NUR2459 Mental Health-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/
latest Update (2024/2025)
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - ✔️✔️Summarizing the goals and objectives
achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred
and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - ✔️✔️Maintaining the relationship, gathering
data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance,
evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - ✔️✔️Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has schemata-
unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - ✔️✔️A health environment, combined with a
healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with
mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - ✔️✔️Focus on the
patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a friend"
or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - ✔️✔️Reassuring, giving advice, giving
approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - ✔️✔️"Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - ✔️✔️Paraphrasing, summarizing,
clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? - ✔️✔️"Don't worry
everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique - ✔️✔️Patient: "I wish I
were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
, What is affect? - ✔️✔️Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - ✔️✔️Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - ✔️✔️Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration? - ✔️✔️Repeating the same words in response to different questions
What is judgement? - ✔️✔️Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate decisions
What is autonomy? - ✔️✔️Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions (Big choices:
Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to take your medicine with?)
=CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? - ✔️✔️Being a harm to self or others, decreasing sensory
overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? - ✔️✔️Forcing client to eat, wash, or dress self
What is "Duty to Warn"? - ✔️✔️Informing medical staff about a client's threat to harm a specific
individual
What is the right to leave against medical advice, privacy, and all belongings? - ✔️✔️The difference
in the rights of clients involuntarily admitted vs. voluntary
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - ✔️✔️In this type of therapy, the individual is taught to
control negative thoughts to maintain and manage emotions. Uses both cognitive and behavioral
approaches to assist client with anxiety management.
What is "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt"? - ✔️✔️During this Erickson's task successful completion
would include gain self-control and independence within the environment
latest Update (2024/2025)
"Termination Phase" of the Nurse-Client Relationship - ✔️✔️Summarizing the goals and objectives
achieved, discussing ways to incorporate new coping strategies, reviewing situations that occurred
and exchanging memories
"Working Phase" of the Nurse-Patient Relationship - ✔️✔️Maintaining the relationship, gathering
data, promoting problem solving skills and self-esteem, facilitate discharge, overcome resistance,
evaluate problems and goals
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) - ✔️✔️Theory behind this therapy: Everyone has schemata-
unique assumptions about self, others, and the world around them
What is a therapeutic milieu or milieu therapy? - ✔️✔️A health environment, combined with a
healthy social structure within a inpatient or outpatient setting supporting and treating those with
mental illness
Difference between a social relationship and the nurse-client relationship - ✔️✔️Focus on the
patient's problems and concerns encouraging them to find their own situations, not "being a friend"
or meeting the needs of the nurse
Examples of Non-Therapeutic Communication techniques - ✔️✔️Reassuring, giving advice, giving
approval, disapproving, changing the subject
What is "Exploring"- a therapeutic communication technique? - ✔️✔️"Tell me more about that"
"Would you describe it more fully?"
What are examples of therapeutic communication techniques? - ✔️✔️Paraphrasing, summarizing,
clarifying, exploring, silence, touch
What is "False Reassurance"- a non-therapeutic communication technique? - ✔️✔️"Don't worry
everything will be alright", "You'll be fine". "There's nothing to worry about"
What is minimizing feelings- (a non-therapeutic communication technique - ✔️✔️Patient: "I wish I
were dead. "Nurse: 'I know what you mean."
, What is affect? - ✔️✔️Client's emotional display of mood being experienced
What are levels of consciousness? - ✔️✔️Alert, Lethargic, Stuporous
What is "flight of ideas"? - ✔️✔️Rapid changes from one thought to another related thought
What is perseveration? - ✔️✔️Repeating the same words in response to different questions
What is judgement? - ✔️✔️Ability to evaluate choices and make appropriate decisions
What is autonomy? - ✔️✔️Respecting the rights of others to make their own decisions (Big choices:
Do you want CPR? Surgery?. Little choices: What would you like to take your medicine with?)
=CHOICE/SELF DETERMINATION
What are the reasons to use seclusion? - ✔️✔️Being a harm to self or others, decreasing sensory
overload, patient request
What is a violation of the patient's rights? - ✔️✔️Forcing client to eat, wash, or dress self
What is "Duty to Warn"? - ✔️✔️Informing medical staff about a client's threat to harm a specific
individual
What is the right to leave against medical advice, privacy, and all belongings? - ✔️✔️The difference
in the rights of clients involuntarily admitted vs. voluntary
What is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - ✔️✔️In this type of therapy, the individual is taught to
control negative thoughts to maintain and manage emotions. Uses both cognitive and behavioral
approaches to assist client with anxiety management.
What is "Autonomy vs. Shame and Doubt"? - ✔️✔️During this Erickson's task successful completion
would include gain self-control and independence within the environment
