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This Updated/Latest 2025–2026 test bank for Foundations of Mental Health Care, 8th Edition by Michelle Morrison-Valfre is a comprehensive educational resource designed to help nursing students and healthcare learners build strong competencies in psychiatric and mental health nursing. Covering all chapters, this resource includes chapter-by-chapter practice questions, detailed answer rationales, clinical case scenarios, therapeutic communication exercises, and NCLEX-style review items that reinforce evidence-based mental health nursing practice. Topics include the history of mental health care, ethical and legal issues, sociocultural influences, therapeutic communication, mental health assessment, psychotherapeutic interventions, psychopharmacology, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia spectrum disorders, cognitive disorders including dementia, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, substance use disorders, childhood and adolescent mental health, and geriatric psychiatric care. This study resource supports classroom learning, clinical preparation, examination readiness, and professional development while strengthening the knowledge and clinical judgment required for safe, compassionate, and patient-centered mental health nursing throughout 2025–2026. The 8th edition emphasizes DSM-5 based understanding, therapeutic communication skills, and holistic psychiatric care across the lifespan.

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Edition by Morrison-Valfre
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1. The belief of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato that the rational
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a. Freud.
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Sigmund Freud believed that mental illness was, in part, caused by forces both within and outside
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the personality. Philippe Pinel advocated acceptance of mentally ill individuals as human beings in
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need of medical assistance. Alice Fisher was a Florence Nightingale nurse who cared for the
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mentally ill, and Dr. Benjamin Rush was the author of the book Diseases of the Mind.
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TOP: Early Years of Mental Health KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment
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2. During the mid-1500s, behaviors associated with mental illness were more accurately recorded
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a. classifications
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recording of behaviors was begun. Diagnoses, treatment guidelines, and any education regarding
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mental health disorders were not available during this period.
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TOP: Mental Illness During the Renaissance
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a. Dix.
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Philippe Pinel advocated acceptance of the mentally ill, as well as proper treatment. Dorothea Dix
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crusaded for construction of mental health hospitals. Clifford Beers wrote the book A Mind That
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Found Itself. President Jimmy Carter established the President’s Commission on Mental Health in
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TOP: Mental Illness in the 18th Century KEY: Nursing Process Step:
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with major changes in the care of the mentally ill. Sigmund Freud introduced the concept of
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psychoanalysis, John Cade discovered lithium carbonate for the treatment of bipolar disorder, and
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5. As a direct result of Clifford Beers’ work and book, A Mind That Found Itself, the Committee
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for the next 3 years in mental hospitals. Beers’ work and book raised the consciousness of people
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throughout the country regarding prevention and removal of the stigma of having a mental illness.
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were used to treat depression, and electroconvulsive therapy was used for severe depression.
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Humoral therapy, which originated in ancient Greece and Rome, was a belief that mental illness
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resulted from an imbalance of the humors of air, fire, water, and earth.
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TOP: Influences of War on Mental Health
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schizophrenia was treated with insulin therapy, and violent behavior was treated with a lobotomy. In
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1949, lithium carbonate was discovered as a treatment for bipolar disorder.
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c. A surgical procedure that severs the frontal lobes of the brain from the
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A frontal lobotomy is a surgical procedure in which the frontal lobes of the brain are severed from the
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