by demons.
Locked in prison
Recovery Model
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔-*most important goal* for
individuals w/ mental disorder
- treatment is based on belief that mental
illness and emotion issues are treatable,
recovery is an expectation
What are the components of recovery?
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔hope
- self direction
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- individualized/person centered
- empowerment
- holistic
- nonlinear
- strength based
- peer support
- respect
- responsibility
Deinstitutionalization
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔release of those confined to
mental institutions for long periods of time
- Dorothea Dix believed instituatlization was
contributing to the illness
Public Stigma
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- ANSWERS ✔ ✔stereotypes leading to
prejudice and discrimination
- ex: being dangerous, unpredictable, unable to
function independently, immoral
Self- Stigma
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔when negative steroetypes
are internalized by ppl w/ mental illness
- they begin to believe they are unpredictable
- think they cannot bceome productive
members of society
- think they may have caused their illness
- low self esteem
Epidemiology
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔*prevelance, incidence, rate*
NUR 305 EXAM 1
PREPARATION: 2025/2026
UPDATED QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS
Evolution of Mental Health Care
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔ancient times: sickness was
indication of displeasure of dieties
- Time of Hippocrates/Aristotle: priests provide
counseling work to mentally ill
- Early Christians: perform exorcisms, if not
successful--> ostracized or killed
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- medieval area: contaminated environ. thought
to cause mental disorder. Removed from "sick"
environment -->asylum
- renaissance: mental illness caused by demons.
Locked in prison
Recovery Model
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔-*most important goal* for
individuals w/ mental disorder
- treatment is based on belief that mental
illness and emotion issues are treatable,
recovery is an expectation
What are the components of recovery?
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔hope
- self direction
,3|Page
- individualized/person centered
- empowerment
- holistic
- nonlinear
- strength based
- peer support
- respect
- responsibility
Deinstitutionalization
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔release of those confined to
mental institutions for long periods of time
- Dorothea Dix believed instituatlization was
contributing to the illness
Public Stigma
, 4|Page
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔stereotypes leading to
prejudice and discrimination
- ex: being dangerous, unpredictable, unable to
function independently, immoral
Self- Stigma
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔when negative steroetypes
are internalized by ppl w/ mental illness
- they begin to believe they are unpredictable
- think they cannot bceome productive
members of society
- think they may have caused their illness
- low self esteem
Epidemiology
- ANSWERS ✔ ✔*prevelance, incidence, rate*
