PSYCHIATRIC MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
NINTH EDITION BY VIDEBECK STUDY
GUIDE 2026 PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ History: the cause.
Answer: - Evil Spirit
- Supernatural power
⩥ History: the cure.
Answer: - Beaten
- Starved
- Tortured
⩥ Dorothea Dix.
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.
Answer: The mother of psychiatric nursing.
, ⩥ National Mental Health Act 1946.
Answer: President Truman, 1946 recognized there was a greater need for
mental health services
⩥ CMH Movement/Deinstitutionalization 1960s.
Answer: Push for community mental health services instead of
institutions
⩥ Community Mental Health Act of 1963.
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?.
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.
Answer: pt that may have schizophrenia but may not actually need
hospitalization
NINTH EDITION BY VIDEBECK STUDY
GUIDE 2026 PRACTICE QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ History: the cause.
Answer: - Evil Spirit
- Supernatural power
⩥ History: the cure.
Answer: - Beaten
- Starved
- Tortured
⩥ Dorothea Dix.
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.
Answer: The mother of psychiatric nursing.
, ⩥ National Mental Health Act 1946.
Answer: President Truman, 1946 recognized there was a greater need for
mental health services
⩥ CMH Movement/Deinstitutionalization 1960s.
Answer: Push for community mental health services instead of
institutions
⩥ Community Mental Health Act of 1963.
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?.
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.
Answer: pt that may have schizophrenia but may not actually need
hospitalization
