Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing
History of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Demonology
Witchcraft
national Mental Health Act 1946
Dorothea Dix
Hildegard Peplau
CMH movement/deinstitutionalization 1960s
History: the cause ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓- Evil Spirit
- Supernatural power
History: the cure ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓- Beaten
- Starved
- Tortured
Dorothea Dix ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Recognized there was a need for mental health
institutions as opposed to jails. Dix started the first movement to separate the mentally ill from
prisoners.
Hildegard ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓The mother of psychiatric nursing.
National Mental Health Act 1946 ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓President Truman, 1946
recognized there was a greater need for mental health services
, CMH Movement/Deinstitutionalization 1960s ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Push for
community mental health services instead of institutions
Community Mental Health Act of 1963 ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Getting clients out of
institutions (asylums) and getting them into a community and getting help in the community.
The problem was that there were not enough community resources for the mentally ill. Many
people ended up homeless, back in jail or reinstitutionalized.
What is mental illness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Mental illness is defined as
"maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms and
interfere with the individual's social, occupational, or physical functioning."
Internally preoccupied ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓pt that may have schizophrenia but may
not actually need hospitalization
Mental Health ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Defined as the "successful adaption to stressors
from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms"
Elements of Mental Health ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓- Self-governance
- Progress toward growth or self-realization
- Tolerance of uncertainty
- Self-esteem
- Reality orientation (where people don't think in a reality-based way)
- Mastery of environment
- Stress management
History of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Demonology
Witchcraft
national Mental Health Act 1946
Dorothea Dix
Hildegard Peplau
CMH movement/deinstitutionalization 1960s
History: the cause ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓- Evil Spirit
- Supernatural power
History: the cure ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓- Beaten
- Starved
- Tortured
Dorothea Dix ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Recognized there was a need for mental health
institutions as opposed to jails. Dix started the first movement to separate the mentally ill from
prisoners.
Hildegard ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓The mother of psychiatric nursing.
National Mental Health Act 1946 ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓President Truman, 1946
recognized there was a greater need for mental health services
, CMH Movement/Deinstitutionalization 1960s ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Push for
community mental health services instead of institutions
Community Mental Health Act of 1963 ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Getting clients out of
institutions (asylums) and getting them into a community and getting help in the community.
The problem was that there were not enough community resources for the mentally ill. Many
people ended up homeless, back in jail or reinstitutionalized.
What is mental illness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Mental illness is defined as
"maladaptive responses to stressors from the internal or external environment, evidenced by
thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that are incongruent with the local and cultural norms and
interfere with the individual's social, occupational, or physical functioning."
Internally preoccupied ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓pt that may have schizophrenia but may
not actually need hospitalization
Mental Health ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Defined as the "successful adaption to stressors
from the internal or external environment, evidenced by thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that
are age-appropriate and congruent with local and cultural norms"
Elements of Mental Health ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓- Self-governance
- Progress toward growth or self-realization
- Tolerance of uncertainty
- Self-esteem
- Reality orientation (where people don't think in a reality-based way)
- Mastery of environment
- Stress management
