NUR 253 MENTAL HEALTH EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS
& CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027
TRUE - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental illness is a continuum that ranges from highly functioning to
severely disabled
The foundation for the individual's well being and effective functioning of a community - Correct
answer ✔✔ What is mental illness?
Health insurance
Stigma
Lack of mental health professionals - Correct answer ✔✔ What prevents people from seeking
care for mental illness ?
Parental modeling of inappropriate coping mechanisms
Unsafe or unsanitary environments
Cultural beliefs that lead to stress
Feelings of anxiety or inadequacy - Correct answer ✔✔ What are some risks factors for mental
illness ?
a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own abilities and potential, can
cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a
contribution to her or his community - Correct answer ✔✔ What is mental health?
Insomnia
Anxiety
Depression
Anger
,Disorganized thinking - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental illness can present with diff symptoms to
include :
Process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life
experiences,especially throughout mental,emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment
to external and internal demands - Correct answer ✔✔ Resilience
Influence the way we cope with stressors and process our thoughts and feelings - Correct
answer ✔✔ The characteristics that we are born with and learn
Having anxiety and inadequacy
Environment
Culture - Correct answer ✔✔ What are some risks factors for mental illness ?
TRUE - Correct answer ✔✔ The behavior a child sees in the home serve as a model for their
own behavior
requires insurance companies to offer the same level of coverage for mental health care that
they provide for medical and surgical care - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental Health Parity Act
Improved coverage for those who were uninsured and who were on Medicaid .People are no
longer denied for their medical history , there are no lifetime limits, and addiction treatment is
covered among many other things . - Correct answer ✔✔ The Affordable Care Act
Quantitative study of how mental health disorder are distributed throughout a population -
Correct answer ✔✔ Epidemiology
Show structural changes or abnormalities in the brain - Correct answer ✔✔ CT and MRI can be
used for diagnosis and ?
, Show functional changes in the brain associated with mental illnesses - Correct answer ✔✔ PET
and Spect scans ?
State of well being
Able to realize his or her own potential
Cope with normal stressors of life
Work productively
Contribute to the community - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental Health
all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses
Significant disfunction - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental Illness
suggests that a person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed
until triggered by stress - Correct answer ✔✔ diathesis-stress model
Triggers the disorder - Correct answer ✔✔ Stress
Both are present for the disorder - Correct answer ✔✔ Both disthesis and stress
-Establish rapport.
-Obtain understanding of the current problem.
-Review physical status and obtain baseline vital signs.
-Assess risk factors affecting the safety of the patient or others.
-Perform a mental status examination (MSE).
-Assess psychosocial status.
-Identify mutual goals for treatment.
& CORRECT ANSWERS 2026/2027
TRUE - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental illness is a continuum that ranges from highly functioning to
severely disabled
The foundation for the individual's well being and effective functioning of a community - Correct
answer ✔✔ What is mental illness?
Health insurance
Stigma
Lack of mental health professionals - Correct answer ✔✔ What prevents people from seeking
care for mental illness ?
Parental modeling of inappropriate coping mechanisms
Unsafe or unsanitary environments
Cultural beliefs that lead to stress
Feelings of anxiety or inadequacy - Correct answer ✔✔ What are some risks factors for mental
illness ?
a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own abilities and potential, can
cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a
contribution to her or his community - Correct answer ✔✔ What is mental health?
Insomnia
Anxiety
Depression
Anger
,Disorganized thinking - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental illness can present with diff symptoms to
include :
Process and outcome of successfully adapting to difficult or challenging life
experiences,especially throughout mental,emotional, and behavioral flexibility and adjustment
to external and internal demands - Correct answer ✔✔ Resilience
Influence the way we cope with stressors and process our thoughts and feelings - Correct
answer ✔✔ The characteristics that we are born with and learn
Having anxiety and inadequacy
Environment
Culture - Correct answer ✔✔ What are some risks factors for mental illness ?
TRUE - Correct answer ✔✔ The behavior a child sees in the home serve as a model for their
own behavior
requires insurance companies to offer the same level of coverage for mental health care that
they provide for medical and surgical care - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental Health Parity Act
Improved coverage for those who were uninsured and who were on Medicaid .People are no
longer denied for their medical history , there are no lifetime limits, and addiction treatment is
covered among many other things . - Correct answer ✔✔ The Affordable Care Act
Quantitative study of how mental health disorder are distributed throughout a population -
Correct answer ✔✔ Epidemiology
Show structural changes or abnormalities in the brain - Correct answer ✔✔ CT and MRI can be
used for diagnosis and ?
, Show functional changes in the brain associated with mental illnesses - Correct answer ✔✔ PET
and Spect scans ?
State of well being
Able to realize his or her own potential
Cope with normal stressors of life
Work productively
Contribute to the community - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental Health
all psychiatric disorders that have definable diagnoses
Significant disfunction - Correct answer ✔✔ Mental Illness
suggests that a person may be predisposed for a mental disorder that remains unexpressed
until triggered by stress - Correct answer ✔✔ diathesis-stress model
Triggers the disorder - Correct answer ✔✔ Stress
Both are present for the disorder - Correct answer ✔✔ Both disthesis and stress
-Establish rapport.
-Obtain understanding of the current problem.
-Review physical status and obtain baseline vital signs.
-Assess risk factors affecting the safety of the patient or others.
-Perform a mental status examination (MSE).
-Assess psychosocial status.
-Identify mutual goals for treatment.
