FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL
HEALTH NURSING
What are the core functional abilities of mental wellness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER
✓✓Recognizes own potential, copes with normal stressors, works productively, contributes to
community, thinks rationally and logically, communicates effectively, learns and grows
emotionally, maintains resilience, and maintains healthy self-esteem.
What are the characteristics of emotional wellness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Experiences
joy, play, laughter; lives without undue fear or guilt; finds meaning and purpose; manages
conflicting emotions; maintains a stable self-concept; balances independence and connection;
forms intimate, trusting relationships.
Define psychological wellness. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Accurate perception of reality,
takes responsibility for actions, controls behavior appropriately, uses healthy coping strategies,
logical thinking, focuses externally without intrusive internal stimuli, insight into self, stable
identity, and spiritual grounding.
What defines social wellness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Forms adaptive, empathic
relationships, sense of belonging, communicates clearly, manages conflict constructively,
respects boundaries and rights of others, works productively.
What is the general definition of mental illness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Disorders with
definable diagnoses causing significant dysfunction in thinking, emotion, behavior, and social or
occupational functioning.
List some key features of mental illness. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Developmental,
biological, or physiological disturbances; culturally defined deviations from expected behavior;
patterns that impair functioning.
, What are specific indicators of mental illness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Inconsistent
sense of self, altered thought processes (delusions, hallucinations), mood instability, anhedonia,
hopelessness, anxiety, self-harm, substance misuse, ineffective coping, and unstable
relationships.
What individual factors affect mental health? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Genetics/biologic
makeup, cognitions and perception, spirituality, resilience, personality traits.
What interpersonal factors influence mental health? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER
✓✓Communication ability, relationship patterns, emotional regulation, attachment history.
Identify social factors that affect mental health. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Culture, role
models, environment and safety, politics and social privilege, sexism, racism, discrimination.
Explain the diathesis-stress model. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Mental illness emerges from
the interaction of genetic/biological predisposition (diathesis) and environmental trauma or
stressor (stress).
What components are included in a holistic psychiatric assessment? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER
✓✓Biological, psychological, social, cultural/spiritual, functional, and developmental
components.
What does the biological component of a psychiatric assessment include? ------- ✔ CORRECT
ANSWER ✓✓Medical history, medications, substance use, sleep, appetite, pain, and
neurological status.
What psychological aspects are assessed in a psychiatric evaluation? ------- ✔ CORRECT
ANSWER ✓✓Mood, affect, thought content/process, coping skills, trauma history, insight, and
judgment.
HEALTH NURSING
What are the core functional abilities of mental wellness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER
✓✓Recognizes own potential, copes with normal stressors, works productively, contributes to
community, thinks rationally and logically, communicates effectively, learns and grows
emotionally, maintains resilience, and maintains healthy self-esteem.
What are the characteristics of emotional wellness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Experiences
joy, play, laughter; lives without undue fear or guilt; finds meaning and purpose; manages
conflicting emotions; maintains a stable self-concept; balances independence and connection;
forms intimate, trusting relationships.
Define psychological wellness. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Accurate perception of reality,
takes responsibility for actions, controls behavior appropriately, uses healthy coping strategies,
logical thinking, focuses externally without intrusive internal stimuli, insight into self, stable
identity, and spiritual grounding.
What defines social wellness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Forms adaptive, empathic
relationships, sense of belonging, communicates clearly, manages conflict constructively,
respects boundaries and rights of others, works productively.
What is the general definition of mental illness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Disorders with
definable diagnoses causing significant dysfunction in thinking, emotion, behavior, and social or
occupational functioning.
List some key features of mental illness. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Developmental,
biological, or physiological disturbances; culturally defined deviations from expected behavior;
patterns that impair functioning.
, What are specific indicators of mental illness? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Inconsistent
sense of self, altered thought processes (delusions, hallucinations), mood instability, anhedonia,
hopelessness, anxiety, self-harm, substance misuse, ineffective coping, and unstable
relationships.
What individual factors affect mental health? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Genetics/biologic
makeup, cognitions and perception, spirituality, resilience, personality traits.
What interpersonal factors influence mental health? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER
✓✓Communication ability, relationship patterns, emotional regulation, attachment history.
Identify social factors that affect mental health. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Culture, role
models, environment and safety, politics and social privilege, sexism, racism, discrimination.
Explain the diathesis-stress model. ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER ✓✓Mental illness emerges from
the interaction of genetic/biological predisposition (diathesis) and environmental trauma or
stressor (stress).
What components are included in a holistic psychiatric assessment? ------- ✔ CORRECT ANSWER
✓✓Biological, psychological, social, cultural/spiritual, functional, and developmental
components.
What does the biological component of a psychiatric assessment include? ------- ✔ CORRECT
ANSWER ✓✓Medical history, medications, substance use, sleep, appetite, pain, and
neurological status.
What psychological aspects are assessed in a psychiatric evaluation? ------- ✔ CORRECT
ANSWER ✓✓Mood, affect, thought content/process, coping skills, trauma history, insight, and
judgment.
