NUR 2459 MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 2 REVISION
HANDBOOK 2026 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
AND PATIENT SAFETY
◉ Stabilization phase.
Answer: Symptoms diminishing
Movement toward previous level of functioning
Finding interventions to manage, medication
◉ Maintenance or residual phase.
Answer: New baseline is established
◉ Grandiosity.
Answer: Exaggerated belief in or claims about one's importance or
identity
(High superiority)
◉ Neologism.
Answer: New word that has meaning for patient but not any sense to
others
,◉ Referential.
Answer: Belief that certain gestures, comments, environmental cues
are directed at oneself
(Barb believes birds sing songs to cheer her up)
◉ Nihilistic.
Answer: Believing there is no meaning
(Connection to suicide potential)
◉ Erotomanic.
Answer: A delusion that another person, usually of higher status, is
in love with the individual.
◉ Anhedonia.
Answer: Inability to experience pleasure
◉ Altered mind=.
Answer: Positive signs
◉ Slow motor, depressed mood=.
, Answer: Negative signs
◉ Clang associations.
Answer: The stringing together of words that rhyme but have no
other apparent link
◉ For schizophrenia negative symptoms....
Answer: Usually see a norepinephrine deficiency (Activity)
◉ Depersonalization.
Answer: A dissociative disorder characterized by persistent or
recurrent feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or
body
◉ Derealization.
Answer: Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality
of the external world
◉ Echopraxia.
Answer: Mimicking the movements of another
◉ Alogia.
Answer: Relative absence of speech
HANDBOOK 2026 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
AND PATIENT SAFETY
◉ Stabilization phase.
Answer: Symptoms diminishing
Movement toward previous level of functioning
Finding interventions to manage, medication
◉ Maintenance or residual phase.
Answer: New baseline is established
◉ Grandiosity.
Answer: Exaggerated belief in or claims about one's importance or
identity
(High superiority)
◉ Neologism.
Answer: New word that has meaning for patient but not any sense to
others
,◉ Referential.
Answer: Belief that certain gestures, comments, environmental cues
are directed at oneself
(Barb believes birds sing songs to cheer her up)
◉ Nihilistic.
Answer: Believing there is no meaning
(Connection to suicide potential)
◉ Erotomanic.
Answer: A delusion that another person, usually of higher status, is
in love with the individual.
◉ Anhedonia.
Answer: Inability to experience pleasure
◉ Altered mind=.
Answer: Positive signs
◉ Slow motor, depressed mood=.
, Answer: Negative signs
◉ Clang associations.
Answer: The stringing together of words that rhyme but have no
other apparent link
◉ For schizophrenia negative symptoms....
Answer: Usually see a norepinephrine deficiency (Activity)
◉ Depersonalization.
Answer: A dissociative disorder characterized by persistent or
recurrent feelings of detachment from one's mental processes or
body
◉ Derealization.
Answer: Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality
of the external world
◉ Echopraxia.
Answer: Mimicking the movements of another
◉ Alogia.
Answer: Relative absence of speech
